On the Road Again

June can be tricky in Perris because it can be hot, but we were lucky to get beautiful weather for the ensuing shenanigans. Some of the usual suspects were there including Christopher and Bethany Hoage (talking about trains…imagine that), Dyno Staats, Becky Albrecht (The Victorian Bat), Evie Betz (The Lemon Pirate) and Dr. Solar.

The Usual Suspects

Okay, not to be those nerds, but Dyno gave us a new story we loving call “1 in 9.” He did a trick for each of us individually at the end of which he asked “what’s the chance of that?” Right, so we’re both mathematicians and computer scientists. First he asked Sparky who did the math in her head (using combinatorics) without pause. She arrived at 1 in 9 and suggested he ask Drake to check her math. He’d already done the trick for Drake, but he dashed off to ask the same question. Drake did the calculation more intuitively and arrived at the same answer, the speed of which impressed Dyno. Yeah, that kind of nerds.

We did a little straight reading.

Drake Tells it Like it is

Of course, it was mostly about hanging with friends.

Friends Rock

Thanks to Colleen Kelly Burks for the sweet pic with her husband, Randy.

No bloop would be complete without a smattering of random sightings.

#randomactsofsteampunk

Of course we sold our books out of the Wyng’d Lyon booth. Just across the sidewalk was a small caboose we used for Theatre of the Historically Improbable™. Thanks to Carol Silver for these inventive pics.

Have Caboose Will Shenanigate

Sadly, we hear that this will be the last time for Iron Horse. We’re sorry to see it go.