The fest of May 2004 is over. Rygel is now back at the Neighborly Abode, settling back in and filling up the remaining free hard drive space with episodes of tv shows I missed over the past couple weeks.

I'll be going to meet with scott in a little while to go over work plans for the week. For now, a few random highlights from the fest, and perhaps other thoughts.

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On Wednesday night, shortly after we had unloaded the car, I noticed there was an extra movie sitting atop the pile I had brought. Avalon. But it was the commercial release version, not the Hong Kong pirate edition (prior to the official DVD release) that had been such a hit on the last Lincoln fest. I spoked up, and asked who it belonged to.

Yanthor stepped forward, and asked if I had received any strange anonymous emails during the past few weeks. I had not. Or if I had, it must have gotten mixed up with the boatloads of spam that pass through my account every day. He had tried to anonymously instruct me not to go out and buy any new movies before the fest. (Though I have searched my spam archives for April and May, the email has yet to be found, and may in fact not have even been resent yet, since the remailer he used puts a random time delay on messages to stifle attempts at traffic analysis.)

Anyway, as you probably guessed, he told me this copy of Avalon -- complete with new special features, multiple languages and subtitles, and better picture encoding quality than the copy we had watched before -- was now mine. Awesome.

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Well, I did have a couple more incidents to write about, but I'm going to go out and meet scott for lunch now. I'll probably get around to writing about them a bit later. Then again, maybe not. Uncertain, the future is...