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Vacationing, day two & three
Mar. 20th, 2007 07:41 pmThe last few days have involved considerably more sleep and less running from one place to the next than Saturday did. Which is fine by me, as I needed more relaxation time. Sunday, John and I slept late and lazed around for a few hours until ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonwolf came over around 3PM. Then we all chatted for a bit before driving off to meet elusivetiger, haikujaguar and hellesfarne. Elusive Tiger and Hellesfarne don't really use their LJs, but it's the most convenient handle I have for them, so I'll go with it.
I know ElusiveTiger is Haikujaguar's husband. Hellesfarne is a mutual friend that I know from the +terrible butterflies+ game.
It's a two hour drive to Tampa, and I took the opportunity to share my current favorite album, Matthew Ebel's "Beer and Coffee" with Moonwolf and John. John actually introduced me to Matthew Ebel's music by giving me a song he'd done called "In the MUCK", which is about FurryMUCK. The FurryMUCK song isn't available for sale anywhere that I know of, but he has two albums available on iTunes. I love "Beer and Coffee". Will have to get the other album some time soon.
So we chattered our way to Tampa; the drive down was quite pleasant. We arrived twenty or more minutes early, but Hellesfarne spotted us from the plaza so we got to talk to him for a while before dinner.
Dinner was great, with conversation mostly alternating between butterflies and WoW. I felt sorry for Moonwolf, who isn't involved in either, but she seemed content with the company. She introduced us to heretofore unknown fondue customs. For example, when you drop food into the fondue pot by mistake, you must either buy someone a drink, or kiss someone. I picked the kissing option, and we abided by it for the rest of the night. Hellesfarne, who was sitting between ElusiveTiger and John, was very careful not to drop his food. :)
After dinner, we bid the tiger and the jaguar good night, and headed over to a Barnes and Noble to lounge about, draw, and chat some more with Hellesfarne. We finally headed for home around 11PM, meaning we didn't make it back to Orlando until 1AM. Then we hung out at Moonwolf's house for a while, where we met one of her cool roommates, Mattie. He was a lot of fun, and let me braid his hair after watching me zip through braiding my own.
We finally made it home at about 3AM. We were so tired we went straight to bed, not even checking the butterfly list.
Monday, we woke up even later, around noonish. It was another lazy day around the house. In early afternoon, we made our way to the Borders where Moonwolf works. We hung out there, drinking various interesting concoctions and enjoying Moonwolf's company on her break. I found a cool book of photo references for drawing and ended up buying it. I started a picture of Nice 'n Easy, the my character and John's from Greywolf's tabletop WoW game. It's coming along all right, and an unusually complex picture for me.
We left for home around 9PM, went grocery shopping until 10, spent a lot of time hanging out and then butterflying, and went to sleep at 2:30 or so. Tonight, we have to do better -- we need to leave the house at 6:30 to get me to the conference center in a timely fashion. Alas: work tomorrow. Still, an interesting sort of work for me.
moonwolf came over around 3PM. Then we all chatted for a bit before driving off to meet elusivetiger, haikujaguar and hellesfarne. Elusive Tiger and Hellesfarne don't really use their LJs, but it's the most convenient handle I have for them, so I'll go with it.I know ElusiveTiger is Haikujaguar's husband. Hellesfarne is a mutual friend that I know from the +terrible butterflies+ game.
It's a two hour drive to Tampa, and I took the opportunity to share my current favorite album, Matthew Ebel's "Beer and Coffee" with Moonwolf and John. John actually introduced me to Matthew Ebel's music by giving me a song he'd done called "In the MUCK", which is about FurryMUCK. The FurryMUCK song isn't available for sale anywhere that I know of, but he has two albums available on iTunes. I love "Beer and Coffee". Will have to get the other album some time soon.
So we chattered our way to Tampa; the drive down was quite pleasant. We arrived twenty or more minutes early, but Hellesfarne spotted us from the plaza so we got to talk to him for a while before dinner.
Dinner was great, with conversation mostly alternating between butterflies and WoW. I felt sorry for Moonwolf, who isn't involved in either, but she seemed content with the company. She introduced us to heretofore unknown fondue customs. For example, when you drop food into the fondue pot by mistake, you must either buy someone a drink, or kiss someone. I picked the kissing option, and we abided by it for the rest of the night. Hellesfarne, who was sitting between ElusiveTiger and John, was very careful not to drop his food. :)
After dinner, we bid the tiger and the jaguar good night, and headed over to a Barnes and Noble to lounge about, draw, and chat some more with Hellesfarne. We finally headed for home around 11PM, meaning we didn't make it back to Orlando until 1AM. Then we hung out at Moonwolf's house for a while, where we met one of her cool roommates, Mattie. He was a lot of fun, and let me braid his hair after watching me zip through braiding my own.
We finally made it home at about 3AM. We were so tired we went straight to bed, not even checking the butterfly list.
Monday, we woke up even later, around noonish. It was another lazy day around the house. In early afternoon, we made our way to the Borders where Moonwolf works. We hung out there, drinking various interesting concoctions and enjoying Moonwolf's company on her break. I found a cool book of photo references for drawing and ended up buying it. I started a picture of Nice 'n Easy, the my character and John's from Greywolf's tabletop WoW game. It's coming along all right, and an unusually complex picture for me.
We left for home around 9PM, went grocery shopping until 10, spent a lot of time hanging out and then butterflying, and went to sleep at 2:30 or so. Tonight, we have to do better -- we need to leave the house at 6:30 to get me to the conference center in a timely fashion. Alas: work tomorrow. Still, an interesting sort of work for me.
