The weekend is upon us! Gonna try and hit the farmers market tomorrow-- it's been a minute! Then I need to lock in on the tedium of the blanket I'm working on for my upcoming niece. It's gonna be so worth it but it's hard to remember that when I have all these ends to deal with. I've still got time but I want to at least have all the individual pieces to be combined done this weekend. I also have reading to catch up on and I need to get some writing done.

Idk how much of this exactly I'll accomplish but I'm shooting for the stars, as usual. If anyone is up for acting as a sounding board for the writing bit, I'd appreciate it. I want to work a little on my mermaid stories and a little on some Transformers fanfic. (I know I don't have a lot of Transformers friends but it's mostly structure/readability stuff I'm needing help with, so.)

So, you remember how the TFcon hotel blocks got sold out? Well, I emailed the organizers so they could update the web portal. Never got a response but I wasn't really expecting one. I went back to the web portal for something else today and noticed that it still hadn't been updated. Just as a shot in the dark, I tried booking the reservation again-- and it went through! Idk if there was a mistake that got fixed or they added more rooms to the block or what but I'm sure not complaining!

I'm gonna keep watching for availability to open up at the hotel actually hosting the con, since that remains my first choice, but I'm alright with this being how we go ahead. I've got my sister and her fiancé in one room with their younger two and their oldest and I will take another room. She's the most interested in attending with me, so that'll be most convenient. We still need to decide how we're splitting her time between me and her parents-- she thinks she wants to go with me all day each day but there's no way she's actually up for that, lol. Good thing there's a free shuttle between the hotels, though Idk yet how that's going to be scheduled.

Got the first letter back from my prison penpal. He seems like he'll probably be nice to talk to, for the most part. We've got a few interests in common, with enough differences in how we engage with them that it leaves room open for discussion. There is one thing I'm kinda iffy on. I mean, I tend to get a little wary of people who are really into religion anyway, due to my own experiences with it and observances of it, but there are certain ways people talk about it in particular that get me and he's kinda riiight up on one of them? Idk, it's hard to explain what my actual problem is. I actually just tried and then deleted what I wrote, lol.

Honestly, as I'm puzzling over it, I'm realizing how much I've come to rely on having someone's social media account at my fingertips to decide if I want to engage. I mean, that's obviously not a thing in irl conversations but you can ask clarifying questions and get real-time answers when speaking someone irl. This is something else, almost in between, and I have less to go on than I would either online or in person. Feels... uncomfortable, I guess? To not have a ready guide for how to broach certain subjects? Not necessarily in a bad way, though. Idk. I want to write the next letter on Friday to have it in the mail on Saturday, so I've got time to organize my thoughts and decide how to respond.

I think the only other thing bugging me is I forgot to keep a copy of my first letter, so he asks about a couple things I don't quite remember saying.