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Holy moley, I skipped a whole week of LJ/DW without going to Pennsic! Well, I still have been reading things and commenting occasionally. I just got busy this past week -- for three days I day-tripped to Baltimore to cover a cat-toy conference for my previous employer, and then I finished writing about it on the fourth day. Freelance, of course.
(Yes, I know that humans refer to the event as a "laser science conference." My cats tell me that their species allows humans to THINK that they use lasers for Very Important Purposes, such as telecommunications, reading CD and DVD discs, eye surgery, catching speeding automobiles, and erasing gang tattoos. However, lasers are REALLY just The World's Best Cat Toys Evah.)
Part of me would have liked to go to Spring Crown Tourney yesterday, but I had promised the boy toy months and months ago that we would go to Europe in DC again this year. That's the day when the EU member countries open their embassy doors to the public. Last year we got to the UK embassy just as the day's events were winding down and the booths were closing up (unlike most of the other embassies, the UK's holds its festivities outdoors on its grounds). So this time around, the boy toy wanted to go there first and get some swag, so that's exactly what we did -- get our Union Jack tote bags with all sorts of brochures and a Scottish flag and whatnot. And we toured the pretty gardens and photographed a table set up with the same place settings as at the Royal Wedding reception. Awww.
Then we also went to the embassies of Finland and Belgium. The former is an impressively LEED-certified modern wood-glass-and-steel cube. The latter had an interesting curved front, and I said to the boy toy that this might be a historic visit if the country splits in two and there isn't a single "Belgian" embassy in a year or five. We didn't stand in the separate (long) line for a small wedge of a Belgian waffle, but we did get a couple of small cups of beer on the way out of the embassy building. Scored a piece of chocolate, too.
The UK experience inspired us to watch The King's Speech (borrowed from the boy toy's Mom, an Anglophilic Episcopal priest) last night. Awesome. I used to date a guy with a stutter -- something like 15 years ago -- and I wonder what he thinks of this movie.
Before I forget -- Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers on my f-list!
(Yes, I know that humans refer to the event as a "laser science conference." My cats tell me that their species allows humans to THINK that they use lasers for Very Important Purposes, such as telecommunications, reading CD and DVD discs, eye surgery, catching speeding automobiles, and erasing gang tattoos. However, lasers are REALLY just The World's Best Cat Toys Evah.)
Part of me would have liked to go to Spring Crown Tourney yesterday, but I had promised the boy toy months and months ago that we would go to Europe in DC again this year. That's the day when the EU member countries open their embassy doors to the public. Last year we got to the UK embassy just as the day's events were winding down and the booths were closing up (unlike most of the other embassies, the UK's holds its festivities outdoors on its grounds). So this time around, the boy toy wanted to go there first and get some swag, so that's exactly what we did -- get our Union Jack tote bags with all sorts of brochures and a Scottish flag and whatnot. And we toured the pretty gardens and photographed a table set up with the same place settings as at the Royal Wedding reception. Awww.
Then we also went to the embassies of Finland and Belgium. The former is an impressively LEED-certified modern wood-glass-and-steel cube. The latter had an interesting curved front, and I said to the boy toy that this might be a historic visit if the country splits in two and there isn't a single "Belgian" embassy in a year or five. We didn't stand in the separate (long) line for a small wedge of a Belgian waffle, but we did get a couple of small cups of beer on the way out of the embassy building. Scored a piece of chocolate, too.
The UK experience inspired us to watch The King's Speech (borrowed from the boy toy's Mom, an Anglophilic Episcopal priest) last night. Awesome. I used to date a guy with a stutter -- something like 15 years ago -- and I wonder what he thinks of this movie.
Before I forget -- Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers on my f-list!
