Friday, 24 April 2009. After my usual for nights sleep. I got up ready to face the world. It was a beautiful sunny day in Richmond. While it was still cool in the morning, the temp was going up to about 75°. I can live with that.
I’m hoping the continual application of hand or body lotion to the bottom of my left foot will ease the dryness and cracking. It is a literal pain in the foot. My shoulders are okay, so I still have some pain in the right shoulder. Now to try and see if I can connect up with the Internet.
This Crown Plaza is somewhat civilized. Internet connection is free and seems to work. As I had some time to kill until I could actually go and have breakfast I worked on my e-mail and did my shoulder exercises.
While the birth the list was fairly good I was disappointed in the fact that they had no half-and-half to go with coffee which I then skipped. Thank goodness for caffeine pills.
The first part of the day was pretty lazy. I got some stuff out of the car sorted out what I wanted to do got registered at the convention and chatted with the attendees who had already shown up.
One person I was happy to meet was Amy Sturgis, who I have heard of in relation to Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings. We had a nice talk about the books and some of the history and I hope to sit down and chat with her later during the convention.
I was on three panels and attended a couple others. After my last panel I hit some of the parties and finally called it a night near midnight which after all was fairly early but I was tired.
