Memnison Journal

…both courtesy of Lisa Ragsdale:

Meredith in my lap at Windycon, being vivacious - courtesy of Lisa Ragsdale:

Notice the lack of beard, of course.

The pancreatitis has died down enough to bring Dot home from the vet’s office / animal hospital, and while she’s still shaky, she’s obviously a whole heck of a lot better.  And there’s a ferocious vet bill, over a grand, and I really DON’T want or need that with Christmas coming up.
Susan’s knee is better, [...]

It was wonderful to see people at the con; the best part, to me, was wandering around and chatting with con friends I hadn’t seen in a while and catching up with them.   Long chats with Kerri Ellen Kelly, Christa (Linda Sugar’s sister), Deb Kosiba (who was minding her store, so to speak, and I [...]

Yes, I will be at Windycon over the weekend.  I’ll be not-very-mobile. I’ll probably locate a prime lurking post and hang there a lot.  Mere will be with me.
The docs took out the last of the foot stitches, and the wound has come open again, about an inch worth.  The docs and Susan are [...]

I mentioned that Mere came down with Strep Throat on Thursday night; Friday day, Susan was getting sicker and sicker.  Both got last-minute-end-of-the-day runs to the doctors, and are now heavily medicated.  Mere is starting to perk up, and is feeling much better as of last night, and wants to go to roller-skating practive this [...]

The Hogwarts duo
Originally uploaded by jrittenhouse

There’s a Flickr set on the Lego Tower building, a set on Mere and Caitlin at play, and another of Mere at the Windycon masquerade as Cho Chang.  Enjoy!

I’d planned to be out to the con early on on Friday, but I got a fast-blowing-in skin infection that seriously (1) was painful and (2) was knocking me for a loop in general, starting Thursday morning.
With me and my health, I know that the only thing to do on stuff like this is to [...]

Under the cut: long description of the con, and link to cute kid pictures.  You have been warned.

tip to and : More testosterone than you can stand.

My good pal wanted to interview me for his LJ; this is my reply to his questions. The first one refers to a earlier question about ‘If you were going to be a bird, which bird would you be’?
1> Why the Great Auk?
The Great Auk” is one of my oldest and favorite [...]