As of 4pm today, I was officially on vacation.

Tomorrow morning, I will be getting up and heading out to ACUS, and heading back Monday.

If there are any cool surprises in R&G, don't spoil them for me, as I won't get to see it until next Friday!

The car is mostly packed, and I have road food and a tub of high protein trail mix for the con to help cut down on cookies and chips.

Now all I have to do is sleep, and not get arrested at the border for having hair that is too red. And not looking like my passport picture.

I've been having a fantastic day. And I have every reason to believe its going to get better.

I hit the Sante wine festival today with pipesdreams and a small horde of other wonderful people - $15 gets you 4 hours of wandering through expensive stores, drinking expensive wine and getting expensive chocolate, cheese and bread. The walking and timing worked out such that I should be fully sober by the time we get to the CrazySteve not_matt party.

So, that's one party down, three ( I think? ) to go!