Back from Atlanta

Posted on | 10 months ago, around lunchtime | 2 Comments

I’m home now, and furiously trying to get caught up on all the things that backed up while I was out of town. This is particularly tricky since in the last three weeks, I’ve been in San Francisco, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta, respectively. I’ve had more out-of-town than in-town, and if I don’t get all this stuff sorted soon, I’ll be snowed under beyond hope.

But I did want to come up for air long enough to post about FroliCon, which was absolutely smashing. The event organizers were delightful, the attendees were awesome, and my fellow guests were their usual fantastic selves. Bonus fun: Thursday and Friday nights, Stacia Kane crashed with me teenage sleepover-style, so on top of all the usual hobnobbing I had someone with whom to watch cartoons and eat snack machine junk food.

Speaking of Stacia and the sleepover – it got off to a rough start. Shortly after we’d checked in and settled down for the first night, someone pulled the fire alarm, sending me and Stacia out into the parking lot in our jammies … having toted everything important down ten flights of stairs. False alarm, of course.

(Other points of excitement included a power outage that caught me on an escalator, stuck in a domino line of falling fan people.* My feet were bathed in candy, which poured like a delicious waterfall from some unfortunate soul’s Easter basket.)

Of course, I also got to see a great number of people who I haven’t chatted with in years, many from my old V:TM** days; and likewise I caught up with more recent cronies such as Austin Sirkin and his wife Megan Maude, Cindy McLeod and the rest of the AnachroCon gang, Eugie and Matt Foster, and too many others to list here without boring the lot of you.

Suffice it to say, I had a most excellent time – and I heartily, thoroughly thank everyone who made the weekend so damn cool.

:)


* Yes, yes. I know. Escalators are never “Temporarily out of order.” They are only “Temporarily stairs.” Thank you, Mitch Hedberg.
** If you have to ask, you don’t care about the answer. I promise.

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2 Responses to “Back from Atlanta”

  1. Cecilia Tan
    April 25th, 2011 @ 1:34 pm

    And a grand time was had by all. :-) But yeah, not only am I snowed under with backed up emails and deadlines… now I want to sleep for a week. Ah well!

  2. John Stevens
    April 25th, 2011 @ 1:42 pm

    It sounds like lots of folks had a good time. Sadly, a friend of mine on FB found out that a local radio station asshat took some pics and put them up with unflattering captions on the radio show’s FB site. Did I already say “asshat?”

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