This morning was a regular meeting of the SFSFC Board of Directors. Most of us in the meeting had multiple balls in the air, and we managed to get through the agenda fairly quickly. As I'll be gone for a while. I concentrated on getting the minutes draft out today, although it's unlikely the minutes will be online until late August as we need to ( Read more... )

Having been awarded the right to host Westercon 77 at BayCon 2025 (by the Caretaker Committee assigned by last year's Westercon to find a site to host the convention), BayCon's parent non-profit corporation has filed a write-in bid to host Westercon 78 in conjunction with BayCon 2026. There were no bids filed before the April 15 deadline, and no ( Read more... )

The minutes of the first ever WSFS Business Meeting held at a NASFiC are now online at the WSFS Rules page under the heading "MINUTES of the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting of the 15th NASFiC ( Read more... )

We woke up a little earlier than expected this morning, which might suggest that we managed to catch up on sleep, although today's activities might have erased that ( Read more... )

Today was the final day of Pemmi-Con. I had no early commitments and therefore slept in. After breakfast in the room (again, we have a whole lot of accumulated food), I wanted to go to Starbucks to get a coffee to complete a slightly complicated bonus point challenge. It was raining rather heavily. I asked at the front desk and they did indeed have ( Read more... )

Today we needed to be up early so that we be in place for our roles with the first-ever NASFiC WSFS Business Meeting. We made breakfast in the room (instant eggs from our supply of camping food) and were ready to go early. That's good because the meeting room was still locked at 9:30 AM when we came downstairs. Jannie Shae of Pemmi-Con Programming ( Read more... )

This morning, after breakfast, Lisa and I walked from the Delta Hotel to the shop where the Astro is being worked upon. It's not a long walk, and goes past Winnipeg Central Park.

( A Walk By the Park )

At Lisa's advice, I did not set an alarm today, and consequently got a solid nine hours of sleep. I needed it. Lisa and made breakfast in the room (having a hot water pot, not just a coffee maker), helped a lot. I then drove the Astro over to the auto repair shop that said they could do work on the air conditioning. I showed it to the owner, gave ( Read more... )

Version 04 of the 2024 NASFiC Site Selection Ballot, including fill-in-the-blank fields to make completing the ballot easier, is now online and you can download it from the 2024 NASFiC Site Selection page. Remember that if you are going to be at Pemmi-Con on Thursday or Friday of the convention, you can vote in person there. (Voting ends on Friday ( Read more... )

It's much later than I would have liked, but 2024 NASFiC Site Selection voting is now open. If you're going to Pemmi-Con, you can vote in person on the Thursday or Friday of the convention. If you want to vote by postal mail, you need to rather quickly download the ballot, print it, and mail it, because ballots must be received at one of the two ( Read more... )