If you're interested in watching the presentations and Q&A sessions from Worldcons and bids from SMOFCon 40 in Providence, they are now posted to the Worldcon Events YouTube channelBecause SMOFCon 40 was a fully hybrid convention and was recording their program items, there was no need for me to bring the video gear with me, particularly as they ( Read more... )

I reckon that it will take me a while to recover from the two weeks of Westercon/Loscon and SMOFCon. Fortunately, I don't have much scheduled. We're not planning Christmas travel, so the farthest I expect to travel is Yerrington (when they get the Astro repaired, fingers crossed) or Reno-Sparks for grocery shopping. Otherwise, it's just back to the ( Read more... )

As much as I love hanging around the con suite at SMOFCon, I turned in relatively early because I knew I had to be up too early to head home. Thanks to spending too much time reading mail and answering messages, I ended up with only around two hours of sleep before getting up, showering, and packing. Had I had a better idea of how much time it ( Read more... )

After only two or three hours of sleep, I got up very early this morning (0200 Eastern Time), packed out of my hotel room in Providence, checked out of the hotel, walked the roughly 1200 m to the Providence train station, took an MBTA commuter train to Back Bay, a Logan Express bus to Boston Logan Airport, and flew on United Airlines from Boston to ( Read more... )

After way too little sleep last night, this morning at 9 AM the WSFS Mark Protection Committee/Worldcon Intellectual Property Board of Directors met with the cooperation of SMOFCon 40, as they let us use one of their meeting rooms. The meeting was open to both in-person and virtual attendance from SMOFCon 40 members, although aside from the long- ( Read more... )

I have heard no news about Filthy Pierre after his fall yesterday. We think he was taken to a hospital, but we don't know which one. He was not back at the convention today. When I know more, I will write about it ( Read more... )

There wasn't a lot of programming that interested me today on the first day of SMOFCon, so I concentrated on having breakfast and dinner with friends (and their friends) and spending much of my time in the con suite talking with people, i.e. smoffing. I did end up spending a bit of time in my hotel room working on some things like the agenda for ( Read more... )

This morning, I was up at 2 AM to get showered and ready to head to Reno Airport to go to SMOFCon 40 in Providence, Rhode Island. Around 3:15 AM, Lisa and I headed toward Reno, where she dropped me at the curb at 4:00 AM. She headed for home, only to get stuck in commute-time traffic to the USA Parkway Industrial Park. My timing was just fine, as ( Read more... )

This is the only full day in this Loscon/Westercon-SMOFcon period where I'm at home. I took today off from work so that I could sleep in. I'm glad I did that, not only because of my accumulated fatigue, but because it was still pretty cold. The thermometer in the living room was only up to +15°C, so staying under the covers was the warm option ( Read more... )

I have lots of things that need to get done, much of which need to happen before we leave for Loscon/Westercon (we'll leave the day before Thanksgiving), and yet I can't seem to pull myself together to do much of anything. This darn congestion in my head means I'm having trouble thinking straight. Between SFSFC, Westercon, and preparation for ( Read more... )