I've been back in Toronto now for a few days and am back to my old routine. This is not a terribly interesting fact, especially since my routine is pretty boring. Rick was over last night, which was fun. I don't often miss people when I go away, or when they go away; I miss my cat and my bed, but people less so. I had one night when I really wished Rick was with me in New York, but that was it. Last night, however; I realised that a part of me had missed him quite a bit and I was very happy to spend time with him. What's happened to me?

Tonight, I'm supposed to be meeting with a potential client that was referred to me by Nicole. He's a friend of hers and he works at the Renaissance Faire among other places. Some of you might be familiar with his stage name, Zoltan the Adequate. He seems like a very fun guy and he needs a sign painted and I'm available and interested in doing it. I keep checking my email in the hopes of hammering out the details for tonight's meeting, but so far, no message. Anyway, I'm not sweating it, we'll get together eventually. There's not quite a month before he needs it.

In a similar vein, I really must start getting some stuff together for Toronto Trek. As usual, the people running the Art Show haven't gotten back to me with the control sheets, and when I spoke to my friend Maery, with whom I'm sharing a hotel room, she had her forms but couldn't actually get them to open on her computer. Yeesh. I'll be working the convention on behalf of Nicole who has to help her parents move down East. She'll be paying me to be there and on the Saturday I'll have her assistant to help out. Now that the attendees to TTrek have gotten to know me as Nicole's minion, I might actually make some sales for her.

I have big plans for this year's convention, too. Not only will I have my typical art show stuff, but I'm planning to have tee-shirts featuring my artwork ! I was planning to do it via printer transfer sheets and an iron, but I just discovered that my friend, Mel, has a silk-screener ! So now we have a date for next Thursday. I'll take a walk down to China Town on Monday to buy cheap tee-shirts and then I'll be a go. Well, that and I have to pick out which images I want to use. I am sort of thinking Nine-Fingered Frodo and maybe my creepy twins, but perhaps I'll come up with something brand new. Suggestions are appreciated.