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Going to RAW

It’s been an odd sort of day. I woke up to find that not only had the neighbor’s son been made captain of the high school football team and his team had TP’d their house, but that Albacon had been cancelled. Luckily, I’d already decided to attend Lora Leigh’s Reader Appreciation Weekend this October, which is the weekend after Albacon would have been.

It’s being held at a spa. I didn’t know that when I’d decided earlier this year NOT to go. I thought it was still being held in Kentucky or West Virginia – which was great, but a little too long a trip for me, coming from Long Island. I realized (very belatedly) last week that the spa is in Maryland. That’s like a hop, skip and a jump from me.

And okay, the spa is also a golf resort, so I think my Dad will enjoy it too. I can’t really leave him home alone. Not that he needs supervision or anything, but it would just be really mean to leave the poor guy all alone when he can come people-watch with me. He likes that sort of thing, being a rather quiet guy. (He’s a retired scientist who worked on the space program, among other things.) He likes being around young people and having a place to go where he can interact with new people. And everyone seems to think he’s really cute. So yes, he’s coming with me.

I was going to take a pic of the TP on the neighbor’s house, but it rained today and the toilet paper disintegrated all over the roof, the trees, in the bushes and on the front lawn. Eew!