I had a pretty good Arisia, all told. Did a lot of hanging out in the lobby and reading, talking with people who wanted to talk when they came by, saw the masquerade, got to a friend's party for the last time (they are not returning to Arisia for their own reasons), saw friends I haven't seen in days, weeks, months and years and all was good ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good time. I was a bit leery going in because I've really been finding dealing with people (or just the thought of dealing with people) to be extremely tiring lately. But over all, it was fine. I did hide in the room at a few points but they were fewer and shorter than I had been anticipating ( Read more... )

The job situation may not be quite as dire as I thought. I should find out more on Monday ( Read more... )

Albacon was less fun than we hoped. Probably our own fault, Pi Con was a lot more fun than we had expected, so our hopes were too high.

Unfortunately, the con is just boring. While it's nice to see old friends and such, the number of them that are there dwindles every year as well ( Read more... )

I was going to make a longer post about Arisia, but I've decided that there is really no point to it.

Overall, this Arisia was just a bucket of stress. There's not much more to it. If you want the details and don't already have them (and really, I suspect that everyone who might want the details has already heard them or was involved in what ( Read more... )

The weekend started on Friday, which ahf and I both took off. We slept in, had a leisurely lunch and got on the road in the late afternoon. Somewhat too late, as we ran into rush hour traffic on the Pike, which stayed with us until the I-84 split. But that wasn't a big deal.

We headed to Albany (NY) for Albacon. As cons go, it's pretty low-key, ( Read more... )