I'm in DC!
Did I mention that I was going on a trip at any point? I don't think I did. Hmn. Anyways, I am in DC visiting my Best Friend Shelly (we both have the habit of mentioning the title "Best Friend" any time we talk about each other. Hence to be shortened to BF Shelly.) Supposedly this trip is to go to AnimeUSA. I'm going as an actual con-goer! No AA table, which means I'll actually be able to see the con. Wow, what a switch. This trip is really an excuse to have some time with BF Shelly before she gets stationed off in Mexico for her next posting. The Anime con is just a bonus.
I took two days off from work, so I was able to fly in Thursday morning. The flights were uneventful in my opinion, but bumpy enough to give some of the other passengers a bit of a scare. On both legs of the trip people asked me how I could just sit there and read as the plane bounced around. You'd think they never flown on a puddlejumper before. They're always like that.
I got in the early afternoon and conked out on BF Shelly's couch until she got home from work. Then she gave me my housewarming gift. For the house I don't have yet... But it's awesome! She and Alan brought it back from Benin (small West African country). It's a small, round, teak coffeetable/side table, completely hand carved. The top is carved with leaves and underneath, nestled between the legs, are four large elephants. The elephants come out and are actually four mini-tables! How cool is that? BF Shelly watched the craftperson make it and said that it was all carved without the aid of any kind of power tools. I just can't imagine how they do it on such a large scale. There will be pictures of this table at some point.
After eating dinner (sushi at a local restaurant) we went with her husband Alan to a Reverend Horton Heat concert, Reverend Horton Heat is a rockabilly musician with a wicked sense of humor. (I like his song "It's an interracial homosexual cowboy kind of love.") There were two other bands playing Kentucky Pussy, a southern rock band, and Hank Williams III (son of Hank Williams Jr) who had a band I can't remember the name of. Kentucky Pussy was entertaining to watch and their lead guitarist, a very pretty long haired girl, was really amazing. She also had excellent "metal" hair that she expertly rocked out. Hank Williams III was really good, starting off with some rock country (I liked "It must've been those Pills that I took" and his cover of Cocaine Blues) and then bizarrely segueing into death metal, Very, very odd mix.
Bizarro moment of the night? Watching people mosh to Reverend Horton Heat's steel guitar rock version of Greensleeves.
I took two days off from work, so I was able to fly in Thursday morning. The flights were uneventful in my opinion, but bumpy enough to give some of the other passengers a bit of a scare. On both legs of the trip people asked me how I could just sit there and read as the plane bounced around. You'd think they never flown on a puddlejumper before. They're always like that.
I got in the early afternoon and conked out on BF Shelly's couch until she got home from work. Then she gave me my housewarming gift. For the house I don't have yet... But it's awesome! She and Alan brought it back from Benin (small West African country). It's a small, round, teak coffeetable/side table, completely hand carved. The top is carved with leaves and underneath, nestled between the legs, are four large elephants. The elephants come out and are actually four mini-tables! How cool is that? BF Shelly watched the craftperson make it and said that it was all carved without the aid of any kind of power tools. I just can't imagine how they do it on such a large scale. There will be pictures of this table at some point.
After eating dinner (sushi at a local restaurant) we went with her husband Alan to a Reverend Horton Heat concert, Reverend Horton Heat is a rockabilly musician with a wicked sense of humor. (I like his song "It's an interracial homosexual cowboy kind of love.") There were two other bands playing Kentucky Pussy, a southern rock band, and Hank Williams III (son of Hank Williams Jr) who had a band I can't remember the name of. Kentucky Pussy was entertaining to watch and their lead guitarist, a very pretty long haired girl, was really amazing. She also had excellent "metal" hair that she expertly rocked out. Hank Williams III was really good, starting off with some rock country (I liked "It must've been those Pills that I took" and his cover of Cocaine Blues) and then bizarrely segueing into death metal, Very, very odd mix.
Bizarro moment of the night? Watching people mosh to Reverend Horton Heat's steel guitar rock version of Greensleeves.