Before whatever out there is gone

bunny_hugger gave to me, when we married, a pair of coati ears and a tail to wear. But I hadn't had the chance to wear them for anything. FurFright was our first convention since marrying. This would be my debut in full regalia. (It was also part of why we had a suitcase to check on the plane.) Coatis have long tails, as long as their torsos, and she got a ringed tail that's respectably close to my torso length.

To get from our, overflow, hotel to the main one we'd have to walk across the highway as well as down a path that's partly got sidewalks and parking lots, but also has a lot of just social trails through street-side grass and dirt. I didn't want the tail dirtied, especially before anyone else got to see it. I fiddled first with holding it over my arm, and then realized I could hold it more or less in place by letting my con badge lanyard hold it. And it struck me that real coatis do, typically, keep their tails upright, and that while many furries wear dangling tails for the fun of it, nobody wears one upright.

So I entered the hotel with that curious transition of self-consciousness to self-confidence as I embraced my decision to do something that looked weird to everybody else.

( What was the hotel like? What was the food like? What was the karaoke like? The answers may surprise you! )

Back at the hotel we determined that Wikipedia's plot summary for the movie Congo was 1,017 words long, raising the question of how someone can have that many words to say about the plot of the movie Congo.

Trivia: On its initial rollout, in September 1976, the space shuttle orbiter Enterprise had fuel cells for on-board power, but holding their hydrogen and oxygen as high-pressure gases, rather than the liquids in cryogenic tanks needed for long-lasting operation. Source: Development Of The Space Shuttle 1972 - 1981, T A Heppenheimer.

Currently Reading: The Long Road Home: The Aftermath Of The Second World War, Ben Shephard.