I went to Chicago last weekend( ... )

Capricon was great, except for the car accident. The Chicago in 2012 bid zines are just very cool, both story and cover art. I'll post a more detailed post as time permits, hopefully tonight ( Read more... )

Tuesday, 7:00 PM
Dinner with a bunch of folks. Mostly the Chicago bid, plus a bunch of others. Lisa, Matthew, Seamas, and Isobeal from Columbus, Grant and Theresa from Portland, Jill and Don from Boston, and I can't remember all the Chicago folks (Dave, Helen, Raymond, Ron, etc.). I had the basil duck with ravioli. Marah reminded me after I ordered ( Read more... )

Had lunch with smg1404, dinner with ann_totusek and mad_techie, chatted with sciffy_circo, bought and installed the latest update for The Sims 2. I was extremely fried on Thursday (having gotten up at 3:00 AM and stayed up until almost midnight), but we slept in on Friday, so I'm functional today. Was a bit weird saying goodbye to people as the con was starting, but the next con will be ( Read more... )

We (marahsk and I) are heading to Niagara Falls on Friday evening for Eeriecon. We will be throwing a (modest) Seattle party there ( Read more... )

Just a quick note about Windycon.

marahsk drove down to Washington on Tuesday so that we could fly out together to Chicago. While we were in the shuttle coach from the security to the gate concourse, ann_totusek called. She gave us the sad news that a family member of shsilver's had passed away, obliging Steven to travel to the funeral. Ann then begged us for help, as (a) ( Read more... )

15 minutes late leaving work, made up most of the time en route, arrived at Dulles at 6:36 PM EDT. Had my boarding pass so I didn't have to check in. Long line at security, so I didn't clear security until well after 7:00. Got to the gate around 7:18 PM. I saw that the flight to Chicago was delayed; I toyed with the idea of whining about the ( Read more... )