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May 6, 2008
Tequilacon 2008 - More
I sort of jumped ahead with yesterday's story of Tequilacon and during that jumping-aheadness made a mental note to come back and mention something I thought was pretty important. And I'll be damned if I can remember what it was.
So let's make a quick stop to the night before as there is something I forgot to say about that.
As you know I see a therapy person who is helping me to overcome my fear of using stainless steel cutlery. And while that's not really why I see her it's close enough for the blog and will keep the other Tequilacon attendees from forming any damn-that-was-close worries. Anyway, a group of us were sitting around on Friday and I felt the need to say, "my therapist" before I gave a thought to what this might suggest to people. I didn't want anybody to worry for or feel sorry for me.
Pausing, I asked, "Is anybody else here seeing a therapist?"
About 80% of the hands went up. (And I think we all felt worry and sorrow for the 20% who were therapist-free.)
Moving forward to Saturday…
All of the Tequilacon attendees were presented with lanyards that had been beautifully designed and artfully crafted by Dave. Those of us with sufficiently low Dave Numbers were also presented with buttons (that look way better than my poor photography indicates).
Other swag included condoms packaged with Avitable's likeness and a lovely kitchen magnet from the lovely Miss Britt. I also have a CD of Tequilacon songs that Jen handed to me, but I'm fuzzy on who put the compilation together. (It was late in the evening and I'd had more than one Brooklyn Brown Ale in me.)
I took an Ohio State University shirt that I gave to Jen (for her masterful work in keeping the TC list) and for Dave I took an OSU shirt, OSU lunch bag, and a Scarlet and Gray Magic Scarf (that is apparently so magicky, so scarfy and so well known that not only does it have a website but when I mentioned I'd given it to Dave both Greeneyezz and Hilly* said, "You mean the one that ... etc.)"
[*Please note that where I say "Hilly" in the above paragraph, it could have been Hello Haha Narf, Finn, Shelli, LibraGirl, Christine, Jan, Lisa or New York City Watchdog. Please refer to my note about Brooklyn Brown Ale.]
The Best Thing About Tequilacon: There is really not just one best thing. It was all great. Everybody was so incredibly nice, friendly and had interesting stories to tell. I wish I could have talked longer to more people.
Not surprisingly, despite some of the things we all say on our blogs, it was not an orgy of foul-mouthedness.
The Most Unsettling Thing About Tequilacon: For the longest while it looked like I was going to be the oldest person there. And not just by a little. It was going to be 47-year old me and then a bunch of people in their late 20's and early 30's. Fortunately I'd eventually meet Mr. Geeky Geeky Tai Tai who was kind enough to be several years older than I am. I also learned that blogging keeps a person young as several of the people I'd thought to be in their early to mid 30s were a couple-several years older. And that was before any Brooklyn Brown Ale.
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Posted by delmer at May 6, 2008 11:17 AM