sharing fannish enthusiasm

And somehow we're back to Monday. I had my obligatory macadamia butter cookie with my coffee and am now trying to wake up. Maybe if I go back for one of the white chocolate coconut it'll help with that goal?



(Again, that's from the Honolulu Cookie Company, and it is baller. Best flavors, amazing slightly moist shortbread.). I need to try maybe warming them up ad see how that is.

Today shall be a busy day at work. There shall be a lot of calls, and a lot of appts made. I'm trying to wake up enough to face it.

As usual, the time change is fucking with me. I went to bed at normal time, but I feel very sleepy and out of sorts today. It'll be fine. I'll drink my coffee and wake the fuck up.

Yesterday was a pretty good day. I got up and once it opened, I went to the pharmacy, and then came back and immediately took my bra off. So much more comfy.

At 11, I began cleaning off the table and assembling the implements for a crab feast. Closer to the time, the crabs went into the oven and warmed up (thankfully they're precooked). By the time the BIL got there, each place setting had two crab halves on it, with another tray in the oven.

The crabs, as usual, were amazing. I ate my two halves and was satiated, but the BIL and sister ate another half each. Then, we all were full.



Oh, in the morning, Yoda's new kibble came. He seems to really enjoy it. It's super expensive, but if he'll eat it, that's something. I was looking at his collar last night, and noticing that it's a bit loose from him not eating well while he wasn't feeling good and his sudden dislike of his old food. He barked ferociously at the delivery man, who must have lofted the box from the stairs, judging by the noise it made when it landed. Fortunately, the contents were pretty well packed, so nothing burst open.

Then we took the dog out for his second walk. Jess had taken him around 9:30, but by 1pm he was agitating for one. He did need to go, so good on him. I hadn't realized how bad he must have been feeling, because now he's perked up so much on is Cytopoint injection. I feel bad that I didn't notice.

The rest of the day was resting and watching videos of Hawaii and San Francisco. I think we've narrowed down our focus for theS San Fran part of the trip. I think we're going to go see Muir Woods for the redwoods, and then the Japanese tea garden. One day, we will possibly take a tuktuk ride around San Fran, and see the rest of the sights. That just seemed like a fun and easy way to see the city. Alcatraz is looking unlikely, though we'll see. I'll probably get tickets for it, just in case. poisontaster has warned me that those are not something you can get day of, so we''ll do that. We might have time after the tuktuk ride, possibly, but it depends on if we do Muir Woods and the Tea Garden on the same day. A lot of what I know of San Francisco is from Seanan McGuire's Toby Day series. So I'm looking forward to all of that. Maybe a little stop at Borderlands Book Store.

I don't need to cross the golden gate bridge, just admire it. Definitely want to ride a cable car, though.

I was also reading about the trip, and found a hilarious one about San Francisco's Chinatown. "This one's food is amazing and cheap, but the servers are notedly surly, and they're not the cleanest. They've had some clashes with the healht dept." That was the review for a lot of the places, so this should be fun. I do want to do dim sum in Chinatown, so we'll look for the cleanest we can find.

We're probably going to stay at Staypineapple Union Square It seems centrally located, and nice enough. It's got good ratings at least.

Sadly, most hotels, experiences, etc are not booking yet. It looks like I'll be booking in late April, early May for the rest of the stuff. Only the Hawaii hotel books over a year in advance.

I shall have it planned out fully by the end of May, and then we shall begin amassing PTO, for both that and for CONfab in October. I'm so looking forward to getting to settle into full planning mode.

I need to decide for Hawaii whether we want to do a day or half day tour, or if we want to rent a car and go driving. I'm a little nervous about driving in unfamiliar roads, but the tour limits the things you can do. I'd like to see the North Shore and also possibly Ko'Alina. Maybe Visit Aulani which is the Disney Resort and have lunch. Their restaurants look amazing.

Getting to pick what we do does sound more fun, but we'll see.

Other places in Waikiki that I know I want to visit: Steak Shack, a little place that does a box lunch steak platter on the beach. The portion looks enormous, more than enough to feed both Jess and I. Leonard's bakery for Malasada donuts. The Breadshop, another bakery. Kan Sushi for their all you can eat sushi and some non sushi items like LA Galbi ribs. Maybe Hy's Steakhouse or another nice restaurant. One of the Luaus, though I haven't decided which one.

It looks like we've got five campaigns that are going to be finishing up by the end of the year, depending on schedules. That's a lot. But we started a lot of games in 2021 and 2022, and it's time. With our schedule, a lot of them might last til the end of the year, we'll see. I was going to finish one, but the players aren't ready to let it go, so we're going to move it from Wednesday to Friday night after a bit of a break for me to get my feet wet in college.

That's not including the one that finished on Saturday. So a total of 6 in 2026. Yeesh. I probably will not start any new ones. It's hard enough to schedule what we have.

My sister is looking for new jobs. Her company is screwing them over, and closing sites, and she's afraid she'll be next. She's already lost a few people that she manages to site closure. And they just moved one of her major duties from them up to NY, thus why she was there last week. She's looking at hybrid or local jobs, as she's tired of dealing with the beltway at rush hour. I sent her a Hopkins job that's work on site for 90 days, then work from home. She might drive us crazy working from home, but it would be better for her, so we'll see.

Okay, time to get myself together and do another bit of orientation. Everyone have the very best Monday you can Monday!