Sparemeister and Nameless1 on the first night of the meet. Sparemeister is grinning because of the raspberry-infused sake that he's drinking. Do you know why raspberry-infused sake makes him smile? Me neither. I think he's crazy. Raspberry-infused sake sucks.

Then, for good measure, he went swimming. I was right. He is crazy.

Karl Dark and his shot glass, backed by a tower of cups created when I decided that one tall stack was better than four short stacks. Somehow, in a room full of people, I think I managed to do this without anyone noticing at the time.

Me looking natural in Ichiban Dashi's hat, and Ichiban Dashi looking natural.

How many people put Old Chub in their mouth? You really don't want to know.

I've noticed that my grimace tends not to look like a grimace at all, which may explain why this sort of thing keeps happening to me.

There's also a blank photo so people can photoshop in whoever they want. Unfortunately it came out blurry, which increases the degree of difficulty significantly.

The best thing about the sprint around the support post wasn't how happy these kids were. The best part was the other kid. Somebody complete unrelated to Kingdom Of Loathing was leaving the hotel with a boy, only about two years old, looked like he had just learned to walk. He saw this going on, turned ninety degrees, and walked toward us with his arms spread, eyes wide, and jaw open, looking like he had just seen the most incredible exciting thing in the history of the universe. You could just see that at that moment in time all he wanted was to join in. He didn't get the opportunity, but it was still quite a sight.

Interesting license plate.

Not-as-interesting license plates.

Group hug, or something.

Yes, we often hear of the danger of uddercooked meat. Seriously, do Japanese restuarants do this on purpose, or is there some sort of cultural stigma against basic proofreading?

A different definition for phone sex. I don't know if they were set to vibrate, and I don't want to know.

If I grew a full beard, I could look this silly too. Also it was somehow decided at this point that Ichiban's real name is Walter, after Radar from M*A*S*H, who also had round glasses. I think that was the only determining factor. If he ever demonstrates the ability to hear choppers carrying wounded before they actually become audible, we'll know we were on to something.

This was on fire at the time, but you can't tell because the flash went off, washing the fire out. Just try to picture this looking just like this, only on fire, and you'll have a good idea of what it actually looked like.

Everyone made a big deal out of this Exotic Puppies And Kittens sign. Lady A actually demanded that I take a picture of this and demanded a full-paragraph explanation of this sign, because she's apparently under the delusion that funny captions are written on demand. I will merely repeat an observation that was made by others, that this sign is on the beer distributor building. Frankly, if anyone needs to get beer and kittens at the same time, I don't want to know why or what they intend to do with the two. There was another photo on Saturday night that she expected me to write a hysterical caption for, this time going so far as to announce to everyone within earshot that the caption would be even funnier than the photo itself, but I'm taking Dazz's advice and pretending I never saw anything.

Good: Encouraging people to conserve resources. Bad: Doing so with a picture of an eyeless zombie bear cub. Or possibly an eyeless zombie kid lemur. It's kind of hard to tell.

With the meeting rooms priced out of reach since last year, we had our group loiters right out in the hallway.

But we eventually started to congregate in Tealsac's room again.

Words fail me.

And then back out to the hall. Dazz is in this photo. He mentioned during the meet that I always seem to mention him whether he shows up in the photset or not. I've noticed this, and think it most got out of hand in the Prom 2 photos. Anyway, Friday night Dazz and I had a nice long conversation about baseball (Remember the night in 1989 when the Pirates scored ten runs in the top of the first against the Phillies, and a Pirates broadcaster said, "If the Pirates lose this lead, I'll walk home," and then the Phillies, led by Steve "The Sultan Of Swat" Jeltz becoming the first person in team history to switch-hit home runs in the same game despite the fact he didn't even start, came back to win 15-11? We do!), and then on Saturday night he took me out on an emergency Philly cheesesteak run. Thanks, Dazz.

Is it time for the painfully obvious "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" reference?

It's the last Super Happy Fun Time Meet in Philadelphia, so I took large swatches of wallpaper as a souvenir.

Ihop Buddies. The new advertising campaign.

I always take pictures of people taking pictures, in this case of Doc Trauma taking pictures of us as he takes off from the meet.

I got a picture of Asthmatic Cheetah while she was busy complaining about people trying to take pictures of her. Irony 1, Asthmatic Cheetah 0.

This was the last picture I took at the Philly meet. We gave a standing ovation to this guy as he was taking down tree branches with a chainsaw. He seemed unimpressed. Also there's a K-Mart shopping kart located near a dumpster. I'm sure there's commentary in there somewhere.