My dear, generous spouse is sending me to Columbus, Ohio.  In other circles, this might be seen as a rather bizarre punishment of some sort.  But you know what I'm really talking about, eh ( Read more... )

Hey!  I'm a Pegasus nominee!  Whee!

A hearty and humble (do those go together?) thank you to those who put me into nomination.

It genuinely is an honor to be nominated.  And really, I win either way: if I "lose", I'm that much closer to beating out Talis' "Susan Lucci-esque" record for nominations without a win.  (No, I don't actually know if she ( Read more... )

Hee-yow it's been busy. Too late nights working last week, leading into 3 days in southern California, with the boys and I hanging out with family while Beck went to the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators conference, getting back at 2AM Sunday, just to work until 3AM on Monday to hit a big deadline. But all's well ( Read more... )

Beckett was scheduled to record some harmonica tracks today at Kristoph's, for Seanan's upcoming album. The boys and I came along as well. We listened to her first couple of takes, then went into the house (so the boys didn't need to keep silent) and messed around in there, chatting with Margaret as she was doing a bit of calligraphy work. At ( Read more... )

I have a question I'd like to throw out to everyone. I thought of it a year or so ago, but never got around to posting it until now ( Read more... )

Yep, no accounting for taste. ConChord asked me to master their toast, and I jumped at the chance ( Read more... )

Last weekend was excellent. On Saturday, Seanan and I (GoH and Toastmaster, respectively, for ConChord/Westercon in Pasadena on 4th of July weekend), and Jeff & Maya got together to rehearse some stuff for ConChord. Poor Ms. McGuire was not feeling too well, recovering from some sort of virus that had bedridden her earlier in the week which left ( Read more... )

BayCon came and went a few weeks back. Taunya came, along with Seanna, and in fact visited with us the night before the convention for some rehearsal. Also joining us on that evening (Thursday, May 27, 2010) was Riley's teacher Mr. Greg Sherrod. There'd been talk of him joining us for a couple of numbers in our concert, but he and his wife got ( Read more... )

More concerts! Seems them filkers can't get enough of them. I'm afraid I missed Timothy Griffin, up in Tom's room once again, rehearsing the numbers that Beckett & I were performing with Dave in his concert. Then I guess we were finally ready, because we went down to the concert room.

( And there we found... )

Let the con run on:

( Here be dancing... )