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Regular Best-of-Penny-Arcade readers will recognize Frank from earlier … later strips. Comics which wioll haven be excellent, if you’re believe Dr. Streetmentioner. Anyways.

For as much time as I’ve spent in Canada, and the west coast of the United States, it’s almost impossible to believe that I’ve never been to Vancounver until now. But here we are.

I had so much work to do before I left that I barely slept before our ridiculously early flight. Jacob’s account is not entirely inaccurate. In fact, it’s not inaccurate at all.

One of our flight attendants was extremely panicked about her iPod. We think the songs are still there, but there is something about that disk that’s completely rogered. She could almost certainly recover her data, but for a price that she’s probably unwilling to pay, from some special data recovery service. We did what we could, which was not much.

At least one other flight attendant came by and begged us, when she wasn’t imploring us, not to tell her co-worker the awful truth that her data is lost. They felt that the iPod Troubles, as they came to be called, were distracting her overmuch from her duties, which did not, at this early hour, include getting us drunk.

She was telling us about how she just bought a big plasma screen TV, and now her iPod dies. I don’t understand how, as a United flight attendant of all professions, you don’t see the train barrelling down on you. All I’m saying is that I would not, if I were her, be making any large purchases on credit.

We’re going to go have seafood now. I have high hopes, fueled by years of my Canadian friends talking up Vancouver as second only perhaps to Newfoundland in terms of seafood quality as measured on some sort of numeric scale.

BoPA: This is funny on so many levels.

The show, it must — and now will be — said, was outstanding.

Unlike Jacob, who feels he can just take off work and fly someplace to see a show whenever he wishes, this is the first time I’ve seen them since our accidental discovery in Canmore.

I took a bunch of pictures. Mostly of Craig, because he was the only one that was lit at all. I hope you like grainy ISO 1600!

whenever I think of the e-bow, it reminds me of the e-dork episode of ATHF

my name is craig

even at ISO 1600 it was really hard to get a picture of the badly-lit Aaron

he broke a lot of strings that night; we saw a lot of this “backup guitar”

It turns out we’re staying across the hall from the band. This can hardly be called a surprise, given that I booked a room in the hotel above the venue.

Note here how the crisp, clean taste of Lymon quenches completely.

Today marks my triumphant return to that American city with the saltiest of lakes. Devoted readers will remember my previous, and only, visit to Salt Lake City; my learning experience involving a Boeing 757, an incompetent ground crew, and an exploding lavatory.

This time I’m not here because of a lavatory, no, I came on purpose. We’re holding the Lustre users group meeting here, which promises to be either an exceptionally good or tortuously bad two days. I know which one my money is on, but as with all things there can be said to be some element of chance.

I’ve been having more plane crash dreams than usual, lately. They are remarkably infrequent, on average.

zelda!! more like celda

Jeff and I were driving through Seattle on the way to our meeting this morning, when he got a call from his sister.

After the usual small-talk, he mentioned that he ran into Benecio Del Toro in the airport. He was so distracted, first by the shock of learning that his fully-grown sister didn’t know who that is, and then the involved discussion trying to explain it, that he clipped a blind person in a zebra crossing.

After the meeting I returned home on the red eye via LA, and it must be said, the approach from the north over LA at night is pretty intense. Bill Belichick sat right behind me on the LAX to BOS leg. Despite my years as a tortured Browns fan, including the years under his noble tenure, I resisted the urge to strike up a conversation with the newly-re-crowned Super Bowl champion about how great Bernie Kosar is.

Fun fact: Belichick does, in fact, know how to dress himself like a normal human, when he’s not in a soaking wet hoody on the sidelines.