"Lap" Top

Balancing my laptop, a large cat and a cup of coffee in my easy chair every morning has been difficult, only tok about a year to figure it out; laptop on my right thigh, cat on my left thigh, coffee cup tucked in to the cushion on the right-hand side.

Now there is a Dog, same size and weight as the cat, who also wants in on this morning snuggle-time action. Since we have not yet had time to discuss just where she fits, she has found her own nook right between my chest and the keyboard, nose burrowed in to the crook of my arm.

It is very hot under all these animals and electronics.

Pulled Pork (OW!)

Gee, Mister Punkin-Piggy... why are you in so much pain?


( Learn the source of Mister Punkin-Piggy's discomfort behind the cut )

I made this for my Wife's potluck at work, it seems to be quite a hit :) I made a BBQ pulled pork and put it in a ziploc bag, shoved it through the top of his head and out his butt, cut the corner off the bag and *squeezed* making for a very dramatic moment where Mister Punkin-Piggy was pooping his innards all over the dish in a very constipated manner. I then included the bug fork and encouraged folks to "Pull your own pork" right out of Mister Punkin-Piggy's butt.

Would have also worked really well with spaghetti, meatballs and/or "Lil' Smokies" sausages in BBQ sauce :)

Bellingham Comic Con

It has taken me almost a solid WEEK to finally get kind of sort of not really ready to jump back in to my regular routine. There's just something about selling stuff at a comic book convention that... well, it just makes me feel so *ALIVE*!

Everybody other seller at the convention stayed very conformist, leaving their table where it had been set up for them and sitting in their chairs behind said table waiting for customers to come to them. But not us, oh no!

We pushed our table up against the wall and built our shelving out from there, creating a kind of "Pit" that customers were drawn in to by several of my "Weenie" items. Somebody goes "Holy crap is that a Saved By The Bell board game?" and is drawn in, at which time he then discovers all the smaller items I had for sale. It worked like a charm, and we cleared out about half the stuff we had taken with us :)

We were perpetually busy, selling non-stop all day long from 10am till 5pm; I didn't get to go see the guests, I didn't get to go see the costume contest, and all the purchases I made were either during my one trip to the bathroom or after the convention was over!

I spent exactly $30. For that I got a sealed box of Star Trek CCG cards, a stack of about 30 back-issues of National Lampoon magazine from the 70's, another stack of about 30 political magazines from the early 1940's, and of course a nice-size stack of 10-for-a-dollar comics (so happy to see the return of the Dime-Bins)!

It was an absolutely incredible show, and I can hardly wait to do it again next year (I should have enough stuff to refill my space by then)