The Braineater Gazette & Clarion

Fafblog is back. Please don't go away again and leave us without the savage political outrage and pie-blogging, Faf...
'"I dunno Fafnir," says you, "I mean sure it LOOKS good what with all the nutmeg an the cinnamon an the multiple rows a inch-long retractable teeth but somehow somethin just doesn't seem right about this pie."'

I feel like I've accomplished a lot this weekend. Watched three films, of which two were LoTR extended versions. (Might post some thoughts after watching RotK.) Read two-and-a-half books and all of a Saturday paper, which normally takes me until about Tuesday. Went to two posh chocolate shops and a farmers market. (This was entirely due to a need for holiday mitbrings. I did not in any way eat barbequeued scallops and wild boar pie or get four bars of chocolate. Yumyumyum.) Spent eight hours at an AFPmeet. And oh yes, went to the shops and library and did laundry and all that sort of guff.

I had a great time at the axe murderers' online Pratchett fans' meet. I don't know how effective fans would be in the axe murdering stakes, actually- by the time they'd finished geeking about the beautifully crafted axeblade on their multitool, you could probably be in the next city. (Of course that might be their cunning plan; subtlely stick a chip in your spinal column, let you escape, and track you down later to be mercilessly mocked for not being able to rewrite the bug into a handy embedded likelihood-of-zombie-attack calculator.)
The Earl Grey chocolate vanished within about 5 seconds of hitting the table, the ginger 'n' chilli lasted a bit longer. I hadn't thought of champagne truffles, but luckily someone else remedied the omission.
We annoyed staff in pubs by rearranging tables, and in one place by building towers from the menu-holders as well (some very impressive arch-work). I was not one of those who was throwing paper aeroplanes at the towers... Most of the people there knew each other, whereas I vaguely recognised one or two faces from a couple of meets some years ago, but it wasn't cliquey, everyone was very nice and there was lots of general funny chat. Hopefully there'll be a proper report on the group sometime this week.
Must do more fannish things.