The WCCS is dead. Long live the WCCS?

The West Coast Culinary Symposium, due to happen end of April, was postponed last week. That was the responsible thing to do. Now they've cancelled it for the year and will be taking the West's 2021 spot instead. Even assuming that we're back to normal in, say, a couple months - SCA calendars are already full. So this is probably the best way to handle it.

I am disappointed (but also a bit relieved). It does mean the wife and I have some thinking to do; we had planned to visit StarWarsLand for the first time afterwards, with Artos & Saeunn as our friendly native guides. Our tickets are good through 12/31. We had planned a Europe trip (probably Italy) in the fall for our 20th anniversary, but hadn't gotten as far as schedules and tickets. Do we want to punt that to 2021 as well? If so, do we then want to plan a SoCal trip in the fall so we're making at least one trip for our anniversary?

Thinky thoughts will happen. Of course, there's no real urgency - but if we're going to try to get our money back from the Mouse, it's probably better to try while we're still in lockdown.

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Since the library will be closed for several weeks at a minimum, I am running short of books. Granted, there's that shelf, and that one, and the two over there - but I've read those before. Yes, generally speaking I own those books because I do want to re-read them. But while sometimes I like comfort reading, much of the time I like discovering books I haven't already read.

First I will tackle the Szechuan cookery book that has been sitting in my small unread pile. (I've cooked a number of recipes out of it already, but that's not the same thing.) Then re-read one book so I can read the new sequel I purchased before lockdown started.

After that... I'm thinking I'll join the Kindle unlimited program. Paying Amazon $10/month for the ability to borrow e-books doesn't sit entirely well with me; but I get 30 days for free, so that will buy time. I do prefer reading physical books to the tablet - so I expect to go back to the library when I can.