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Jul. 4th, 2005 09:50 amI spent yesterday offline, eating and sleeping (mostly sleeping) to deal with the lack of sleep from Saturday. And why should I not spend a day offline? friends?skip=140, that's why.
Saturday was a busy day. During the morning and early afternoon I was at Smap's, helping her clear up as she gets set to replace the kitchen floor. Scrounged a bunch of her unwanted books.
Saturday afternoon I come home to a lovely notice saying that my car registration is about to be suspended because I missed getting the emissions tested. That would be because I never got the notice to get them tested. Lovely scam there - skip the original notice, add a bunch of fees, and then threaten me... right before I can't do dick about it except sit there and add up MORE late fees for two days. *snarl* Fortunately for me, there's a testing site right by work - I'll take an early lunch, drive a couple exits up 50 and back to get the "20 minutes of highway driving" and get it done tomorrow. If I don't passI'll blow a gasket about the whole situation I can still get to Mr. Tire to get stuff done before the deadline that they bothered to tell me about passes.
Oh, no, not pissed at all.
Fortunately, the Team Wench Midsummer Fantasy Ball was a blast! And M and I sat at a table full of GCFCG people, so there was a whole batch of fresh blood coming to enjoy the show. (And enjoy I think they did.)
I know there's dancing, I know there's a story line, but for me the attraction is the raffles and I went there to SHOP! I might not have come home with what I most hoped for - the $500 gift certificate to Catskill Mountain Moccasins - but my tickets got me 10 pounds of fudge, an oriental Wolf Guardian print, a lovely set of boullaibaise (sp?) cups & saucers, and prize of prizes, the Pieland amethyst and silver pendant! So I can't complain one bit!
The book baskets didn't garner as many tickets as I'd hoped, but with so much on offer, even the big ticket items weren't pulling in bagsfull. Don't know who got the mystery or romance baskets; I did meet the people who got the sword & sorcery & fairytale baskets, and they were quite pleased. The one that got the most attention was the fairy tale basket and while the theme probably had something to do with it, it was also the most diverse - hardbacks and paperbacks of several genres (academics, romance, fantasy) mixed up and had the fewest non-book addins (some candy, a candle, a tape, a game.) I think the lesson here is to not burn a lot of calories with add-ons or in making up sub-themes (I had considered an all pet mystery basket, for example, or one that was all local crimes, for example). I'm going to continue with the baskets, but weight them heavily towards a mix of books on a theme and not spend a lot of money on garnishes.
...and at last look in my basement, I have a dozen baskets plus enough books for at least one more romance basket, one "summer at the beach" reading bag, and about 10 mystery baskets...
Saturday was a busy day. During the morning and early afternoon I was at Smap's, helping her clear up as she gets set to replace the kitchen floor. Scrounged a bunch of her unwanted books.
Saturday afternoon I come home to a lovely notice saying that my car registration is about to be suspended because I missed getting the emissions tested. That would be because I never got the notice to get them tested. Lovely scam there - skip the original notice, add a bunch of fees, and then threaten me... right before I can't do dick about it except sit there and add up MORE late fees for two days. *snarl* Fortunately for me, there's a testing site right by work - I'll take an early lunch, drive a couple exits up 50 and back to get the "20 minutes of highway driving" and get it done tomorrow. If I don't pass
Oh, no, not pissed at all.
Fortunately, the Team Wench Midsummer Fantasy Ball was a blast! And M and I sat at a table full of GCFCG people, so there was a whole batch of fresh blood coming to enjoy the show. (And enjoy I think they did.)
I know there's dancing, I know there's a story line, but for me the attraction is the raffles and I went there to SHOP! I might not have come home with what I most hoped for - the $500 gift certificate to Catskill Mountain Moccasins - but my tickets got me 10 pounds of fudge, an oriental Wolf Guardian print, a lovely set of boullaibaise (sp?) cups & saucers, and prize of prizes, the Pieland amethyst and silver pendant! So I can't complain one bit!
The book baskets didn't garner as many tickets as I'd hoped, but with so much on offer, even the big ticket items weren't pulling in bagsfull. Don't know who got the mystery or romance baskets; I did meet the people who got the sword & sorcery & fairytale baskets, and they were quite pleased. The one that got the most attention was the fairy tale basket and while the theme probably had something to do with it, it was also the most diverse - hardbacks and paperbacks of several genres (academics, romance, fantasy) mixed up and had the fewest non-book addins (some candy, a candle, a tape, a game.) I think the lesson here is to not burn a lot of calories with add-ons or in making up sub-themes (I had considered an all pet mystery basket, for example, or one that was all local crimes, for example). I'm going to continue with the baskets, but weight them heavily towards a mix of books on a theme and not spend a lot of money on garnishes.
...and at last look in my basement, I have a dozen baskets plus enough books for at least one more romance basket, one "summer at the beach" reading bag, and about 10 mystery baskets...
