Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
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Terrence is just unbelievably stupid.
Next he’s gonna claim he’s a Free Inhabitant under the Articles of Confederation…
huh… and I was worried he had some sort of diabolical plan… turns out he’s just and idiot. So long as the ladies continue to be calm and collected, which Lynn’s been giving a masterclass on lately, he is so arrested.
Ah, he’s going full Sovereign Citizen on us. This will end poorly.
He’s going Sovereign Citizen? Can’t he see the whole table is gold fringed?
They should just call the cops and have Terrance taken away, there is no reason to even stretch this out.
Terrence is self-centered to the extreme but not entirely stupid. He occasionally has a good idea. Or at least a not-horrible idea. So what’s the plan?
My guess is he’s trying to replay the “Nazi cosplay” incident. I’d be willing to bet that there’s someone with a camera taking video right now. It wouldn’t be hard to do. All Terrence has to do is stand there and be “Terrence” long enough for Lynn to lose her cool.
‘It’s a public space!’
Their business model is literally to charge people money to stay there. It’s like their entire thing. If you aren’t paying money to stay there, then someone else needs to be. Like the convention. Who just told you to go away.
Hotels are a public space. “Con space” and “Hotel space” are often different. Hotels have public restaurants and one has to be capable of getting to those restaurants. That being said, that really does limit Terrance’s available places to be, and with the restraining order, even if he does* have a room, he’s going to have some ‘splainin to do to the cops about why he has a hotel room in a hotel where a con is occurring where someone has a restraining order against him is one of the con-runners.
The term public gets dicey the way it gets thrown around. The convention is a public event because it is advertised to the public to attend. Any member of the general public can show up, buy a ticket, and gain entry. I imagine the hotel has advertised their business, so it too is open to the public. Both businesses can exclude specific people.
Then people start talking about public buildings and it gets weird because one can’t tell if they mean paid for with government money or open to the public.
Public Space – a park, a governemnt building.
Not a Public Space – a hotel, a venue. If you need to be a customer, it’s not a Public Space.