busy busy busy, that's me of late.

This weekend was crazy, Friday night there was gaming. Saturday Toad and I left the house at 6:00 to drive to Coralville, IA. There we looked at the swank new hotel and covnention center. It was quite nice. Then we raced off to the AnimeIowa meeting in Cedar Rapids, where we had the last meeting before the con. It went great, and we found currents staffers who might be interested in Registration for 2007! Yay!

Sunday was change mangement, so I was at work at 7AM, then trap shooting with a whole bunch of folks, pair of 18s for those following along at home.

Then some shopping, then to Kerry and Jon's for dinner.

Dog Action Shot!

Here's Ed, on our exciting afternoon. I know everybody posts action shots of their pets, and the internet is just rife with them, but you know the action! the drama! this is SOOO exciting!

by popular demand here are pictures of the tinker gnome sling.

Last night I let the inner tinker gnome loose. We'd ordered DeNae a sling from armsling.com. It hasn't arrived. With Convergence this weekend she wanted something more comfortable, that gave better full arm support, than the cuff that hung straight down from her neck, but less warm and restrictive than the shoulder imobilizer. So I decided how tough could a sling be to make. I went online and looked at all the finest slings with their extra features and their doodads and stuff. The one thing I couldn't duplicate was the springy suspension system. I whipped one up out of some left over canvas in bright green, with some random webbing, in forest green, serger threaded in white, sewing machine in grey. It's ugly, there can be no doubt about that. But it seemed pretty comfortable. She's beta testing it today.

DeNae broke her arm last Sunday and it was change mangement, so no trap, and no blog update.


This week I left her home and went trap shooting. We took Deanna too. She shot the cursed 20ga. Not so cursed for her either she shot 16 both rounds. That's pretty darned amazing for her 2nd time shooting and her 3rd and 4th rounds ever.

I shot 21 and 19. We then hung out around the club and had a soda. I'm thinking I'm going to try and beat together a team for a fall league.