The last couple weeks has been pretty packed full. Maker Faire was quite interesting, I was at the maker party before the event and had waay too much of the free beer and paiaya, plus at least four cupcakes, they just kept coming with more cupcakes, the never ending cupcakes. Tha OMG WTF... I just heard a horrible noise and had to break up a fight between my cat and a fox. Both are fine but I haven't seen Cobalts tail get that huge in a long time. Usually the foxes are fine with the cat but they are here with a new litter of kits. Anyways, That party was the start of a fun few days and a whole lot of socializing. I got to tour the Autodesk facility in San Francisco, it was gorgeous, pretty much my dream lab, 5 axis waterjet, top of the line 3D printers, high end CNC machines, ect.

Rather than getting hotel rooms our group rented out a house in Palo Alto and it was a total party house, it had 3 bars (that we put to good use) and a giant backyard garden. The plan is to rent out the house again for next year. I also hope to spend an extra few days in San Francisco.

I met up with  zarafa and he told me about a furbowl meetup that night. I actually managed to make it, although I didn't bowl I had some great talks with some of the bay area furs. The next day I met with  helvetica and we chatted about the digi legs, it was really nice to meet and talk for a bit.

The drive there and back was thankfully uneventful, three days down and three days back. There is a really cool army surplus store in Idaho, Montana is very scenic and most of Nevada is :P

One day after I got back home I hopped on a plane to Chicago to spend some quality time with DaveQat. We toured around Chicago and attended IML. That has to be one of the most blatant cons I have ever been to, and I have been to burning man several times! wow. I also picked up several pounds of fun in leather form =3

Now I really need to hunker down and get some work done. Have 10 collars to finish for AC (although I won't be there this year) and a pile of other projects.