There and Back Again
May. 29th, 2007 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsThere and Back Again:
Left at 7:44a.m.; got home at a little after 8p.m. Had a wonderful time at the convention, and got to meet not only friends I don't see often enough and someone I was specifically introduced to (Hi, M!) but a few other people who've been reading my LJ/whose LJs I've been reading. I'd greet them by screenname, but my brains fell out somewhere on 70 East. (If found, please return. Reward.)
Budget Brag:
Due to a combination of selling a bunch of stuff, not bidding on any art, and not stopping at a hotel on the way home, I not only stayed in budget, I came home with a respectable surplus... some of which is going to go into buying a new dehumidifier tonight, as that mildew smell that I can never pick up at home was pretty damn powerful when I opened up my bags at the con!
But this is something that I'm proud enough about that I want to emphasize it - I made it through an entire con, a long con a long way from home full of glorious temptations, without touching a credit card ONCE or writing a check! Whoo hoo!
Belated Sunday 7:
In addition to the briefcases and books (I now have cleared out my entire Bookcrossing stock) that I took to dump, I sold all the excess Who audios I have. Zine-wise, I sold two, traded four in at the White Hart for Doctor Who stuff, and put the last bits - an intact but water-damaged Beauty and the Beast zine and a BatB tote bag - out in the atrium with a "Free to a good home" sign. They were gone in minutes. So I didn't come back with a single thing that I had taken to get rid of. Go me!
Also, I don't think I ever mentioned that the Monday before the con I gave away all my skeins of acrylic yarn to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stratfordbabe, who has just started to learn to knit and likes acrylic. There were about a dozen of them. That counts too!
Misc:
My review for The Deception of the Emerald Ring is up on Reviewing the Evidence.
And now, to try to struggle through a day at work despite yesterday's drive *and* getting up at 2:30 to change the battery in a chirping smoke detector. I haven't even looked at email or LJ in 24 hours, so things are going to be scary (and probably incompletely checked). If there's anything I really ought to know, please put in comments.
Left at 7:44a.m.; got home at a little after 8p.m. Had a wonderful time at the convention, and got to meet not only friends I don't see often enough and someone I was specifically introduced to (Hi, M!) but a few other people who've been reading my LJ/whose LJs I've been reading. I'd greet them by screenname, but my brains fell out somewhere on 70 East. (If found, please return. Reward.)
Budget Brag:
Due to a combination of selling a bunch of stuff, not bidding on any art, and not stopping at a hotel on the way home, I not only stayed in budget, I came home with a respectable surplus... some of which is going to go into buying a new dehumidifier tonight, as that mildew smell that I can never pick up at home was pretty damn powerful when I opened up my bags at the con!
But this is something that I'm proud enough about that I want to emphasize it - I made it through an entire con, a long con a long way from home full of glorious temptations, without touching a credit card ONCE or writing a check! Whoo hoo!
Belated Sunday 7:
In addition to the briefcases and books (I now have cleared out my entire Bookcrossing stock) that I took to dump, I sold all the excess Who audios I have. Zine-wise, I sold two, traded four in at the White Hart for Doctor Who stuff, and put the last bits - an intact but water-damaged Beauty and the Beast zine and a BatB tote bag - out in the atrium with a "Free to a good home" sign. They were gone in minutes. So I didn't come back with a single thing that I had taken to get rid of. Go me!
Also, I don't think I ever mentioned that the Monday before the con I gave away all my skeins of acrylic yarn to
stratfordbabe, who has just started to learn to knit and likes acrylic. There were about a dozen of them. That counts too!Misc:
My review for The Deception of the Emerald Ring is up on Reviewing the Evidence.
And now, to try to struggle through a day at work despite yesterday's drive *and* getting up at 2:30 to change the battery in a chirping smoke detector. I haven't even looked at email or LJ in 24 hours, so things are going to be scary (and probably incompletely checked). If there's anything I really ought to know, please put in comments.
