After the one-day Prepared Childbirth seminar on Saturday, The Gryphon and I went straight to our friend, The Cheshire Cat's place, for a session of the role-playing game he developed and runs, Confed. We were playing that weekend primarily because a long-distance friend, The Court Wizard, was in town.

( I didn't know you could do that with a solar flare. )

I didn't get a chance to finish writing about Philcon before the holidays, so here goes. When we woke up Sunday morning, The Gryphon was clearly not well. He told me that he had a sore throat, and he could barely talk. "Would you mind if I stayed home?" he asked.

The truth is, I would rather have had him with me, because I always love to spend time ( Read more... )

On Saturday, my husband, The Gryphon, and I wanted to get to Philcon before a game set to start at 10 a.m. in the Gaming area. The Gryphon was running the gaming section, having agreed to fill in at the last minute.

We stopped for breakfast, which was our undoing, and we didn't make it until about quarter after 10. Fortunately, the game was ( Read more... )

I've always been jealous of my friends who have LJ blogs, because of the interactivity it allows. So, on the advice of a fellow writer I met at Philcon, I'm going to start mirroring my blog entries from Musings: An Online Journal of Sorts.

Once again, The Gryphon and I were invited to be panelists at Philcon, held this year in the Sheraton ( Read more... )