Had a really fun time this holiday week-middle.
All sorts of fun happenings and seeing people I hadn't seen in quite a while. Music, good liquor, sitting in front of a fire, making fire, Transformers, and great food.
Coming back had one large snag that actually turned out to be quite fun. I was following jadedsquirrel to route 70, since I didn't know the way. Traffic was really slow until we got to this, where everyone ended up at a dead stop.
We were around a mile or so from the where they had stopped everyone. After a couple minutes of sitting, people started to get out of their cars, myself included. Ten or fifteen minutes later, we decided to walk up to where all the emergency vehicles were (spill response and tow trucks), and see what was going on. After gawking a bit at the trailer half-off the road, we headed back towards our cars. When we got back I decided to break out my firebreathing kit and entertain others. I drafted Mish as an anti-Fred-catching-on-fire safety and proceeded to indulge in my pyomaniacal tendencies. Everyone seemed to really enjoy my show (though I kinda regret not making any fire-implements other than torches yet - just wait for staves, poi, rope dart, and fire swords). I had a couple of people taking pictures (I wish I had asked them to send copies), and people thanking me for the impromptu show as I drove past their cars. I'm sure I won't have the chance to breathe fire on a major highway at least for a while, and it was quite exhilarating.
I've stayed up too late now, I have to wake up in less than 6 hours and I'm still wide-awake. Not boding well for Fred-coherency tomorrow.
Coming back had one large snag that actually turned out to be quite fun. I was following jadedsquirrel to route 70, since I didn't know the way. Traffic was really slow until we got to this, where everyone ended up at a dead stop.
We were around a mile or so from the where they had stopped everyone. After a couple minutes of sitting, people started to get out of their cars, myself included. Ten or fifteen minutes later, we decided to walk up to where all the emergency vehicles were (spill response and tow trucks), and see what was going on. After gawking a bit at the trailer half-off the road, we headed back towards our cars. When we got back I decided to break out my firebreathing kit and entertain others. I drafted Mish as an anti-Fred-catching-on-fire safety and proceeded to indulge in my pyomaniacal tendencies. Everyone seemed to really enjoy my show (though I kinda regret not making any fire-implements other than torches yet - just wait for staves, poi, rope dart, and fire swords). I had a couple of people taking pictures (I wish I had asked them to send copies), and people thanking me for the impromptu show as I drove past their cars. I'm sure I won't have the chance to breathe fire on a major highway at least for a while, and it was quite exhilarating.
I've stayed up too late now, I have to wake up in less than 6 hours and I'm still wide-awake. Not boding well for Fred-coherency tomorrow.