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Post by Darth Marmalade on Jun 1, 2007 13:31:53 GMT -5
I'm home and safe and getting back to real life after a great time at CIV. It was great to see Colleen and Shawn again, and to meet HanChewy & family, JediAmy, McGregorKenobi, and Drago Lordist and his dad. I hope I haven't forgotten anyone. I was especially glad when I finally found where JediAmy's Star Wars Fan Mobile was parked on Monday -- I was just about to give up looking for it.
I wish I'd been able to bring Meerkat Six, but it's coughing and sputtering down the road, and there's no way it would have made it to LA. I had a scare when it wouldn't start to get me home from work on the day I flew out to CIV, but a little tinkering under the hood got it running, somehow, and it's been starting okay since I got home.
I took a whole bunch of pictures at CIV, mostly of folks in costume, but a few of Road Squadron. I'll let y'all know when any are on-line.
I hope everybody else had fun -- I had a blast.
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Jun 6, 2007 12:17:48 GMT -5
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Post by Drago Lordist on Jun 6, 2007 13:43:03 GMT -5
I have 1500 pictures that I'm trying to sort through. I'll get back to work on my car soon enough lol.
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Jun 6, 2007 15:40:56 GMT -5
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Post by Drago Lordist on Jun 8, 2007 2:14:00 GMT -5
gah! you see nothing! I remain the omnipotent faceless being!
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Post by JediAmy on Jun 13, 2007 10:15:14 GMT -5
Anybody else? I'm feeling kinda lonely on this board lately. You are not alone, lol. It's taken me some time to re-cooperate, but I'm back. I can't believe I forgot to give you some decals when you stopped by th SWFM. And we never took any pictures! Anyway, I have decals for everyone, and I've joined the yahoo group. I plan on becoming much more active in this group. I loved meeting everyone, you're all so awesome! Theres links to my C4 journey in my signature, I'll be posting more later!
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Jun 14, 2007 1:44:18 GMT -5
Great pictures! I stopped at Alien Fresh Jerky on my way to Worldcon last year. They have a spaceship car of their own. I don't think we bought any actual jerky, but the garlic-stuffed olives were excellent. I need to check their web site and order more. Did you visit any actual Star Wars locations? Some of those canyons looked familiar. I did take a few pictures of the Fan Mobile when I found it, but before I found you, and I did take one of you and Luke: imageuploadr.com/show.php?image=607449001181803138And is this our Halcyonate? imageuploadr.com/show.php?image=110999001181803615(Note the ghostly energy orbs. They were all over the convention center, apparently.)
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Post by JediAmy on Jun 14, 2007 12:49:40 GMT -5
eewww, bad picture of me, and that motor home looks like a mess! lol
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Post by hanchwy on Jun 22, 2007 23:23:47 GMT -5
I am so sorry that I haven't posted yet. We had a blast a C4, and got invited to all sorts of places. San Antonio, TX wants us to come next year for there parade. Some wonderful fans from Europe want us to come to Celebration Europe and to Spain, and of course, Japan. It was wonderful to meet everyone at C4. JediAmy, your photos are great. The road trip ones are great. I hope to have our pictures up soon. I am not that schooled on computers yet, so I still have to learn how to post pics and stuff. I hope your trip home, Amy was a safe one. My work schedule doesn't give me the time to post to often. Hopefully, I will post more often soon. My co-workers are very excited about the Falcon. And so are all the customers at work, too. There is a crowd around it everyday that I am there. By the way, there is WalMart. Better go for now.
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Post by hanchwy on Jun 22, 2007 23:41:34 GMT -5
Please forgive me, Darth Marmalade for not commenting on your pics. They were great, too. I really need to update my pics of the Falcon on this site, but don't know how to. My daughter started a myspace account for the Falcon not long after we got back from C4. The name is Docking Bay 94 but we haven't put much on it yet. The daughters are on summer vacation, and haven't been around to help me do more things on the myspace page. Hopefully soon we will have more pics on it. The myspace idea was suggested by a lot of the fans there at C4. Better get going again. Hopefully you won't be too lonely on this site. Plan to post as often as I can.
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Jun 23, 2007 2:19:18 GMT -5
Oh, I know folks have had plenty of real life to get back to after CIV. I've had a Museum exhibit to pull together ( www.geppismuseum.com/default.asp?sid=curator_column ), and I'm in charge of the Masquerade competition at an upcoming local Star Trek convention, which I need to do more work on. And there's paying work to think of, as well. I missed two local art car events since CIV (because I hadn't yet discovered Tim Klein's excellent art car calendar: www.artcarcalendar.com/ ). I still haven't posted many of my CIV photos, although many can be found on the DC Area Star Wars Collectors' Club gallery page: dcswcc.com/cms/ They probably want you to register before you can see the pics, though. Very cool about all the invitations to places -- will you be able to make it to Celebration Europe? Or at least to San Antonio? I did have the foresight to apply for a space at the art car show and parade at Artscape, Baltimore's annual arts festival, and just heard back from them today -- they might come out and help me tweak Meerkat Six for the event (because there's always more work to be done)! I think updating the photos on the main Road Squadron site has to be handled by Katie (Red5), but she hasn't posted in a long while, nor approved any of my posts to the Road Squadron Yahoo Group since December, nor answered my emails. I hope she's all right. More news as it happens!
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Post by hanchwy on Jun 23, 2007 17:08:41 GMT -5
No sadly we won't make it to Celebration Europe because of finances and work schedules, but Texas sounds like it could be a possibility. Love to go to the Art car event in San Fran in Sept. But, alas, won't be able to unless we win the lottery, lol. Oh, to be retired and fllthy rich. Then we could make all these events Sounds like you have a lot on your plate! I reallly hope we can meet up again, like say Celebration 5?
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Post by Darth Marmalade on Jun 24, 2007 22:00:06 GMT -5
Yes, indeed, I've got a lot going on. I wish I could make it to Celebration Europe, but I'd need a working time machine, among other things. My masquerade is that weekend, and it would be terrible of me to duck out -- especially since there's no one else who'd take over for me -- and, yeah, I can't afford it, either.
If there's a Celebration 5, I'm sure I'll be there. It'd be great to see you all again, and maybe I could bring my car as well.
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Post by Drago Lordist on Jun 28, 2007 1:46:40 GMT -5
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Post by hanchwy on Jun 28, 2007 15:54:30 GMT -5
Just to let you know, those photos rock!
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