SAVEWASH

I had a great time but it's good to be back. (sigh of relief) Thanks so much to msg, FollowMal, jossisagod and Marine for your kind words in response to my last blog. You put a big :smile: on my face for the 1400-mile drive. I had a great time! My niece continues to be the cutest and most brilliant girl on this planet, at least in the opinions of me and the rest of my family, and we did some fun stuff, even though I was only there for parts of two days. I went to a festival and a free concert, I hung out with my sister and her family, I saw mountains--it was wonderful. The drive was less wonderful. Both nights I stayed in a motel, I got no sleep because some bozo didn't want anyone in the vicinity to sleep and therefore made enough noise to keep an elephant awake. (Do elephants sleep soundly? I sure didn't.) Why do people do that???? I also had to contend with a dead watch battery, a car that decided to make strange chirping noises in the middle of nowhere, some driver who wanted to see what happens when you merge his SUV into the front end of my Toyota (I hit the brakes just in time), and large flying pieces of tire that pelted my car after a semi's tire exploded just as it was passing me. Needless to say, I'm very happy to be safely home, but I honestly think it was worth it. :biggrin: I did get one Serenity moment: I passed an exit for Mingo! No foolin'. I looked in vain for Fanty, but there was only Mingo (Exit 62 on I-70, btw). Since I only saw one, I can't tell you which is prettier. I hope everybody had a great weekend and I look forward to catching up on the FFF.net happenings. Thanks for saving me a spot! :wink:

STINKINGROSE

Oh my dear and fuzzy lord, now she's writing poetry! Somebody stop this crazy fiend!!

NEZZERUS

for some strange reason I haven't been visiting the site as much as I should be. It's been almost a month since my last log entry, and i've done nothing BSR-wise. I don't know what it is, I probably am getting too caught up in school, work, and other commitments to just do things like this anymore. it's not just here either: on almost all the forums i'm a member of, my activity has gone down by nearly 40%. I doubt it's because of lack of interest, more becasue of a lack of time, I suppose. Anyway, as a way to get me back into the flow of the site, I've decided to do a series of graphics for the BSR. I should be able to do more things now that I got the new version oh PS, and If you have an idea for a series, I'm open to suggestions.

VAFORE

So, I never got to go to the Expo. I got sick, it rained for three days and my brother was too busy. He takes a month off work every September to attend as many movies at the Toronto Film Festival as possible and he was working on getting ready for that instead. I decided a Firefly marathon was needed. I'm seeing things in a different light since reading so much fic. More later.

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Hey FFFers! It's been a while since I've been regularly dancing about this site like butterflies or scraps of wrapping paper in the wind, but I'm back now. It was folks like Wiccanslyr, Kaylee4Simon and CallMeSerenity who reminded me why I did what I did here from the beginning. Browncoats are the best fans in the 'Verse, bar none. Period. End of story. Browncoats have always made me feel welcomed and respected and even loved. Y'all are the best, and here, I've seen the best. Not saying anything is wrong with forlks on the OB or gossi's boards, but here I feel all of you make this a home. I like that. Thank you. And now that I have the blubbering out of the way, I can go on to the stroking of my own ego. ;P Right then, here's the lowdown: I am at my first Dragon*Con ever. And the first Con I've been to of any type or size in almost 15 years. I am here for one reason. Firefly. And my wife wanted to go. So two reasons. OH! and I'm a gamer...so that too. Okay 3 reasons!!! So sue me. Anyway, onto the meat of the story... So here I am, dressed up as Wash (yeap! I did! I am that "focused" a fan!), and I just paid my $20 to get an autograph from Alan Tudyk on a blown up image of one of the BWAH! cards I made. And I have been a Tudyk fan since I first saw him in Knight's Tale (yes, that means I am NOT one of those who saw Firefly on T.V.) and I am about to go fanboy...I admit it...I was...and I am large semimuscular man enough to admit it. :P Back to the point now. So Alan is getting his picture taken with the person in line in front of me, and as he sits down, I place the big BWAH! card on the table and he just stops and stares at it. Now mind you, they were trying to hurry us through the line because Alan and Summer had a panel at 5:30 (which I made it to, btw!) and it is currently 5:10. He looks over the whole card and says "Whoa." I tell him it's from my card game and he asks if I want him to sign it. To quote my 4 year old "Well, DUH!", so I say yes as this obvoiuosly is not an actual card but an enlarged copy. At this point he looks up. Remember how I said I was dressed AS Wash? Right, so I guess I was one of the few he saw that first day, or maybe the best he saw that day, because he looks up and takes hold of my Hawaiian shirt! He's looking at it, at my jumpsuit, even at my messenger bag I was carrying with FIREFLY on it and all my Firefly buttons. And he's just staring at me...so I manage to say something like "Thank you for all your work." and then he says "Thank yo-you're welcome. We really loved doing it." and I'm thinking "OMG. Is Alan geeking out over me and my card game and the costume and..." Okay, so now, he goes to sign it, and asks who to make it out to. So I tell him "TCM" and tell him it is short for TenthCrewMember. So he writes TCM, and pauses. I reckon I broke his paradigm of the "sign this pic with this, sign that pic with that" because he shakes his head with a smile and writes Shiny! and then signs it. And I thank him again. He says it was his pleasure. And I move on down to Summer who had a much smaller moment when she saw her BWAH! card (movie version) and simply exclaimed "WOOOOW!" and signed it. So now it is day 2 at D*C, and I mention to Wiccy (short for Wiccanslyr) that I am thinking of giving my original set of BWAH! cards to Alan because he seemed so entralled with his card. She proceeds to give me the set she printed out so I don't have to give up my master set. How cool is that? So, I've made up my mind and I am going to give him this set of cards. I figured it would be too tacky to try and do it at the panel, so I would catch him at the Wake for Wash and Book. Missed him by a hair. Undeterred, I tagged along with Wiccy on day 3 to the Walk of Fame again and stood in line for hours, but this time to give something to Alan instead of getting something. Coincidentally, day 3 was scheduled to be my pirate costume day, which someone remarked looked kinda like Steve the Pirate and I never planned that, it just sorta cam

