Weekending

Since I spent a lot of time on trains last week, I have a largish writeup on Sweden coming Real Soon Now™, as soon as I can get it off my dying Psion. Meanwhile...

Splendid weekend up in Scotland with Caitriona. Stayed chez Freebairn courtesy of the kind and generous sneerpout, along with mr_tom and suaveswede, drank ale with bloodnok and generally missed almost all of Convivial. (I'm certainly not going to enumerate all the LJers there, there were loads of the buggers.) The bits we did get to were jolly good, though. Mainly the hanging-around-late-into-the-night-drinking parts.

Ms Pout was so knackered from the 9h drive up that she did even less of the con than we did, and they departed Mon back to the Smoke, so Caitriona, Anders and I headed for Edinburgh instead, as it's far more congenial than Glasgow. We were planning to stay with the mysterious green_amber but she was feeling a little under the weather so along with the Suave Swede we crashed at the home of official Famous Author autopope and feorag, with the former of whom I was allowed to do a fair amount of geeking. Nerdery about things like beer, planes and SF doesn't count, apparently, it's waxing nostalgic about computers of >2 decades ago that's antisocial or something. We got a wonderful guided tour of the alternative pubs, shops, pubs, eateries and pubs of Scotland's capital, and I'm almost tempted to move there.

I celebrated the tenth anniversary of my bike crash by having a meze dinner (booked under a name beginning L. E., tho' that person did not, alas, join us) and spending a very pleasant bank holiday eveningday's drinking with akicif and guybles and others, which could hardly be better, really. It wasn't technically the same day, but wotthehell, archie, wotthehell. And if you're mystified as to why I should celebrate such a thing, it's because I'm still here and in possession of all my extremities in more-or-less functional condition. That's well worth commemorating, I feel.

EDIT: oh, yes, and fluffcthulhu.

Which leads me to this weekend. Saturday and Sunday are filled, what with marypcb and sbisson's engagement party, mr_flay's birthday dinner and NotCon on Sunday. Friday night is looking dead, though. Any suggestions?

Oh, yes... And this: since it is now mere days away from One Year On since I escaped from the damnèd perdition of polyamory, I am considering yielding to the repeated urgings of several good friends and coming back to gothdom once more, at least on an experimental basis. Even though it means reneging on my new year's resolution and confronting Stuff™. Thoughts (or rants) welcome.