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2019-08-25 08:27 pm

Realm: Con - Subrealm: BellsCon'19: The Weekend

OK! A few people are sticking around through tomorrow night* so they can go to handbell practice, but mostly everyone's gone home and the bells were rung down at 5, so I am declaring BellsCon to be over!
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2015-11-28 03:50 pm

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Lessee...

Peter was here...last weekend. It seems like a while ago, but I guess it's been a busy week.
Not the best visit--I suppose I started it tired, and with low coping-with-people and being positive abilities, which you may recognise as the opposite of what I need to be a really good parent. But we had fun playing Mario Kart, I guess.

This week at work--well, first off it was only a 2.5 day week, for obvious reasons. Also, my boss Finally got 'round to getting my permanent hire paperwork in! Of course, I still need to fill a bunch of forms out and talk to HR a bunch, but hey.
Less positively, despite the volume of paperwork I *still* don't know how health insurance works at MREtc. Which would be important, since we were planning on changing Peter's official status so that G. always lists him as a dependent for tax purposes,* which would make a lot more sense...UNLESS I got cheap health insurance for him. Grr.

Thanksgiving: Went up to Portland, hung out with my brother and various theater people, ate too much (of course). We went for a quick hike yesterday, then I headed home so that we could all get caught up on housekeeping...

Oh, and a week from today I'm going to be bellringing for a wedding. Um, we'll see how that goes...

* Per the original decree, I get to claim him as a dependent in alternate years
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2014-11-26 10:52 pm

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Still up, waiting for the Thanksgiving Zwiebelkuchen to cook. I guess it isn't that late, but my brain's pretty much dead.

Things:
- NOT doing anything else cranberry-related for tomorrow.* One sauce is enough, and it is happy in its jar.

- I did get the application for the Database Company That Shall Not Be Named done. Along with like three other job applications.
Possibly the whole thing about introverts responding more productively to caffeine in the afternoons is true.

- So as you will have gathered, I spent the evening cooking. (And attempting to translate a formal invitation from the Icelandic, but that's beside the point.)

- Ursulav's post about Whisper Networks and their problems is hella depressing. And reminds me all too much of...well, that one Readercon.**
It is somehow - irrationally - heartening that her resident Angry Bald Man has now been inducted into the Dorsai, who...well, sometimes, hopefully, help deal with these things.

- Happier fact: it is snowing. (Though shoveling the resulting slop earlier was...not the greatest. Nor was driving through it. OTOH, I was doing both these things 'cause I got to put my car in the driveway, so I don't have to worry about parking bans, snowploughs, or anything related.

There is probably more that I could say, but instead I am going to go to bed--at least temporarily.

* Well, unless I wake up hyper-energetic tomorrow.
** Actually, BOTH Readercons I went to featured the sort of "established people in the fandom being off beyond sketchy" problem that Whisper Networks attempt to deal with. In retrospect, bringing the dagger that one time was kinda dumb, because threatening someone with even a blunt dagger would have been a really really bad way to deal with that sort of situation...but when somebody I know hits the panic button, I sortof tend to go all-out. Anyway, the dagger merely got used to pry open a durian, so it was all good.