notacon

notacon! just got back... been forever since posted... anywho, just a few pics...

the con was a bunch of fun... very chilled environment. i've only been doing the bh/dc stuff before now, so this was quite a change... got to hang out w/ some friends who i don't often enough get to drink beers w/...

some interesting talks, and talked to some cool ass ppl, hung at at the lp pagoda.... oh yea, and there was a party which whupped my arse the next day...




go figure, DoD sent their best and brightest ;)


anywho i loved it... super happy i went and hope to go again next year...

oh yea, and one itty bitty security tidbit... so i left my lp stuff at home, so i bought a new set of picks at the con (which was pointless, b/c my club-like hands were seemingly cursed and useless over the weekend... sigh...). well, you know, i coulda dropped em in the thing to send em home in the mail. they say no tools over 8 inches, but i figure mb they wouldn't like lockpicks on the plane given all of the stuff they've taken from ppl in the past...

speaking of that:


so anyway, we ask the TSA lady if that's stuff they pulled out of luggage and off of people, and she's like "yep, isn't is scary what people try to get on planes? that's all stuff we got in the first year since we've been doing this" (mb she meant post 9/11 sec measures?)... so i say back, "well, i guess people were probably carrying that stuff all along, and we just didn't know"... she gives me a weird look at that point...

so i'm wondering if they're going to spot my picks as my bag goes through the xray... and i hear "bag check!"... crap... the lady pulls it out, and opens it up, and pulls out a little bottle of hot sauce my friend gave me... "it's just two ounces" she says, and gives me the bag...

sigh... i am kinda disapointed...