so this past weekend's (dragon*con weekend) rendez-vous with mark was a big success. spent a piece of each day goofing off with him, which was an absolute blast. friday night, we all hung out at martin's place eating and catching up a little. lots of people showed, but the night wound up early since martin was still pretty wiped from his journey home and needed his rest for a weekend tournament.

saturday was the party for which brad never posted details. played some pool and ate some cooked out burgers. but first i had to go to gainesville and help matt rig the credentials for this year's flatwater (sprint canoe and kayaking) world championships, to be held at the lake lanier canoe and kayak club (i'm not finding links for that shit. matt did the websites, so if he cares, he can post some urls). anyway, it was cool. never been out there, so i was pretty excited, but i hope that during the olympics, there were more seats. i think that this kayaking bit is a pretty big deal other places, so i would guess there'd be a lot of seating required. then again, what do i know?

then sunday, we all (and by all, i mean not nearly as many people as i expected) rallied at the marriot marquis -- dragon*con central -- to play settlers of catan with mark, sally and her boyfriend aaron (i hope i spelled that right. people spell their names in some stupid ways these days). settler's is a fuckingly fun game, so we all had a great time. i sure do miss mark. stupid mark.