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Labor Day

posted by [personal profile] cathyr19355 at 09:18pm on 03/09/2007 under , , ,
[livejournal.com profile] esrblog and I just got back from a weekend at TCEP 14, a gaming relaxacon sponsored by some of our fannish friends. It was a great time--especially since they had a con suite with fresh-baked bread machine bread every three or four hours or so. (Ummmm, the chocolate bread. And the apple oatmeal.) We played lots of Puerto Rico, and Power Grid, and other favorites, and I actually won some of them.

In other news, I've been feeding an orange tabby cat that has been hanging around near our front door, in the hopes of encouraging him to get close enough that I can pet him, and perhaps take him to a vet with a view toward adopting him. We even named him Fireball. Right before we left for TCEP, however, we learned from our neighbors that Fireball isn't a he. She's a she, and she recently had kittens in a hole near the wall of our house. (I'd seen the hole, but I didn't realize that it was a cat that had made it.) They haven't seen anything of the kittens since shortly after the birth--bad news for them, probably. :-(

So Fireball was just using me to get enough food for her litter; she's not really interested in us after all. I feel a bit betrayed, illogical though that sounds.
Mood:: 'mixed' mixed
location: home
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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 07:11am on 04/09/2007
I was interested in going, but didn't quite find the right search terms. Oh, well.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 01:06am on 05/09/2007
You should have asked me. :-) Though it may be just as well you didn't find the information in time. It was much smaller than usual--only about 58 people instead of the usual 70-80--and the hotel rate was high ($94 per night--and that was the con rate).
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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 03:16am on 06/09/2007
I wouldn't have been selling. To my mind, there's no point in missing most of a convention in exchange for maybe covering my expenses. I would have gone for the fun of it, and done it as cheaply as possible.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 03:22am on 06/09/2007
I didn't anticipate that you would have been selling; that was part of my point. Even if you crashed with someone, the hotel costs were still substantial, and the hotel restaurant was an Outback Steakhouse. There's cheap food available, but it all requires a short drive; almost none is within even liberally interpreted walking distance.
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posted by [identity profile] stickmaker.livejournal.com at 02:33pm on 04/09/2007


Heh. You may wind up providing more than food, if some of the kittens survived. The momma may decide you're trustworthy and leave one or more there.
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posted by [identity profile] cathyr19355.livejournal.com at 01:09am on 05/09/2007
That would not be a bad thing, necessarily; [livejournal.com profile] esrblog and I have already decided that, if we attempt to impose a new cat on Sugar again, we will probably go for as young a cat as reasonably possible. A kitten might fill the bill nicely.

I filled the feeder when we came home, and when I got up this morning, the feeder and water dish were both knocked over and empty. Which makes me suspect that at this point I may be feeding the whole family. If only they'd let me see all of them!
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