Prepping for SMOFCon
If Lisa and I were driving to Seattle for SMOFCon 41, we would have left already - probably yesterday. However, as Lisa is staying home and I'm flying (9 AM flight from Reno on Alaska Airlines Thursday morning, returning mid-day Monday), I put of some prep until this evening, and the rest won't happen until tomorrow morning, as I'm just going to get up at my normal 4:30 AM alarm time.
Lisa is loaning me the small camera for recording the Worldcon/Bid Q&A sessions. That will fit in my computer backpack, while the tripod will fit in my large piece of luggage. I will also pack my empty Montreal WFC bag, and thanks to flying first class and getting a free second luggage allowance, I'll be able to carry the poker chips (which traveled by land from last year's SMOFCon in Providence RI) back in my luggage by rearranging the packing on the way back. Those two cases of chips will take a substantial portion of the 23 kg limit per bag.
I should get to bed, especially as I did not get much sleep last night after Lisa and I made a grocery shopping trip to Reno so she would be stocked up while I'm away, but for some reason I find myself restless. It's probably pre-con jitters, even with me having relatively few things on the docket this year. Nonetheless, I do expect there to be some, shall we say, interesting discussions this year over the coming Worldcon, about which I'll probably write more late.
And in the meantime, thank you all for the nice comments about my essay yesterday, which I also cross-posted to Facebook. That was my contribution to #LGBTQNotGoingBack, an action proposed by Julia Serano. If you want to know more, follow the link. I got to meet and talk to Julia at a book event in San Francisco many years ago, and I was inspired by her to add my contribution to the pile. I did, as I said, write to my member of the US House and both of my Senators. I hope that they are listening.
Lisa is loaning me the small camera for recording the Worldcon/Bid Q&A sessions. That will fit in my computer backpack, while the tripod will fit in my large piece of luggage. I will also pack my empty Montreal WFC bag, and thanks to flying first class and getting a free second luggage allowance, I'll be able to carry the poker chips (which traveled by land from last year's SMOFCon in Providence RI) back in my luggage by rearranging the packing on the way back. Those two cases of chips will take a substantial portion of the 23 kg limit per bag.
I should get to bed, especially as I did not get much sleep last night after Lisa and I made a grocery shopping trip to Reno so she would be stocked up while I'm away, but for some reason I find myself restless. It's probably pre-con jitters, even with me having relatively few things on the docket this year. Nonetheless, I do expect there to be some, shall we say, interesting discussions this year over the coming Worldcon, about which I'll probably write more late.
And in the meantime, thank you all for the nice comments about my essay yesterday, which I also cross-posted to Facebook. That was my contribution to #LGBTQNotGoingBack, an action proposed by Julia Serano. If you want to know more, follow the link. I got to meet and talk to Julia at a book event in San Francisco many years ago, and I was inspired by her to add my contribution to the pile. I did, as I said, write to my member of the US House and both of my Senators. I hope that they are listening.