Get Those Needles Ready
The Loscon Blood Drive is now two weeks away. And while the Red Cross is sharpening their needles, I have my own preparations to make. The flyer on the cover picture, for example. I also had to make the raffle …
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Getting Ready to Bleed Them Dry
With Loscon about a month away (Thanksgiving weekend), it’s time to start prepping for the Blood Drive. This weekend, I sent the sign-up information to the Loscon press info. I also signed up myself. I’ll be one of the first …
So Long and Thanks for all the Platelets
Aside from the Writer’s Conference last week, Kris and I attended a memorial for Charles (Karl) Lembke. I wrote about him a few weeks ago when I donated blood at the American Red Cross in Woodland Hills, California. Karl had …
Busy Weekend
It started Saturday morning at 6:00 am. I was on kitchen staff at church making breakfast burritos for the woman’s conference the way we make them at the men’s monthly breakfasts. Hey, women need burritos, too. Luckily, I’m ¼ Mexican, …
An Emotional Blood Letting
I’ve been nervous to give blood, light-headed a few times, but I had never gotten emotional until yesterday. First, the blood center in the West Hills moved. I went to the old location only to find the doors locked and …
The Birds and the Bugs
It was a quiet weekend. With the exception of a Zoom critique group meeting, I was pretty free, so we decided to do a little nature walking. We’ve been seeing dragonflies around, so on Saturday, we went to our favorite …
I’m Special – And Now I Have Scientific Proof
It’s been a while since I gave blood. Thanksgiving weekend to be precise. I was going to give in January, but then, well, Covid. I am O Negative, the universal donor. I am also CMV Negative. CMV is a bacterium …
Loscon Day Three
Day Three of Loscon was Sunday, the last day of the con. Kris and I started the day at 10:00 am with our panel, “I Got the Music in Me”. This was mostly Kris’ panel. It was about how music …
Loscon Day Two
Saturday at Loscon is always our busiest day – it’s Blood Drive Day! Unfortunately, because it’s such a busy day, I didn’t take a lot of pictures. The day started at about eight in the morning when we met the …
Next week is Loscon!
Still doing con prep, especially prep for the blood drive. That includes flyers, buttons, raffle tickets and a raffle ticket box. Kris is also getting her costume ready for the reading from her novel series, “The Dragonfly Chronicles”. And there …