Well, that felt good. We launched David Cohen's A Perfect World in Wellington on Monday night to a solid house of supportive punters, and raised about $20,000 for the Autism Intervention Trust. When I spoke to the people from the trust, it wasn't actually the money they were most excited about, but the fact that their issues were being aired in such a forum. Those people work so hard for their kids.
The first order of business was to launch my new website for autism support and advocacy, humans.org.nz. I've posted an introduction to the site, and why it exists, and a few thoughts on Bill English's impressive speech about David and his book.
I'll post the first (of many, I hope) of our Stories on the site tomorrow. There are a few bits and pieces to be fixed up (we don't have the titles of posts displaying on the home page at the moment) and I'm still learning my way around WordPress, but I'm excited about the potential. Thanks are due to everyone who has helped, but most especially Matt Buchanan of CactusLab, who gave up his weekend so that we could meet the launch deadline on Monday.
Yesterday morning was fun too: I got to go and visit Mu at the Lyall Bay HQ of Fat Freddy's Drop, to interview him and the Freddies' manager Nicole Duckworth for a magazine feature I'm doing. The house is right on the water -- we had to close the door while we ran the tape recorder because the surf was so loud.
And, because I gotta run, just one more thing. My next computer was unveiled over night. Tasty.