So, as y'all may or may not know, I went out to Pennsylvania for a couple of weeks to spend time with the lovely glashund and attend Anthrocon. The con was great! I met Mercedes Lackey, and got to watch ursulav try desperately not to fangirl herself to death at same! I did some solid minion-ing, and hung out with friends, and everything was lovely.

Then I tried to fly home.

Let me tell you, internets, the sort of things I go through at airports are NOT helping my travel anxiety. Original plan is Pit > Chicago > Seatac, but the first flight gets canceled as a thunderstorm so severe they EVACUATE THE CONTROL TOWER decides to sit on top of the Pittsburgh airport. There were also tornado warnings. I may have taken my second Xanax of the evening when that happened.
So, okay, I need to be switched to a later flight, because obviously I'm missing my connection now, so when the storm is over I do just that and get a flight for 5-ish AM through San Francisco. Talk to mmsword on phone, give him flight numbers, all that good stuff. Not very long after that, he calls me back to inform me that he tried to check on my San Fran flight, but it's been CANCELED. Buh?! So, unable to find a human being working the ticket desks, I poke one of the kiosks about my flight. I've been bumped AGAIN, to another Chicago flight around 8 AM, which the machine helpfully informs me is overbooked, so someone might need to volunteer to take United credit in exchange for their ticket.
Clearly the only sane response at this point is hysterical laughter, at least if you've gone without food and sleep as long as I have, and have taken two Xanax.
I go back to glashund's house with him, stuffing some food into myself and taking a brief nap before I need to head BACK to the airport. Other than the TSA trying to be mildly insistent that their "new" body scanners are TOTALLY FINE, FOR REALS when I opt out, the trip to Chicago goes okay. The flight FROM Chicago to Seattle is delayed by two hours and has its gate change at least once, but I made it home!

If I never have to fly again, I swear, I will be DELIRIOUSLY happy.

Today would have been the 85th birthday of a truly great man: Mr. Fred Rogers.

Happy Birthday to the best thing to ever happen to children's television.

Hey, for those of y'all who I haven't told yet, mmsword is now officially allowed to walk. Apparently this still hurts like hell, so he mostly shuffles along with his walker, but is still a pretty good improvement! Of course, my body figured that since he could be somewhat self-sufficient, now is the time for me to get sick. :-P Oh well, least I don't have to worry too much about him while I'm curled up in bed moaning about sinus pain.

Went to the Seattle Slutwalk today, uploaded a folder of crappy cellphone pictures to share with y'all. :) There were SO MANY people marching down Pine street! And a good quarter to a third were men! Was so awesome.

Download link for pictures:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8n589504ptojf8o

Guys, guess where everybody's "favorite" church folks are gonna be in a little over a week? That's right, Westboro Baptist is coming to Seattle! Along with the Pride Picnic, they'll be protesting the Slut Walk. Anyone wanna come with me? :3


http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/05/16/westboro-baptist-to-protest-slutwalk

CHRIS JOB-GET!!!

Friend of mine talked to her congressman to help with this bill. :)
http://www.lvrj.com/news/nevada-assembly-passes-transgender-discrimination-bill-120127269.html

I'm entering a little late, but does anyone wanna vote for me for kicks? :)
http://neilgaiman.bookperk.com/engine/Votes.aspx?PageType=VOTING&contestid=29933
I'm "Tarani".

Alright, http://www.mythos-europe.com/en/index.html is finally back up (no idea why the site was down for so long), so once again y'all can let me know if you want a beta key. :)

Does anyone want a beta key to http://www.mythos-europe.com/en/index.html? I have a handful to give away. Is sort of a Diablo-clone MMO - the folks who made Torchlight originally made this, but didn't own the rights to it. The company that did failed and Mythos got sold away. Could be a fun thing until they make that Torchlight MMO!