WOLFPOET

I just watched an excerpt from "The Gift". It was definitely tear-jerking, "Out of Gas" sadness x5. I cheated, though... I've only seen Season 1 and 2 because they're the only ones iTunes has, and I've been watching clips from the later seasons on YouTube. I'm shocked that Buffy and Spike hooked up (she really doesn't deserve him). It was very interesting to see Joss's unmistakable style in Buffy, and I couldn't help but notice the following: 1. They both have a dark, crazy girl. 2. They both have some sort of lesbian activies. 3. Lots of blood, sex, torture, and grate floors. 4. Platforms... I think Joss has a fear of heights. Those are just a few. But anyway, if anyone wants to fill me in on anything that happened between Season 3 and 7, please do.

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Yes, I miss it. I probably will for a while. I am also in a very bad mood, and very irritable. Here goes the expected obligatory stuff: I did have a very good time. I liked meeting the people I did (ItsaWash, nevis, FireFlyGal, TheRealMe, LightMeDark, CallMeAth, lissa, citizen, XanderLHarris, JadeHand, EngineAngel, ilovefirefly, AINTWEJUST, and I'm sorry if I forgot any others), but I really didn't get to meet a lot of others from this site that I wanted to. There were plenty of BrownCoats there, and lots of other really neat people too. The culture changes quite a bit after sundown, almost as if there are two different Cons going on. Actully, compared with most of the other people I hung out with, the BrownCoats I was around were the most tame and almost prudish. After arriving, not having slept for 40+ hours (including two shifts at fed job and one closing bartender shift), I showered and got my pass, then met my roommates (ItsaWash, nevis, and FireFlyGal) and passed out for 12 hours. At this point I regret the amount of sleep I got over the weekend. Those 12 hours, plus another 7 hours I spent passed out drunk and another 5 I spent after my last room party, could have been better spent meeting people and seeing things around the Con. Sleepiness is weakness of character anyhow. I was about to go into a detailed description of my entire weekend when I realized that it just doesn't matter (we can blame it on the aforementioned bad mood). I made it to 2 of the 3 FF panels with Alan and Summer, though I was shit-faced drunk at the first one (apparently I did manage to remain standing, take a swig right before being handed the mic, and stammer out a coherant question). There were lines out the door and around the block for all three panels, and I assume there were equally as many people trying to see Summer alone on the last day. We had 2,000 people in the line for the Shindig, and I waited 1.5 hours just to see Summer and Alan face to face (no one else on the Walk of Fame had even a 10 minute line). None of this is meant as complaining, just showing evidence that the fan support for our wonderful show is still strong and growing stronger. We aren't going anywhere FOX, so bring our BigDamnShow back. The late night side of the Con definitely held my interest very well. It was mostly spent out on the smoking patio of the Hyatt and wandering around inside the same hotel, where it seemed like everything was happening. I saw several friends I used to party (rave) with while in school, [b]and even saw a girl that my friend dated in high school (who had gotten much much hotter in the six or so year void). Met a neat girl named Psycho too. Both of those girls I would do many things with that even adults on this site wouldn't be willing to read about.[/b] In addition, there were so very many hot bits of tasty there. nevis managed to get loads more pictured than I, and he even managed to spend some time with them on several occasions, both of which make me jealous and in awe of the man. Bah, really bad mood part taking over again. Time to end this shit.

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Ohhh, Greece was excellent! * My previously untannable skin is now golden brown * My hair is several shades blonder * The food was even better than I remembered *mmmm, tzatsiki!* * I got a bazillion pictures of churches for my art project *We met loads of really nice people, including this sweet, lonely yet slightly crazy old man living in one of the old monastreys who told us his whole family history and wouldn't let us leave! And the bad news... Fist day back at school today :crap:, but good news on the PE front: the year 11 don't have to do cross country! Ever again! *Does victory dance*

FIREFLYFOREVERX7

I moved 45 minutes away from my old house about a month ago. now im here in huntington, starting high school all over again, and its just about the most depressing thing ever. people are nice to me, i even went over this girls house yesterday, but im so shy i think im scaring them away. and i actually started crying during my first period today (its the first day of school) and i really just want to go home, back to my old school. my life sucks.

SHADOWLEOPARD

My email notifications seem to be down. I checked my stories and was surprised to see a number of comments that I was not aware of; I'd hate to think that people were messaging me (I was in the middle of a couple of conversations) and I couldn't respond. Anyone else having this problem, and how do I fix it?