I'm back from Pennsic, and somewhat back to a normal routine.
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind.
Lux came down the weekend before Pennsic. He had to travel for work, and so he brought his gear down early, so I could do any repairs, finish packing, and the like, while he was far away, without having to keep his gear in the truck for a week. That weekend went fairly smoothly, and it was good to have the time with him.
Early in the morning, he left for a flight, and was down in Florida for most of the week. The plan was, for him to return Thursday, so we could have Friday to clean, pack the truck, and relax before driving out Saturday morning.
Well, weather decided that wasn't happening, and after many delays, he had to catch a flight Friday morning. While watching the tracker for that flight, it literally looked like a toddler scribbling on the east coast to show where they were going. I was a panic, but apparently Lux was fairly calm. His flight wound up being sent to Virginia instead of near me, and so we were frantic looking for options to get him the rest of the way back. A wait, and a short flight later, and he was back, to which I gave him so many hugs.
With all that, we were delayed a full day to get to Pennsic. The day we wound normally spend travelling, we took our time getting things done, and making sure we were ready to go. It was nice to spend that entire day getting things ready with Lux there honestly. Not just for any help, but to be able to spend that time with him.
Finally, off to Pennsic we went, with a smooth ride, and made good time. There were some very silly moments in the long drive, and we got in to find help to unload, and lots of hugs. Instead of camping where we have in the past, we spent this Pennsic with kinky nerdy friends, and had to learn how that camp works. In many ways, it was good, and camping with them in the future will mean we need to pack quite a bit less due to their community dynamic.
There were some downsides to this Pennsic though. We didn't get out to any parties this year, aside from one where we were all working. This camp is all very introverted, and so they would often rather stay in than go and adventure and experience Pennsic. In many ways, it was draining to be the camp extrovert. They are also very disorganized in ways that wound up also cutting our Pennsic shorter than we had planned, and we were in general rather uninformed about their camp.
However, I did get to experience some new interesting ties, saw some really inspiring performances, and got a chance to take most of the pictures for the Pennsic coloring book I want to get out this fall. It was nice to see friends, and get to back to war after missing last year.
There's some things I'm not so fond of about that week, but I am hoping I can making something better of it in the future.
Once we were off site, we had a night in a hotel, tired and hungry. We didn't stay with everyone else, because they were taking a different highway home. We grabbed a room with one friend who was flying back, and had a quiet evening with decent delivery.
The ride home was smooth, but felt long. Sunday was spent unloading, and starting all the wash, along with finally getting to a coffee house I'd been wanting to bring Lux to. The next day, he was supposed to leave again for a conference, with a cancelled flight, and after much shuffling, finally went to a different airport to make it out. I wound up with some form of dehydration and heat exhaustion, barely able to move all of Monday. I was barely able to even fix myself a cup of tea. Plenty of sleep had me feeling much better the next day though, and luckily, his flight home was quiet, and he got back barely awake, but safe.
We spent most of the next day together, trying to find some amount of normal again, and enjoying our last few hours before loading up the truck, and seeing Lux off home.
I enjoyed having him around so much again. We spent as much time together in the last few weeks as we probably did all of last year. Yes, there was a ton of things happening last year, but it doesn't mean I didn't miss him.
And it doesn't mean I don't already. I'm glad we got to do as much as we did though, and that we got to share it all.
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind.
Lux came down the weekend before Pennsic. He had to travel for work, and so he brought his gear down early, so I could do any repairs, finish packing, and the like, while he was far away, without having to keep his gear in the truck for a week. That weekend went fairly smoothly, and it was good to have the time with him.
Early in the morning, he left for a flight, and was down in Florida for most of the week. The plan was, for him to return Thursday, so we could have Friday to clean, pack the truck, and relax before driving out Saturday morning.
Well, weather decided that wasn't happening, and after many delays, he had to catch a flight Friday morning. While watching the tracker for that flight, it literally looked like a toddler scribbling on the east coast to show where they were going. I was a panic, but apparently Lux was fairly calm. His flight wound up being sent to Virginia instead of near me, and so we were frantic looking for options to get him the rest of the way back. A wait, and a short flight later, and he was back, to which I gave him so many hugs.
With all that, we were delayed a full day to get to Pennsic. The day we wound normally spend travelling, we took our time getting things done, and making sure we were ready to go. It was nice to spend that entire day getting things ready with Lux there honestly. Not just for any help, but to be able to spend that time with him.
Finally, off to Pennsic we went, with a smooth ride, and made good time. There were some very silly moments in the long drive, and we got in to find help to unload, and lots of hugs. Instead of camping where we have in the past, we spent this Pennsic with kinky nerdy friends, and had to learn how that camp works. In many ways, it was good, and camping with them in the future will mean we need to pack quite a bit less due to their community dynamic.
There were some downsides to this Pennsic though. We didn't get out to any parties this year, aside from one where we were all working. This camp is all very introverted, and so they would often rather stay in than go and adventure and experience Pennsic. In many ways, it was draining to be the camp extrovert. They are also very disorganized in ways that wound up also cutting our Pennsic shorter than we had planned, and we were in general rather uninformed about their camp.
However, I did get to experience some new interesting ties, saw some really inspiring performances, and got a chance to take most of the pictures for the Pennsic coloring book I want to get out this fall. It was nice to see friends, and get to back to war after missing last year.
There's some things I'm not so fond of about that week, but I am hoping I can making something better of it in the future.
Once we were off site, we had a night in a hotel, tired and hungry. We didn't stay with everyone else, because they were taking a different highway home. We grabbed a room with one friend who was flying back, and had a quiet evening with decent delivery.
The ride home was smooth, but felt long. Sunday was spent unloading, and starting all the wash, along with finally getting to a coffee house I'd been wanting to bring Lux to. The next day, he was supposed to leave again for a conference, with a cancelled flight, and after much shuffling, finally went to a different airport to make it out. I wound up with some form of dehydration and heat exhaustion, barely able to move all of Monday. I was barely able to even fix myself a cup of tea. Plenty of sleep had me feeling much better the next day though, and luckily, his flight home was quiet, and he got back barely awake, but safe.
We spent most of the next day together, trying to find some amount of normal again, and enjoying our last few hours before loading up the truck, and seeing Lux off home.
I enjoyed having him around so much again. We spent as much time together in the last few weeks as we probably did all of last year. Yes, there was a ton of things happening last year, but it doesn't mean I didn't miss him.
And it doesn't mean I don't already. I'm glad we got to do as much as we did though, and that we got to share it all.
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