View From the Bushes

I didn't get a chance to post on Friday, with all the traveling. The trip went really well, though as usual it was too short. We were down for a wedding and Friday night was the rehearsal dinner (though I don't think anyone actually called it this), and as is often the case, the bride and the groom were tasked with introducing their relatives and friends. Somewhere along the line in the course of getting some food, I had ended up across the table from my wife rather than sitting next to her. So when the bride (my wife's cousin) introduced us she said, "This is my cousin Ross and his wife, Liz, they're separated."

Needless to say, separation and reconciliation jokes were all the rage for the rest of the weekend, and my wife was none too pleased that I was given the status as blood relative, while she was relegated to being a hanger-on. Saturday I had a pretty good steak (yes, this was the day of the actual wedding and the reception, but the steak is what sticks in my mind). On the way home on Sunday I was selected to be taken out of line and searched. Fortunately, we had arrived with plenty of time, so it was more of a curiosity than an actual inconvenience.

I had a bunch of D&D books with me, so my big fear was mostly that I'd be branded as a big geek. Fortunately, one of the guys going through the luggage played, and ended up asking me how Monster Manual III was. In other news, I got some more GenCon pictures from one of the guys I hung out with at the con. I'm hoping to put them up this evening. Also, with the election only a couple of weeks away, I've been keeping a really close eye on the polls. One site that I've found to be invaluable is Slate's Election Scorecard. Today is the first in many weeks that Kerry is leading on the Electoral Count. Everyone said that it was going to open up at some point, but so far if anything it's just gotten tighter.

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