JophusCon and aftermath #Life

The weekend off was good, the roleplaying was good (Jon was playtesting part of this year's Novus Ordo Seclorum event for GenCon). I stayed up too late multiple times, which isn't unusual, but other people were at least partially responsible for me being up too late, which is unusual. I slept in a few times, which is very unusual (usually when I stay up until 3:00, I still wake up at 7 or 8). Stayed with Jon and Darcy, and their two tenured cats, plus two new as-yet-unnamed kittens. Also saw my parents, and went out to eat with everyone but the cats, twice — once to Emil's (Friday), and once to the Brown Bottle (Saturday) to celebrate Jon's birthday a little early. We also stopped by Prairie Lights while we were in Iowa City, before heading back to C.R. for the Donutland engagement.

On our way walking to and from Prairie Lights, we heard a band that was playing in the ped mall, and they actually sounded pretty good. Somewhere in the hair/alternative continuum. I didn't get close enough to see who they were, and a bit of spot research later (looking in the Gazette's Weekend section) didn't even mention that someone was playing. I should probably e-mail Mom about checking the Press-Citizen. Thought about calling radio stations; they'd probably be able to find out, but I wouldn't actually know which radio station to call these days.

(Hey, I gotta go on a spur-of-the-moment crusade every now and then. I think the last one was the purple earrings, back in 1995, and I had a cheerleading/chauffeur section on that one.)

Showed Jon the latest version of Monkey. We discussed the next version, which probably will need to be Web-based for ease of beta testing. I also got called upon to troubleshoot their printer (Darcy was actually the one who found the fix) and to help install a second hard drive and a CD burner in their computer (worked flawlessly on the first try — yay me!)

Got back in town around 5:30 last night, and did a little bit of catching up (finished my portion of my employee review, and wrote up some preliminary notes for presenting the project's Lessons Learned to the full team).

It was cool out this morning, so I did the mowing. Now I really need to get moving and get ready for work, and go in to see see how much things have stacked up. I was only gone a day, but this project moves fast some days...

"A body on vacation tends to remain on vacation unless acted upon by an outside force." — Carol Reichel