Lego Haunted House Set

Sweet!

There is also a Vampire Castle as part of that line, Jilli.

Also sweet!

I missed Mom. OTOH, the pups are now curling their tails. Right now they're enormous heads on tiny unsteady bodies.

to organize some kind of fannish convention and call it Rubicon.

That's the name of the convention in Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun.

There is also a Vampire Castle as part of that line, Jilli.

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also reads the sell-text, gets to "Enter Vampyre’s castle and rescue the world from eternal darkness!"

That ... is funny to me for a LOT of reasons, but I will merely say that someone I no longer speak to and very actively avoid goes by the 'nym of eternal darkness.

But I do want a LEGO vampire to sit on my desk!

He told me to just drive the wrong way up to the next light, and if anyone objected, tell them officer Hector told me to do it. "Thank you for visiting our city," he beamed, and he patted the top of my car like it was a long-lost puppy.

Awww! (files the name officer Hector away for when pulled over by the police.)

New York and New Orleans are the two places I most feel like an intruder as a tourist.

I think that locals aren't suspicious of tourists per se, but tourism in general. For example, folks think Bourbon Street is gross and its popularity is baffling and the misconceptions around Mardi Gras are always annoying. Tourists who spend all their time in the FQ getting drunk are usually not the most interesting folks, but encountering a tourist out in one of the actual neighborhoods (Garden District does not count) is usually a very friendly affair.

New Orleans folks, I've found, are super cautious about "outsiders". In many ways, and on many levels. There's currently a post-K repopulation of young white professionals, some of whom who claim to love New Orleans, and then proceed to bitch about everything that makes it special (noise, music, black people, fatty foods, re-routed traffic because of 2nd lines, etc.) See also: the temporary closing of the Bywater institution, Bacchanal, when a recent transplant homeowner complained about the music noise and the parking.

But I do want a LEGO vampire to sit on my desk!

I think I need the swamp creature.

What are people doing this weekend? I need to burn some vacation time, so I am taking a 5 day weekend. Saturday is haircut and errands, Sun-Tuesday is a spa and casino in Reno, and Wednesday is staying home in my inside pants.

DH is away on his motorcycle trip until Sunday night, so I am skating, working, cleaning the house, doing laundry and gardening. Really hard to imagine a more tedious list.

Father's Day (bacon and french toast; going to WF in a couple of minutes to procure bacon), farmer's market, maybe the Natural History museum.

Casper painted a painting for mr. flea for Father's Day, in acrylic on an actual canvas, with a title taken from the last chapter of Trumpet of the Swan. Dillo painted a wooden birdhouse. Yes, we visited Michael's this week.

Errands, maybe Avengers tomorrow, preparing to spend Sunday and Monday nights at the folks', since my mother is traveling for work.