Dylan’s Rants

This Labor Day weekend I went to Atlanta, Georgia for Dragon*Con, and also to
meet Muffin.

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.

After the main part of the convention, we talked about Futurama, and somehow I became possum’s father.
Also, Mary got possum pregnant, and I threatened to get me shotgun unless Mary made Possum an honest … alien.

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.

I harassed a poor man that happened to remind me of a RedHat Linux
/ Fedora mascot at a recent Anime convention. I was not alone in this, either.

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!!???”.

This past weekend Tina and I went to an anime convention in Orlando.
Full blame for this rests on Possum and/or Mary.
Alex, another good SLUG friend was also a member of our party.
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