I'm turning 40, and I want a party. The big day is actually on the 5th, but the 7th is a Saturday, easier for people to come ( Read more... )

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I'm at the Lake Bronson private resort, with a bunch of burners who couldn't go to Burning Man. The regulars here, who are almost all retirees with big RVs, are friendly but confused towards the crowd of weird geekraverhippies under the huge parachut tent, what with their weird music, and brightly colored plastic junk ( Read more... )

I'm most probably going to go at least one day to each of these:

• University StreetFair, May 19-20
• Folklife, May 25-28
• Fremont Fair, Jun 16-17
• Bite of Seattle, July 20-22
• Capitol Hill Block Party, July 27-28

Last night was the dinner and party for Jen and for Ivo's birthday, at the Metaphorist. The suggested dress code was "sexy". And a lot of people had a lot of fun with that. I wore one of my better sarongs. A couple of times in the evening, people either verbally wished it would come untied, or tried to untie it. Frustrating to them, I had tied ( Read more... )

When I was working for a paycheck, and Norwescon time would roll around, I would take the Friday off, and do all three days of it. Now that I've got a project that is from me, things are a little different. Friday I worked, instead of going. And Saturday morning, I worked, instead of going.

But I did get there at about noon.

I saw intrepid_reason as I was ( Read more... )

krow (who could have gone to a much cooler party in Silicon Valley instead), ein_traum, solomoning (who made the "mauled by chocolate" cake), radarrider (who tooks some pictures, elfs, omahas, Kouryou-chan, Yamrashi-chan, neocuriosity, pauldf, kespernorth, tonyawinter, intrepid_reason, Kent, Kelly & Stephanie, Chris & Sue, and a couple of others I know I'm forgetting.

Thanks for coming.

Friday afternoon I got to go enjoy lunch with intrepid_reason, a pleasent surprise because of my return home early, so the afternoon was available. That evening was Fish Friday at elfs & omahas. We are down to the last dregs of the fish I brought back from Alaska, esp since some got thrown out due to the power failure last week. The chowder was, as usual, yummy, the ( Read more... )