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Very full very good day!

SamSam is visiting this weekend, and it's lovely. They got in yesterday a bit after school let out, and so we were able to head to beginner bellspractice and help out a whole bunch there last night. I got more Owl House enthusiasm from the local 12 year old, and a little bit of musicals geekery from our newest ringer, and we rang lots of various successful rounds and hunting and it was all splendid.

Today was more bells, and very excitingly, when I last looked at the spreadsheet it said like...five people? When I checked this morning it was ten and five guests. UM OKAY COOL FINE. I can lead this practice! That's...that's normal?!

(it actually went quite well. There was handling, there was called changes, just about everybody got to try something that challenged them, I went up to see the bells with Sam and Daniel P****** who is a lovely other friend visiting, and then we all hung out in the sunshine and enjoyed the marvelous spring weather (a welcome revisitation after the summer we've had this week.)

Post bellslunch, several of us picked up necessary ingredients from the haymarket for ~dinner party~ tonight. Because Daniel P****** and April are visiting Austin and Bee, and because Sam is visiting me, and because JohnB is a lovely human, we all got together for Good Dinner And Games And Stuff.

Austin and Bee made taco fixings, and Sam and I made gingerbread (mostly Sam) and we all sprawled around the table eating good food and talking good conversation. I laughed a _lot_ tonight, there's a lot of really lovely people in this group and I liked having the freedom to feel very much myself as part of it.

We played a great many rounds of Wavelength, and then went outside to see the ISS pass overhead (we're up to Expedition 71). Signing up for those SpotTheStation text alerts¹ was one of the best decisions I have ever made, it is such a cool thing every time I get to wave at them.

Post ISS, we returned to play an arguing game (everyone has an animal competing in various sport-type events and we argue Who! Will! Win!) and then played a pretty great tile placement game called Shake the City. I did perfectly well at both, and continued to laugh a lot and generally very much enjoy being with these people.

I also drew a stunning picture of a middle aged dad doing the Abbots Bromley. This doesn't make more sense if you think harder about it. His polo shirt has a small image of an crocodile riding a horse and playing polo, and yes, I am extremely proud of that weird bullshit. I'll try and upload a photo later.

Then it was very late and so home again home again. Sam and I have two days with almost zero total plans, which is going to be _excellent_. Read books, hang out, maybe make more food, generally have a nice time of things. I have grading but obviously I am not going to work on it this weekend.

I hope your life is going well and you are finding joy.

~Sor
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1: Huh, apparently mobile text alerts are now in legacy mode and no longer supported. I have had no problem with them, but ymmv and I should probably check out the app version and see how that works as well.

Austin and I were deciding what to do tonight, and I suggested put together a LEGO set. So we looked through all my (many, whoops) unmade sets¹ and decided on a nice one together.

After we dumped all the bags out of the box, I took a photo and said something like "there, not as nice as jere7my, but it's fine". Whereupon Austin insisted on seeing how jere7my sets his LEGO up when assembling, and immediately bullied me into doing the same.

( here come the photos! )

I'll try and edit this post with the finished product later! It's a lot of fun to play with my bricks, and I should remember that I have an unholy number of them to muck around with. Hack would like her castle to be rebuilt, among other goals.

~Sor
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1: Yyyyeah, I probably would've said I had "like, I dunno, 4-5?" unmade sets. It's much closer to a dozen. I should really MAKE MORE LEGO!

2: Hack is an excessively important part of SorcyCanon, she's my LEGO main character and the best ever.

Today was a good day!

I still played a lot of video games, but like...a few hours total and not like ten. I was really quite ready to ~accomplish stuff~ after several days of accomplishing basically nil, and it was pretty joyous to actually do so!

The biggest thing to accomplish was to finally unpack from Pinewoods, and to do all the post-woods laundry. Ezri had very kindly done a little bit of it for me, but that wanted putting away, and there were still two loads of everything else to wash from the PW + CA adventuretimes I've been having for the past two weeks. So now that's all clean and put away, and I even _hung up_ the closet stuff and folded and put away the sheets. I am terrifying, as long as you ignore the fact that I've been home for five days and ESCape ended like...two and a half weeks ago.

I sorta fucked up with meals --I didn't wake up until about noon (although one bonus point to me for actually getting out of bed then) and so didn't eat breakfast until then, and then basically...forgot...about eating lunch. So I had some leftovers at like six, and then dinner at like...nine? It's fine, I'm fine. Note to self: Eat more tomorrow :P

Because it is Monday night, Austin came over which was lovely. We ate dinner and walked to the pull-up bar for pull-ups and ate ice cream and watched an episode and a half of Leverage and then went outside to see the ISS pass overhead. It continues to be magical, and I encourage y'all to sign up for Spot the Station alerts and maybe set an occasional alarm for yourself when you think it's a time and height you'll be able to see.

Then we finished the Leverage, which means we have finally finished season two! I forgot that season two finishes at basically the nadir (although at least most of the team is deffo together right now). I'm really happy that we've been working on this for the last year or so, and I am hopeful that we will make it the rest of the way through eventually (I've still technically never finished season five of Leverage, shh, no spoilers!)

I will have earned a die today for the first time in a _long_ time. This is not even "oh I've been traveling" long time, it looks like the last time was before the school year let out. Hahahah noooo you get horribly burned out every year at work and need months of brain reset time in which you do nothing. (I love my job. These things are both true.)

