Marsden is Here

OK, Saturday was a good day. The afternoon was quiet but companionable (the battle was called off due to snow) with nonnom soup and muffins and milo, What I was present for of the quiz was entertaining and the playlist started (in good time) chock full of dance-my-lungs-out goodness.

Outside of dancing the evening was still rather 'float around and not interact' but I wasn't really caring. Made a couple of taxi runs over the eveing, piking exhausted shortly after one but probably not getting to be until two.

This morning started off with a chain of annoyances - not getting out of bed until after 11, the computer acting up, the cat doing a big greasy smelly crap in the corner of the bedroom, but when I reached the party venue I was greeted by a cheerful group of cleaner-uppers and shortly thereafter there was delicious sausagy things and scrambled eggs and bacon and hash browns ... of which I may have overconsumed slightly but there was still leftovers.

Accumulated photos from /distributed photos to various people over the day. slothphil had some of his collection with him on DVDs - about 6 - which I snaffled. My poor laptop currently has only 4G of space spare (and I deleted a lot of stuff off it while copying to make space) but files are moving to the external as I type (2 hours remaining....). At a later date I'll sort through them and trim out the sections which are of no interest to me - like most of the SCAdian events :-/

Watched some of Spaceballs around delivering trashpants to her bus. It wasn;t as bad as I remembered - I think I may have been confusing it with another Star Wars rip off. A so-bad-it's good vampire movie from the late 60s(?). Reluctantly decided to leave rather than stay for Soylent Green - I need to get an early night. Still have my usual 8:15am chiro appointment and work tomorrow, although intend to make it a short day (cross fingers).

Upon leaving discovered than my grumpy mood of the morning had only been diverted by the pleasant company. I have a very low tolerance for anything not working as it should (computer) or being pointlessly annoying (cat) right now.

I suspect I'm quite dehydrated.

Wasn't as tired this trip back as last time, funnily enough.
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A sunny trip south on Friday (the weather was glorious all weekend in fact). Mild traffic, got away from the worst after Timaru. Arrived in Dunedin, deposited passengers, checked into motel, acquired dinner partied.

Turnout was a little low, but the dancefloor kept happening. My leg held up well and trashpants didn't actually have to dance for me at any stage.

Piked about 12-30, 1am.

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Breakfasted, met up with salahdra for a while, turned up to photograph killing round. My leg was starting to complain so after a short while I refrained from actively following the participants.

Settled in at the House of Cards for the rest of the afternoon to burn & distribute CDs of photos from the Deviance & Decadence and Chch 48. Observed board games.

Freshened up, had dinner, stuck my shiny bits to Jade.

Partied some more. Still managed to dance despite increasing protestations from leg. Piked around midnight with a taxi run. Didn't get to sleep until much later due to some LOUD drunken idiots playing rugby in George St just along from the motel (my unit was streetside).

Did I mention that my unit was laid out very like a dungeon? All it was missing was an orc and a treasure chest. [/geek]

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Helped tidy and move furniture. Played a couple of games of Settlers (won the second convincingly :) ). Burnt off a CD with the public distribution fo the weekend's photos (xenogram currently has custody of all above mentioned CDs). Acquired an extra passenger and headed northwards about 3:30pm. Traffic was light.

Prius ticked over 50,000 kms just north of Ashburton.

Delivered passengers, arrived home, fed cat, caught up on email and LJ (of which there was less than expected).

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I plan to upload photos from both 48s next weekend, individual mailouts will probably happen before then :)

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Something else was planned to go here, but I forgot.