An Executive Summary
May. 24th, 2005 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythWednesday: Caught the train down to Atlanta. Atlanta, one of the largest cities on the East coast only has 2 trains that go to the train station, one going South that arrives in the morning and one going North that leaves in the evening. That's very pathetic, and a sign of how badly the US rail system has decayed. Which is very sad, since trains are eminently preferable to planes, they're more comfortable, more spacious, and don't require hours of paranoid waiting for randomized computer lists and suspicious bored guards to poke through your underthings to make sure you're not going to blow everything up.
Thursday: Arrived in Atlanta. Made phone calls. Rented a car. Drove up to the hotel, got lost for about an hour because that's how I do things. Found the hotel, checked in, drove down to my friend Josh's fiancee's house and watched a couple movies with them before me and Josh went to get my brother from the airport. Then there was fooding, and a drive back up to the hotel.
Friday: Stuff. People arriving, we go to see Episode III with Josh & Amelia (the fiancee), plus some of Josh's family. See earlier review for the movie. Then meet up with the other guys who're going to be the other groomsman and the best man, go get our tuxes to make sure they fit, which they remarkably do, and are amazingly less sucky than stupidly complicated formal wear should be. Huzzah for fashion technology. though mine needed the sleeves let out a little, but no biggie. Then we were going to go to a techno club, except Josh didn't have exact directions with him, so we drove around Atlanta for two and a half hours and almost died about five times (more on that later) and got to the club eventually, but didn't meet their dress codes, since some of us had shorts, or open toed shoes on guys, or sneakers. Go figure. So I drive me and my brother and the other groomsman, Steve, back to the hotel. This was the fourth time driving that same stretch of 75, I think. Also, we played pool and ping pong over at the best man's house to waste time before the club.
Saturday: Wake up, be unable to find directions to the Magic prerelease, dick around, waste time, angst, end up not going, because of wedding rehearsal at 3. Do that. Go to rehearsal dinner at a saloon, which served very good food and was much nicer than it'd seemed on first impressions. Then back to the hotel to swim and waste some time until we changed and washed up and drove down 75 AGAIN to meet up and go to the club. We found it this time, and even went in, and there'll be a more detailed entry working off of this later. Then up 75 again.
Sunday: The wedding. Everything went well, aside from Steve's managing to disappear and require somebody to go back and pick him up at the hotel. Not too hot, and the clouds even came out so we didn't roast in our tuxes. I'll post some pictures once my brother gets them off the digicam and I can post them. Steve's plane left, the new couple left to open presents and prepare for their honeymoon, they should still be down at Disney. More swimming, plus packing and talking to Josh's family and general hanging out things.
Monday: Finish packing, check out from the hotel, drive down 75 yet again and out to the Museum Replicas Ltd showroom, which is really a bit of a letdown. Neat as it is to play with the swords a little, there wasn't that much there. Must all be in the warehouses. Then we got lunch at a Carribean/American cuisine place (that's what it said), though the chicken sandwich I got had quite a few bones in it. Me and Peter drove up into Atlanta, to go to SciTrek, an interactive science museum, that...apparently closed recently. So we dropped the car back off at Enterprise (the car worked well, and the folks at Enterprise were helpful) and they gave us a ride to the train station. Several hours early, but we got our tickets, then went over to the Borders across the street, where I read Hellblazer, Global Frequency, and some other things. Then we went back over, and waited for the train, which was a bit late, and got on. Slept off and on most of the trip.
Today: Arrived back at like 9am. Got picked up, then dropped my brother off at his apartment, and came home. Proceeded to start catching up on LJ friends page, blogs, comics, and so on. I haven't even started to try and catch up with the GG forum yet, that's gonna be crazy. Even if I'm not involved in that many. I wrote some on the trip and the train, some observations, some thoughts, and some notes for Fors stories. Which I need to bounce off my designated bouncer, then actually, y'know, write. Expect a return to your normal serving of links, rants, occasional insights, and similar over the next few days. Thought I might just head into town and catch up with a couple local people too, there's some things that're better for talking about face to face than to my LJ editor window.
Also, I need to try and figure if it's worth the effort of trying to find a non-awkward way to ask "do you have a boyfriend?" or just say "I'm no good at being subtle, do you have a boyfriend?" Or maybe "I'm testing a hypothesis, do you have a boyfriend? In my experience all the attractive women I meet do."
