This is amazing, but make sure you have a reasonably strong computer to play it properly.

Friday night was, to me, at least, lots of fun. Not because of all the HP Geeks, but because of the massive number of people to manage. Coupled with the activities I had to take groups through, it was nothing more than a spiritual revisitation of my years at the museum. I had forgotten how much I loved being a docent... I wish some of the museums here were hiring. (They only want volunteers. I checked.) In the course of the past 48 hours, my store sold about 1300 books. Not bad, though I'm sure stores in larger cities sold more.

There were plenty of geeks, but the winner of the costume contest was this utterly adorable 3 year old boy who would wave his little plastic wand at people and proclaim, "I'm Harry Podder!" There was an attractive regular customer I'd been occasionally talking to when she'd come in, but I did not have a chance to say more than hi to her. There were a lot of young boys with lightning bolts on their heads, and a lot of teenage girls wearing green prom dresses.

There was also these two 14-15 year old girls dressed like... well, like prostitutes, with pieces of packing tape on their stomachs proclaiming one as "Invisibility" and the other as "Cloak". There's an invisibility cloak in the story somewhere, which is about as close as they got to matching their costumes to the series. They both flirted with employees, presumably in an attempt to gain favor in the contests. At one point, they tried this on me, approaching me with blatantly obvious looks on their faces, and demanded that I settle an argument between them (bat eyelashes, coy smile) concerning who should stand next to whom. "Invisibility" argued that she should be first, since y'know, "Invisibility cloak" works and "Cloak invisibility" does not. Then she said rather haughtily that "Invisibility" was an adverb ("because it ends in LY!"), and "cloak" was a noun, so it was grammatically correct. I responded that lots of people had heard of a "cloak of invisibility", and that alphabetically, "cloak" comes first, and then I leaned over, pointed directly at her tape label, and politely informed her that invisibility is a noun, or an adjective, since it modifies a noun in her example, and explained that it does not, in fact, end in LY.

Silly kids.