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After the Serenity <\/em>panel etc., I wandered the hall a bit longer, trying to wrap up some purchases. I was beginning to flag a bit — I’d had six hours of sleep the night before on Mary’s hide-a-bed, and a good breakfast at Denny’s, but two full days of Con stuff was beginning to wear. Eventually, Doyce and I had both finished, and we completed some last second business (looking in Lost & Found for his lost Palm media chip), and headed to the car, thence back up the Ks.<\/p>\n

About a half-hour later, I got a call on my cell. It was Mary. Oh, hell …<\/p>\n

“Hi, Dave. Where are you guys?”<\/p>\n

“Um … approaching Highway 53?”<\/p>\n

Yes, we had been neglectful scumbags and headed out of town without meeting back up with our hostess or co-house guest. Apologies and distant farewells later, we were rewarded karmically with stop-and-go traffic all the way to Aliso Viejo, making it a two-and-a-quarter hour drive.<\/p>\n

A nice dinner, decompressing jabber session with Margie’s folks, and repacking later, we both crashed. In the morning I helped Ginger with her mail-merge functions on the computer, finished up the KOA accounting, and we headed for the airport. Security concerns aside, it was an uneventful flight, and Margie picked us up, and I hit the sack early.<\/p>\n

And that’s the end of the story. Until I put in some more links, at least. Or read Doyce’s entries to see what I forgot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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