kiya

 I had some hope early last year of attending LA Con (aka this year's WorldCon) virtually, but things happened and I did not get my act together. Simiarly, I tend to still like to watch the Hugo Awards, but in my defense I was working Saturday. With the time difference I don't know if I could have caught them live or not, but, either way, I did not manage that either.

Congratulations to the winners. 

I also this year failed to do my reading, and that is something I can rectify. Although now that these pieces have won, some of them will have very long wait lists at the library. Still, there's no statute of limitations on reading award winners. 

I don't have a lot of other earth-shattering news to share. Despite working this weekend, I ran a D&D session on Saturday morning. It went pretty well. My players are not always fond of fighting, but I was prepared for that and so I made sure that they could communicate with the creatures that would have otherwise been "bad guys." A new NPC showed up who very clearly has "Side Quest" and/or "New Campaign" on a sign around her very fluffy shoulders (she is a smol tabaxi.) She has also introduced a few more plot strings in need of tying up, but my players seem to have taken the (incredibly adorable) bait so all is well.

On my way to work on Sunday, there were no egrets, but I did spot a trumpeter swan (possibly two, but I go by at speeds and do need to watch the road as well.) 

Do I have other news? My computer has basically stopped functioning so it's going to be time to look for another one. If you all have ideas of a place to get cheap, reliable laptops, please let me know. The only thing I am fussy about is keyboards--though now that I have a full-size keyboard that I can plug in, less so. The only thing I use my laptop for is surfing the internet and writing novels. I do most of my file storage on the Cloud, but I'd still rather not have a something quite as flimsy as a Chrome book, unless there is nothing else reasonably priced. 

Yeah, so that's me. You?