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- Last weekend was con.txt, which I was excited about, but I ended up missing most of it because of a combination of factors including scheduling errors on my part (i.e. a failure to correctly remember times and time zone conversions) and computer problems. Fortunately I did get to see parts of both the hanahaki disease panel and werewolf torts vol. iv. I still plan to read all the chat transcripts eventually. (Also, someone talk me out of offering a "tax systems in SFF" panel next year because I'm not really qualified yet.)

- I tried to go running more than once a week and my knees complained, and now that my knees are good again my left big toe is swollen and hurts, which is very annoying and means I still can't go running. The orthopedist wasn't sure what it was either but told me to wear different shoes and I have a check-up in a week and a half, we'll see. (He also saw my wrist brace, was not impressed by me telling him that it's a chronic problem, touched my shoulders for about two seconds and asked me "is it always like this or just because of stress?" and didn't like my answer "probably both.") Maybe I can go for a swim this weekend though.

- On Saturday DD and I ended up watching the Italy-Austria soccer match on a whim, and were very surprised how much we enjoyed it. I don't plan on watching more games rn - maybe the final? But it was fun and exciting. Austria did surprisingly well! We even got to celebrate being in the lead for about a minute before the goal was called offside. I never watched soccer much but having learned how to watch hockey is a huge help. In soccer everyone moves slower and the ball is more easily visible than a puck.

- It's so hot! Fortunately it's supposed to be slightly cooler starting tomorrow but still. Making it worse is that there's work deadlines so I'm doing more extra hours, and we still don't have an air conditioner in our room. Today at least we had ice cream in the afternoon, and when I came home DD had made nectarine frozen yoghurt. Another silver lining is that I bought a bunch of summer clothes recently (where "recently" = in the heat summer of 2019, which totally counts as recent when it comes to buying clothes right?, plus one summer dress last week) and at least I look cute.

Saturday was con.txt, and it was a lot of fun. I only found out about it last minute (well I'd heard about it before but somehow never made the actual connection that this was an event I could participate in, not until DD told me about it.)

I actually only caught very little of it. I wanted to watch the "Financial Crimes for Fun and Profit" panel (by caorann and celli), but my connection was bad so it kept freezing and throwing me out every few moments. I thought about switching to the other room where DD was watching "Canon, Fanon, Fever Dream" (by corbae and marina) because I kept hearing her laugh, but didn't in the end; though I was happy to hear that apparently multiple people guessed wrong about my TMA submission "A giant crab lives beneath the Archives." (Why no cloning *sighs*)

Then for the second panel I persuaded DD to watch it with me, so I got to see the entire thing without interruptions: "Werewolf Torts and Undead Annuities III", by alpheratz and v. greyson. It was great :D
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Apparently this is a regular panel, which makes sense because it is brilliant. (I found notes by bironic for the 2014 panel here.)

Then I left to play D&D, and I came back in time to try and watch the "I, Murderbot" panel (by everyfragment, la_dissonance & v. greyson) but again the connection was bad and I missed more than half of it. Uugh I really need to figure out my internet problems.

So now the plan is to read through all the Discord chats, all the recs etc. - I'll have plenty of time if I keep procrastinating like this ^^