I made an album on Facebook for this year's Gen Con pictures.

Here's the link

Tonight I began my journey to Gen Con by going to Atlanta.

Tomorrow I will fly to Indianapolis, check into a hotel room, and then pick up my badge.

Overmorrow (look it up) the convention begins.

A friend from long ago and far away used LJ's messages feature to contact me about having lunch at Gen Con. Wicked awesome!

I didn't take many pictures at the convention this year. I tested out a new shoulder-strap mount for the ActionCam, and I think I got it steady enough. I didn't bother turning it on, really... All during the convention, GenCon's own Facebook page was posting pictures, so I didn't bother unless I really, really wanted the image. Besides, with the ( Read more... )

I went to Gen Con and I totally forgot to update about it here ( Read more... )

I spent Thursday (July 23)'s after-work hours assembling a dumbbell rack, VKR power tower, weight bench, and barbell uprights/rack. I was in a hot garage, with my new window fan helping, but it still took 5 hours, and it was in the high 90s and very humid, so there's only so much cooling that it could reasonably be expected to do ( Read more... )

Convention Season ( Read more... )

Event registration for Gen Con 2015 went live today at noon. I was so wiped out from some late-morning yard maintenance (hedges and mowing) in the heat that I didn't remember until over half an hour past the start of it. I wound up being number 5765 or so in line and got all of my events. It was a pretty smooth process ( Read more... )

I'll work today and tomorrow, and then I won't have to be back at work until January 5th. I'll do the usual end-of-year quiz post tomorrow night ( Read more... )

This post will cover the first two "real" days of Dragon Con this year: Friday (8/29) and Saturday (8/30).

( Friday 8/29 )