This is a bit late, but who reads it anyway…
This past quarter continued the trend of this tumultuous year. While no more pets were lost, there was a lot of turmoil at work and with friends lives. It was a cold wet summer (although I can’t complain about the cold part, it was kind of nice from my perspective.) It was also a year of pests, we had a yellow jacket infestation that ate through our ceiling in the living room, and a mouse at through our pool cover, generating an extra $250 cost. A mouse, maybe the same one, continued its invasion of Vickey’s car, and the woodchucks continue their destruction around the pool and garage. A small plumbing fix resulted in $1000 in plumbing work.
We went to Gencon 2009 for the full experience, Vickey GM’d two events and lots of games were looked at and many purchased, and many writing seminars were gone to. We had been thinking we wouldn’t go next year (our ten year anniversary) however, we decided that we would.
Vickey embarked on a freelance writing career and finished up a book for Talisman Studios. She used the Gencon trip to do some networking, hoping for some work from that.
Vickey also went to England for one month on a Rotary Club GSE sponsored trip. It was an interesting shift being a bachelor for a month. Many friends ensured I stayed entertained though, and it was a busy time.
