There's No Place Like Home

Coffee in the Atlanta skyline mug, the sound of the dryer tumbling my pants for music. As soon as I have dry jeans, I can go work at the studio. Until then, I'm in jammies and on the laptop. It's not a bad life.

In fewer than 48 hours I will be getting ready to land in Philadelphia for the Buyer's Market. I am filled with equal measures of hope and trepidation. Today I ship my new work, the Walker system, Todd's work, post cards and any other odds and sods I can think of for the show to my hotel in Philly. The drayage charges from Hargrove exhibition services are just too high to have them shipped to the show (and I'm probably too late, in any case). I'll still carry some glass on the plane, but it will all be smaller pieces. Tomorrow Bill and Elaine (Black Cat ArtWorks) are going to drop some metal pieces off in the studio on their way to the Atlanta airport where they fly out for Philly. If they can get here with enough time to spare, Dave will cook us all a big breakfast. I wonder when Dee is flying out tomorrow and if she wants to come for breakfast too...

Other big news of the weekend--BECon is on for me again! Dave was very upset that I had canceled the trip, and after a weekend of fidgeting the finances--business and personal--I found a way to squeeze it in. Dave's right--the professional development I will get out of the conference and the post-conference workshop will more than offset the up-front cost, and I really can't compare the expense for BECon with the expense of doing the Atlanta and Dallas shows. They're truly apples and oranges.

Final news of the day/weekend, I got an email from someone I know because of my book, and he was wondering when I was going to write another one. I said after the first one, "Never again!", but now I'm not so sure. I can think of three books that would be fun to do and topical too. I'm going to ponder a bit more--and I'll see how the summer camp on masks goes. It could provide a book all by itself.

Time to be off to feed the gizzard, uh, see the wizard, and prepare for the BMAC. Till tomorrow...