I'm at (Virtual) Norwescon 43 this weekend, staffing a Club Booth (as their online platform, Airmeet, styles it) for Westercon 74 Tonopah along with
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I spent much of today setting up Westercon 74's "booth" (virtual fan table) at Norwescon 43, which starts next Thursday afternoon.
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Fortunately, the Day Jobbe workload was relatively light on this Easter Monday, so there was no problem with me knocking off around 11:30 AM and getting out of the hotel around Noon. Normally this 160 miles or so from Sacramento to Fernley would be no problem, but I'm still full of aches and pains and congestion. When I got to the Donner Summit ( Read more... )

We, the San Jose Worldcon Committee, did indeed manage to pull off three nearly-simultaneous announcements of this year's Hugo Award finalists at three different sites.

( Linda and my show at Norwescon )

I did manage to get more than eight hours of sleep last night, although I could get no more than that. Mild fever, aching head, stuffy head. It's been a hard couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I'm slowly emerging from "radio silence." The past week has been somewhat difficult and challenging in some ways for me, and I have only so much time I can spend on optional things like writing this journal. In this case, it had to be set aside in favor of me working as the WSFS division manager for Worldcon 76 San José and as a member of the Hugo ( Read more... )

Jay Lake has, after a well-documented struggle, finally lost his battle with cancer. One of his connections with me was his donation of a signed ARC of Mainspring as a prize to Match Game SF, which turned out to be "cursed," in that while it kept coming up as our bonus round prize, was one people could never seem to win. After several years of ( Read more... )

Many of you know that I founded and ran for more than five years the MythAdventures Fan Club, originally inspired by Phil Foglio's comic book adaptation of Robert Lynn Asprin's novels. One of our active club members was a fan by the name of Matt Youngmark. During the second half of Match Game SF at Norwescon, the name "Matt Youngmark" came up in ( Read more... )

Lisa and I initially had some errands to run in Seattle today when I first booked this trip, and therefore I booked the latest possible flight back to Oakland. However, by the time we got here, the reasons for the errands evaporated, so after checking out of the room and having breakfast, we decided that Lisa would go ahead and leave and I'd try to ( Read more... )

It may be the last day of Norwescon, but you might not have realized it from how busy the hallways are at the Sea-Tac Doubletree and from the length of the queue in the lobby Starbucks.

Kuma Bear alertly spotted that one of the fan table groups decided to skip Sunday, and he moved in to set up a bid table for Tonopah in 2012. Details and picture ( Read more... )