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113 Comments:
holla this is vampiress
i see some video but hear no sound on the free airport internet console. looks awesome. i shall bee there eventually they just started boarding
travel safe any still travelling fiends, and enjoy the concert everyone
<12 (<3*4 lol)
Too late for rock but eager to see pics!
Sorry I missed ya, today was a looong day wherein I walked all over Haight Ashbury and then had a great belly dance class at the Fat Chance studio. I also kinda forgot about the time differential..DOH!
But I'm sure there was much ROCK and rockin' Fiends.:)
there was indeed much rock!
While this might sound a bit silly, still it is true.... missed chatting with all Fiends online last night, even being in the room to hear the music live.
Missed the Fiends who weren't there LOTS, ope you got to see some show!
LOVED meeting the Fiends who were there. Nathilie and I watched them from the car, eating dinner on the patio, and I said I would not go until I figured out who they all were.
I am so shy. Really.
The Fiends go witht he Birdchick today, but I have things here, and it is so far, and I need to rock tonight. Tomorrow tho, we HANG!
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Hey, Fiends! I hope you're having a fiend-tastic time!
A friend of mine just passed me this link to the cartoon web series
Making Fiends.
It cracked me up with its fantastic fiendishness.
Ah, love Making Fiends muchly I do.
Last night was great and hilarious. Adam's "Groundskeeper Willie" Zepplin cracked me up....and in a bit of serendipity Stairway to Heaven came on the radio just as I got home.
I have family stuff to do, so I will be joining you later this afternoon.
Anyone around?
Nathilie and I aew sort of, I'm leaving a message with Aleta who is with the Birders, and asked her and those HORRIBLE FIENDS who left you alone behind and friendless to give you a call or post here letting you know The Plans.
I'll see you at the show tonight tho!
Thanks, Q! It took some trying but Aleta & I connected just as I checked back here. She's a-comin' to give me a lift. Honestly the prospect of some forced free time was singing a siren song, too. See you for the rock.
I spent the morning and early afternoon at the clinic. My mild ear pain from last night has turned into a raging inferno. I am going to rest and take drugs now. I hope to be there tonight but we shall see. Tomorrow, at least, I should be able to hang.
I'm sure you all are having a great time!!! See you soon.
Na, I have tried to call you several times but it goes to voice mail. I am wondering if I have the wrong number some how. Give me a call when you get a chance! :)
Na is now safe in the midst of fiends. Many of the lovely fiends are now bookstoring and such. I am on the sofa about to nap. See you later!
Call me if there are other desasters to be averted!
We've spent most of the afternoon in the ho-towel room letting ben play and do what he wants since tonight we will sit him in the pub again w/ the ipod and video games :P
Thanks for hte show last night Lorraine and Paul!!!! It was wonderful to see you on camera, again.
Lots of love to all the fiends.
from
Kristina
It's rather late, but the three of us are up playing with our cameras and being silly. I think bed and sleep should be happening now. Yes. Right....now!
See ya tomorrow!
*sigh*
damned pain and painkillers that knock you out. I've missed you all, and only got to see a little of the first gig. Of all the weekends to be so ouchy, my body picks this one.
Still - I am looking forward to more photos and Ticia's videos and hope you all have a great Sunday
Hmmm. 4 AM and can't sleep. That was an incredible amount of energy and fun tonight! Truly amazing and fantastic to be with you all!
Hullo, Fiends.
Good morning, evening and whatever it is your time (I am getting so time confused, I can't figure out f you might be sleeping, Sally).
The show was great last night!
Hi sally, sorry you've been in pain and missed us. I'm pretty confidnt that there will be more photos and videos uploading pretty soon...
Indeed. Loaded three fiend pictures on twitpic (and am now doing the same - and more - on to Flickr).
More pictures to come today...
Thank you PAUL!!!! Thank you LORRAINE!!!!
And thanks again to Aleta, o Averter & Ameliorator of Disasters.
Hi Rubius!
Sally and Gayle, {get well} {hugs}
Does it sound like I have any energy this morning? I dun't.
You are faking it very well though...
it's all in the exclamation points. and perhaps mentally energetic, just not so much the rest of moi. hope your rested, Natalie.
