Mensa appearance this weekend

This coming weekend, March 3-5, I’ll be at Central New Jersey Mensa’s Snowball Regional Gathering. It’s one of the longest-running RGs in American Mensa, and always a good time. This time, I’m not just attending, but actually on the program. On Friday, at 7:30pm, I’ll be giving a talk on “Punctilious Punctuation,” and I know all of you who are going to be at the RG will want to see my talk (mind you, I’ve got some stiff competition in that time slot: Lesley Schierenbeck talking about “Dark & Dirty New Jersey History,” and John Devotti’s always wonderful “Monster Trivia.”

After I’m off stage, stick around in the same room for the Mensa Foundation and RVC2 Meet and Greet. And at 2:30pm Saturday, RVC2 Trebor Lefebvre will be running “Everything You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Mensa.” I’ll be there, too.

But the other program item I’m really urging you to attend is Saturday at 10:30am. One of my authors, Michael A. Ventrella, will be talking about “How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative.” Michael is a wonderful speaker, talking about a topic on which he is very knowledgeable, and it’s an especially timely topic. We’ll also have copies of his book, How to Argue the Constitution with a Conservative, available for sale (and possibly a few other of his titles that I’ve published).

Should be a great weekend. Hope to see y’all there!

The books are waiting for me

Just got confirmation that several boxes of The Presidential Book of Lists and Ranking the First Ladies have arrived at a friend’s house in San Diego. I had them shipped out so that I’ll have them when I speak on Sunday, July 3, at the American Mensa Annual Gathering. The books are there, now I have to get there. I generally love traveling, but am somewhat trepidatious about using airports. At the moment, my eagerness to go to the AG overshadows my distaste of the airports, so I hope to see some of you there!

My talk, scheduled for 12 noon on Sunday, July 3, is titled “Hail to the Chiefs! (And Their Vice Presidents, and First Ladies….)”. I’ll be selling/signing books directly after (though if you catch me earlier in the convention, I may be able to sell you an “advance” copy).