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I'm home from Dallas -- did you miss me?

Did I miss anything exciting?

I'll post the LJ-balderdash stuff later today, right now, there is a sea of paper that must be parted.

(no subject)

I'm home from Dallas -- did you miss me?

Did I miss anything exciting?

I'll post the LJ-balderdash stuff later today, right now, there is a sea of paper that must be parted.

LJ-Balderdash Religion and Culture Round: Vote, Ya Bastards!

And the heavens parted, and there were a number of explanations given for the whole "Eko, eko, Azerak" thing. (One player did also submit the explanation that I like best for a 'real' answer, but I'll hold that until the end of the round...)

Please read the answers below, and choose the one you like the best. Each vote an answer gets is a point for its author. There is no 'right' answer among these, so no points for guessing correctly.

Ready? Go!
( The answers, now with 100% less muppet-sex. )

LJ-Balderdash Religion and Culture Round: Vote, Ya Bastards!

And the heavens parted, and there were a number of explanations given for the whole "Eko, eko, Azerak" thing. (One player did also submit the explanation that I like best for a 'real' answer, but I'll hold that until the end of the round...)

Please read the answers below, and choose the one you like the best. Each vote an answer gets is a point for its author. There is no 'right' answer among these, so no points for guessing correctly.

Ready? Go!
( The answers, now with 100% less muppet-sex. )

Dallas hates us. PVUUC likes us okay.

So anyway. Dallas. We drove down to Dallas Thursday night, as soon as I got home from work. We knew the drive was going to suck, but wanted to do it then so that we'd have a day to kill in Dallas and do some touristy shit (you know, see things, take pictures, have fun) before we had to be at PVUUC for the start of the class on Friday night.

This did not go down at all as we had planned. We got into Dallas at 3 a.m. Friday. We caught the change-of-interstate to go to the hotel we'd reserved and almost immediately ran into standing traffic. There had been a multi-fatality wreck on Dallas' 635, and the entire highway was shut down, with all four lanes of traffic being shunted off to a single-lane exit, at which there was a traffic light. We finally made it the 11 miles further to the hotel by about 4:15. According to the news, they were still cleaning up the accident at morning rush-hour.

This was to be a theme of the weekend. ( Read more... )

Dallas hates us. PVUUC likes us okay.

So anyway. Dallas. We drove down to Dallas Thursday night, as soon as I got home from work. We knew the drive was going to suck, but wanted to do it then so that we'd have a day to kill in Dallas and do some touristy shit (you know, see things, take pictures, have fun) before we had to be at PVUUC for the start of the class on Friday night.

This did not go down at all as we had planned. We got into Dallas at 3 a.m. Friday. We caught the change-of-interstate to go to the hotel we'd reserved and almost immediately ran into standing traffic. There had been a multi-fatality wreck on Dallas' 635, and the entire highway was shut down, with all four lanes of traffic being shunted off to a single-lane exit, at which there was a traffic light. We finally made it the 11 miles further to the hotel by about 4:15. According to the news, they were still cleaning up the accident at morning rush-hour.

This was to be a theme of the weekend. ( Read more... )

Another thing about the Dallas trip

The PVUUC folks are big fans of the God Auction, and have apparently been following our e-mail lists intently to see who the four gods to be represented would be. When we were doing Q&A in their Sunday service, that was what they wanted to know about, who won the penny auction. We had to tell them that we didn't know yet.

Of course, we knew the pennies were being counted while we were on the road, so we called in, got the information, and relayed it to dop4, all 'Breaking News' style. They have a sizeable contingent of Flying Spaghetti Monster supporters, so D. was delighted to hear that His Noodliness gets to move on to the next round of competition.

(Also, for the edification of 8elements, I discovered the existence of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster today.)

Another thing about the Dallas trip

The PVUUC folks are big fans of the God Auction, and have apparently been following our e-mail lists intently to see who the four gods to be represented would be. When we were doing Q&A in their Sunday service, that was what they wanted to know about, who won the penny auction. We had to tell them that we didn't know yet.

Of course, we knew the pennies were being counted while we were on the road, so we called in, got the information, and relayed it to dop4, all 'Breaking News' style. They have a sizeable contingent of Flying Spaghetti Monster supporters, so D. was delighted to hear that His Noodliness gets to move on to the next round of competition.

(Also, for the edification of 8elements, I discovered the existence of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster today.)