And yes, I'm fully aware of the existence of lesbians, but I don't think that's terribly relevant right now.
Tags: Me, Journal, Life, The Universe, and Everything, Mindscribbles
Thursday: Arrived in Atlanta. Made phone calls. Rented a car. Drove up to the hotel, got lost for about an hour because that's how I do things. Found the hotel, checked in, drove down to my friend Josh's fiancee's house and watched a couple movies with them before me and Josh went to get my brother from the airport. Then there was fooding, and a drive back up to the hotel.
Friday: Stuff. People arriving, we go to see Episode III with Josh & Amelia (the fiancee), plus some of Josh's family. See earlier review for the movie. Then meet up with the other guys who're going to be the other groomsman and the best man, go get our tuxes to make sure they fit, which they remarkably do, and are amazingly less sucky than stupidly complicated formal wear should be. Huzzah for fashion technology. though mine needed the sleeves let out a little, but no biggie. Then we were going to go to a techno club, except Josh didn't have exact directions with him, so we drove around Atlanta for two and a half hours and almost died about five times (more on that later) and got to the club eventually, but didn't meet their dress codes, since some of us had shorts, or open toed shoes on guys, or sneakers. Go figure. So I drive me and my brother and the other groomsman, Steve, back to the hotel. This was the fourth time driving that same stretch of 75, I think. Also, we played pool and ping pong over at the best man's house to waste time before the club.
Saturday: Wake up, be unable to find directions to the Magic prerelease, dick around, waste time, angst, end up not going, because of wedding rehearsal at 3. Do that. Go to rehearsal dinner at a saloon, which served very good food and was much nicer than it'd seemed on first impressions. Then back to the hotel to swim and waste some time until we changed and washed up and drove down 75 AGAIN to meet up and go to the club. We found it this time, and even went in, and there'll be a more detailed entry working off of this later. Then up 75 again.
Sunday: The wedding. Everything went well, aside from Steve's managing to disappear and require somebody to go back and pick him up at the hotel. Not too hot, and the clouds even came out so we didn't roast in our tuxes. I'll post some pictures once my brother gets them off the digicam and I can post them. Steve's plane left, the new couple left to open presents and prepare for their honeymoon, they should still be down at Disney. More swimming, plus packing and talking to Josh's family and general hanging out things.
Monday: Finish packing, check out from the hotel, drive down 75 yet again and out to the Museum Replicas Ltd showroom, which is really a bit of a letdown. Neat as it is to play with the swords a little, there wasn't that much there. Must all be in the warehouses. Then we got lunch at a Carribean/American cuisine place (that's what it said), though the chicken sandwich I got had quite a few bones in it. Me and Peter drove up into Atlanta, to go to SciTrek, an interactive science museum, that...apparently closed recently. So we dropped the car back off at Enterprise (the car worked well, and the folks at Enterprise were helpful) and they gave us a ride to the train station. Several hours early, but we got our tickets, then went over to the Borders across the street, where I read Hellblazer, Global Frequency, and some other things. Then we went back over, and waited for the train, which was a bit late, and got on. Slept off and on most of the trip.
Today: Arrived back at like 9am. Got picked up, then dropped my brother off at his apartment, and came home. Proceeded to start catching up on LJ friends page, blogs, comics, and so on. I haven't even started to try and catch up with the GG forum yet, that's gonna be crazy. Even if I'm not involved in that many. I wrote some on the trip and the train, some observations, some thoughts, and some notes for Fors stories. Which I need to bounce off my designated bouncer, then actually, y'know, write. Expect a return to your normal serving of links, rants, occasional insights, and similar over the next few days. Thought I might just head into town and catch up with a couple local people too, there's some things that're better for talking about face to face than to my LJ editor window.
Also, I need to try and figure if it's worth the effort of trying to find a non-awkward way to ask "do you have a boyfriend?" or just say "I'm no good at being subtle, do you have a boyfriend?" Or maybe "I'm testing a hypothesis, do you have a boyfriend? In my experience all the attractive women I meet do."
And yes, I'm fully aware of the existence of lesbians, but I don't think that's terribly relevant right now.
Tags: Me, Journal, Life, The Universe, and Everything, Mindscribbles
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Date: 2005-05-24 03:24 pm (UTC)Mostly the psychos, but I stand by my statement.
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Date: 2005-05-25 10:56 am (UTC)