Bill Roper's Journal

The new power strip arrived late enough that I didn't mess with it today. It will probably become Saturday's project, because tomorrow it's back to work. Work is going to be happy to see me. :)

The new CD flip racks also arrived. They look good and will, I hope, be durable enough to survive in our environment. They'll ride in the book box with the old flip racks and the three or four remaining copies of Roberta Rogow's Rec-Room Rhymes that make up the last of our songbook inventory. Paper, alas, has fallen out of fashion in our digital age.

In the meantime, I have written the checks for all but one of the CD purchases that came by mail. In the last case, I'm waiting for an amount and an address which I hope to have soon.

Sales at Windycon ended up being ok, largely due to having sold a bunch of the new "Amy & Me" album. Yay! Clearly, I need to do more albums with Amy... :)

Day two of Windycon is in the books. So far, so good, although sales could be better. But we had fun, especially at the art auction.

I will be off to Windycon shortly, right after I get the dogs into boarding for the weekend.

Gretchen will follow when school is out.

See some of you there!

I assembled the racks for the additional bit of grid for our dealer table at Windycon, because I am busily figuring out how to get 18 feet worth of merchandise onto 12 linear feet of table. The answer is to go up! And to bring the CD tower from home too, although that's not a great way to display much of anything.

Meanwhile, I have finished the draft of the Opening Ceremonies script and am off to do Closing Ceremonies now. Happily, Closing Ceremonies is much simpler. :)

Windycon is getting very, very close in the headlights.

Oh, deer.

That said, tomorrow I will finish up the draft scripts for Opening and Closing Ceremonies and we'll see where we're at.

The one thing that is certain is that I will not get enough sleep when I am at a convention. Windycon was no exception.

There were various things that went right and wrong, but overall people seemed to have a good time, which is the goal. I had some great conversations and the open filks were a *lot* of fun.

Tomorrow, I get to go in for a physical. Yay! :)

(That's one way to postpone returning to work, I suppose...)

I'm back from the Thursday night banquet and board meeting for Windycon 50. Had a wonderful time, but then it was time to head home to finish packing things up so I can go back to the con tomorrow and get things rolling.

See some of you there!

Work's done for the week which means it's time to go to work on the hobbies.

There's a in-person Windycon meeting tomorrow afternoon. And there's Halloween decorating to do.

Also, we have to clear a path for the delivery of the new TV on Monday, assuming that nothing goes wrong with that. We *had* been assigned a 3-7 slot for the delivery according to the website, but now there is no marked delivery time. This could mean a lot of things, but I'm hoping it means the set still shows up. :)

And here it is Monday again with no conveniently scheduled holiday, so it's time to get back to work, which was what I did. I'm continuing to work on last week's project which I'm hoping gets into testable condition shortly. It's one of those things where I keep having to tweak the parameters that we're loading, and then we build, and then we have to load the build and see how it behaves.

So far, it hasn't behaved. But there's a new build as of late this afternoon, so maybe it will behave tomorrow.

While waiting on that, I'm working on the other project in my queue and making good progress there.

Meanwhile, I'm sorting out Windycon things.

And neglecting the fence, which I still need to hire someone to fix.

There are a lot of balls in the air.

It's being like that.

Apparently, we had misplaced the kids' Social Security cards and birth certificates. This is at a point in time when K really needs her Social Security card, although it is possible that the deadline for that doing any good has slipped by. I am not sure.

But today, I sat down and started going through the shelves where they seemed most likely to have gone to hide. And -- surprise! -- the first shelf that I picked was the right shelf, the Social Security cards and birth certificates have been found, and a large amount of old paperwork that we no longer need has either been consigned to the recycling bin or placed in a separate pile for shredding.

Unfortunately, I did all of this work while the online Windycon meeting was going on, because I had for some reason gotten it in my head that the meeting was at 6 PM, not at 1 PM. Oops. I figured that out about the time the minutes arrived.

Meanwhile, K has been trying to submit passport applications with her mother's approval. What I didn't realize until I got a text from my bank was that she had been doing this through a site that charges you an exorbitant fee for doing essentially nothing other than letting you fill out the form. The charge was declined, but I didn't want my card shut down for fraud, and before I could get it sorted out, K seems to have submitted one of the four applications again. So we are out that amount of money.

Everyone is now mad at everyone else, it seems.

I am going to fill out the forms from the government site now on my computer.

*sigh*