I hope I did too. Woke up a little later than yesterday, so there is progress...
For those not present physically, the Box was opened last night:
http://twitpic.com/8o2vv
and backstory:
http://stringpage.com/blog/?p=203
Note the lovely job Nick did fixing the edge. He fixed a few other things too, and that knife is now BETTER than the rest of the expensive set. *grin* He and I did the etching - sekrit project mentioned here. ;) We consulted with Neil, and all agreed the knife should have sort of special label.
That is a beautiful piece of work.
I think Q liked it: http://img44.yfrog.com/i/7k7.jpg/
That's great.... I love the etching.
Got to hear part of last night's second set. Loved it. Sang along a lot...
Miss the reading of comments and interaction...wish I was there.
And love the exploding knife saga...beautiful work Phiala and Nick.
Ahhh, the knife was in the box.
Much better today - not going to be unpicking and resewing anything for a while, its not good for your health ::grin::
I have a new buddy. *grin*
I hear someone might be making an airport run Tuesday morning. (El?) If so, me too???
Hope you guys had fun! Maybe I'll have the money and time to join next year! (Please tell me there will be a next year.)
We haven't consulted with Q yet - she may be filing restraining orders to keep us all out of Minnesota - but we were discussing every 2 years, to allow sufficient recovery time. :)
I hope you guys behaved yourself at least somewhat. A restraining order keeping me out of MN would really hamper my graduate school plans.
You weren't here; I think you're probably safe.
The rest of us... We were all very well behaved, honest. *blink*blink*
Ah. I thought it would be some blanket restraining order, for every fiend past, present, or future.
You have to think of the children!
And, if anyone is still reading this, rather than twittering (I believe I'm the lone hold out)
I'm home.
Missing you all.
Yup. I'm the only one here.
Sigh
No, no you're not Siri.
I'm here too!
They are just waiting for the new post and pics, which isn't coming tonight, sadly, as I am still at work, and won't be home until after 1 tonight, and then I am SLEEPING.
Tomorrow night tho for certain....
Hi Siri glad you made it home safe, Hi Sally sad you couldn't come!
The remaining Fiends are all out gallivanting while I slave over a hot laptop, writing an article that's due... um... tomorrow. Right. Slaving, laptop.
As long as it's in by Thursday, all will be well.
Q, 1?? Ick. Glad you got a day off and hopefully got some sleep last night.
Toto, we're in Kansas now.
Thought of you, Siri as we toodled down through Iowa.
Fiiiieeeeeendzzzz.
Sorry, Sal - I had to get food in me. I missed you bunches, and was never on line to tell you so. Did you get to gig at all?
Na, if you were on I35 South, you went right past my house. I hope it waved at you...
*smooches Siri*
I saw part of the first gig, before being struck down by ugly pain. was pretty much a wash-out weekend for me.
However, photos and videos are helping me to feel part of it.
All of you fiends at the party were great about keeping those of us who weren't there in the loop.
I will so be at the next one!
What videos? The ones Dr Wicked did or are there some on twitter?
That seems to be where most of the action is any more...
There are some videos on Flickr I think - try the Flickr fiend group that I'm too lazy to look up the link for.
Nope - no videos there.
At http://www.flickr.com/groups/fiends/
Far too weary to do the whole linky thing. Dozing at the keyboard and it's only 8PM.
ahhh, Vampi put at least one on youtube
of course, I can't find the reference now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB__uo9oVXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRSblUiuJHQ
That's right - Q said she'd better not wake up to find videos on YouTube, and someone said, not to worry, they'd be there before she went to bed, so she wouldn't have to wake up to them...
I'm here, I'm here! And home.
OMG, that was so much fun. And I loved how there was no weirdness, no feeling like I was with strangers, because I wasn't!
Or maybe that was the tequila shots ;-)
Oh, you guys played some of my favorite Irish songs! Johnny Jump Up! Brilliant.
Ohhhhh, lovely music!
Hurray for fiends home safely!
I am sleepy now.
Q hope the working is productive!
