Good day sunshine, good day sunshine; good day sunshine. I need to laugh, and when the sun is out

Update to the Great Pink Lemonade Plans: I've been asked not to set up the animelosangeles pop-up canopy tent in the event space.

There are picnic tables outside of the Shelter 6 area, and those are first-come first-served -- so I'll just get there early and set up there. (Unless there's a great outcry for me not to come and bring the lemonade... but one anonymous poster on my LJ does not constitute a landslide of popular opinion.) We're still registering for the gathering, of course. (Even if it weren't a matter of being the right thing to do, there's the practical aspect: paying $10 sure beats dealing with packing a lunch, bringing charcoal and stuff to cook, et cetera, et cetera.)

And no, we're not going to have a big in-your-face convention presence at the picnic. No big signs, we're not bringing the Animé Los Angeles tablecloth to set up a sales table, nothing like that. It's just a matter of the chairman, first vice chair, and a few other convention staffers hanging out in case someone wants to come over and talk to us.

I once met a man with a sense of adventure. He was dressed to thrill wherever he went.

Hooray! The prodigal carts are returning!

In late February/mid-March, I was convinced that we'd lost some of the carts. The carts all have names - Ala, Alexander, Tuesday, Trixie, Nessie, Cookie, Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. And Ala & Alexander, along with most of the others, were missing. Oh noes! They weren't at the clubhouse, they weren't in the Pod, the only ones that had been seen were Tuesday and Trixie, plus Clyde (I think) was used at Gallifrey One.

Well, a month later I got a message from Erica. "Chaz, are you ever going to get these carts from me?" And a week or so after that a message from Jarod. "Chaz, are you ever going to get these carts back from me?"

So. Jarod's coming over in about half an hour. And I'll meet up with Erica real soon now.

Gathering-wise: The SoCal Gathering (Long may it prosper) tomorrow marks the fifth year of the picnics -- they started in 2005. Impressive, yes? (See also other well-meant enterprises that haven't been able to manage five events in five years; the SoCal Gatherings add up to 7 or 8 in five years, I think.)

EDIT: Or perhaps it's 6 events in only four years, my source of information may have been wildly inaccurate.

In other news, I have two anonymous admirers who've come here from 4chan, and apparently are hanging on my every word. Hi guys! Introduce yourselves! One of them's a Roadrunner customer in SoCal, the other one's a PacBell DSL customer in or near Irvine, but they haven't been signing their submissions so I don't know much more than that. Well, that and they don't have a very high opinion of me.