Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

So this is just one more example of how I lose time. I was working on NaNoWriMo, really, I was. I’m also fighting with a really nasty cold that just won’t let go, Alison had a sleepover, and blah blah blah.
So what do I get caught up in? I started finally editing photos from November [...]

So far, so good. Nothing’s brewing in the tropics, yard cleanup has begun (again), and things move forward.
We lost power before the storm really even began, and didn’t get it back for 4 days. Luckily, they were breezy days, cool by New Orleans standards, and were spent in a strange sort of suspended animation. [...]

These guys were wandering through the crowd (pre torrent) hawking their peanuts, and I loved their shirts. I asked one of them what it meant- a hurricane surrounded by peanuts.
“It means we’re in New Orleans,” he said flatly. Uh….right.

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We missed the parade because of Prom, but were there for the big afterparty and had a very good time quaffing and suchlike.
Love this…the required proper attire is clearly a relative thing.

Lots of bemused tourists were Aaarrrghed at, and I proved something I long assumed- no matter how fierce your outfit (or, okay, costume), [...]

This was Boots yesterday, having decided that his busy cat schedule wasn’t working out for him. Or possibly this was his busy schedule, I’m not sure. Regardless, he really inspired me, and I did much the same thing today.
We, silly people that we are, went and stuck out the entire day Saturday at Jazz Fest. [...]

Friday afternoon Charlie came back with me. I’d bought him a frilly shirt and he felt like an ass. He wasn’t really excited about it…he even went out the house’s side gate into the car, and made me promise him that he wouldn’t look like a moron. I promised him that if he felt like [...]

…now, c’mon, how do you resist this??
Unless you’re a grownup, I mean.

It turns out that I’m not going to be spending the whole weekend in the Quarter. I took some time to go a little more carefully through the PyrateCon site, and discovered that, unlike me, many people take this quite seriously.
There are lectures and symposia all day long while the pillaging and misbehaving is [...]

We went this morning to check out the river and ran into a quite lively bunch of Quaker parrots who were being trailed by some very loud blackbirds.
There’d been a big event the day before that had left behind bags and bags of very interesting garbage that hadn’t yet been picked up.
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The original plan was to go hang out in the French Quarter for the big, free festival this weekend, but it didn’t quite come together.
Friday things kicked off downtown, and while I was getting dressed, the local news was covering the opening, including all of the new stuff for kids- special musical acts, crafts, and [...]