It's been a busy, busy week.

Monday morning the news was focused on Bishop O'Brien's fatal hit and run of a local construction worker. By Tuesday morning he had resigned and Archbishop Sheehan had become our temporary Apostilic Administrator for the Diocese of Phoenix. I'll never know if he was under so much stress already with the molestation cover-up allegations by County Attourney Romley that he truely never registered the fact that he killed a man. Regardless, I am relieved that he is no longer in charge. He may have done many possitive things in his life, but he is more politician than holy man. I lost my respect for him when he supported the illegal revocation of our rights guaranteed by the Arizona constitution and county charter. Should he ever appologise he'd regain my respect, perhaps even gain more than he lost. I won't hold my breath.

Monday afternoon was Linda's wake. The guest book signing was held at Camelback Sunset Chapel. The dinner was held at her youngest son's house. I kept hearing that I've lost weight. I guess being broke will do that for you. Our old D&D group that used to meet at her house made plans to play on Thursday. But I had to leave early due to my third Monday commitments.

So after that I rushed over to the CopperCon XXIII Program Team meeting. We have less than three months to go, but I'm encouraged. I've got a lot of support.

Thursday Dai ran a D&D one-shot. We had to roll randomly for our race, class, and alignment. I ended up with a lawful good human wizard. Jay had a dwarvn sorcerer, Sam a dwarven druid, and Bill an elven rouge. We were all prisoners in Irontown, working the mines and smelters. Hense the random alignments working together. The scenario was simple: breakout. Only the neutral evil dwarven druid and lawful good human wizard escaped alive. I doubt they'll remain teammates, but as a one-shot it probably won't ever come up. I guess in two weeks Jay will be running a random-character generation one-shot as well. This could prove interesting.

Friday and Saturday I had some important database training from Kitty, who has been a Program Director for several local conventions. I think I'll be able to crunch all the data that scheduling the convention program will require.

Sunday I saw Hulk with Jim. An excellent movie to be sure. Afterwards he treated to 5 & Diner before we stopped by Costco to pick up HPY5.

I returned my Mother's phone call afterwards, and we talked until it was time for me to head off to mass. Father Milt had a good homily for the solemnity. At the end of the mass, Father read our first letter from Archbishop Sheehan. I think we'll see a lot of healing go on within the diocese, now.

We planned our in-person Hogwats Live Action meeting during our online conference this evening.

Then I watched SG-1 and X-Files while I typed this up until I was too tired to continue and went to bed. Night!