I have similar feelings about this New Year's post as I did about last year's. From a global perspective, I agree 2016 was a pretty craptastic year. For us personally, it was a decent year ( Read more... )

Because life with a toddler means never having time/energy to post.

( OVFF )

The 50th Balticon is in the books. We survived. Mostly ( Read more... )

It's the first day of 2016, so I'm making my end-of-2015 posts. Because that's the way we roll around here ( Read more... )

As if my readers needed any more proof that we are insane, we just finished attending back-to-back cons with Sam.

( Philcon )

OVFF was good, but interesting and possibly unique. This was Sam's first con, so we weren't sure quite what to expect. Other than being fussy during the Sunday dead dog, I think he did quite well. It was a smooth drive in both directions, and it only took us about half an hour longer than usual. This may bode well for FKO still being drive-able if ( Read more... )

Another Balticon has gone into the history books, and with it ends a 10 year-run at the Hunt Valley Inn. This would be the third extended run; Balticon previously had multi-year runs in the late 70's/early 80's and in the early 90's. (There was a period in the mid/late 80's where Balticon appears to have alternated between the Inner Harbor and Hunt ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted, so I figured I should toss up a quick update ( Read more... )

After reading through my friends' year-end posts, I almost feel guilty posting my own. I know that 2014 really sucked for many of my friends. Several lost loved ones (and many of those I considered friends as well). And several have had career issues, health issues, financial issues, or combinations of all three. So I know many of my friends are ( Read more... )

Two con reports for the price of one ( Read more... )