So my grandparents are all moved -- all eight billion boxes, too much furniture, crazy shed, and 5x15 storage room's worth of junk. A lot of it is nice stuff, a lot of it isn't, and there is, generally, far too much of it. That whole depression-era obsession with hoarding food....I'm just WAY over that. I mean, they *get* it now and they've been ( Read more... )

DONE TONIGHT ( Read more... )

YESTERDAY (And Also Weekend ( Read more... )

another late night trying to get stuff done. Dinner was a turkey sammidge (peppered turkey with mayo and spicy mustard and monterey jack cheese and tomato) and olives and chips. Several Ota-staffers invaded. Place looks like a bomb hit it but so what ( Read more... )

Travel requests for guests and interpreters -- sent for initial reservation; awaiting the confirmations and a few clarifications ( Read more... )

My buddy Kevin is a movie promoter, and he arranges special screenings for contests and stuff. For the past several years he's helped us with little contests for Otakon whenever he could. We've been trying to get something sorted for TRANSFORMERS. Had some tentative movement but between him working on three big movies and me being, well, swamped as ( Read more... )

New work machine fubared. Following troubleshooting recommendations simply made things worse and eventually I got the fun of "Windows is shutting you down. Bend over and take it like the bitch you are" messages ( Read more... )

Con meeting w/key folks -- sorted out some stuff (will meet with Panels head tomorrow evening to grind out a final panel schedule ( Read more... )

Evicted alien monster from sinus cavities, though it has left an unbelievable amount of slime in its wake. Have also reset my auto-purge, so the incoming nutrients are actually being productively disseminated instead of being dumped out the airlock or jettisoned through the waste hatch ( Read more... )

So I'm on this list to get notified when a particular website for a particular client has an error message. Apparently when they patched servers on Friday they forgot to turn something off, and my outlook has been busy all morning processing hundreds of error messages. Grrr ( Read more... )