Guess whose car got broken into last night? And has to listen to this for four hours on Sunday?
(Coulda been a lot worse. They took a pair of prescription sunglasses. That’s it. Didn’t touch any of my con stuff and the car didn’t flood in the rain.)
Tag: travel
View from my hotel room: Lafayette, IN
… Fuck daylight saving time, is the lesson you should be drawing here. Also, first floor room. So please do not figure out where I am and come stare creepily into my window.
Oh, and the books haven’t shipped yet, either.
The view from my (new) hotel window: Kokomo, IN!
Tomorrow! 10-5! Kokomo Event and Conference Center, booth #44! Come say hi!
Also, nice view.
View from my hotel window: Noblesville, IN
Rainy, but the room is nice! And the first day of the conference was not a waste of my time. I’ll take it.
In which I’m a bit of a dick
I accidentally said “Have a nice weekend!” to at least two or three different people today at various points, confusing the hell out of at least one student, and when I skipped out of the office (more or less literally) saying “See you Monday!” to everyone, I did it knowing full well that because I am going to be out of the building for three days I will probably end up with six days’ worth of catching up to do once I come back. So the last laugh is sure as hell gonna be on me.
It’s been a hellishly busy couple of days, but busy is all it has been, and busy I don’t really mind. I’m good at busy. Of course, I’m gonna stay that way for good chunks of the next several days, and they seriously think I’m gonna be in Indianapolis at 8:00 in the morning tomorrow, too, which would be a hilarious joke if motherfuckers weren’t serious. So things might be a little light around here for the back half of the week, but I’ll make up for it with cosplay pictures after the con.
My copies of CLICK are supposed to show up tomorrow, which is good, because tomorrow is pretty definitively before the con, but it’s also bad because I’ll already be gone before they get here and I won’t get to hold or touch the precious before I see them when my wife brings them to me Friday night. I’ll need to decide how much I’m selling them for, too, once I actually see them.
…damn, I need a new price board.
More to do! Hooray!
I’ll post a hotel view picture tomorrow. Behave, y’all.
In which I live to serve, but not for much longer
Actual Fiction has happened today; not much, but nonetheless Actual Fiction, so I feel pretty good about the universe right now. I was supposed to spend the morning taking care of my last Act of Ridiculous Customer Service (why, sure, I’ll drive to Michigan and pick up the seat of your armless chair and drop it off at the leather reconditioning place so you don’t have to do it! Why not?) but the timing ended up not working out so I’m probably doing that tomorrow.
This will be the last time I drive anywhere for a customer, which pleases me. It probably seems slightly more unreasonable than it actually is, at least in my head; I don’t always have a lot to do on my days off and if I’m just going to spend the day on the couch playing video games or staring at HGTV I may as well drive for a bit and listen to some podcasts instead, y’know? Yeah, gas costs money, but so does everything else, so I’m not going to worry about it all that much.
Anyway. The world seems to be a bit more on fire than usual this week and there’s a Big Corporate Visit coming next week at work so I’ve been mostly keeping my head down. Anything going on out there that doesn’t involve disaster?
Come see me at IndyPopCon this weekend!
I’m going to be in Booth 1213 on the vendor floor at the Indianapolis Convention Center, sharing a booth with Michelle Wern, who may not be aware of just how much fun it is going to be to be crammed into an 8′ x 10′ booth with me and all of my con shit for three entire days. It is eight o’clock in the morning and I am halfway through my morning coffee. I have approximately six thousand and ten things to do (including mowing the goddamn yard and taking the dog to be boarded at the vet, which is eight thousand miles away) between now and my wife getting home from work at noon, so I probably ought to finish the coffee and stop mucking about on the Internet.
But mucking about on the Internet is fun, so here we are. I didn’t do IndyPopCon last year, but it was a hell of a lot of fun in 2016 and I’m really looking forward to this show. This will be the first con I’ve done twice, so we’ll see if anybody remembers me from last time.
Speaking of boarding the dog, I can see the toxic-ass fart she just dropped, so it’s definitely time to make her go away and I ought to start accomplishing things. Photos to come!
HELLO, KOKOMO: The View from the Couch in the Living Room
I was not expecting an actual suite. I not only got that, there’s a balcony!
Also, I’m in Booth 82. Last-minute change.
