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A few months ago I was at the coffee shop to finish a rapidly approaching overdue story for a fic exchange and noticed a poster for an upcoming ZineFest in town! A bigger city's comic group wanted to trial balloon something in our much smaller city to see if it could work. It had no url on it! At all! But I photographed the name and used the internet and found their instagram and their email and contacted their email because I had no instagram and got the url to their just made website which changed a week later! Anyway after much trial and error including 2 days of their sign up form not working until I discovered it would on the third browser I tried, I signed up for it!

And then waited a month or so for a response.

I got in!

I made all my zines, made stickers, packed up my Ceramic Objects, made a sign and day of we got there in plenty of time, had no problems at set up (minus needing to borrow some tape from the front desk of the art gallery where it was being held) and it went great!

I actually sold stuff! People wanted to buy my writing and my art! I made back the cost of everything! And I talked to so many people and the only bad part is I am one of those people who has to deliberately make facial expressions and it had been so long since I worked in retail I had forgotten the facial movements for a customer service smile and my brain was relaying to me that the muscle movements I felt weren't 'friendly smile' they were 'death rictus'.

But everyone was very nice, no horror stories at all! And it feels so amazing people wanted creative stuff I'd done, you have no idea!

In other news, the latest 'episode' of the Star Trek game I run finished. It was a Beach Episode with lots of Section 31 bullshittery where the players rolled as horribly as possible at every juncture. It was kind of beautiful. However, they got in some AMAZING character moments they hadn't before I would call the whole thing a massive success. The person I'm running these games for primarily and I are now planning the next episode with some very interesting stuff I have to keep under my hat for now.

The Cthulhu/Catthulhu game is going well. I'm managing good player participation, the modifications of the game are going well, and I decided to do a pretty bold move this session that really deviated from the module but got a clue across to the cats that I could not have had them discover otherwise. They also really liked my latest npcs - Pasta and Devil the hippy and military dogs, and Lucille the mangled but healthy and wellspoken cat who keeps/protects the murderous npc Bogdan.

Previous NPC successes were Wiggle and Squeak, the guinea pigs who thought that now their owner was dead, they were going to inherit the house. They had renovation plans. And Fraulein Hoffman, who to her and everyone else's surprise is not a cat but an opossum and possibly having an affair with Burgocat Hans.

I've been having trouble making Pathfinder comics lately, or even HamsterBandit Industries comics lately. I have a lot of pencils and scripts but actually committing to finishing has been tough. I'll wait for a 3 am manic period I guess.

I can't start making my big planned fry up breakfast for another hour (long story, not needed here) and I'm just staring at the clock while visions of tiny potatoes, fancy cheese, and eggs dance through my head.

I also keep thinking 'maybe I should go eat some ravioli' before realizing that would ruin that entire fry up's ability to be eaten. ALAS.

My mom's off participating in a dragon boat race in another province and we only just realized she was in such a hurry she forgot to leave us the streaming link so we could watch her race! I'm going to just sit here and hope she wins or places.

She isn't hugely competitive (neither am I) which came in really useful the other day when we went to a jigsaw puzzle contest as a team of two and all (but another parent/kid team) of the other teams were four people who led to us finding out there's speed puzzle clubs in town.

We placed dead last but we had a good time, beer, and nachos. I'm not a big puzzle person but I don't dislike them and I found it really soothing. Lot of convo about her (passed away) parents who loved puzzles so that was warm and fuzzy.

So my maternal grandparents loved puzzles. And I wanted to give them a gift to their interests! So I asked them what their favourite ones to put together were. And they said 'boats, water, lots of pieces'

Brilliant, I thought. My favourite art piece of the moment includes all those elements and so I got them a 1000 piece puzzle of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa

My grandpa, upon opening it Christmas morning, looked up at me and said in the saddest voice: "I thought you loved us"

One of my favourite gift mistake stories, anyway! They appreciated me trying my best.

Man, I miss when they were both alive and well and they'd be staying over for a week and I'd make sure to get up at 6 am so I could sit at the kitchen table, drink coffee and watch their solitaire strategies. Grandma always had some insane anecdote and Grandpa was always very chill and serene.