Random things
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alias_sqbrFeeling motivated but sore, so, a post about various minor things.
First: SOON got (positively) reviewed by PC Power Play Australia!! It got ONE WHOLE EXTRA SALE (which wasloic, seeing my post about it on Facebook but shh)
Second: yesterday I went to the Maylands festival and it was super fun, I had fancy meat from the gourmet butcher and fancy toasted marshmallows, and a baby goat at the petting zoo fell asleep in my lap omg it was SO CUTE. At first it was all "wtf who are you" but then it decided I was a friend and then it slowly calmed down and went to sleep. It was all brown with a cute little black nose and floppy ears. Having animals at petting zoos sit happily in my lap is an unexpected upside of the wheelchair. I smsed Cam (who was asleep when I left) that there were some nice looking fancy hotdogs (his weakness :D) so he came down and we had fun walking around together. The accessibility was unnecessarily poor, though, they blocked curb cuts and footpaths in a few places meaning I had to take complex detours a few times to get to things an able bodied person could just step to.
Third...uh...I had a weird pain in my side again? But then it went away? FUN TIMES.
Oh wait! Yeah! I went to the Swancon programming meeting, it was pretty good but I was the only non committee member there so am very glad I came to add a different POV. They want more diverse POVs so contact them with ideas for panels! Especially book/writing/academic/social justicey/cutting edge fandom stuff, since their strengths seem to be more older anime/tv/movie fandoms and fun interactive stuff. I took some notes I'll try and write up when less sleepy.
First: SOON got (positively) reviewed by PC Power Play Australia!! It got ONE WHOLE EXTRA SALE (which was
loic, seeing my post about it on Facebook but shh)Second: yesterday I went to the Maylands festival and it was super fun, I had fancy meat from the gourmet butcher and fancy toasted marshmallows, and a baby goat at the petting zoo fell asleep in my lap omg it was SO CUTE. At first it was all "wtf who are you" but then it decided I was a friend and then it slowly calmed down and went to sleep. It was all brown with a cute little black nose and floppy ears. Having animals at petting zoos sit happily in my lap is an unexpected upside of the wheelchair. I smsed Cam (who was asleep when I left) that there were some nice looking fancy hotdogs (his weakness :D) so he came down and we had fun walking around together. The accessibility was unnecessarily poor, though, they blocked curb cuts and footpaths in a few places meaning I had to take complex detours a few times to get to things an able bodied person could just step to.
Third...uh...I had a weird pain in my side again? But then it went away? FUN TIMES.
Oh wait! Yeah! I went to the Swancon programming meeting, it was pretty good but I was the only non committee member there so am very glad I came to add a different POV. They want more diverse POVs so contact them with ideas for panels! Especially book/writing/academic/social justicey/cutting edge fandom stuff, since their strengths seem to be more older anime/tv/movie fandoms and fun interactive stuff. I took some notes I'll try and write up when less sleepy.
That's awesome :D!
Date: 2016-05-02 10:29 am (UTC)I didn't know that you made an interactive novel! I'll likely check it out soon (once I get through some of my current backlog that is ^_^;;;)
Re: That's awesome :D!
Date: 2016-05-02 11:49 am (UTC)Thanks! I have a few different ones but SOON is the most complete and significant.
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Date: 2016-05-02 10:46 am (UTC)It was, wasn't it!
S and I were both commenting on it.
I made one stall holder move her tripod-display so I could get through a narrow gap rather than have to do a maaaaaaasive backtrack.
BTW: Did you bring your portable ramp with you to the festival? Because I looked at the drop down into the area that the petting zoo was inside, and thought "Yeah, I could get my powerchair down there, but would I be able to get back up again?" So I ended up leaving S minding the powerchair and going into the petting zoo on foot.
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Date: 2016-05-02 10:54 am (UTC)They offered to let me into a different entrance but I was tired and it all looked like too much trouble so I said "Actually can I just hold the goat you're carrying?", since the guy running it was holding a cute little baby goat, and sat outside with it on my lap instead. I think I might do this from now on, it's calmer for me and the animal, and one nice long cuddle with a calm animal is more fun than trying to reach past hordes of (human) kids to get to the more agitated ones inside the enclosure.