I left on Friday with spoony, possum, and William. William drove, since he finds my spoony’s car too small. We wanted to avoid I-275 because the traffic there was thick, so we went north on 49th St / McMullen Boot. We turned east too soon, and ended up circling around tampa for an hour or two. The street signs in Tarpon Springs are not very truthful.

Our first stop was in Valdosta to meet with Syrra and PB. They assumed we were just stopping by to mean say “Hi”, but in fact I had planned to kidnap them and bring them along.

Everyone piled into William’s car — which was crowded and wrong on many levels. Possum got moved around the most, since he fits almost anywhere.

William’s car did not appreciate the weight of all 6 of us, but we drove to Moultrie anyway. Syrra and PB watered their cat, got some clothing, we were off. We decided to head back to Valdosta. Syrra and PB would take their truck, and that would be fine.

Except the truck got a flat tire 30 miles out of Valdosta. We sort of were stuck on the interstate waiting for a tow truck until the wee hours of the morning.

Leaving the anime convention, we went to the hotel’s pool. Nobody brought bathing suits, and nobody felt like swimming since the water was warm. Still, we tried to trick possum into the water. When that failed, I tried forcing him into the water. The only problem with that is Possum has been doing lawn care over the summer, and is in a lot better shape than I am.

I was able to lift him up, since he’s only 120lbs, however he thrashed too much.

First, Possum and I followed him into an exhibition panel, and confronted him. We both stated: RedHat Sucks. Then we went on to explain that gentoo/portage and debian/dpkg were superior.

Visibly confused, he said “I don’t know what you’re talking about”. He left the room. Apparently Mary saw him exit, and approached him saying: “RedHat sucks!”. He reportedly said “Why does everyone keep saying that!!???”.

On the way to Orlando, we kidnapped Alex, saw sandhill cranes, and ate sandwiches.

After around 100 miles of driving, we arrived at the anime convention.

The first thing we were greeted with were power rangers. Apparently the red ranger was trying to take a picture of the white ranger’s butt.

There was also a rather tall Kenshin.

A strange being encased in carbonite:

I have no idea what:

The fire guy from Full-Metal Alchemist:

Swords.

Tails and a sword.

More tails.

Furries:

Things from zelda:

More furries:

Lord Van and the cat girl from Escaflowne:

Possum in drag:

The kingdom hearts guy:

More Full-Metal Alchemist people. (Yes, that Edward is a girl).

More furries. Why does the fox say “Cosine”? The two non-furries are Mary and Possum, from left to right.

Alex became a persocom (Chobits):

We ate at IHOP.

Also, someone might have stolen a fork from the IHOP.

We saw the original Green Ranger, Jason David Frank! I think we scared him.