another DC trip past

This one felt hyper-compressed, and I'm not entirely sure why. Not nearly enough time to run around and see people.

Spent Sunday hanging out with my parents, then Monday afternoon with Jenn. In the evening vvalkyri and I went to Burke Lake Park in the evening, noted the signs threatening to lock the car in at dark, left the car at the golf course next door, wandered for awhile, and came back to find the golf course's gates locked.

In case you were wondering, it is in fact just as embarrassing and awkward and difficult to call your parents to come pick you up after you've done something stupid at 37 as it is at 17. At least I 'm pretty sure it is. 17 seems like a year when I would have rather called anyone else's parents first.

Worked from work Tuesday through Thursday, which was Not So Bad, for reasons to be explored later. Retrieved uilos from Richmond (well, met her and her folks halfway) on Tuesday night. Met up with her and vvalkyri again at National Airport, where there was excellent conversation, and flew to Madison. I did manage to get out without crunching the rental car this time, though, so that's something.

And now it's morning in Madison, and I may need to go in search of breakfast soon. It's deeply weird to think that this is my fifth Wiscon. Madison is beginning to seem familiar in the same way that Columbus did when I was going to Origins every year... but I'm not the same guy I was in 2010.

I think Herodotus said something about no one being able to go to the same con twice.