I've got my new work schedule in paw and it looks like it precisely conflicts with AC! I do have a week of vacation time to play with the rest of the year, but I gotta put the Great American Beer Festival first. Once they learn to trust me enough I'll be able to trade shifts with others to get more time off for free, but that won't happen for a while. AC will have to be crossed off the list of things to do!

Many other Cons are impacted too -- funny how I actually get an entire week off every month and nothing falls into that week -- but most of them only partially. FC is now a "must attend" for me but they will have enough faith in me by then that I can replace anyone on any shift for trading purposes.

Had a homebrewing session last week that Jake T. Wolf made it to even though the planning was very last minute (he arrived half way through the sparge) but there shall be more in the future! Got a couple other Brewin' Furs I need to talk into attending...