The minutes of the 2024 Westercon Business Meeting and the Westercon Bylaws incorporating the five bylaw amendments ratified at Westercon 76 in Salt Lake City have been posted to the Westercon websiteThey key item ratified at the Business Meeting was to strike out the "traditional but not obligatory" language about the date of Westercon that ( Read more... )

Thanks to us "chasing" the Big Boy steam locomotive from Elko to Winnemucca, we took a whole lot longer to get home today than if we'd just driven straight through. We left Elko around 9:30 AM and got home to Fernley about 6:30 PM ( Read more... )

We took a little longer packing out of the hotel room than intended, and I had misread the schedule for the Big Boy at Carlin, so once we left the hotel, we had to skip my stop at Starbucks and simply get moving. However, doing so meant that we got some bonus pictures and made it to the train's first stop of the day on time.

( Chasing the Big Boy )

After the Westercon 76 closing ceremony, we said our goodbyes and set off homeward bound.

( Across the Desert )

Lisa and I once again went to Perkins for breakfast, joined by Martin Pyne. Martin is not only Parliamentarian of the WSFS Business Meeting this year in Glasgow, but has accepted my invitation for him to Chair the 2025 Westercon Business Meeting in Santa Clara ( Read more... )

This morning started the same as yesterday, with breakfast at Perkins, although this time we walked the approximately 1 km. Because we did not have Site Selection to run and with the Business Meeting not until 11 AM, we relaxed over breakfast, and I was happy for the time and conversation with friends. Lisa decided that extra sleep was more ( Read more... )

Much to my surprise this morning, I woke up at 5 AM, just like any work day. Moreover, that was 5 AM Mountain Time, and thus 4 AM Pacific and an hour earlier than my normal work days. In any event, Lisa and I slowly got moving, and, earlier than we originally expected, joined Linda Deneroff and Scott Sanford for breakfast in the hotel restaurant ( Read more... )

I worked a half day (5:30 to 9:30 AM) today to preserve my dwindling supply of paid time off. However, it took longer than expected to deal with messages coming, repacking the room, and getting some (non-perishable) groceries in Elko, and we didn't get on the road until around 11:30 AM. Here was the planned routeWe made fewer stops than I expected ( Read more... )

We did pretty good getting packed and on the road than I expected, buttoning up the house and leaving around 2 PM. We had one local stop in Fernley, then Lisa took the wheel and we set out east on I-80. Here was the general route without our slight diversions here and there.

We zipped across the Forty Mile Desert in air-conditioned comfort. The ( 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... )