Author: Kathleen David

DragonCon has reinstate Peter’s 4 pm Monday Panel in the Trek Track.

Come join us (Caroline and I will be there too) for Peter’s panel. He has some pretty exciting stuff to talk about including a project that we have kept under wraps for almost two years now.

Athens room in the Sheraton.

And this Democrat cleared the primaries and was the Senatorial candidate, I swear to God I’d vote Republican.

Disneyland was great, especially since it was the first time I was able to wave my employee ID and get in for free. Because of Epic Mickey, I’m now really into Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. I managed to score the very last copy in the park of the statue of Walt Disney holding Oswald in his hand. Now if anyone has a line on one of the plush Oswald toys they came out with back in 2008, that would be much appreciated.

Bought a second large rolling suitcase to accommodate all the stuff I got at San Diego.

My trip to LA went fine. Paul and Misty Dini were kind enough to let me crash at their place (Misty put “Having a sleepover with Peter David!” on her Facebook page, so that’s gonna start some rumors.) Had story meetings at both the “Ben 10” and “Young Justice” offices, so that was a full day. Flew back on the red eye and had an interesting chat with a very smart young woman who is an actress and filmmaker and also holds a degree in environmental studies. She was working as a booth babe at the San Diego Con, and I wish her well in her career choices.

Sat around at luggage carousel #4 for half an hour, waiting for my suitcases. A Jetblue employee finally got around to coming over and telling us that, no, despite what we’d been told and despite the sign that was up that said this was where we were supposed to get our stuff, the luggage had in fact come out on carousel #1. So we all schlep over there to discover the luggage just sitting there, having been there so long the belt wasn’t even turning anymore. In terms of the nigh-legendary incompetence of JFK baggage handlers, this isn’t quite up there with the time it took a solid hour for the luggage to offload, but it’s close.

Get home at 7 AM. Tiptoe into the silent house and Caroline bounds out of nowhere and says, “Hi, Daddy,” nearly giving me a heart attack. My startled shout wakes Kathleen. Ariel is already downstairs. I hand out gifts, spend some time with the girls, and then collapse. Only now am I starting to feel back to normal.

Or at least what passes for normal.

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Including a stop at San Diego.

I figured I would do another installment of ASK THE WIFE AND DAUGHTERS

So you can ask us questions but, like last time, I am limited the topic to conventions and Disney theme parks.

So ask away.

by Kathleen David

As some of you know Peter had surgery on Friday to relieve a rather serious back problem that was progressively getting worse. He got through it as well as expected all things considered. He is resting comfortably at home now working on getting better. His time on the internet is rather limited but he wanted to assure those who have been asking him questions, that he will get to them in a day or so.

The girls are fine. Caroline has a pretty good understanding of what is going on but I think it is still pretty scary for her. Ariel has been helping a lot with Caroline so I have been able to concentrate on Peter.

More news as we have it but right now we are taking it a day at a time.

You don’t need me to tell you how brilliant “Toy Story 3” was, so I’ll just move right onto my scenario for “Toy Story 4”:

Sid from the original “Toy Story” shows up (all grown up and totally psychotic since the toy-attack incident from the first film) and destroys all of Woody’s toy friends, leaving Woody’s face partly melted. Now it’s up to Woody Hex (and the only other survivor, Buzzeye–Bullseye but with Buzz Lightyear’s head attached)–to track down his friends’ killer and seek vengeance upon him. The climactic sequence when Sid dies from the snake in his boot would be an instant classic.

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