so..........
i went to Otakon this past weekend.  money wise it was "ok".  if it was a less costly event to do it would have been great, but at 800 mumble for a ten by ten booth....... it has to be better than i did to be great.
( Otakon details, blather, etc )

i have been trying to get some "spring cleaning" done. .... can you tell i am way behind schedule? i mean its ONLY midsummer....

The house is pretty much a disaster.  part of the storage problem in the house is because we don't have a storage locker anymore.  (well except for the one at Pennsic).  The more stuff you cram into a  row home, the harder ( Read more... )

while i was at Darkover, i found out that Sands and Sands (they sell filk CDs and stuff mostly) had come back from the World Con in Japan with Kimonos and Obis....
this is a crisis.
i have NO sales resistance to Kimonos, Saris and other such fabric wonderful clothing.
now i need to lose a size for most of them to close properly, but heck, i need to ( Read more... )