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Thursday night through Monday morning in Pittsburgh during which I saw:
blk
chamois
cheerfulchaotic
devreux
genuinekfc
klari
mygrane
qiika
rehana
rmitz
rupes
sheenaqotj

And those are just the ones I remember because they're on my profile page.

Mobot was exciting because a new course record was set at 50.71 seconds, down from a previous 1:01.43 from 2004, which beat 2000's 1:14.90. Mobot is also still the premier event at which to see a good set of my geeky alumni friends for the first time for the weekend. Who wouldn't want to come out and see the robot races?

And then there was the ritual feasting. Thursday night mexican. Friday noon bbq. Friday night pizza and geek-classic junkfood. Saturday brunch. Saturday early-afternoon beers. Saturday hours-dourves. Saturday afternoon bbq. Saturday night leftover pizza from Friday. Sunday morning bulk pie. Sunday afternoon lovingly-homemade pie. Sunday afternoon beers. More pie, and misc snacking. Uf.

And of course there was the gaming. Bridge. Bohnanza. Settlers. Race for the Galaxy. Elfenland. And a couple more that were new to me which I forget.

It was a good vacation. :-)