Thank you, friends. I'm so happy that I could come and see so many of you and give you hugs.

That vacation was very much needed.

Shir it was so delightful to meet you and hang out a bit (unexpected brunch was especially lovely). Glad you made it home safe and that your luggage eventually made it too. I guess if there’s ever going to be a luggage delay, it’s better on the rest in home end of things than when you are in a strange climate without anything but what’s shoved in the carryon. I hope your kitty has welcomed you home with purrs and only brief feline disdain.

Smonster that’s rough, and I would like to send your former employer a strongly worded letter re respect. If you were decent enough to give notice, they ought to continue to at least pay you for the time you were intending to continue working.

Entirely unrelated, I just got word that my dad is getting a pacemaker installed June 24th. I’m pondering a trip to RVA for support before and after. Annoyingly, my mother is in town at my place June 1-18th for her medical stuff and I’ll be taking a fair amount of sick leave to shuttle her around and take care of her in my guest room. So not the greatest time for me, but I know he would like to get it done asap and out of the constant life vest wearing so….faster cardio surgeon, install install install!

Shir it was wonderful having you here and seeing you again in SF! Glad your luggage made its way home.

Shir, I echo the delight everyone else has written of with regards to getting to see you (and, in my case, your lovely local friend!). Thanks to you, I now know where to go for pretty killer vegan burgers, too.

J finished Season 2. Imma share a lil something he just shared with me:

Spike's Saga (to date)

• Came in like he was going to own the town

• Got into a power struggle with a small child

• Got his ass handed to him in every single encounter with Buffy

• Was such a non-threat to Buffy that she declined to stake him despite multiple glaring opportunities to do so

• Let Buffy's crew waltz in and out of his lair

• Telegraphed his big plan so badly that Buffy was able to one-shot his superweapon

• Got himself crippled restoring Dru

• Immediately after let Angel steal Dru away with hardly a peep

• Was forced to side with Buffy and play nice with Joyce

• Could only fight Angel by bushwhacking him

• Turned tail and ran out of town as fast as he could

And I have my phone again! HUZZAH! It had quite the journey. Charging up and then I should be able to start dealing with photos from this weekend. Not that I took many...but there is at least a prophetic pic from the back of a Waymo, LOL

J finished Season 2. Imma share a lil something he just shared with me:

Bwah!

TL;DR: Not just Love's Bitch.

And I have my phone again! HUZZAH!

Yay! Props to the Waymo Lost and Found protocol. I waltzed in, gave them the number and they handed me the phone.

Props to the Waymo Lost and Found protocol. I waltzed in, gave them the number and they handed me the phone.

If only they would also ship, but I grock the liability issues.

You guys, last night's pre-wedding shindig was a hootenanny. The Sangeet is traditionally the pre-wedding party when the family of the bride and family of the groom sing and perform dances, etc. There was no singing, but there were a few choreographed dances, and then the deejay switched to what I, as a Very White Person, think of as "wedding reception music" and the dance floor was open. Y'all, everyone was dancing their asses off. I've been to weddings where there was less dancing. So much fun! There was a mehndi artist there doing henna tattoos for anyone who wanted one. They're so pretty!

I asked the groom at one point "If everyone is dancing like this for a pre-wedding event, what is the reception going to be like?" And he grinned and said "Basically a rager. With 3 times as many people."

So now the Hindu ceremony is this morning (I am currently drinking SO MUCH COFFEE), followed by a big luncheon, and then nothing until tomorrow's Lutheran ceremony and giant rager of a reception.