Tuesday

So, "No Pants Night" at the House wasn't nearly as much fun as advertised.

Only two males and two females participated, and the group working tonight was pretty lackluster. The crowd was slow, and mostly made up of grownups, who actually scared pretty good.

Mel did out-do all of us: A leather mini with a skull and crossbones in studs across the front, tights with little s'nc, a t-shirt with a sequined s,n,b, and a leather belt which prclaimed on the back "I'm evil."

I will say that what I wore was the most comfortable outfit I have worked the house in, being much more flexible than the BDU pants, and breathing much better.

I got to bed late this morning, am getting ever closer to being sick, and am behind on my reading, due in no small part to a few hours apent fiddling with Lamba, JHCore and a tutorial on the construction of wind-up toys. The guilty paarties know who they are.

Morning weirdness, extra-dimensional luggage

<adric> Now that was just odd.
<adric> My mom just handed me a piece of sampsonite luggage (sime kind of premium) ..
<adric> It's in a poly bag and it is about the size of a thick notebook, all in nifty black
with buckles and zippers everywhere ..
<another> gosh.
<adric> So I open the polybag (Yeah should have bought two :) and start unzipping this
zipper that looks like it's on the bottom of what has poofed out
<adric> A little .. So now it's a shoulder bag. That's cool, but a little odd from my mom,
who is historically opposed to me carrying a bag everywhere I go ..
<adric> So I oopen the zipper on the bottom of this little shoulder bag (rectnagular) ,a nd
it keeps unzipping ..
<adric> It unzips all the way 'round, save 4 " or so. And then it folds open.
<adric> I unfold the insides and poof it out, and now ..
<adric> There's a medium sized suitcase sitting at me feet.
<someone> the expanding bag?
<another> Gosh!
<adric> Somebody call Hoberman, I think they're on one of his patents ;)
<someone> I gots one, comes in handy on vacations, bringing back more crap than ya left with
<adric> Did I say medium?
<adric> Yeah..
<adric> It's about 1 foot thick, two feet long, and a bout a foot tall.
<another> cool!
<adric> Yeah, it's cool, but it's damn/me is trying to compact it again.
<adric> damn weird, it is ..
<another> That's always the problem :)
<adric> It's folded and zipped..
<adric> It was like nonstandard origami, and the strap was tricky.
<adric> The kooky thing is most of the small pockets are under this flap that buckles down,
and that panel is the front of the small bag.
<adric> If I pulled the strap out, I could clip it on and sling the thing as a shoulder bag.
* adric plans raids on all-you-can-eat buffets all over the east coast.