I suck at updating this thing. I try and I try, oh how I try, but in the end I end up waiting months, writing 50 pages that no one wants to read, then falling silent again for another month or so. So I'll give a brief recap of recent days and leave it at that.

Travelling to NoCal this coming weekend. I AM vending at the Sebastopol Celtic Festival after all. Our disinclusion was an oversight. But this is likely to be the last festival we ever do. I've give some thought to just jettisoning the mail order/Internet sales part of the business and just doing festivals, but I haven't reached a decision there.

This'll also be the first such trip that I've made for the festival where I'm not staying with my friend Chris. Enough is enough and he deserves a break. More specifically, his dad deserves a break. He's done a great deal for me, and not gotten much in return, so it's time to visit just to say 'hi' and to take back the stuff they've been kind to keep for me since I moved back to Phoenix.

But it's also gonna be kind of a vacation, with a couple of days' padding on either side of the festival. I need a vacation. Badly.

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On that subject, sorta, had a really, really, really unpleasant weekend. Spent most of the longest 24 hours of my life (4pm Saturday to 4pm Sunday) figuring I was going to be single at the end of it. I shan't discuss details in this forum, but things are generally all better now. In a way, we're closer. But I'm kind of distracted even this week, so if I seem grumpy either in this journal or in person, that's why.

More soon, hopefully in small, digestible chunks. Make it a great day.