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Well, another NorWesCon's come and gone. #31 has been put to bed, at least for me. I'm sure the concom is still digging out from the four day mini-marathon of sleep deprivation, set-up, take down and hearing things like 'Okay, has anyone seen where I put that last bundle of cable ties? Some Neanderthal want's me to peace bond his club.'

That sort of thing.

Just another day at the con. And other then a couple of people who seem to go out of their way to harsh my personal space, things were good. I want to thanks crazedcamel, amycat1959 and a couple of others for the offer of a quick, shallow pit and a few bags of quick lime. And to Rocelyn for just being and understanding.

For those who don't know, I have this wonderful work-trade agreement with amycat1959 who owns Book Universe - a wonderful traveling book store that makes the rounds of various SF&F, gamer, actor and other cons. The deal is she pays my membership and I schlep books: unload, unpack, sort, helper, repack, reload, etc. I are a minion. :} It's tiring, but in a good way and it's fun. The last con was NorWesCon31 and she did good, I had fun and all is well.

This year some of the concom set up and slammed together a last minute donation project to help raise matching funds for Alzheimer research. In Dec of 2007 Terry Pratchett [a UK writer best known for his 'Discworld' books for those who don't know] announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer. Early this year he donated $1,000,000 US for clinical research into the disease. Fans have taken up the call and started an Internet fund raiser called Match It for Pratchett. NorWesCom was hoping to raise $2,000 over the four day con. But fans dug deep and did even better - $3,403.70! NorWesCon's Livejournal

And amycat1959, bless her, donated *all* proceeds from the sales of all the Pratchett books that she sold this last weekend.

Isn't fandom great? :}