On minor milestones

Pebbles_smallMy son started preschool today.  I understand at some point he shit himself; for as much as they’re charging I don’t feel bad about them having to change a diaper or two.  Or, like, underwear, I guess; he doesn’t wear diapers anymore, but saying that sounds better

That same son turns four on Sunday.  I bought him an awesome Transformer toy that turned out to be much more shoddily made than I would have expected, but he appears to love the hell out of it.

also bought myself a toy tonight, only when I buy my son a “toy” it’s a cool Transformer, and I want to play with it as much as he does, and when I buy myself a “toy” nowadays it’s a god damn blood pressure cuff and I use it to make sure I’m not dying.

Yay.  Adulthood.

(My novels are still on sale!  Buying one will cheer me up.)

On the signing

That… went very well.

11151004_1045661358795495_203068950655564673_nIf this picture weren’t a trifle blurry it would be my new profile picture for absolutely everything.  I managed to sell 48 of the 60 books I brought with me yesterday– 47 at the signing itself, and one at my other job after the signing, where a customer overheard me talking with a co-worker and started asking questions, and then discovered that I had a card reader and the rest of my books in my car.  Which is why I’m going to keep a Square reader in the car forever now.

I haven’t seen all the pictures folks took yesterday– and it seems like there was a fair number of them– but I’m gonna share two more:

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These two lovely young ladies are both former students, and are both Tuckerized somewhere in Skylights.  I won’t provide any more detail for probably obvious reasons but they’re both high school graduates now so my usual policies about anonymity can be relaxed a little bit.  They managed to beat me to the signing, which both entertained and frightened me.  Truth be told, I was a sweaty, gross mess for most of the first half hour or so until the air conditioning kicked in and I got used to what I was doing.  Memo for next time: bring a handkerchief.

And, oh, next time?  It’s not official-official yet, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be at InConJunction XXXV in Indianapolis in July!

More details to come.  For now, though, I’m exhausted, and will be taking it super easy today.