finis

we took one last turn through the hotels this afternoon, dazed lines at the checkout desk, others still showing their thing --- a really great, long weekend, like a holiday somewhere else without having to do more travel than walk a lot --- the stupid fitbit recorded 44.57 miles in 102,588 steps ---

unexpected: plushies patterned after all sorts of communicable diseases and what not, including e.coli at left

it was really hard to believe the array of stuff displayed by the dragon*con vendors ---