Good news from my 4am packing. It looks like I didn't forget anything. Bad news. I packed too much. For instance, why did I pack (2) iPhone chargers PLUS docking speaker that can charge?

Oh well. All is good. Had a fab time. It was great putting faces to names. Much kudos to all that made it a great success. Here is crossing fingers I can get off work for next years!

In 40 min, I'll meander with my luggage the 2ish blocks to the parking garage where my local friend is parked for work. Drop off my bags. Wander around until 5. Then go home with her, and start part 2 of my Seattle journey.

Handcuffs are for amateurs.

DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!

Hate Julianna's t-shirt. I'ma pout. Don't doubt me, I can keep it up for a whole year.

Many many thanks to J, Pete, Plei & Paul, anybody and everybody who helped make the time such a reallyreally good time.

MM? While you're working on that here-to-there portal? Can you code in a time feature? That'd be great, yeah.

Handcuffs are for amateurs.

Yeah, but thank god for them anyway because granny knots and shoelace bows just don't have that S&M vibe.

Yeah, but you know that someone, somewhere has a shoelace fetish.

juliana's t-shirt made me momentarily teary.

BEV! Yet another person there was so not even close to enough time with.

I can't even think about Teppy (or Jessica, or MM and Aims and Emeline, or Matt, or Jon B, or erika, or Kate P, or Nora and Tom, or most of the LAistas, or probably twenty or thirty more people who weren't there at all) without pouting so long and hard my lower lip threatens to crush the entire rest of my face.

I would also pout about javachik's absence and the insufficient time spent with megan walker, except that both those potential pouts are easily relieved locally.

is chopped liver

spreads Perkins on a water cracker

sits on chopped liver bench with Perkins

I'm not chopped liver, but I am "...and the rest."

t /here on gilligan's island

Seriously, dudes! I can't name everyone all at once! I'm not Miss Whatserface on Romper Room! If you made planning-to-come noises at some point and then backed out, assume I'm pouting!

As far as I can recall, Perkins never even pretended or intimated or threatened to come, so not only is she local and near at hand but she never got my hopes up on the F2F front and then dashed them. So, neither namechecked nor chopped liver.

I would add something about her sucking, but that's really Tep's gig.

Plus, I heard Sean was there, virtually; I was just up in the HS and missed him. I also heard that I missed quite the virtual Sean show.