Hey, peeps. What's shakin'? So I heard everybody went on a trip to Minnesota, or something? What's up with that? And who's that guy with the long hair I keeps seeing in photos? He's hot.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that when a plane lands, it should go: rear wheels, front wheels. Not rear right, rear left, all three, fishtail wiggle. Wasn't my arrival flight bad enough? What did I ever do to Delta?
Hope you lots still there are having fun. Miss you guys. And thank you all: I can't tell you how much I needed to get out of my head and be with actual people. It's a big deal. I feel human again. You guys rock. :)
Siri, Jess, DG, glad you're all home safely. Jess, please tell me that's the coming her e plane you're talking about - they didn't do horrible things to you going home as well, did they?
Marjorie: I'm afraid so. It was fine up till then, though. But once again I find myself pleased to be alive.
Oh No. In that case, doubly glad tht you are now home & safe.
I think from now on I'll just walk places.
That could be a problem next time you need to visit England.....
we're home. Tired, ben's asleep. must eat dinner and collapse for a while.
Awesome week and amazing weekend.
Thanks to all the fiends!
In Colorado catching up on the Interwebs and trying not to think of what's in my email box.
And Toni, it was NOT the tequila shots, because I felt it too and I was tragically sober all weekend. Even though I didn't get enough Fiend Facetime (could have used about three more days) I had a blast. You should have seen Revelle and Emily getting goofy in the hotel room. I do have pics, though, and they will go online!
I hope to post my photos tomorrow - don't know if it will be Facebook or Photobucket. I'll see where they upload the best.
Today it looked as if our good travel mojo was gone - we had no seat assignments on an oversold flight, and the next one didn't leave for 5 hours. Since we had to meet Dennis in Denver and then drive a few hours up in the mountains, the additional time would have put our arrival closer to midnight (which would be yuck.)
At the end, after all the groups were called for boarding, the gate agent posted our names and sadly informed me that he had had to bump us... to first class. So it was a total win. I credit the win to my irresistible 'curvy hair' which apparently fascinates certain drunks ("I love your hair. It's so curvy.") and the occasional gate agent.
You should have seen Hat Girl. "Yesssss!" (jumpy, jumpy, high five) She was seated in the last row in 1st class and squeaked in surprise soon after she sat down - there was a service dog lying under her. He apparently had a huge crush on her because he licked her feet off and on the whole way to Denver. He looked like the in-color version of Cabal, with the same sort of sweet and slightly sheepish expression on his face.
Arrgh. Got to go to bed. Why am I always saying that? I guess because I go with what works. See y'all tomorrow!
Awww, you poor girls having to fly first class.
Curvy hair - that's brilliant.
Lucky R having a dog to accompany her in first class.
Oh, and Jill Thompson has some cute embroidered patches she's going to sell - here's the twitpic:
Jill's Patches and there are going to be some others - Scary Godmother and Boozle. To order she says to email her:
"for patch info and ordering info- jillthompsonstuff@gmail.com please be patient as I am just starting this kinda stuff" ♥
morning.
yup, that's all i got.
Morning Louisa, how are things on the Emerald Isle this fine day?
Evening Sally! Things are warm and cloudy, like it's trying to make up it's mind "will I bother to do the whole rain thing?"
How's tricks in your neck o' the woods?
Stormy! I feel nice and warm and safe inside.
Stormy is good when you feel safe.
Just checking out Nat's pictures (hope you don't mind me linking, Nat?) gorgeous portraits and details of Stillwater but DO NOT LOOK at them if you are in a public place and turn to complete mush at pictures of illegally cute cats.
More of the Fiends are heading out this morning, leaving only the last few...
Much fun, will miss you all! But of course plenty of internet contact.
(Oh, I need some more hours of sleep...)
More pictures added to the Fiends pool on Flickr and a gazillion pictures of Magic too (on my account)...
poor Fluffy,eing forced to go 1st class...
I'll bet she had her tiara on! :)
Natalie, that woodpecker is a downy woodpecker. It doesn't look like a juvenile one to me, but don't quote me on that.
/birdchick
Good morning!
Good morning Jess, how's you today?
Hallo, Louisa! I am very well, thank you. Haven't been awake that long, so can't claim to be in the midst of excitement. Doing the tea thing, which isn't really helping. I miss coffee!
