A Sociable Weekend

Just arrived home from Alphabet Soup. Left a bit early, because we couldn't get the games coordinated quite right - it was the same 5 people over and over, and the games that allowed for 5 players were all games at least one person wouldn't play. So we gave it up a bit early. Learned two new games all the same. Last night at the Balticon picnic I learned two more new games, but had a greater variety of people to play with and talk to and generally hang with, plus several of us watched the Dr Who finale together. (A couple of us were on schedule, a couple were a couple episodes behind but willing to watch anyway, and several hadn't watched Who in a year or more so it didn't matter to them. At least 2 of the latter group hadn't watched since the 70s and were quite pleased with what they saw last night!)

In the end I made the seafood salad shells, which went over very well with the people who were willing to eat them. Ran into a gauntlet of vegans/vegetarians, wheat/seafood allergy sufferers and observant Jews. But the whole tray did disappear, and they were even more popular at Soup, where the gauntlet was much shorter (one vegetarian, I think.)

Now home, stiff and sore, to finish the paper and perhaps watch a show or two Mom doesn't like before she gets back from a birthday party.