Sitting in traffic on the Tappan Zee, fifty million people out in front of me.

Photos now online: Bill & Peggy's Wedding Reception Setup (03-Nov-2007) and Anime Los Angeles Events Division Meeting (04-Nov-2007) . The picture of fairegoddess is from the party -- she drove down Saturday night and stopped over at the party before following me home and staying over in our guest room in order to be at the meeting on Sunday. (All we have in the guest room is the bed -- when we furnish it further, I'll be sure to post more updates. library_lynn has bought a clock radio, but we haven't put it in the guest room yet... She wants to get an Ikea bookcase, in beech veneer.)

( Saturday at the wedding reception I did the instant photo printing trick. Here's my first photo of the bride and groom. )

For my gift, I brought my computer equipment and snapped pictures of almost everyone at the party, and printed them up on-site. I missed getting a good shot of Rebecca Lilenfeld, who managed to go straight from the front door to a Mahh-Jongg game, as near as I can tell. There was one person who didn't want any pictures at all, and another that let me take her photo for the CD-Rom for Bill and Peggy but didn't want to be on the website. But other than those, everyone is on the website. There were almost exactly 100 people.

Some aren't the best snaps. juliarandolph, you volunteered to be my assistant next time I'm around -- I could have used you Saturday, to help catch the photos I printed out showing people mid-blink and other do-overs. Oh, well.

Something that worked out really well: Peggy gave me a copy of the invitation list, and I printed up the list (of those who'd RSVP'd Yes or Maybe or hadn't replied) with spaces for "Can put photo on CD" and "on website" along with a place to write the time and another space to put a picture number. The first time I met someone, I asked my questions, checked the spaces for yes and yes and the time. Then when I got the pictures up, I printed them all up with the time of the photo and matched up the two lists.

Usually I write down names as I take the pictures. (So the captions in my notebook are in the same order as the photos.) But when I do that, I don't usually write down the time. I now have a big digital clock on a clipboard, and if I put my notebook on that I might just start writing down timestamps too. We'll see how it goes at the conventions -- I'll be at cons three weekends in a row.

Tomorrow I'll be at pmx. Look for our table in the Artists Market. I'll be up in my room most of the weekend -- ask at the table which room it is, I'll have snacks to share. The Masquerade isn't until Sunday night, so my room is probably where we'll be hanging out a lot of Friday and Saturday evening as well as by day. I'm hoping someone will loan me a toaster so we can have toast... got something that goes good on toast? (I should hit Trader Joes and get us some cashew butter if they've got it. And maybe some Nutella.)

(I'd like to state, for the record, that I will not be hosting a room party in PMX's convention room block. Apparently the convention doesn't allow that.)

Sunday night I leave town. I'm taking the red-eye to Indianapolis. I'll be there on business for five days, then on the weekend (assuming we get done with our work stuff) I'll zip down to spend Saturday at SugoiCon. Then back home on the 19th -- unpack the truck, then pack it back up again for our animelosangeles party at Loscon. What fun.

Anyone in Indiana that wants to get together for a bheer or some dinner on my expense account?