Howard calls me from conventions when he is on his way to his hotel room. At those moments he is in transition from convention day to convention evening. The conversations tend to be short because the transitions don’t last long. But we touch base a little and I get an idea of how the day went, how much we sold, and what things will need follow-up after the convention was over. The conversations are not as good as me being there to participate, but until the kids are old enough to either come along or take care of themselves I will not be able to attend every convention that Howard does. GenCon is being a really good convention. We have not sold as much as our wildest hopes imagined, but neither have we realized our worst fears. The reality is comfortably in the middle and now we have solid data for how much product to ship next time. But the sales are not what is making GenCon good. Howard has had several valuable business meetings. He has met cool new people. He has been able to hang out with long-time friends. Having good people around makes all the difference in the world. Howard is already spinning plans about going back to GenCon next year. It sounds like fun, we’ll have to look at it critically to see if it makes business sense.
On the home front, I found out who my three elementary kids have as teachers. They all got the teachers I wanted them to have. This bodes well. Link in particular is thrilled. He got the cool teacher he had been hoping for. We’re all starting to wrap our heads around school beginning next week. Everyone seems to be anticipating rather than dreading, so that is good too.