Time For Some Thrillin' Heroics

Wow, how appropriate is my predominant Firefly icon today?

So there's Flanvention. Big-deal event for Browncoats (Firefly fans, for those of you not in the know). Happened in 2005, and everyone had a blast, so Booster Events were going to do it again this year. Unfortunately, Booster Events cancelled the whole thing ... the day before the con, when everyone was already on their way, having spent hundreds of dollars for tickets (never mind travel expenses). After a couple of rather spurious-sounding problems (never confirming the attendance of some of the guests, 'financial problems' etc). Booster Events, she has some 'splainin' to do...

However, this is not why the Big Damn Heroes icon is appropriate. The reason that it's appropriate is that the cast turned up regardless of not receiving the general autograph-and-appearance fees. Alan Tudyk, Ron Glass, Morena Baccarin and Michael Fairman (Niska) weren't even supposed to show and they turned up. Nathan Fillion handed out Firefly memorabilia and stuff, and the conners got shunted off to somewhere private to do the proper con thing, completely ad hoc. And then, if that weren't enough, Clare 'Glorificus' Kramer opened her new restaurant a couple of weeks early and they all got to party.

Damn. Can I just say that my fandom contains some of the most gracious, generous and all-out fabulous actors ever?

What does this make them? See icon.

Yule Hosiery

( my Christmas stocking )

Good afternoon. The cat is driving me batshit.

Today's chores involve seeing if I need to reinstall Sims 2 (with the old multiple-disc expansions and original, all 13 discs of it) and then contemplate whether or not I want to keep all my old downloads or whether I want to start entirely from scratch. Thing is, I picked up a lot of crap when I started playing and now it's damn near impossible to weed out the crap without going through it in Sims 2 Body Shop or Create-a-Sim in-game. But I suppose I could do that, as it would involve less downloading.

At least I know FFXI works. Went on yesterday and it turns out that in my absence, my chocobo got big enough to ride. However, also in my absence, my chocobo decided it didn't give a shit about me anymore. Bloody bird - it's not my fault that my computer decided to bork and/or that I got ill. Well, I'll see about bonding with it when it wakes up - yesterday was its rest day. Honestly, though, do I actually have time to raise a chocobo? I'm still stuck at level 23, most of my linkshell got ahead of me ages ago and on the whole, I'm thinking I'd be a lot better off just forgetting the whole damn thing and keep on renting chocobos when I need to get anywhere. But I haven't decided yet.

Still feel miserably sick. Managed two meals yesterday; wish I hadn't. Really getting tired of this.