CONvergence Day 1

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Pretty much consisted of me finding parking, standing in the expedited registration line and going to a happy hour for attending professionals. Hanging about in line, I chatted with Catherine Schaff-Stumpf and her hubby, then with Hal from the Con Com and a few other folks. I then retired to the bar with Haddayr Copley-Woods to enjoy a perfectly adequate glass or two of cranberry juice. We met up with Jody Wurl and sundry other folks, then were joined by William Alexander, David Schwartz and a bunch of other folks. We covered movies and books, establishing that at least one of us disagreed with the others on almost everything. From there on, it was off and running on "authors behaving badly at cons," always a fun topic. Then Jody and I went walkabout in the Sofitel trying to find her panel room, which we eventually succeeded in doing with help from the hotel staff. I headed home to do more Mom-corraling and to hang out with my wife and kitties.

The morning was much livelier since that included me fixing the printer, finishing the initial round of paperwork for the house refinancing expanding my novel in progress outline to 8 whole pages and overhauling the first of the chapters for the proposal. Things are moving along swimmingly on that - I'm hoping to finish a draft of the proposal on Sunday. In the meantime, back to the con to do a marathon stint of programming today.