The first Leaguefest happened in 2012. We went to Vegas and drank too much in the old Star Trek bar at the Hilton and ate way too much at one of those steakhouses. It was great to see the people with whom we had been yelling and arguing and whose posts got us reading and researching on our own. “I thought you’d be taller!” we all said to each other. Well, except to Trumwill.
We had a couple more Leaguefests. There was one in Chicago in 2013 (and I didn’t go to it) and another in Washington DC in 2014 (I was too exhausted to go to that one).
Finally, in 2016, we had one in Portland and it was *WONDERFUL*. Good food, good conversation, predictions about the upcoming election, and Powell’s. Oh! There was a Farmer’s Market in there too!
Well, this weekend is Leaguefest 2022. 10 years after the first one and six years after the last one. A lot has happened since 2016, huh? We’re on the other side of a lot of things.
The plans include dinners and some people will be taking in museums and others will be taking in musicals and we’ll once again be putting faces to pseudonyms. “I thought you’d be taller”, we’ll say. Well, except to Trumwill.
I’m flying out on Thursday night and getting there waaaay late and have a packed Friday and Saturday and am getting up waaaay early on Sunday to make it back home in time to decompress for Labor Day. Maribou, sadly, will *NOT* be going along. She’ll be staying with the kitties and holding down the fort until Sunday when she’ll get on a plane herself and go visit one of her besties on the Left Coast. We may pass each other in the airport as I’m coming home as she’s wandering down to her gate.
This will let us park in Short Term Parking and then *I* can hold down the fort and stay with the kitties.
I’m exhausted already!
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Criticism”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
Wow, that ad. The women in there look way younger and better than (some of at least) of their husbands.
My docket? I have to make jam bars for a funeral reception (provided I still test COVID negative tomorrow evening – had a possible exposure on Monday) and then – clear the rest of the stuff out of my sewing room, wash the walls, tape around the window and door frames, get a quart of Valspar “Second Blush” color paint, and paint the sewing room. I’m HOPING to achieve that Sunday, which would leave Monday to put the bookcases back and start putting the various pattern books back on them (and hopefully sort the books a bit; I’m pretty sure I have a couple that are duplicates and some I’d rather get rid of) and then move the sewing machine and cutting table and ironing board back into place.
Labor Day is my ONE long weekend of the semester, so if this painting thing is gonna happen, it has to happen now. Also my bedroom’s now dominated by boxes of quilting and knitting books that I’d rather not have to step over for weeks…..Report
When I was looking at ads, the thought that I was going and Maribou wasn’t was foremost in my head.
I saw that and cracked up.
Good luck with the sewing room!Report
Didn’t say it on the twitter post but your paint job looks awesome. Great work!Report
I’m going to be here in Chicago, extremely jealous of all the Fest attendees. I really wish I could make it. Ironically, I didn’t make the Chicago one, either.Report
Secretly hoping BlaiseP, Hanley, TVD, EDK, the Bruenigs, Bouie — hey, has anyone personally reached out to Barret Brown?? — and all sorts of other OT Ghosts crash the party… No? Well perhaps a ghost story or two will suffice.Report
Man that takes me back!Report
So far, it’s been me, Burt, and Kolohe.
Great food, great conversation, and humidity.Report
We’ll be rolling in around 6:00 +/- once we get the kids settled and aligned.
Heh, was just commenting to Lady Marchmaine that we hope this low humidity weather holds up for tomorrow. Of course we’re out here in the hills not down there in the lowlands so maybe it’s worse in Alexandria.Report
Hint: Alexandria is a flood zone outside a city whose downtown area is known as Foggy Bottom.Report
I hope you all have a blast and wish I was there with you all.Report
Maybe I’ll make it to a Fest one of these years. Hope you all have fun! Husband and the boy are off to move his sister and my future son-in-law back to Oklahoma. I’m on puppy sitting duty. Hope fully one of the rent houses come through today or there will be 5 adults, 4 cats and 2 dogs in my house. Not to mention a scramble to find a storage unit on labor day. But the important thing is she will be home!Report
Home. Home again after a great Leaguefest.
My dogs are barkin’.Report