Adding to this:

1) Defending against a lawsuit, even one you ultimately would win, costs money. You don’t get to just say “Well, I’ll win so I don’t have to do anything.”

/1

https://twitter.com/buddygoodboyesq/status/1635023382193532931

2) I’m not staff but I know what happened - once the con became aware they were there, the situation was handled. I saw it happen in real time - there was a quick meeting, an identification, and a removal.

/2

I returned from Furthemore to discover THREE SEPARATE BOXES OF HARD CANDY.

Okay.

I guess you folks want me to quit smoking. Hit me up at the next event. I will have pockets filled with hard candy.

The need for accurate reporting can be highlighted in the case of setting deadly man traps to defend only property.

In the 1950’s Bertha Britney inherited a farmhouse in Iowa. But Bertha and her husband had no desire to move into the place, and left it empty. When I say empty, I mean EMPTY. They boarded the place up, didn’t take care of it, and let it just fall to seed in general.

The place was generally known to be abandoned and with nobody caring for it.

I want to be clear that I’m not leaving Twitter because Elon Musk took over. The accounts I’m setting up on Mastodon, Cohost, etc. are more for preparing for the rapidly approaching moment when Musk burns this place to the ground in his petulant billionaire temper tantrum. It’s not “Musk owns it so I’m gone!” It’s more “This man has no ability to govern his worst instincts and he’s gonna drive this place into the ground, so it’s time to make sure there’s another place I can talk to folks and they can talk to me.”

Kid got invited to an engineering program at UC Berkeley. Kid got excited about it. I looked and (1) registration closes tonight and the invite got delayed so there’s no way I can make a down payment and (2) because of the pandemic kid isn’t in the right grade until next year. /1 My child, who was so excited they were telling me all the speakers and listing off their accomplishments, is now extremely upset by this. I know they’ll get over it but dammit I feel horrible. /2

I became aware of the “I wrote a legally binding contract to stop you from using your character after permavore RP” thing and all I have to say is I would absolutely love to be a fly on the wall of the lawyer’s office who they tried to use to enforce it. “I want to pay you to make them stop using their rabbit cartoon character online because my giant animal cartoon character ate theirs and I wrote a contract that says they have to stop that they signed.”

Lawyer: “…I mean, still not as weird as that anime voice actor suit…”

Long and short, we found out that after his heart attack and having to close his office, my dad was unable to pay their mortgage for a while, and their home is scheduled for a sheriff sale, so now my siblings and I are trying to figure out how to pay off that mortgage before then

https://twitter.com/boozybadger/status/1586376120718348290

Dad and Mom are more or less retired due to Dad’s health and live off their social security, which CAN make the monthly payment but won’t support a Chapter 13. So we’re exploring options to take care of the arrears and hoping we can do it before they end up losing their home.

All in all a good day. @The_HaedFox met up with us at Heemet Fetsch, I need to work out some kinks in the GoPro rural wandering streams, we made a folk musician feel appreciated by laughing at his horrible jokes, saw pigs in tiny hats, got chow chow, then had a nice lunch. I think once every couple weeks we’re (QM and I) gonna start finding something like this to do and stream it when possible. It was a nice way to spend a Saturday.

Visitors always welcome.

At Heemet Fetsch today a storyteller, with a straight face, read a Pennsylvania Dutch folktale from his recent collection about raccoons that eat magic corn, then INFLATE BIG AND ROUND AND FLOAT UP INTO THE SKY LIKE BALLOONS. Yes, @Quotation_Marx , @The_HaedFox and myself did have to stop ourselves from laughing

The real convention hotel room was the friends we made along the way. In all honesty, it’s a big ass con. Dunno how they can handle general attendee room stuff in a way that makes sense other than lottery or a race for space at this point. Don’t think either will make folks happy.

Oh Reading, never change… OP:” What neat local festivals are going on this week?”

Response: “Who knows something about that guy that got shot at the Wawa?”

I see a Uncle Fester is trending and while I’m not sure why this is a good time to point out that the actor who originally played Uncle Fester is the reason California enacted laws specifically to protect child actors. Jackie Coogan, who would play Uncle Fester, was a child actor as well and an extremely popular one - he was a favorite of Charlie Chaplin and would earn over $50,000,000 in today dollars when acting wasn’t “millions per picture” money.