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It's been a busy, busy weekend but turned out pretty well. Friday evening I headed out to the Fires of Lughnasadh campout. I've been to a few campouts at the site, but not this particular event. There was some kind of accident before I arrived, so the mood was a bit off much of the weekend. Despite this, it was an enjoyable event. Spent a lot of time in the pool, which necessitated taking a lot of showers both to keep the pool clean and generally to cope with the heat. As

loree pointed out, hardly a burden for an OCD person with a thing for water. Got to know a few of the OLTOEAS folks a bit better, and made some new friends. Also got to flirt a bit with a very cute Canadian girl, which was quite fun.

Since the site was so close, I was able to head back to the office Friday night to do some house-related faxing, and to my apartment Saturday to make some calls. This was my first 'skyclad' ritual, and while I was a little nervous about it by the time you had spent all day in the nude swimming pool and in brutal heat, it wasn't a big deal. The ritual itself was a fairly big production, so it was pretty impressive. The camping would've been cooler at Summerstar, but I'm defintely glad I went to the Fires event instead. Hopefully next year they won't both be on the same weekend again.

Spent the afternoon making more house arrangements, having a quick picnic with

loree, her mom, her mom's monkey (yes, monkey),

jeliza,

beaq,

datavore,

drakemonger, and the kids before heading back home to unpack and do a bunch of laundry.