Rainy weekend

[mdlbear]

Don't get me wrong: we need some rain here. But I'd prefer not to stand around in it for an hour and a half, and I'd prefer not to drive in the dark through a downpour. But it's been a good weekend. Let me back up a little.

Yesterday the chaoswolf and flower_cat had a FurCon staff meeting; I went out for a walk and it was drizzling, so I mostly hit some surplus joints and window-shopped instead. Got some cash, which I knew I was going to need today.

Today I went to the Dickens Faire with flower_cat and grendies, who is visiting the Wolfling for a couple of weeks. It was merely drizzling on the way up, which was a Good Thing, because when we got there the power was out. So we stood in line in the drizzle (which occasionally rose to the level of "moderate rain") for about an hour and a half. Power came back just about the time they were starting to hook up the generator. They gave us a bit of a discount (15%) on admission.

It seemed smaller than in previous years; the crowds were thinner (though that may have been due to the late start -- many people simply gave up and went home) and a couple of familiar booths were missing. The live music was as good as ever, though. The food was good, but the booth that served French onion soup was missing.

We were sort of looking for something mildly extravagant "for the house" -- coming up on your 30th anniversary does that, I guess. We ended up buying a pewter goblet from Ballena Bay -- the base is a pair of dragons either battling or nuzzling; it's hard to tell, so we're free to interpret it any way we like. I also picked up a couple of CDs from Danny Carnahan. (While tracking down the link, I discovered that he's a member of a band called Wake the Dead, billed as "the World's First Celtic All-Star Grateful Dead Jam Band." Their CDs will be arriving in the mail sometime this week.

Driving home, the rain started picking up about a third of the way home. By the time we got to San Jose it was downright torrential. Luckily there wasn't much traffic, so the idiots had room to maneuver. One of the problems with the start of the rainy season in California is all the idiots who either learned after it stopped raining in the spring, or who have somehow gotten out of practice over the summer.

On the whole, I'd consider this a pretty good weekend.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Between helping a friend move on Saturday and having to go in to work on Sunday (sigh), I figured Dickens Faire was a loss for this year. Sounds like it was not that big a loss, from your account.