The parking authority wrote back! In response to my calling their reasoning gibberish they said they've brought it to a supervisor. And that if I could send them a photo of my receipt that would help things out. Yes, I certainly can. I'm embarrassed that I decided it was less work to take a picture with my iPad than it was to take the scanner out and get a, you know, good scan of the receipt. But it'll do.
I'm getting dangerously close to the present day, so, here's a whole bunch of pictures, taken from the Godzilla launch party from last week.
Standee, sitting down. Stern sent this heavy vinyl baner for Godzilla Pinball, which we brought to the hipster bar and they didn't have anywhere to hang it. If I'd thought I would have brought some of our heavier twine so we could hang it over the railing. I set it on a table and pointed it to a bartender, who said they'd find something to do with it, and by the end of the night the thing had vanished. I imagine it's getting hung up somewhere appropriate, but who knows?
The Grand Champion plaque. I took a photo of this since it was to go to the winner and I figured, what are the odds ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger or I would win the launch party?
The pinball league table, set up for the tournament. The winner also got that Godzilla translite up top. The NBA translite was one of the stockpile of stuff Stern gives us to give away. NBA was one of their early-2000s pinball games that nobody cares about, although now it's old enough that the players on it might be nostalgic favorites. They sent us only like six fliers for the Godzilla games (in the center-right there) and even that was more than people wanted to take take home. Note the clever use of the masks and earplugs to keep the NBA translite from curling up under its own, ancient, roll.
Look at this nonsense. I was player 1, happy for me, in this game of Star Wars.
Finals! bunnyhugger quietly dominates Tokyo and DMC, possibly with laser breath or whatever it is Godzilla has.
The fruits of victory! bunnyhugger showing off her translite. She's in front of Road Show, on which she managed a big win against MWS in the round that put her into the top three. Also there was a bit of light there, which there isn't ... anywhere else in the bar.
Trivia: A fad diet of the 1920s, supposedly able to give any woman the slim, boyish look of a movie star, prescribed one lamb chop and one slice of pineapple for breakfast; two lamb chops and a slice of pineapple for lunch; two lamb chops and two slices of pineapple for dinner. Source: A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe. One assumes the plan was to bore people out of eating even that.
Currently Reading: The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, David Nasaw.
PS: My Little 2021 Mathematics A-to-Z: Subtraction, some thoughts about something you'd think was covered by ``addition'' and maybe ``inverse''.
