MeCon, a SF/F convention up in Belfast, is the weekend after next (August 4-6). I could fairly reasonably take the train up to Dublin with Geni on Thursday, then up to Belfast on Friday, then come back to Cobh late Sunday night or on Monday morning. I am torn on whether to do this or not. On the one hand, it’d be an opportunity to meet and Ken MacLeod and Ian McDonald and … well, you’re perfectly capable of reading the guest list. ;) It’d be a chance in general…
bloogh.
Bloogh. Don’t feel so good. This is because I haven’t eaten anything worth mentioning since yesterday afternoon (a bowl of ice cream does not count as dinner). Gonna go make pancakes or something nice for my poor worn-out hubby in a few minutes, though. The dog was not out of water, though she drank so much cool fresh water when I got home that she didn’t even want to finish her dinner. *laugh* Ted didn’t get out of court until 5:30 or so, and didn’t make it home til after…
lordy what a day
Things rarely go as planned. Ted’s court date for his car wreck is today. They said to show up in Athy at 10:30am, which is something of a bother, since we live in Cobh now. But we went up to Portarlington yesterday and spent the night at Mom & Dad’s, then got on a quite early train and came over to Athy. It has proven that here in Athy they tell everyone to arrive at 10:30am, and start with the auctioneers’ licenses and then move on to something else and…
Piano Man
Billy Joel is playing in Dublin on Saturday. Ted and I had thought we’d go, but he’s got to work. I can still almost certainly get a ticket, although not a great one. Not a bad one, just not a great one. Ted said (though I haven’t verified that he was not just Being Noble) I should go if I could get a ticket. So:
unexpected success
I thought I really needed to do something besides sit at the computer playing CoH or writing all day, so I seized my determination and decided to do a drawing. It turned out *far* better than I anticipated. It’s not perfect; if you compare it to the traced one immediately before it, well, I can see the flaws, but they make for consistency within the drawing itself, so I’m actually really happy with it, and totally surprised. I figured it would take several tries to get the line of her…