1a) Met
1b) got to touch base with
1c) This was a HORROR CON. As such, rather different than the ones I more usually frequent. The first sight to greet us at the arrival at the hotel: a couple of hearses (one of them playing mournful muzak through wound-down windows...atmospheric... we later saw a mechanic lying under it with spanner in hand and I said to
1d) Overheard in the restaurant as one group of conventioneers sat down for dinner: "It's a HORROR CON. Cthulhu's minions might be roaming the halls, you never know. It takes a brave man to order calamari here."
2) In unrelated but oddly congruent news, we have FLIES. They're in the house. They're all over the place. I can't smell anything dead but it's the only thing I can think of - some mouse died in the wall somewhere and now all these flies are... oh, GOD, I don't even want to think about it. And I am at a loss as to what to DO about it. I have no idea where they are coming from.
3) And while we're on the subject of mice... I'm told traces of mices have been seen in the house. Again. ARGH. *I vant vermin out!*
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5) In more pleasant news, I have peonies. Mine are just about ready to pop. I love those things. There will be a stem cut from the garden and gracing the house tomorrow...