2008-09-05

It was a bleary-eyed afternoon, the Monday after the weekend before, and I was sharing a shopping mall food court table with

moonwolf and crew when the question came up: "So how was your DragonCon?"

Exhausted smiles flickered around the table like gaslamps. We'd all had rampant good times, but for me, this was truly a weekend of unexpected gifts.

The short version: Many, many thanks to

lost_in_avebury and

brute_force for an object of beauty,

puppetmaker40 and family for a lovely party,

laughingmagpie and the crew of HM Airship Vertigo for letting me play,

badmagic for the banter,

moonwolf for being a Lady of Misrule, and

nanashi_jones purely for being your fine self. And, of course, to

speedlime for not killing your roommate. Kudos!

( The long version is below. GEEK ALERT )