hazelchaz | I was travelling down the road feeling hungry and cold, I saw a sign said food and drinks

I met a bunch of people and took some pictures at

caprine's thing yesterday. We got a slow start out of Orange County, but we got down there by 3:30 pm. We were initially confused because the instructions said "Lestat's Coffee House" and when we got there we didn't find a party of any sort. Whoops! But next door was "Lestat's West" (on a much smaller sign) and that's where everyone was. We missed some of the early foolishness, and some of the people had left already, but we were there in time for the "Name the Dildo" contest. There was a big wooden thing, all polished and ready for naming. "Ron Post" seemed to be the winner.

I took some pictures, then realized I didn't have on the LJ badge that

johno made me. After I put it on, I learned that in addition to myself,

caprine,

darrelx,

esprix,

glittercat13 and

library_lynn, other people there on LJ included

heyoka,

impboysd,

persephonedance,

sahari,

shinobimaasch,

velleity_d, and

voidmonster. Plus a handful of others who I didn't think to ask when I wrote down their names.

caprine was really complimentary about my taking pictures at her event -- it seemed to make her happy. (Has she written any songs about happy experiences in her life? I may have missed those when

library_lynn and I ducked out for some fresh air...) It was nice seeing Pam Matthews and some other San Diegans I've only seen in convention contexts, too.

I've moved all of the pictures off of my camera memory cards onto my laptop, rotated the ones that needed to be turned, and typed in all of the names. I'm almost ready to upload them to Hazel's Picture Gallery - watch this space!

Shortly

library_lynn and I are going to Pasadena to see the tail end of the Chalk Festival, and perhaps say hi to Selina. I assume Maria's going off to her dad's for father's day; we celebrate "Stepfather's Day" next weekend.