Things are a bit tight at the moment for us -- it's been kind of an expensive spring and we're trying to save what we still need for a family trip to Disneyland in the Fall.  So getting to Westercon is being a little problematic.  And I really want to go.  I was thinking this morning that I wouldn't be able to go, but I've been budgeting it out, ( Read more... )

Saturday went quite well -- better than Friday, although Friday also gave me some good things to think about that are bearing fruit already.  I only had two panels that I was on, but I got to go to a number of others, which was nice.  It was an early morning, though -- another 5.45 day, with my first panel at 9am.

That panels was Alien Biology.  I ( Read more... )

First day of getting up early -- at 5.45, almost 2 hours earlier than normal.  It always gets me down to the hotel too early, but I'd rather do that and sit around reading for awhile than to fight for parking.  And parking was worse this year than it's been before -- when I showed up Friday morning (and Saturday), they already had signs out saying ( Read more... )

As I said a couple of days ago, Norwescon started off on a good foot.

Left work around noon (I work in Kirkland, so it's an easy drive), got down there an hour before the green room opened.  Very smooth check-in because of the way things were run, which was really nice.

Jay Lake's reading was very enjoyable -- he read a really short one to allow for ( Read more... )