Escaping Utah, Making Cocktails

[corpsebrigadier]

Witness another attempt to actually get back to posting here on the regular.

Just got back from an arduous arduous trip (delays! airsickness! lost car keys!) to see my youngest sibling wed. Despite my present vow to never go anywhere for any reason ever again, it was pretty nice when I was actually attending the event. I managed to see a ton of relations I hadn't encountered for a long while, enjoyed the requisite dancing/drinking, and generally had a pleasant time until the dire state of Utah did everything in its power to trap me within it. I escaped, however, and I can now enjoy suffering under the Heat Dome as I reconsider the decision of my ancestors to emerge from the primordial sea

Prior to this, the past half year of me not posting has honestly been pretty slow. I'm chipping away at a few books. I run and write when I can. I gave one very brisk conference talk and have mostly just continued settling down into the relative calm of non-academic life. I've also started to take glorious advantage of my local library's STEAM lab in the interest of various projects and schemes. One of my most most recent (posted about elsewhere has been 3D printing the object files for weapons from Vagrant Story, coating them in food safe resin, and then using them as picks for the cocktails they are named for. (Witness a fandango with a Fandango in it and a Diki-Diki garnished diki-diki.)

Comments

[eggsbenedict]

Aaaahhh those cocktails and picks are so rad. What a great idea!

Eeek at the travel drama, but glad it was mostly fun.

[corpsebrigadier]

Glad you like the picks! And one day later, the travel drama feels even more distant--very much not the memories that should stick hardest. :)

[kradeelav]

i remember seeing the picks on tumblr :D was briefly worried about you with ingesting 3D printing materials but that's so cool that there's food-safe sealants. is there a favorite one you're hoping to print?

[corpsebrigadier]

I'm looking forward to the Czarine in particular as A] of the cocktails I've sampled it legit is one of the tastiest (appropriate to Sydney) and B] I nearly had it printed and ready to go save that it has a weak/fidgety bit that caused it to collapse under the weight of my food safe goop, and I am extra determined to redesign it for stability and get it in working order now.

[proustbot]

This is a good use of technology!

Since I've become unfortunately familiar with the SLC airport in recent years, I'm assuming it was a star player in your travel woes.

[corpsebrigadier]

SLC was one of the few places where something did not go wrong (or at least any wronger than air travel typically goes); O'Hare was the real VIP when it came to wrecking my day.

I survived, though! And I'm gradually doing my best to erase the less-than-stellar aspects of the weekend from memory.

[lassarina]

Ooooh, those look amazing.

Dangit, Utah, calm down.

[corpsebrigadier]

Haha. Thanks. Utah ironically did sort of calm down as we left, with temps dropping to the low 70s unexpectedly as I flew back into the midwestern heat dome. It felt massively unfair at the time, but I'm generally now pretty much recovered from my brush with the state.

[lassarina]

Hurrah! Glad to hear it :)