Victory Fencing

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Wait a second. There was Cake?!?!?! Dammit, another missed oppurtunity.

There are plenty of little cubby holes at Chez Victory including the delightful outdoor lanai.

[Drunk Monk]

thanks for the gifts, ed. the yin yang pillow was a huge hit. t loves those kinds of pillows. the kung fu sculpture i have yet to open - it's here at the office and will surely find a place of honor amongst the piles and piles of work.

sorry for the quick cameo. it was a crazy weekend - 2 films, a tournament, the anchor tour and a concert. i drank way too much over the weekend and i totally missed out on one of those victory shots (thank jah). it's a hungover monday.

[cranefly]

Hey, I don't recall seeing balloons when I walked in the door!
Okay, so I got there a little late. So I expect the cake to be cut. I expect people to start eating it.
But you keep the balloons for the whole event! It's like carrying a flag into battle.
Them's the rules.

Or were they there and I just didn't notice them?
Nice clean setup. Good work, Greg. But why do some of the track lights look different? Are some
low voltage with transformer bodies? Been a while since I did mine.

I guess I hadn't realized how important electronics were in fencing. There was always a voltmeter nearby. Also, some of those blades
have really whacky handles, as if aliens were holding them and got their hands hacked off.

The cake was great, as was the cookies. But I'm still very upset about the balloons.

Best wishes, cranefly

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Belated thanks to all who attended, no matter when they showed up. El Dingo earned the modifier "The Mighty" for his punctual arrival and ability to take care of himself while I ran around like a yeti with his fur on fire.

Big, furry, grouchy, Yeti-Thanks for the well-wishing, the food, the dart board (heh) and the Good Karma. On the way over to Victory that morning, I saw a banner on a building:" Grand Opening Liquidation Sale - Everything Must Go!" and was hoping for a good turn out. Sure got one.

There is plenty more whisky and coffee there for the next Doom Gathering. I finished off That Guy's chocolate-chip bars, though. Dee-LISH!

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Thanks for a fun, spontaneous, and 100% organic DOOM gathering at Doom Labs in Millbrae. Both The G-Man (and his sister, R-Grrl) showed up for a decent breakfast at the oddly-named "Baywatch Restaurant". They returned for the tour of DOOM Labs, got their balloons, party-hats, "Junior DOOMer" pins, vials of neurotoxin, and then split.

DM and Cub showed up about a half-hour later and missed the free stuff. Cub actually spoke to The Yeti. She only tried to hide behind DM once (not a very good survival tactic if you are trying to stay out of sight by hiding behind the skinny guy...).

Nice to see y'all!

-Y

[Drunk Monk]

...and don't think that you're going to get away with charging such rates. That's coming back somehow...

As for T, she is delighted to now be a proud owner of a sword made of metal. It never occurred to me that the plastic and nerf swords just didn't do it for her, a total oversight on my part. She's placed it at her bedside to defend against night monsters or some such. Mrs Dm notes that Dm has always kept a bokken as a pillow sword and that T is following suite. Whatever. T now has a rocking class report project. Her teachers had been hassling her about getting her report prop together but no longer. Another student is doing something on swords and he's going to get his ass handed to him, scholastically speaking...

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Oh, G-maaaaan...guess who came into the shop today to test all things G-man-made?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Um Penelope Cruz? Or was it the city?

[The Queen]

Oh, I hope it was Penelope. I met her at the last Oscars and she was really sweet. And prettier in person than she is on screen.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

The Little Crippled Girl in the Wheelchair!!!!!!!

No explosions, nothing leapt off the walls, no sudden cave-ins, sinkholes, collapses, or meteor-strikes.

The Ultimate Test...and we passed!
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Seriously, though, she was accompanying her mom and fencing brother and she wheeled down the ramp with no problems. I was so delighted that that nothing burst into flames or sheared off in a lethal fashion, that I told her that we built the ramp just for her and that I was happy she could finally come in and use it. She was a very nice, if shy, girl.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Aaaaaah!. Don't touch anything. What if it's time delayed?

[Drunk Monk]

So T did well on her report about foil making. Of course, there's no grades in the hippie-commie-pinko private school we have her in, but by all accounts, it was a success. The boy who did a report on swords had some lame plastic sword; there was just no comparison. The school emphasizes a non-competitive approach, but that was a total slam dunk swordwise.

T made a special display by attaching the photo print outs of the sword making lesson to a colorful stick which she adorned with bits of sparkle and twisted pipe cleaners - quite artsy, exactly the kind of unconventional creatively that's encouraged at her school. It now hangs unceremoniously in her room by her closet. That's right. Of all the DOOMbros, PPFY has his pic in my kid's room.

In the pics, PPFY is wearing his NUKE AND PAVE shirt, which of course had to be explained when T asked what it meant. Dm could just hear PPFY's cackle of VICTORY, as he attempted to explain that.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Just tell her its Latin for "Love and Niceness" cuz that is what I'm all about.

No grades in that hippie school? Don't you pay them money? Sheesh.

Mainly I feel honored that she actually spoke to me.

Whaddaya gonna do when she wants to do her next report on .50 caliber sniping?

[Drunk Monk]

mt065

[thatguy]

Poster #1 - didn't someone check out her equipment before the bout?

--tg