Marsden is Here

Queen of Spades Spring Court Dunedin April 2006.
(We're on to the old camera now).

Jungle party and Survivor: Bunker auction May 2006.

The weekend actually started with a little bit of Dunedin coming to me, as Friday night salahdra visited on her way north.

The trip down was mostly uneventful. A detour through Geraldine for slothphil's cheese, lunch at Temuka, a half-hour stop while I had a fact-finding meeting with a work customer. Arrived in Dndn, delivered people to accomodation (thanks to quoth_ravynne and co. for the floor, slothphil for the airbed loan) and forced myself to take a nap in preparation for the party.

The party itself started off a little slower than I had expected but eventually built up quite nicely. xenogram had liberally sprinkled the playlist with songs to which I like to dance, unfortunately I wore out fairly quickly.

There was an amusing incident with an attempted gatecrasher (hereafter referred to as the "goatcrasher"). I picked up more or less where micheinnz left off when she was summoned to the dance floor and played door. The retreat to the gate when he challenged me to "step out on the street" with him and I, already taller and standing on the doorsill to boot, did my best loom and and asked if he wanted to take me on right there, was entertaining. I don't get to be intimidating very often.

It wasn't until Miche returned that he gave up trying to talk his way in though.

Ran a couple of carloads of people to various places, including one via a convuluted route which led to my pointing out to the navigator (who should have known this aspect of my familiarity with Dndn) "You could have just told me it was next to [x]'s place!" Finally got to bed about 3am.

Determinedly had brunch @ Capers the next morning before leaving. Had another work meetng on the way back - was asked by the client "are you related to the Xs from Y" . I get that question quite a lot, but it's not often I get to reply with "I am an X from Y!" Turns out they used to purchase rams from my grandfather. That extended the trip somewhat, and we got a trip out to see their deer (which I'm hoping slothphil will post photos of, as I neglected to take my camera out with me).

There followed the long, hot trip home, some post-trip phonecalls and a solid night's sleep.

Photos to follow, possibly tomorrow. A good couple of days work came out of the trip.

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So, Dunedin...

Dear freakin' ghods, what a party. Hot chicks, great music, critical mass. Amongst other things some bastard lined up the unholy trinity (Constantinople, Farewell to the Crown, Rasputin (extended)).

I may not be able to cycle tomorrow.

Took many pics, will put a selection up in my scrapbook tomorrow.

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Recommend Velvet Burger as a place to get food. Gourmet burgers - I had the venison - divine...

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Struck it lucky at Nexus - Slayers Guides to Ogres, Giants amd Trolls $20 net. They also have dice cheaper than the last reports I have from Comics - I picked up a new set since people seem to keep borrowing my d20s these days :D

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Had a lovely couple of days of weather. Karma kicked in on the way home though - Dark, rain from the hills (as if that road wasn't bad enough @ night) to Ashburton, fog from Timaru to Asburton.

4.6L/100km :D

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I must crawl towards bed now.

Dreams are free. So, how was Dunedin you ask? Well, probably you don't, but I'm going to tell you anyway.

( Actually, lets try out this cut thing. This is long. )

And a quiz.

You are 41% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

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