There were two 2027 Worldcon bid developments on Saturday at SMOFCon. I filed Montréal's formal bid for the 2027 Worldcon with Seattle 2025 just after midnight (just before I went to bed), after having confirmed with bid chair Terry Fong that everything was ready to do. Seattle responded later that day that the bid was correct and met the WSFS ( Read more... )

I ended up napping for a couple of hours, and when I woke up I needed to put in some work helping the Montréal 2027 Worldcon bid, which hosted the SMOFCon 41 Con Suite this evening.

( Montreal in Seattle )

Yesterday was an SFSFC Board of Directors meeting, of which I am currently the corporate Secretary. Among the various items of business was the need to elect directors for three year terms commencing January 1, 2025. SFSFC currently has thirteen directors elected for three-year terms in groups of 5/5/4. This year was the group of 4, and my own seat ( Read more... )

Montréal, Canada has launched a bid to host 2027 Worldcon. You can read the full announcement in the news item on the WSFS website. This is a project of CanSMOF, the non-profit corporation that ran the 2009 Worldcon at the same site. Yes, I'm still a director of CanSMOF, and have been asked to join the bid committee. (Now I need to scrape up the ( Read more... )

This morning, after sleeping in for about four hours (i.e. 7:30 AM), I had enough energy to go get breakfast from the Wigwam Restaurant. Bringing it home, I used the last of the blueberry jam I bought in Montreal on my bagel. There was no point in trying to stretch it out because it goes past its use-by date fairly soon. I found that jam during the ( Read more... )

Today is my only full day in downtown Montreal post-SMOFCon, as I have to move hotels out to the airport tomorrow. I was not hugely ambitious, but did manage to tick a few boxes.

( Dining and Shopping )

I realized this evening that I forgot to write something yesterday, partially because yesterday I did less than I meant to do.

( Eggspectations )

As I mentioned a few days ago, we mailed three boxes of our own stuff back to ourselves from Montreal, but they hadn't arrived as of Friday. I was resigned to Lisa having to re-mail them to me or possibly bring them down in October if she gets to attend SiliCon. This morning, while Lisa and I were working on the roof, the owner of the hardware ( Read more... )

Tuesday was the only day I had available for tourism in Montreal. And it turned into not even a full day at that.

( Anticipation coda )

After the chaos of Thursday, Friday was my relatively quiet day, aside from chairing the WSFS Business Meeting. We got off from the hotel about ten minutes later than I'd hoped, although it did no real harm. The BM is at what is perceived as the "far end" of the Palais, although it's actually much closer to my hotel. We figured out that going ( Read more... )