Fun Week Incoming
My sister Nancy has arrived at my house. I haven’t seen her in a couple of years, ever since that German fellow she married hauled her off home to his country and kept her there. This time she brought him back with her, so I get to visit with Nancy, her husband, and their two kids. It has already been lots of fun. They brought with them a pile of Baby Einstein dvds. Since Gleek has spent their entire visit languishing on the couch with a fever, they pulled out the dvds to share. Gleek loves them. The other kids like them too. In fact only an hour ago Link requested to watch one, only he couldn’t remember quite what it was called, so he asked to watch “those baby idiot movies.” I think that the entire series has been permanently renamed for our family.
Life The Universe and Everything the Sci Fi/ Fantasy symposium at BYU is this week. Both Howard and Nancy are going to be on panels there. It runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I won’t be going at all on Thursday. I hope to be able to hit a few panels on Friday. I plan to go for the whole day on Saturday. Mostly I’m going for the people that I’ll get to talk to. I may also get to speak up in a couple of the panels that Howard is on. I thought about trying to get on panels this year, but nothing grabbed my eye and I wasn’t sure how easy it would be for me to break free of child care. This way I get to just go and kibitz on the panels of my friends and relatives.
The other thing that is really exciting this week, is that Howard and I get to go out to dinner with John Ringo. Yes, that John Ringo, the Baen author. Howard and John were at a convention together years ago and they really hit it off. John reads Schlock. We read John’s books. John even wrote the intro for the first Schlock book. This will be the first chance that I’ve had to meet him. I’m looking forward to it.
So this next week looks to be a good one as long as we can keep anyone else from catching the bug that has laid Gleek flat for two days.