according to my horoscope, my best idea of the day will occur at 3 pm

We have returned from NJ, gotten the internet to work again, and I am shirking work to stay home & pretend to deal with stuff. Ha.

Hotel reservations have been made for Dollectable; I was in the middle of trying to sort out the train schedules when the internet went out last night. I have made some progress on some of the other things I wanted to get done. At some point, a nap will also be in order.

Prizewinning junk mail insert for the weekend was a pair of size 4 boy's briefs (which you were supposed to send back with a donation for underclothed children in some third world country) and I personally collected $1.82 cents in change, and a large number of pre-stamped envelopes. Including several for things like the "Ms Clinton is an Agent of Satan" campaign (actually, there might have been three of these) and other causes which it made me rather happy to know had been spending their money unwisely. All of this circa 2004-5, you understand.

Ok, it's officially going to happen...

I have Amtrak tickets. A second set, actually, as I didn't clue into the bit about the westbound trip taking 4 calendar days due to starting out in the afternoon, and wasn't originally scheduled to get there until after I was supposed to do some of my conference volunteering. Fortunately, Amtrak isn't into the non-refundable thing.

( Amtrak train schedule to CA, if you're one of the people who wants to know this: )

....So the next thing to do is send out e-mails to the people I want to see while I'm there and sort out a schedule of who I get to see and stay with when. I also suspect I won't have a car, so I will be somewhat at the mercy of transit schedules.

(and no, I definitely will not be at Pennsic this year. Which is sad, but one can only do so much...)