Kevin's Watch

Great pics! Looks like you had a great time.

Syl, you'll have to summon a ranyhyn in order to make it on time for the next brunch.... and avoid the simple local stonedowners

Caer Sylvanus wrote:Every time I make that trip, I swear I'm going to find a way that avoids 64 and 95 (the tunnels I can't do anything about, tho 664 is usually the safer bet).

Alternate routes, hmm, let's see...Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel? Or I guess you could take US 60 to US 1, if you've got about a week -- you'd miss the interstate traffic, but all the stoplights would make you completely crazy....

I got my Elohimbrunch consolation package today. All I can say (and what we all already know) is Romeo is the man.

Isn't he just? Romeo --

(blushes at the previous posts)

GREAT time at WFC this year! No real pictures that anyone would be interested in, and no real new news. Steve was pretty tired from the book tour, but recovered quickly when his daughter joined him. He's looking forward to getting back to writing - as I'm sure we all are!

One of the highlights for me was the three hour lunch with Caam. I sure wish you could have spent more time at the con!

It was great seeing Mark again as well. He read from his (fantastic!) new book for the writers group at our Saturday night party (which we all finally staggered out of at 2am), and it sounds like he made a lot of great contacts to help launch it even further. It's strange being around someone who is so business savy - that's one part of things that I just can't do. (so I overcompensate by over-doing everything else - heh heh)

I got all the books signed that I took along, and signed bookplates for Jay and Dustin. The only downside is that Steve really doesn't like to do quotes or passages as part of the autograph - so they all just contain the first name of the person they're signed for, and then his signature and date. Sandy - I just dropped yours in the mail today and you should have it in two days (sorry for the delay - I thought I could get it in much sooner, but I didn't get it signed until Sunday - tomes of stories behind THAT three-day delay!).

So - when's a good weekend for "Elohimbrunch 2 - The Search for More Bacon?" Any of the next three weekends should work for me, but the one after that is Thanksgiving weekend (which will probably be hard for everyone). My son has a fencing class near the Springfield Mall on Saturday mornings from 10 - 11am, so if noone else has any time constraints, maybe we could do 1130ish or so on a Saturday morning? Syl - you probably have the harder schedule to cater to. Let us know when you can fit brunch into the watch rotation.

Or lunch or dinner - whatever works for everyone.

It looks like all my weekends are free in November, with the exception of the last Sunday. Thanks for the plate, Romeo. For my part, I don't mind at all that there's nothing fancy (and you gotta hate it when you find somebody else with the same autographed item as yours and it says the same thing).

Before the Thanksgiving weekend I should be able to do just about anytime except Sat 6th and Sun 7th dinners (evening). 11:30am would work great. Any place.


And thanks Romeo - YOU DA MAN!!

Agreed!

6th is bad; 20th is bad. Can we do it the 13th? 11:30am? Same place?

13th at 11:30am works for me! [It is my son's 19th birthday - but I think stuff will be later (he probably won't be awake then!!)]

Creator wrote:13th at 11:30am works for me! [It is my son's 19th birthday - but I think stuff will be later (he probably won't be awake then!!)]

He's 19! Of course he won't be awake!

Sounds good for now. I haven't heard from Jay yet - we should wait for him to make it solid.

Actually, I'd like to make Saturday the 13th at 11:30 firm if we can. Haven't heard back from Jay yet, but he's not far from me so I can run his bookplate over whenever he gets the time (if he can't make it to the brunch).

So what say ye? Have we a date?

Romeo wrote:Actually, I'd like to make Saturday the 13th at 11:30 firm if we can. Haven't heard back from Jay yet, but he's not far from me so I can run his bookplate over whenever he gets the time (if he can't make it to the brunch).

So what say ye? Have we a date?

I'm confirmed!!

Me too!

I have to work Saturday.

Should we do it Sunday then?

Sunday the 14th at 11:30am is ok by me.

You guys don't have to rearrange the schedule around me. I'll have to check to see if I could make it on Sunday, anyway (working a lot of hours these days and the wife might need me at home... i'll see).

Yeah, I'm busy this weekend, heh. You guys go on without me.-jay

I think either Saturday or Sunday is good for me.