Jess, maybe we can talk about Barbie here :-)
DH has almost no hair, no fun styling his. He won't do anything I suggest, having said that, I think he looks fine as is.
Sad for Fluffy and her upgrade :-)
Nat's photos are, as usual, stunningly beautiful. And I'm not just saying that because she photographed my toes! I especially love the Fiend portraits and the kitty pictures. Is it my imagination or is Magic getting a bit zaftig in the tummy region? He looks alert as always but also happy.
Awake (sort of) in Colorado right now. Need caffeine. We have a very lovely condo and just need food and drink to make it perfect. Good thing Dennis has gone to the grocery store. I brought my own tea, so I can at least get some chemicals in my system before he gets back with my Lucky Charms and Cheerios. Then, more chemicals and sugar. Mmm.
The Barbie Fan Hordes are after me! Aieee!
Who needs Barbie when your hubby has a luxuriant head of hair, is the point.
He's going to send it to Locks of Love the next time he has it cut (which will be a while as he needs at least ten inches and still wants a ponytail). He's a good egg. :)
Jess - Pantene has a similar program only the wigs are for adult cancer patients and the hair only needs to be eight inches long.
http://www.beautifullengths.com
Grown-up version of Barbie.
I have a friend who is growing the 10 inches - she has a long way to go and is determined to get there.
Wonderful way to give...
Off to a memorial service for 45 yr old Clara - I met her when she was 7 and I was 19.
Hey, now that's a thought. Will have to look into that! Thanks. :)
I don't have enough of a moment to search, but you might want to do some research into how Locks of Love actually works. Apparently they sell most of the hair they receive, rather than having it made into wigs.
Work is kicking my ass today, but I miss all you guys, even those who were hanging virtually with us over the weekend. It's amazing to me how wonderful all the Fiends are, each in their own way.
I wish we would have had more time to hang out Sunday, and that I didn't have to rush back to work today.
And, Fluffy, I'm seriously envious of the first class upgrade. Cool!!!
Yeah, you guys are back! I was lonely hanging out here. All right, so I wasn't really hanging and I'm usually kind of quiet lately anyway, but I do enjoy checking the Q-blog ... and it's been oh-so-quiet!
Sounds like you guys had fun fun fun. Any favorite moments? Any silliness? Do share!
Jess, it sounds like your plane was doing the Macarena or something!
Toni - I was amazed myself - I think it was 20 years ago when I last got a cool upgrade like that.
Had my LuckyCharmsCheerios and a big mug of tea. All is right with the world. I predict it will get lots more exciting when the in-laws get here. Where's my Vicodin?
Oh, yeah. I have no Vicodin. That's Dr. House I'm thinking of...
Just saw that the Minnesota Supreme Court declared Al Franken the new US senator. Took them awhile to sort that one out - the election was in November.
I killed the blog, didn't I?
LOL! No, Fluffy. It's just the lack of Vicodin in the light of the Al Franken announcement........ ;-)
We're supposed to get Vicodin now that Al Franken is senator? SWEET!!
Thank you, Minnesota! was beginning to wonder what was wrong with all of you. :P
Erin, you were missed!
Yes, I have A Story, and it's better than the Macarena Plane. They've all heard it. they're sick of it. Yo haven't, so they can hear it again:
So twenty minutes before the manwife and I are supposed to arrive in Minneapolis last Friday, the pilot comes on and says:
"Well, folks, we're about eighty miles outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and I just want to let you know that we're having a slight mechanical malfunction...I don't anticipate any problem with the landing at all, but just in case we've got emergency crews waiting on the ground for us, and they've just cleared us to land on the longer runway there at the airport. We'll be landing in just a few minutes; thanks for flying with us, and I hope you've enjoyed the rest of the flight."
Everybody goes dead silent. Manwife and I are just kind of staring at each other with that oh noes expression. The lady in the window seat next to us is white as a sheet. She turns to us, timid-like, and asks, "Is this your final destination"?