I hope you are having a nice night and a nice day and getting to see things you enjoy, like spaceships and good television!

~Sor
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Friends of mine have recently acquired a Maine Coon kitten. Coire is twelve weeks old and needs human socializing so that she grows up to be mellow about many people being around. I mean like...okay, if you need me to come to your house and harass your unbearably cute tiny cat I *guess* that can be arranged...

So Charis picked me up after service ringing¹ and we drove up north a wee bit to visit Magus and Keira and their menagerie. Coire was obviously the star attraction, but there were three more cats and Coda-the-parrot to hang out with inside, and a number of chickens to gently mock outside², plus rambling house-land-hill to wander on and bugs to seek out.

We did a stint of lying on the floor and playing with the cats (yes, Coire is absolutely as stupid-cute as you would expect from a twelve week old ~~owl~~MaineCoon kitten. She has the classic look I have grown used to from

seananmcguire on twitter, with those big big eyes and the incredibly tufted ears. She is also going to grow to be gigantic, and I *really* look forward to seeing her again in the future as that happens.

While the rest of us were hanging with the cats, Keira was working on making some sort of terrifying chicken-stack to go on the grill and be our dinner. Once that was prepped and it was time for the grill to heat up, we all went outside for A Tour Of The Grounds while it was still light out.

Too early for most of their food-plants to be blooming, but I did point out some early season sorrel and distribute samples to everyone to try. I saw so many good bugs (aaah yay!) and I wore some rhubarb leaves as a hat (Charis was impressed they lasted the entire walk, something something, any plan where you lose your hat...) and I got to upturn a random tub full of leaves and water so that it wouldn't breed skeeters, and we talked about maybe-fanciful plans for what could happen with the land eventually and it was all just really fun and nice. Extremely quality outdoor time!

Then back into the house, where Charis returned to socializing Coire, I did a wee bit of doodling (I have a new, as the kids say, "OC" and I was trying to figure out some ideas around her), and Marc and Keira engaged on food-quest. Dinner was eventually ready, with a delicious stack of grilled chicken, well marinated, made by Keira, hummus, cucumbers, and tzatziki prepared by one or both of our hosts at some ambiguous earlier time, and flatbreads created by Magus in their little outdoor pizza oven thingy. It was all very good!

Dinner was wrapping up when my alarm went off --oh right! The ISS was passing at a good time, do y'all wanna see? So we tromped outside and watched it shine across the night sky (they're dark enough to be quite good star watching) and I got to wave again.

Post-dinner entertainment was teaching this group Cat in the Box, my current favourite new game. It's a quantum trick-taking game, where the colour of your card doesn't occur until you actually play it, and a nice little land-grab minigame. The group (as predicted) quite enjoyed it and I almost won --Magus beat me on the tiebreaker.

Finished with homemade lemon meringue pie for dessert --Keira had, in the past, said specific that she would make one for me sometime and I was very very pleased to collect. Then finally home again home again for Charis and I, where I immediately passed out.

It was a good day!

~Sor
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1: Bells is just a footnote today, but a nice one. It was me, Laura, Ricky, Danielle and we rang all the minimus in the world, including getting me some new methods (Reverse and Double Court). Lots of practice with the Bob suite (Plain/Reverse/Double), which is a good exercise in keeping track of the treble. I'm surprisingly happy about it, although my hands are currently a little achey in a way that suggests it was a lot for me.

2: Oh whoops, I should've seen if they had extra eggs to get rid of (yes. Always.)

Balticon is my Home Convention. Like, there's many cons that feel like home to me, but Balticon was the first con I ever went to as a Real Person (and not a kid-in-tow), and it's close enough to the homestead that I always see a lot of my lonnnnnng-term Maryland friends.

Plus, it's the con where I've got the most friends who I made at a con. Arisia, I generally spend a lot of time hanging out with friends from outside the convention scene, who I already know through dance or burns or parties or whatever. Balticon has the werewolf group, and the Balticon Kink Collective, and the Giggle¹, and a TechnoFandom subset that feels warm and vibrant and welcoming, and a handful of costumer acquaintances, and it's just such a wonderful reunion, every year!

This year? No exception. This year was _incredible_, not just one of the best Balticons I've ever had, but probably one of the best *cons* I've ever gotten to enjoy. It was my tenth year, and I am so incredibly glad I made it.

Now onto the report! ( I'm cutting the Ugly section separately, since there's a tw for creepy rape culture )

Someday I'm gonna have a con report that doesn't have an Ugly section and it's gonna be awesome. :/

( Bad-Meh-Good-Awesome-Transcendent below this cut )

Okay!

This is already a pretty long con report, and I keep finding new bits and remembering other lovely pieces and I LOVED THIS YEARS CON SO MUCH.

Hopefully pictures will forthcome. For now though, sleep!

~Sor
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1: I only learned this year that there's a name for 'em, and also just how vast the conspiracy goes. H'apparently, there were five girls born to fannish parents in a span of about 54 weeks back in 95ish. I've been friends with Nikki and Maura for ages, and got to know Victoria a lot better this year, which was great.

2: I may have met Matt at my first Balticon, I have known him _forever_.

3: Did you read this line and immediately know where I got it?

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