Jan. 29th, 2012

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So, I've been mycrofting. As in attending the Watson's Tin Box annual pot luck.

I arrived in a high state of twitch, in part because the tire pressure light came on in my car again (after very expensive repairs twice in December) and so I'd made an appointment on Monday. Only then the light turned itself off after a while as the tire warmed up, so I feel like a dork. But what else could I think, with my recent history? But mostly I was agitated because my clever cupcake idea wasn't so clever. I've always made that recipe in a flat pan. Putting it in a cupcake pan?

Well... remember Galaxy Quest. "The beast turned inside out. And exploded"? THAT.

So Mo turned the pan upside down and started chopping the bits into pieces. When I got to the Mycroft, I labeled them "Wessex cup cakes. Only they failed the first jump and were humanely put down." People loved it!

I took pictures of some of the food, geek that I am; let me know if you want me to post 'em. There were six napoleons (of course!) labeled with character names; Devil's Foot Eggs, Red Circle (pepperoni) pizzas, Dancing Men gingerbread and a cottage pie labeled Mrs. Hudson's leftovers. (I went back for seconds on that pie and took the remainder home. Yum!)

W's TB has some high-powered members; I new that some were members of BSI or ASH, but it turns out that one of the members is one of the *founders* of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes! (And she only got 157 out of a possible 180 points on the quiz, which gives you an idea how fiendish it was.) Anyway, there was a detailed presentation on the recent BSI gathering in NYC. I got to neep with a bunch of lovely people, including the runner of Better Holmes and Gardens.

And then there was The Quiz. Presented as a series of telegrams and notes, often taken directly from canonical text, you had to answer which story and a question about the message, usually who it referred to. I got a whopping 28, but could only answer both questions for 5 stories.

A bit like being back in college English!

It was a lovely time, and I've come home and asked to be put on the Tin Box mailing list.

When I got home, though, Mo informed me that I REALLY owed her, on account of her spending most of the day cleaning up my mess from the exploding cupcakes. Which yeah I do... but in between my making the mess and her cleaning it, she seems to have lit it on fire. For which I take no responsibility!

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