Back home and other stuff!

[yendi]

Yes, I'm back from AZ. Conference was fun, if largely pointless. But being trapped at one of the nicest resorts in AZ (the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge) with a shopping center across the street that has a B&N isn't exactly hell. Especially since I love the desert -- the one non-urban environment that has ever really appealed to me is the desert. Walking at 5:45 in the morning through the gorgeous desert landscape in the back of the hotel (they had a desert botanical garden, even!) was just amazing.

Had three lovely dinners -- since Mom lives out there, I got to eat everything from nouveau Cuban to contemporary seafood to Southwestern. Yum.

My laptop is partially borked, so very little online time from the resort, alas.

Nice irony: On the plane ride back from the resort, I read Bentley Little's The Resort, about a haunted resort in Arizona. :-)

Props to glenn5 for giving me a ride back from the airport on Friday, which was much appreciated.

Alas, I brought something nasty back with me, which led to my wandering the house at 2:30 on Sunday morning with a 102.5 fever while wearing about ten layers of clothes to keep out the chills. It's mostly gone away, but I still feel a bit icky. I suspect it's a mild ear infection.

Oh, and needless to say, if you said it on LJ this week, I don't know about it. Email me if I need to know anything. Unless there's an axe murderer standing behind me -- that's important enough to justify a phone call.

I've never played those Deer Hunter video games (I prefer old-fashioned denial about how my venison makes it to my plate, thank you very much), but if this is what they're like, I might have to pick one up.

Oh, and forget all the expensive stuff on my wishlist (conveniently linked from my userinfo page in case you choose not to forget it). This is what I really need. $6 worth of the best comics character ever created. To quote Jamie from Megas, "What do you call a big head with little arms and legs?"

Oh, and I missed two sports controversies while I was away. Quick takes on them: Anyone upset over the MNF/Desperate Housewives promo needs a life and a blowjob. And Ron Artest got what he deserved. Almost.

Comments

[aussie-nyc.livejournal.com]

No, the Deer Hunter games are more like this (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6876936).

[manifestress.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!

[yendi]

Thanks!

[zerbie.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!

In my LJ this week, there is icon fun (http://www.livejournal.com/users/zerbie/248907.html). And I have a job interview today. And I'm surprisingly chipper considering my utter lack of sleep. Huzzah!

Okay. Going now.

[yendi]

Good luck on the interview. And lack of sleep usually makes me chipper. Not intelligible, but chipper nonetheless.

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

You know, secondperiod is the fella behind The Journal of MODOK Studies, ably assisted by patrickdean. I wanna say they're planning a fourth volume to be out in time for FLUKE '05 at the end of January.

[shaddragon.livejournal.com]

How 'bout that, we were both reading Bentley Little. *g* So is The Resort as good as The Walking? Of his books I've only read that one and a collection of novellas.

[yendi]

It's a bit more formulaic, but it's a lot of fun. I've been a Little fan for a while, so I'm less surprised by his works now than I was when I first started reading them.

[shaddragon.livejournal.com]

I'll have to make sure to dig up a few more of his on the used racks. The novella collection I ran into first was pretty freaky, as I recall. (This is a good thing. I've been reading horror too long to say that much anymore.)