This past weekend, and this week, have been all about getting ready for Steam Powered. Over the weekend sinmix , clockworkbuddha  and self hit Scrap, which was a little overwhelming but tons of fun. Cliff's Variety, Costume Party, Goodwill, etc. have all contributed to the piles of costume bits that I now have all over the damned place. Sometime in the next month or two I'm definitely ordering new storage furniture of some type.

I still don't have anything near a completed outfit, of course, although I have like ninetyzillion partial concepts.

On Sunday I went to a going away party for my friend Ian, who is going back to Peru after visiting for a few months. It was a nice party at a place across the street from where I used to live on Fell Street, he has an eclectic group of friends so it;s always interesting hanging out with him. It was also much nicer to be able to actually say hasta luego this time.

In other news, Chris Garcia's Drink Tank just ended it's quite entertaining Fandom on Infitine Earth's series and I provided the cover for #185. I'm not done reading them all, but I looked at all the purty pictures!

Also, over at Huffpo I found this fascinating piece on clean tagging
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So a friend of mine called me a couple of days ago to tell me he'd quit his job at the Evil Empire we both used to work at. We chatted for about fifteen minutes, long enough for him to give me the details, mention he had seen Lady in the Water and POC2 and that he was driving through the Mojave with his brother in a '73 pickup. He also mentioned he'd be in the city on Tuesday and was hanging out/having a party at some friends, I should really come by.

All good. Me being me (and him being him) I completely forget all about it until he calls me up late last night all "where the hell are ya!?" Still all good, this happens all the time with us, we're both flakes.

*THEN* he mentions that I really should be there because he's moving to *Peru* on a maybe-permanent basis. Huh? Wow, ok, when? TODAY. His plane left early this morning.

It was an impulse decision and he didn't tell anyone else either until yesterday. But, dude, skip the Lady in the Water review and let me know you're moving down below the Equator.... jayzus! It's not completely atypical behaviour, mostly I'm dissapointed at not getting to say bye and jealous at his new adventure.

Moral of the story: "Hey, what's up?" is only a generic question when you aren't planning a major life change :)



Now I have to figure out when I can visit Peru.