Meetings, Meetings
Jul. 9th, 2023 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeToday I had two long online meetings. At 11 AM was an SFSFC Board of Directors meeting, which was mostly routine, but there was a lot of routine. We still have four standing committees (a Worldcon, a Westercon, a Costume-Con, and a Worldcon Agent) active, and we're in the process of setting up new ones. Our board membership for this meeting was even more spread out than usual. Besides Cheryl Morgan in Wales, one of our other directors was in New Zealand attending a wedding. But we managed to keep the meeting down to almost exactly two hours.
It's a good thing that we didn't run much past two hours, because at 1 PM was the last pre-con all-staff meeting for Pemmi-Con. The 2023 NASFiC in Winnipeg starts in eleven days, and many people are in the running around/hair-on-fire mode. My actual main job (WSFS division manager) is going fine. It's all of the smaller tasks that I picked up along the way (because it's hard for me to say no when I can see the job needs doing and nobody's likely to do it if I don't) that have been keeping me busy.
Meanwhile, the pile of Things to Pack continues to grow. It looks awful, but I'm pretty sure that once we put things into packing boxes, it will move much better. And fortunately, lots of it stays in the van until we get to Winnipeg. Only our personal luggage and valuable stuff like the video camera has to stay with us overnight.
And there are the myriad small jobs that proliferate when planning for a trip like this. In this case, one of those jobs meant breaking out the shoe-shine kit and buffing up both Lisa and my good shoes. Fortunately, it was cool enough this afternoon that I could sit out on the porch and shine shoes.
It's a good thing that we didn't run much past two hours, because at 1 PM was the last pre-con all-staff meeting for Pemmi-Con. The 2023 NASFiC in Winnipeg starts in eleven days, and many people are in the running around/hair-on-fire mode. My actual main job (WSFS division manager) is going fine. It's all of the smaller tasks that I picked up along the way (because it's hard for me to say no when I can see the job needs doing and nobody's likely to do it if I don't) that have been keeping me busy.
Meanwhile, the pile of Things to Pack continues to grow. It looks awful, but I'm pretty sure that once we put things into packing boxes, it will move much better. And fortunately, lots of it stays in the van until we get to Winnipeg. Only our personal luggage and valuable stuff like the video camera has to stay with us overnight.
And there are the myriad small jobs that proliferate when planning for a trip like this. In this case, one of those jobs meant breaking out the shoe-shine kit and buffing up both Lisa and my good shoes. Fortunately, it was cool enough this afternoon that I could sit out on the porch and shine shoes.
