Author: Elaine

Rion at Day Camp

Meanwhile, back in Colorado, Rion had a good day:

Rion Normandy-Heneghan spent the day at Old Ranch Stables.  There was a open play session, a roll in the sand event,  freestyle tug toy pull,  an observation class on cat behavior, cookie time (a real favorite), and naptime (when the counselor left to get her hair cut).  He and his cousin got kicked out of the photo session; whenever the camera came out they would not even begin to do anything interesting (other than jump on the photographer).  As a result no photos of the event are available.  I will say Rion looked pretty much the same when he left as when he arrived, except dirtier and quieter.  A very nice day.  The counselor had to stay home most of the day to wait for the guy to come clean the portapotty, while the Nanny left to help paint trim on her dad’s house.

Oooppps!

Jack went over to pick up our registration packets yesterday and found that I wasn’t pre-registered.  Usually we register two years in advance, converting after site selection, but we didn’t go to Japan two years ago.  (At the door is considerably more expensive than pre-registering.)  I don’t vote for the Hugos, so I didn’t notice my lapse then.  Jack posted a query to the Anticipation LiveJournal community asking if anyone had a membership for sale.   Within two hours, a person offered to give me one, declining payment, and sent the necessary information to transfer the membership to me.   We downloaded the letter to a USB drive and took it to registration this morning.  Since I was already in the database due to other Worldcons, it took about two minutes to do the transfer.