(Warning: diary ramble ahead.)

Intercon was scheduled a couple of weeks earlier than usual this year -- our experimental hotel last year wasn't great, and by the time we found our new site, the only options were this weekend or Easter.  So this year, I got to spend my birthday (yesterday) in high-intensity LARPing.

Let me say first: the new hotel ( Read more... )

Almost done with a *very* long weekend at Arisia. Generally been a great time -- worked hard, got to spend lots of time with friends, and have had a lot of fun ( Read more... )

The annoying cough I've been dealing with for a week finally turned into a full-on, OMFG, now-I-see-why-everyone's-so-draggy Monster Headcold yesterday.  Between that and last night's difficulty sleeping, I've been wandering around going, "Grarh" all day ( Read more... )

They say that to understand somebody, you need to walk a mile in their shoes. This time around, a mile would be challenging, but I don't really need that far ( Read more... )

One surprising highlight from 50 Year doesn't seem to have made it into many accounts -- I think our encampment was particularly well-placed in this regard ( Read more... )

(As usual for when I've attended something long, I'll be posting some random reminiscences ( Read more... )

One of the interesting side-notes from my trip to 50 Year was that it provided an accidental experiment in the usefulness of my CPAP ( Read more... )

(No real content, at least yet -- just marking the date in my head...)

I've been attending Arisia from the beginning, and been to nearly all of them, but I've always been strictly "arts-track", in SCA terminology. Some years I've run LARPs; most years I've been on piles of panels -- I quite enjoy both ( Read more... )

As a lot of you know, I am the possessor of a lot of Stuff. Among that Stuff is the most idiotically large comic-book collection of anybody I know, which I've been accumulating since 1977. Not collecting -- just buying, reading, and putting in boxes. I don't know if anyone reading this aside from Kate has actually seen all of it. Yes, you're ( Read more... )