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elfsSaturday, after rising and feeding the kids cereal, we headed out for Foolscap, an annual convention of literate science fiction. The convention is meant to be small-- less than three hundred people-- and generally convivial. When we arrived, the writers track had just opened up and was proceeding apace, so I ran into the "Plotting" panel and came away with a number of good ideas. I also attended "Brainstorming" and "Vibrant Writing" (where we did a practice exercise that involved not knowing vocabulary, kinda interesting). In between, we tried to keep the girls occupied with board games, but they were much more interested in watching the sculptor doing a large-scale dragon's head in the corner-- a rather frightening and Hollywood kind of head, rather than the more traditional and Tolkeinesque head done last year. FallenPegasus showed up and attended part of the art track. I spent some much money in the dealer's room. ALl in all, it was a quiet and fruitful day.
Omaha revealed to me that she keeps forgetting where Kouryou-chan is in her skillset. One of Kouryou-chan's friends was there, and we got them involved in a game of Candyland. The friend is a few months older than Kouryou-chan, has brilliant and involved parents, yet while Kouryou-chan is already doing basic arithmetic like addition and subtraction, her friend has trouble with basic ideas like counting up to five.
Sunday, I drove Omaha over into one of the political thingys she'd been roped into over the passing days, then I took the girls out to the used bookstore to turn in two shopping bags full of books that I was probably never going to read nor refer to-- mostly geek, but some non-fiction and one book of travel writing. It took them forever to tally up the return-- about ten bucks-- and then I let the girls go and pick books of their own. I despair. Yamaarashi-chan found the one she wanted relatively quickly, something from Disney, but Kouryou-chan took forever, came close to damaging a book she didn't want, and when she did pick it was a scratch-and-sniff easy reader that's a year simpler than she's capable.
I went home and resumed the chores: laundry, lunch, and some geek work for Omaha. By the time she had gotten home, I had only just begun on the logs she'd requested for analysis. The girls were watching more Uninhabited Planet. Despite the beautiful afternoon, they spent their day indoors, playing with an amazing array of little plastic figurines.
The week is gonna be busy. I have to remember to take Friday off, because I need the time to go to Conifur or I'm gonna miss the entire convention. Thursday I'm going out, and Saturday I'm going hiking for the day. Whew.
Omaha revealed to me that she keeps forgetting where Kouryou-chan is in her skillset. One of Kouryou-chan's friends was there, and we got them involved in a game of Candyland. The friend is a few months older than Kouryou-chan, has brilliant and involved parents, yet while Kouryou-chan is already doing basic arithmetic like addition and subtraction, her friend has trouble with basic ideas like counting up to five.
Sunday, I drove Omaha over into one of the political thingys she'd been roped into over the passing days, then I took the girls out to the used bookstore to turn in two shopping bags full of books that I was probably never going to read nor refer to-- mostly geek, but some non-fiction and one book of travel writing. It took them forever to tally up the return-- about ten bucks-- and then I let the girls go and pick books of their own. I despair. Yamaarashi-chan found the one she wanted relatively quickly, something from Disney, but Kouryou-chan took forever, came close to damaging a book she didn't want, and when she did pick it was a scratch-and-sniff easy reader that's a year simpler than she's capable.
I went home and resumed the chores: laundry, lunch, and some geek work for Omaha. By the time she had gotten home, I had only just begun on the logs she'd requested for analysis. The girls were watching more Uninhabited Planet. Despite the beautiful afternoon, they spent their day indoors, playing with an amazing array of little plastic figurines.
The week is gonna be busy. I have to remember to take Friday off, because I need the time to go to Conifur or I'm gonna miss the entire convention. Thursday I'm going out, and Saturday I'm going hiking for the day. Whew.
