I now have a new tie (black, with tateful stripes and logo, professional-looking, free) and a shiny badge (small, in red and blue on brass, and shiny, likewise).

This makes me happy.

Today has also seen champagne-cake with nosesaretasty and locowerewolf and lorebesh and assorted other people and some rather awesome games of poker with all_my_words and a meeting and lots of other things that ( Read more... )

Surreal moment of the day: having to phone my parents' erstwhile hosts to ask them to let them in because their doorbell was broken ( Read more... )