I will be at MFM this year, solo as my partner and I had planned to travel together but with his current situation we decided to have him skip this year, although I will miss his company we might be able to swing it next year. For now, we just were glad Vegas worked out, and we know how to handle such things in the future. That being said.

I plan to fly in on Thursday, I will be there until Monday. At this time it is the last currently scheduled trip, although I may add another depending on how things go at work. They're changing our PTO system again to try and reduce the financial liability, and it means that we can't really hoard our PTO like some of us used to, although supposedly it's due to the large number of new employees PTO levels? In any case.... We'll see.

For now, I am looking into things I'd like to do, planning for next year's STLV and probably if they do a third BSG convention I may try to go to that again. It was fun the first time although much more mellow than Vegas which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it was actually kind of low key and a nice trip. Regardless, once I return then I will figure out what my plans are for the rest of the year travel and otherwise.

It's my hope to prepare Vanguard for publication next, and then continue editing either Winterfall 2 and or the Blue Moon anthology while ramping up on the next project I can put in the pipeline.

Also when I come back I will pick another short story to release, and hopefully I can start another one soon. I have a new idea that right now is in the super early stages, my protagonist doesn't even have a full name yet. But we'll see.

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