I don't need no sedatives to pull me round,

Easter we spent, as is traditional, with bunny_hugger's parents. Overnight, as well, meaning we had to pack up and bring Sunshine with us. She gave her usual lone thump of disapproval when I put her in her travel crate but was otherwise fine.

Saturday we would do the dyeing of eggs, two dozens for the both of us. We had more glasses than usual, thanks to finding some Mason jars in the basement, so we were able to dedicate a couple colors entirely to the oil-dabbed tie-dye-style eggs. Some of these came out incredibly good, eggshells that look like planets on the HD-remastered Star Trek. Afterward I realized I hadn't done any of my usual complicated eggs --- nothing with two or three bands of color, say, or with pictures drawn in negative space by crayons put on the egg before dyeing. No particular reason; I just never thought to start. The big new twist was a pack of egg dye offering gold eggs, which seems to be that they had a packet of gold-colored acrylic paint with some plastic bags we could roll the eggs around in. (This would be like the 60s Tye-Dye egg paints we'd used a couple years back.) This took us all some experimenting to get something that works, but we got there.

In the evening Saturday we tried that Mice and Mystics campaign which stumped us last weekend. This weekend, and with a little knowledge of how the setting plays out, we ... got beaten in the same room as last time. We started out worse off than we did last weekend, mostly, with unlucky rolls against a tough enemy that burned off time. I feel good about the next try.

Partway through the Mice and Mystics game bunny_hugger's father noticed that his character had two hammers with similar but not identical text on their cards and asked about this. bunny_hugger thought he was doing a bit. She had joked how every time we play he notices his character has two hammers with similar cards and needs this explained to him again. He swore he just didn't understand the cards with the hammers that he's had, I note, since we started playing Mice and Mystics back in 2016? 2017? A fair while back, at least.

That next try might have been Sunday except we decided to try a different game. This would be Parks, a game built to use some WPA-era posters of national parks. bunny_hugger and I had played it together, a few weeks back. This time her mother joined us; her father was sure the game would be too complicated for him. This is technically a competitive game, walking on trails and collecting the resources to collect visits to national parks. However, there's very little competition: if you decide to play just to do the best you can, you do well. Her mother got the hang of it, we think, and she's up for playing again. Also, the game does seem more fun with three players and it might be better yet if her father would join.

Also on Sunday bunny_hugger and I took a walk to the park just across the river from her parents' home. This for letterboxing purposes, and for a wonder, not ours. (The box we planted in that park went missing long ago.) Someone else had planted a box, and we saw a chance to re-engage with this hobby and maybe plant the hitchhiker we'd picked up at our Baseline Meridian State Park last year.

The box was not quite hidden in plain sight, but it was near enough we worry about its inevitable discovery; it'd be very easy for someone messing around to expose it. Well, that's for the box planter to care for. Also, our hitchhiker --- a tiny letterbox meant to travel from one fixed-location letterbox to another --- was too large to fit in the box. We have to find somewhere else for it to go. There are options; there's been a recent surge in the number of letterboxes near us and near bunny_hugger's parents.

We did also have a Facetime chat with bunny_hugger's brother and his partner. That was pretty good, except that the attempt to have both her laptop and her mother's iPad open on the same chat produced a lot of feedback, unless we muted one computer and all huddled near the other so the microphone could pick us up, raising the question of why have two devices on our side of things. But Facetime was committed to making the chat needlessly complicated anyway, and a couple brief net glitches left us confused whether the chat had gone out altogether. We're going to try getting her mother onto Zoom or some other online chat program with a not-hideous user interface.

And that's the basics of our Easter weekend.

From back at Motor City Furry Con here's some select moments of Furry Bingo, an event that ran so long it's still going on today.

We started with three Bingo cards, and collected more and more as people around us gave up waiting for numbers to get called.

Here's a line of people waiting for their bingos to be verified, so they could claim prizes.

When Bingo finally ended it was time to get to the dance!

Trivia: Apollo 16's Lunar Module landed in the Plain of descartes at latitude 8.97301 degrees south, longitude 15.50019 degrees east, about 886 feet northwest of the planned landing site. Source: Apollo By The Numbers: A Statistical Reference, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029.

Currently Reading: The Complete Peanuts, 1975 - 76, Charles M Schulz. Editor Gary Groth.