The short Con post

Hello, everyone!

Back from the Con and still reeling from the lack of sleep and all that. I just wanted to post a short list of thanks/comments to everyone for now and I promise to post a loooong entry about my whole experience later on.

– Thanks to Andy for making it over here! I’m so glad we got a chance to sit and talk about stuff. You’re the best! ::smooch::
– Red Heather: I’m so grateful I stopped in a Grady’s for lunch that day. You’re a very cool chica and I love letting you top. ::giggle::
– Dani/Allen: well, you know. I love you guys!
– Ben: you’re a very sweet boy and we all love you to death. We’re so glad you made it and had a great time!
– Jennifer-from-CA: We’re happy you made it down, even if it was only for a bit! Thanks for the wine – you’re a lifesaver!
– Charles, I can’t tell you how happy I am that we met you and got to hang out. We loved hanging out with you and we look forward to doing it again. I’m sending you email with our contact info and all that.
– Robert H: it was so great to catch up with you, however briefly, at the Con!
– Barry and the Lovely Quinn: you guys WILL be at the Con with us next year! Everyone is in love with Quinn and we always need more Barry time!
– Russ, Heather, Lewis (L, you have my HOME #! Send me an email for the cell phone for next year), Taylor, Alex, Ripper, Pat, Farshad, numerous other partygoers, even WILL and EMILY for fuck’s sake: we’re really happy to have hung out with you all! Great con!

And a special shout out to Ted, Kelly and Adrianne: We had a blast! We look forward to next year and if you get to the ATL any time before then give us a call! You’ve always got friends here! Also: if you need help with ANYTHING next year, you call, ok? You’ve got our card. ::hugs::

DANI: We found your other red ball thingy! Yay!
RED HEATHER: I have your, um, floss. ::giggle::
CAROLINE: You’ve got my corset and skirt.
CON ROOM GNOMES: We are really pissed about that packet you took, you little bastards!

Ok, the next post will be huge. For now, I’ve got to get outta here and get back to real life work. Grrr!

To our NOLA friends

We have so many friends from NOLA that I wanted to post about Hurricane Katrina.

They finally had some pics of NOLA today in the paper. Wow. I couldn’t tell where the French Quarter was, but I could tell that everything is submerged.

Russ, Caroline, Dru, Pat and everyone else: we are sending all the good mojo we have to your families down there. We’re glad that most people are accounted for and we hope the rest turn up when communications resume.

You guys just hang on, we’ll get through this. Nick and I are here for all of you in whatever way we can help. We love you and we hope that your families are safe.

We will lift our glasses in fine NOLA tradition this weekend. Your city will not be the same, but it *will* be resurrected.

I think we should initiate a toast in the bar of the Hyatt for NOLA. It’s only fitting.

PRE-DragonCon

Squeeeeee!

I’m off to get fabric for the Corpse Bride skirt today, along with the bills and crap I have to do for the Moon.

The Con is 2.5 days away and I’m SO STOKED!!

I shouldn’t bait the trolls more, but I just can’t resist! I’m pretty sure it’s the same old pathetic posse of women who live to harangue me due to their lack of having a life. Like it’s news that I’m a Mac freak?? When did that become news? I’m not gonna change, so why bother snarking at me? They’ve got waaaaay too much time on their hands! The referrers indicate Stone Mountian and I don’t know anyone who lives in Stone Mountain, so I can only assume it’s the Pathetic Posse (oh, yah, I see Linux, so that confirms that it’s the PP. That’s the platform of choice for Those Whose Names Shall Not Be Spoken). Whatevah! Lurk on, Drama Hos! Lurk on! LOL

I’m so excited about DragonCon! Gads, it’s 10am! I’ve got to get out of here and get the costume fabric and sundries!

Off to Gail K’s and Hancock!

More of why I use Mac

[This should be titled: “How to get PC trolls to leave anonymous comments”]

I know everyone thinks I’m totally irrational about my devotion to Macs. The MicroSith drones think that anyone who shuns the Dark Side of the Force must be stupid, non-techie, dense or a slobbering fanatic to a “dying platform”. Yah, right.

Well, I can sum up my devotion to my platform of choice in 3 words:

It just works.

I can do anything a MicroSith user can do. I spend about 5 minutes a week on maintenance (that would be a RESTART with the occasional run of Cocktail). My Mac hasn’t melted down in, uuummm… Well, I guess never. No virii. No spyware. No paying for Norton or McAfee.

Who are really the dumb ones? To me, it’s pretty obvious that I get shit done rather than fucking around with the OS trying to convince it to run. I also don’t spend money on antivirus subscriptions and hours of my time futzing. So, if that’s dumb then I guess I qualify.

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Family Psychology

These stories have been kicking around in my head for a week, so I guess it’s time to write them. People often see me as a know it all or arrogant or bossy or a dozen other things. I don’t deny any of it, but I do have evidence of how I became this way. There are a couple of incidents that stuck with me from my childhood which explain much of why I come across like I do.

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