By this time I'm clawing manwfe's arm and burying my head in his shoulder. Cue fifteen minutes of breathless terror. At some point manwife prods me and says, "we haven't started heading for the lake or dumping fuel. I think we're fine." We notice that only one set of flaps on the wings are working. We surmise that that's what the long runway clearance is for. The stewardess walks up and down the aisle with a look that seems to say, oh, not this again. We begin to feel cautiously hopeful.
Smoothest touchdown I've ever experienced. Everyone claps. I'm thinking, Don't applaud yet! We haven't stopped! Long braking period. Screeeeee. And then we're fine. At which point the pilot pulls off to the side and says, "Okay, folks, now the emergency vehicle is just going to do a once-around to make sure everything looks normal, and then they're going to follow us back to the gate." At which point I start clinging to manwife's arm again, because I thought we were alive. I don't think we were on fire.
So eventualy they took us back to the gate and let us off. We never found out what actually happened. We still think wing flaps. In any case, it is good to be alive, and if that's the worst that ever happens to me on a plane, I'm well satisfied.
So, Erin, the Macarena Plane was the coda to that. That's the punchline.
Other than that, the weekend was great. This is a fun bunch to be with. I miss everybody. :)
Fluffy that is the best kind of travel mojo! I wish I'd had some the other day when United ran me all over the airport.
Jill Thompson is making patches? Uh oh..
(psst, Siri, I don't twitter either;)
Sounds like next time will need to be a week-long Fiendom Come;)
Off to check out Nathalie's pix..
Whew, Jess. You've had your airplane excitement and should be good to fly for years, now!
Siri, I, too, do not Tweet. I was forced to sign up briefly when DS was in Turkey, but then he never managed to get his phone to work! So I technically have an account, and for a day, DH and I sent silly messages back and forth. But I DO NOT TWEET.
Two years, huh.... I bet I can plan of being there for the encore.
Or even on being there...
Wait. What? in Nathalie's flicker shots there's a pic of Magic and Mim face-to-face. That's a story I want to hear.
Home. Tired. (Now WHY could that be???)
Will sort out pictures and stories... just not right this second.
I'm working on pictures now. Not sure how far I'll get before ben's drum lesson is over.
Many many things to get done today after 10 days of being away. The garden is a jungle!!
Miss you all already!!
Most of the fiends leave and it gets kinda cold here. Coincidence? I think not!
Tried to get somewhat caught up on work today, but my heart was not really in it. :shrugs: That's okay. It'll come back tomorrow -- my motivation that is.
On the other hand I think the energy generated by the presence of the fiends allowed the breakthrough on the MN Senate election. Hurray for finally having two senators!
I just found the fiends 2-3 weeks ago so there was no way I'd be part of the party but I did make it online to see the first set of the first night. And it looked like so much fun. Oh, by the way, I was Toronto Can't stop the Serenity but I finally got around to reviving an old blog with something a little easier. And the fund raising is over for another year anyway.
Oh, yeah, in response to something Aleta said yesterday, I think Marjorie gets the prize for the most airport runs, and in addition, she's not from around here.
Marjorie - you rock.
OK, so it might have been on a different string that she said that, but still
Marjorie Rocks.
Still loading pictures.
Jess, can I sugges t that next time you fly, you take Fluffy and/or Revelle with you? I think they have the plane karma you need.
Siri - thanks (blushes) you also rock, especially with the early meet and greet.
I just got back to the hotel having spent the day wth El and OSS and Ticia, and some of it with Bordchick too (we went to the Raptor Center, and you will be pelased to hear that when Sharon saw us and called "Fiends!!" we all automtically responded...
I am currently feeling very proud of myself for having found my way back to the hotel all by myself, and with only one minor getting lost-ish.
I have pictures. Not as many good ones as I thought, though. And oddly devoid of people. But there they are!
Yeah, I need me. some of that First Class Action.
How was the Raptor Center?
Raptor Center was great. And Birdchick introduced us to a kestrel, a redtailed hawk and an owl. I have pictures. I will post them very soon...
New Post is up!
Haven't heard that for a while, have we?
Jess! That is plane craziness! I think I would have been vomiting on my feet!
I'm sooooo glad you landed safely - both times. A Jess-less blog would be a sad thing.
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