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I guess it's just as well that every day in the past weekend I didn't sleep any more than one hour past my usual alarm time, and in one case woke up ahead of it. This morning I was up 15 minutes before the alarm.

The only odd thing was that I got hungry earlier than usual, so took my lunch closer to "mid day," measuring from my 5:30 AM PT start time.

To my surprise, there was not a flood of support tickets. Maybe other people actually took the holiday off, too.

This afternoon, Lisa (whose sleep schedule has rotated back to the Dreaded Day Shift) asked if we could go to Reno for some grocery shopping and other errands. After I said goodbye to Kayla for the rest of the day and packed the small coolers with ice, Lisa and I headed into Reno. First we went to Staples for something Lisa wanted, then it was off to WinCo Foods, where it was much less crowded than it usually is on a Sunday afternoon. There were a few things she wanted that she couldn't get there, so we went to Raley's for them.

I'd been up since around 4 AM, which isn't that unusual for me, but my eyes were burning as we turned for home. I think there is a lot of pollen in the air. I can see that the cottonwoods are starting to shed. I'm glad I have tomorrow as a holiday and am not traveling this weekend any farther than I have already gone over the past two days. Kayla might go to the Wigwam tomorrow, but that's about the limits of our ambition at the moment.

Kayla will have a lot more to say about it, but she short version of our trip to my PCP today is that may A1c level is down to 7.5, which is excellent, and things are moving in the right direction.

So since I don't have much else to say, have a picture of the rabbit that was sitting near the minvan this morning when we went out to go to breakfast.

( Bonus Bunny )

Hey, look: Kayla made a public entry, in her role as Westercon 77 (2027) Site Selection Administrator. I'm still the lead maintainer of Westercon.org, so I posted the announcement after she worked out the wording with her deputy and got sign-off from the Santa Clara in 2027 bid. I guess eventually I should have her sign up for an account on the website so I can hand that job over to her as well.

The final act of the night on the main stage at the M3 Festival took to the stage about 9:30 PM, and was still pounding away at 10:15. I think they may have wound up around 10:30 PM, but I'm not sure because I managed to get to sleep.

This morning, nearly everything was gone except the smaller stage and the painted trash cans from one of the contests, and also one pickup truck still parked in the railroad yard across the street. It was a pretty impressive clean-up, considering that they did it overnight.

( Trashcans and Earrings )

Later this week, Lisa and I will clean up the temporary barriers, but I think we'll leave the No Trespassing signs up.

I spent most of the rest of the day working on fannish activity, having two separate Zoom calls: one dealing with the WSFS Mark Protection Committee, and another with the Montreal Worldcon bid. Things are getting done, albeit probably not as fast as we might have liked. But there should be news about Westercon tomorrow, if things go the way Kayla has planned.

Tomorrow is the climax of the 2025 Music, Murals and Margaritas Festival in Fernley. As in past years, the big event, including performances, food trucks, etc. takes place on Center Street, which is the east boundary of the East Lot adjacent to Fernley House. That meant that Lisa and I had work to do today.

( Preparing for M3 )

We're not trying to be killjoys, but we also don't want to be sued by someone tripping and falling while walking to or from a festival where there will be plenty of alcohol flowing. It's not obvious that this lot is not just abandoned "free" land, and if we didn't do this, I'm certain that tomorrow morning we'd wake up and find it covered with cars parking close in to the festival. Now they'll end up parking in the Union Pacific rail yard across the street, and I'll let UP figure out how to deal with that.

We'll be more or less trapped in the house all day tomorrow, or at least only be able to venture out on foot, but it's okay. We didn't have any plans to go anywhere anyway.