Away on business

Oct 28, 2012 21:11

1) Last Saturday was the second Paint & Pixel festival.  It was another great success, I think.  Attendance was much the same as last year, but with more kids.  We had a steady flow of people all day, and everyone I spoke to was happy with the show.  PLUS, this year, I arranged for programming throughout the day, with me moderating three panels: Pushing Boundaries, Juggling Tastes, featuring Howard Cruse, Gary Hallgren, and E.J. Barnes; Making A Career Making Art, with Raf Anzovin, Sarah Platanitis, Colin Tedford, and Jack Purcell; and what was basically a chat between Greg Ruth and Rebecca Guay on how to shape a story to the genre and audience.  I think they went well.  I also went to many artists' tables and did little interviews, which I taped, though I don't know how well they came out.

2) My mother is recovering from her second back operation.  It's only been a week, and she's still has pain, especially when she sits up, but she looks and sounds better, and feels well enough to have grown bored and to complain about the food.  No one knows how much she'll recover.  It's not impossible that she'll never walk again, which is, of course, the possibility upon which she dwells, but it's much more likely that she'll be up on her feet again within the next couple of weeks.  Exactly how much better a woman entering her fourth quarter century with Parkinson's will get is anyone's guess.

Dad, meanwhile, is getting progressively less steady on his feet, and may soon be confined to a wheelchair, which will, amongst other things, make it impractical to bring him home every weekend anymore.

3) Other folks I know are dealing with abruptly ended engagements, mysterious illnesses that take them to the ER but baffle the doctors, a young child diagnosed with autism, a callous and incompetent therapist, a chronic and agonizing mood disorder, a parent's fatal overdose, and the possibility that one parent may have murdered the other.  I at least still have my health, my fortune, and my friends.

4) My latest Mythspoken episode went well.  You can listen, if you like.  The New York store will be open soon.  I may well be out there working the counter for a few days while Jim is off a game designers conference.

5) I'm psyched to see Cloud Atlas, regardless of what the reviews say.  It's an amazing book, and I'm really curious to see how  the Wachowskis realize its challenging structure.  millari, will you join me?

6) I'm having dinner on Tuesday with Grounded at Munich Haus.  Not sure what to do, or what I want from her, but so long as she makes me happy, I don't want to stop seeing her when she has time for me.  And after repeatedly giving trovia shit along the lines of beer, cheese and sausage not actually qualifying as 'cuisine', I should probably actually try some traditional German dishes.

i'll tag this later

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