Because we returned the U-Haul truck last night (borrowing our van from the mechanic's lot so that we didn't have to walk back to the hotel, then returning it to the lot so they didn't think we'd run off on them), we didn't have to get up terribly early and could sleep in for a couple of hours, which we did. Once we were ready to go, we walked over ( Read more... )

This morning, Lisa did all of her packing and she and I met up with Scott Sanford, had breakfast at the Hilton Garden Inn, and she and he went off to visit the Hill Aviation Museum that Lisa and I visited on our previous visit to Layton a few months ago. As they were leaving, Mike Willmoth, Westercon 74 Tonopah's Facilities Liaison, came down to ( Read more... )

Today, Lisa and I had shifted gears to our Westercon 72 Fan Guest of Honor roles. Fortunately, the other members of Team Tonopah staffed the Westercon 74 table and started selling new memberships and conversions to attending from voting.

( FGoH Spotlight )

The results won't be official until Saturday's Westercon Business Meeting receives them, but Tonopah received 61% of the ballots cast with preference (Tonopah 82, Phoenix 51, Write in 1), and there was nothing controversial, so it appears that I join Sally Worhle as the second person to chair a Westercon after chairing a Worldcon ( Read more... )

We were at the auto shop as soon as they opened (it's right next door to the hotel). As we rather expected, they didn't think they could look at it until later in the day, so we had to switch to Plan B. After confirming online that they had a small (10') truck available, we walked the 3 km or so to the U-Haul dealership and paid $700 to rent the ( Read more... )

East of Battle Mountain, the minivan broke down. Proximate cause was the serpentine belt, but the actual problem was that the fan was coming loose. AAA came and towed us to Elko, but it did take quite a while. We're now holed up in a hotel right next door to two auto repair shops, where we need to be on their doorstep when they open and beg them to ( Read more... )

As we drove home from Sacramento yesterday, we briefly though we were only a couple of days from having to leave for Utah and SpikeCon/Westercon/NASFiC; we actually leave a week from tomorrow. We took our time driving home, stopping in Roseville to look in Fry's (they seem to be having supplier issues with the parts Lisa wants) before stopping for ( Read more... )

We're scheduled to do two shows of Match Game SF at SpikeCon: the first is on "night 0," which is Wednesday evening, the night before the convention officially starts in the main hall, but with a slightly lower-key atmosphere (we really don't know how many people will be there), and we plan on doing up to four games there. The big show is Friday ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while since I printed any new Match Game SF questions, and we have a lot of games planned for SpikeCon. There are two shows planned: the first on "preview night" (Wednesday before the official start of the convention), where we expect to have up to four games, and the second on Friday night, where we have up to six games planned. ( Read more... )