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Actually it’s day two, now. But it’s difficult to find any spare time during the activities of the day. So, when I say day one, I’m actually referring to yesterday.

Friday.

After a late sprint out of the gate we made excellent time from Norman to Tulsa in less than two hours. Without stopping to pee and barely get lost. Amazing.

Registration was as smooth as ice on a northern pond in the dead of winter. Our first stop was the art show. Not a great idea. Dion is an art fanatic and wanted to buy every piece in the gallery. Surprise she bought only one. But she did get a bidder’s number so we will probably go home with a couple of Picacio’s.

This year’s Conestoga charity is Safari’s Sanctuary in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, www.safarissanctuary.org They brought a beautiful wolf, an albino python, an eight week old albino opossum named Parris Hiltion, a lavender skunk, a brown skunk, a live alligator on a leash -thank God-, and a lemur to the opening ceremonies. There was nearly an unpleasant incident with Parris and the big, Not So Bad, wolf.

Dinner with Laurell K. Hamilton was very pleasant. I did get a couple of pictures but the poor woman suffers from migraines and must wear shades. Her husband Jonathan Green is as entertaining as she.

We spent the evening trying to ‘ho our writing out to Selina Rosen at the Yard Dog Press www.yarddogpress.com ‘Ho party. But Selina was too busy pimping the hurling monkeys and singing hymns to pay much attention to us poor ole Okie ‘Ho’s. Several Hurling monkeys later Dion and I slithered back to our room to read the first story of Yard Dog’s new Houston: We’ve Got Bubbas! aloud. Bill Allen’s Oh shit Who Let Those Dumbasses in NASA was so funny we could barely read it through the tears and the laughter.

Unfortunately the banging on the wall next door discouraged us from reading the next story aloud so we decided it was nap time. Now we’re up and getting ready for Day Two. I of course will be a Klingon today. Dion is going to be a slutty medieval vampire. Lisa refuses to be seen with us in public. There will be a lot of SF adventure to report later and plenty of photos as soon as I get the film developed.