The weekend inworld and out

I am enjoying being a docent for the McDonald windows, but it surely does cut into my life-maintenance time! This Friday I got up and did a ritual for Pomba, dedicating the sopera I had bought. I did a card reading on the question of headwashing and got very positive cards - The Herbs (Ossain), Alliances and The Trees (Oxossi). Eeep. Then I went to SF, docented, and then zoomed home and met with Jeff about Dionysos and lent him some things to make an altar at P'Con. I conditioned the sculpey I'd bought for WoW's class. This was a big mistake. Sculpey is just *not* stiff enough for cane work. Bah. I had a nice time at the class anyway and it was very well attended by lots of my caching friends. It would be nice to find a place with some FIMO classic that wasn't totally baked by age and flourescent lights. A couple of the folks at my end of the table had dead FIMO and I had yucky scupley... we decided we were having a bad clay day. So - and fun event cache but no nice polyclay sig tokens in the offing. *grin*

( the sopera dedication )

I got home and fell over. Exhaustion is definitely starting to be a normal mode for me. Saturday I got inworld by 9am for a book talk by Al Perrin, author of a book called, The Sloop John B.. It was published by The Booklocker, a publish on demand site. His publisher was also there to chat with folks about that service. It was a very cool talk... he had created avatars of each of the main characters and came out and did monologues that made one want to read the book. I thought it as a wonderful glimpse of a future where one could have a discussion with one's favorite book characters and more. I confess though that I didn't actually buy the book. I didn't want it in pdf and the mailed print edition was just too expensive. So it didn't actually work on *me* as a marketing ploy but I know several other attendees bought it. And it was a fun thing.

Then I met up with mr_kurt and saffronrose and went to CostCo were I got a couple hundred dollars worth of munchies for the suite. Yowza. And I haven't gotten the perishables yet. I hope folks can donate generously this year. I am looking forward to being suite host this year though. And the CoG badge ribbons are in. And P'Con pre-reg is 900+ so we may actually hit almost 3K attendees. Wow! We're thinking 600 people for Pomba on Friday. Double Wow.

I got home and actually got some hang out time with Russell before Kurt & I headed to Berkeley for a URI dinner at the Bosphorus on University Ave. Nice buffet-style Turkish restaurant, I'm glad to have found it. We had dinner with representatives of a number of local CCs, two of the North American trustees, the NA coordinators and a couple of URI staff. It was a good thing though Kurt & Stephan didn't really get a chance to chat as I had hoped. But good food and good company was had. And Kurt drove so the fact that it was raining like mad wasn't as dangerous as it might have been had I driven.

Sunday Russell and I went to breakfast at Hobbee's and then decided to spend a quiet day at home. We watched a dvd of Spellbound, the spelling bee documentary, I took a nap and we went "caching" (actually benchmarking because there aren't any caches within walking distance of home and the point of the exercise was to take a walk together). We walked about 1.5-2 miles down to Williams Park and back. It was nice of the weather to clear enough to have some sunshine over the weekend.

In the evening mr_kurt and saffronrose, their son and I went to see Camelot. It was a lovely production, the sets were beautiful, the actors playing Lance & Guinevere were great and had wonderful voices. Michael York as Arthur was a bit of a disappointment. Alas, he cannot sing. One might think this a handicap for a lead role in a musical... and one would be right IMNSHO. He had no breath, no bottom and was sometimes flat. He basically spoke his songs. *sigh* Guess it is nice to have a name people will pay enough for that it doesn't matter if you are actually *good* at what you are trying to do.