Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

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), [...]

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 [...]

Not exactly surprising, but they did set a certain tone…

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I took my notebook along to PirateCon; I was originally going to take the laptop and liveblog it, but I decided that wasn’t very piratey.
I knew from perusing the website that there were some really intense people involved in PyrateCon, but…oh, I just had no idea.
Notes from “The Devil’s in the Details:”
(9AM, Friday)
-I [...]

I was going to bow out, but talked to Charlie last night, and he’s pretty hardcore. Not only does he want to go to the parade, he wants me to go to the symposia as well.
I didn’t have too much of a problem blowing off work (Not like I’m going to fire myself, is [...]

…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 [...]

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Looking forward to Friday!