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In the end, as I didn't have anywhere private to change, I just took my mask/hood/faceshell/lenses off in the car, tucked the hood in, and drove home in headless Spidey mode.
I stopped off to buy lunch at a Sainsbury's Local/petrol station, where several people commented (favourably) on the suit. Rather than eat while taking up one of their limited parking spaces I moved on to a free local council car park. As I was eating, a car parked beside mine and a dad got out with a small child and I heard "yes look, it's Spider-Man! And he's eating… a…sandwich…" I waved and said hi and "if you give me a minute I'll put my mask on" and they seemed to like it. 😁👍 (I should have prompted them to get a pic as I'm sure they're kicking themselves now for not having done so.)
I stopped off briefly a couple more times on the way home. Saw people looking a few times, think there were one or two more nice comments!
I'm still not in love with going headless, but I had to to drive safely, and people did respond positively even so. Also now my parents, sisters, nibblings, and a couple who my sisters know who happened to be there, have all seen me in headless Spidey mode and acceptance rate is 100% so far. Wheeee.
So, ended up staying in suit from just before I checked out (about 1.30pm) until getting ready for bed time (near midnight). Admittedly with bare face a lot of that time, but still, attached shoes and gloves, plus my feet were still damp the whole day from when I was carrying my stuff to the car while it was trying to rain and the ground was wet.
Aaaand checked out of ConFuzzled 2024. Sad face.
I'm most probably going to hang around for most of the day until Dead Dog, then drive home late this evening. If you want to meet I'm at the back of the bar area at the moment, might be more in the foyer at times. Being a Spidey, I am fairly recognisable! 😉
Okay, well it looks like I've actually managed to do at least *something*!
(If you can't see all 10 attached pictures, try opening it on the original instance.)
Without, in particular, a head, I'm unlikely to show this off in public at ConFuzzled, but I'll certainly bring it, so maybe in private? Hopefully after this burst of progress after literal years of having the zip half-sewn in, I'll make the time to do the head/tail/feet within the next few months and maybe bring it to a Londonfurs meet sometime. That would be good.
Personally, I feel the only acceptable artificial noise for a car to produce is this:
JETSONS_SPACE_CAPSULE_LAND_AND_STOP_01.ogg
Darn.
I just spent a while catching up with my timeline (went from about 1.5 days behind to only about 4 hours behind) and just caught up with the part where people were talking about the aurora.
Ooh, I thought, I'm only a few hours behind, I could go and look. But no. It's nearly 5am and there's enough daylight that I couldn't see a faint aurora even if it's still happening (which I've no idea whether it is or not). Oh well.
Phew, that's been needing to be done for quite a while. Bike chain maintenance done for now. Cleaned, adjusted, lubed. Now all I need to do is ride it. (Tomorrow, hopefully!)
The chain was quite loose, needed 3½ flats on the adjuster nuts. I haven't done that in years. I've been riding it so little the last few years though, I've not really needed to do the chain before the annual service takes care of it anyway. 🤷♂️
I really must get out on the bike again soon. It's been too little for too long. (Also, I might be partly moving outside London sometime soon, too, so I might be more able to meet up with folks for rides!)
Oh, I meant to come back to this and add pics after slicing! And here they are. One loaf had no cavities at all as far as I noticed, while the other just had this little bubble inside. Hurrah. So now I know I can fix the situation with bubbles forming holes/voids/cavities in the loaf, I just need to figure out how to make the whole loaf a bit denser, because I'm finding some slices are still almost lacework with how large the "grain" is, as it were. After talking to my dad and hearing his recollection of catering college may decades ago, I think I'll have to try *more* working of the dough at knock-back time, rather than less. All I can do is try doing it a bit different each time and see how it affects things.
