Close Quarters is this weekend, and while it felt a little touch and go there for a while, it looks like everything's mostly in order, and I'm totally excited. The loss of my little Arnold, which was two years ago today, cast a bit of a pall for me over the first one. Minotaur's death made preparations for this one tough going for a bit, but at ( Read more... )

I am home from the last ZebraCon and feeling a bit wistful... This was only my third ZCon, not very many at all compared to some others. But it's a con I have great fondness for. My first was ZCon was within a week after I'd been pimped into Pros, and I bought my first Pros DVDs there...season 1, which was sitting there, lonely, on someone's ( Read more... )

So Close Quarters is over - it really happened. Some of the wonderful people who came have been posting about it, but I figured that I really ought to say a little myself. I haven't said too much over the months I've been preparing for it - somehow I can't seem to figure out how to use my LJ that way, for that sort of ongoing life update, and I ( Read more... )

My poor Griggs had another episode of choke this morning (the last one - and actually, his first one - was in December). This time I was there - I ride on Friday mornings, and he choked on his breakfast, so it was starting as I got there. It was just terrible to watch. He was so utterly, completely miserable, making awful sounds, with greenish ( Read more... )

Oh wow, it's been forever since I posted. I don't even know where to start. Cats? Horses? Pros? I shouldn't let myself get so out of touch...

Well, maybe I'll limit this to Pros. And I'll make a list - that'll help! I love lists! :-)

1) Nattercon! I went to Nattercon...I love going to Nattercon, for many reasons. And finally, after three ( Read more... )

Okay, it's the first of May, the long cold winter is over, Pros has proliferated, and it's time to start thinking about...Close Quarters! Everyone on my f-list probably knows this already, but I'm posting it here anyway, because I want you all to come, and also to spread the word ( Read more... )

Well, in typical fashion I have tweaked and tweaked and tweaked, and could go on tweaking forever (this should surprise no one who knows me!). I have probably driven Suzan Lovett, who is responsible for the gorgeous logo, to distraction; luckily she is fairly unflappable. But eventually even I have to say enough's enough! *g ( Read more... )

So SHareCon was this past weekend. I'm not a huge S&H fan, but I do like them - I grew up with them, and I'm a sucker for the cop-buddy dynamic in all its manifestions, and I tend to like old-school fandoms. Plus, the con is local to me, and it's incredibly fun and well-run, and I like to support it and its organizers ( Read more... )

Okay, well, call me crazy but ... I think, I hope, there was enough interest to justify it, so I've decided to throw caution to the wind and go ahead with it ( Read more... )

For a while now I've been noodling about the idea of putting on a Pros con here in the U.S., and I think I've finally decided that I want to do it. However, one woman, no matter how obsessed, does not a con make, so before committing anything, I figured I needed to send out some feelers and find out whether there's any serious interest out there, ( Read more... )