I'll write up the con later in the week, when I'm more awake, but I had a good time.

Redemptions seem to be cursed, though, because at on Friday morning when I went out to my car to get my spare glasses, I discovered it had been broken into. I then spent the best part of three quarters of an hour on the phone to the garage, the insurance company, the police, the garage again and a different garage.

All that needs doing is the locks changed (as one is hanging off, but still working) and there are wires hanging out under the steering wheel. But the garage that are supposed to be sorting me out a new wing mirror so I can actually drive the car, told me they don't deal with that sort of thing. Which makes no sense. The break-in stuff is getting fixed tomorrow, then I'll sort out getting the rest fixed. So who knows, I might have a drivable car at some point in the future.

It was just as well I took some porridge with me because although I rang the hotel up in advance to make sure I could eat breakfast, they basically weren't interested and told me to talk to someone there. When I was there, they told me I should have told them in advance. Which is helpful. They managed dinner though, which is something at least.

It was good to catch up with people I haven't seen for a while, and meet new people. Lots of people I recognised from the last couple of Redemptions. Lots of other people I recognised their names from LJ or mailing lists etc.

I also established, from the backsword workshop, that before I go back to fencing, I really need to get some knee support, because oddly enough it didn't like being bent a lot.