Bill Roper's Journal

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*

We had the kickoff meeting for the 2024 Windycon today (which will also be the 50th Windycon, so yay for the big round number!). Things went well.

Now, it is time to start working on those things. :)

And we're home from Windycon!

I'm sure I will say more about the con later, but I am really tired right now and need to unpack, so I think I'll do that. :)

I think everything that I can control is under control at the moment. This is subject to change, of course.

Wait! I need to ask Sam to bring the curtains...

Ok. Text message sent.

I wonder what I'll remember *next*. And whether it will be timely.

I still have a couple of things that I have to finish before Windycon starts.

And two evenings to do it in.

I can do this. :)

I took Gretchen out to Texas Roadhouse for her birthday lunch, where we ate *way* too much food. This is partially responsible for the fact that we're now getting ready to have strawberry shortcake for dessert before having dinner. I smell shortcake in the oven, so I should finish things up here and get downstairs.

In the meantime, while Gretchen was out with Julie looking at autumn leaves, I have been doing a variety of Windycon things and have just now placed the last of the CD orders for OVFF with the people who I actually expect to see there. :)

This is an *interesting* way to spend Gretchen's birthday. Maybe not optimal, but *interesting*.