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( Another year, another round of solo contests. )

Now that a week has passed, hopefully things have condensed enough that this won't be super-long ( Read more... )

One of my projects on my to-do list is to finish writing up solo contest from last month. I have a little book where I keep my contest info and I want to put it away. Some of this stuff is likely duplicated from my original post but I'm not going to worry about that ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a very long day. I was gone from about 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM. The good news is that virtually everything went well, and even the part involving tears got resolved in short order ( Read more... )

I've mentioned that I was busy this past Saturday; it was round 2 of solo contests, this time Mr. M's in Indiana. Having to be there by 7:30 AM meant getting up early, which also meant going to bed early as best I could on Friday. I neither went to bed as early as I wanted, nor fell asleep that quickly, but when my TV turned on at 4 AM, I was up ( Read more... )

This is from last Saturday. I've been a little busy this week ( Read more... )

The solo portion of the day ran from about 8-3, but I had several hours of other things going on. I mentioned I got there at 7; I didn't leave Indiana until 5. So, for the rest of it ( Read more... )

My Saturday was pretty epic.

Did I mention I was away from my house for more hours than I'm normally awake on a typical Saturday? It was a very, very long day. I got up before 4:30 and left at 5:44, this after scraping my car for a few minutes. Even though I figured it would take me 1:15 to get there, the weathermen had predicted frozen fog, ( Read more... )

Now that that's out of the way, here's the rest of the story ( Read more... )