Pix! I'm going to be in LA for a conference in October. (More details later. It's going to be another one of those whirlwind things where I'm going to be trapped in downtown without a car, so not ideal, but I hope we can work something out! At least I'll be there on a Saturday.)

Anyway, the promised Strix first Fernet pictures:

Before: [link]

During: [link]

After (1): [link]

After (2): [link]

Sox,

I will also be in Chicago for WorldCon(along with my husband). Dunno our schedule quite yet, but maybe we can meet up somewhere.

Amyth!!! Let me know!

Aurelia - cool. I know a couple nights are spoken for because of the con, but I'm hoping we can connect somehow.

Sheryl - I have most of my schedule (2 panels, workshop, reading), so when you have yours, we can sort it offline?

Sox,

Sure! Neither of us are actually on a programming items, so it'll be a matter of figuring out what we want to do.

BWAHAHA!

Those photos don't even capture the pathos that was my face!

Hi, all. I am home in KC after an uneventful plane ride. Southwest has good coffee, yo. And I got home and promptly fell into bed for a 4 hours nap.

WOO.

NC was FUN! I saw amyth and Calli and amyth and her DH (who looks amazingly like one of my best guy friends!) and Hayden and Darth! I like the area; it's very pretty!

I had 2 Durhamites (iced tea, lemonade and vodka, hell YEAH), bacon cheese fries, which is the food of the gods, a Carolina Shandy, which is beer made palatable by the generous application of lemonade and the aforementioned Fernet, which is, as the bottle proclaims twice...unique.

It was like a meadow soaked in alcohol. I...don't even know. "Unique" is certainly not wrong.

which is beer made palatable

This phrase makes me sad.

I know, Nora. I'm sure it was Very Nice Beer; I am a shame to my Irish/Scots/German ancestors. But the only way I drink beer is generally on a really hot day, in a really cold river, with a shitton of lemon added to generally a Boulevard (local brew) Wheat.

This phrase makes me sad.

Sometimes I don't know how you're friends with me. I keep trying! At least I date people who like beer!

WOOT! I am so excited about this I would start a fuckyeahamyth tumblr, if I had the time. And knew how Tumblr worked.

Hell, I might GET a Tumblr if such a thing existed.

It was like a meadow soaked in alcohol.

Ahahaha. Like a movie so bad it's good, Fernet is so disgusting it's awesome.

Fernet is so disgusting

Yes.

it's awesome

Um.