This morning, after sleeping in for about four hours (i.e. 7:30 AM), I had enough energy to go get breakfast from the Wigwam Restaurant. Bringing it home, I used the last of the blueberry jam I bought in Montreal on my bagel. There was no point in trying to stretch it out because it goes past its use-by date fairly soon. I found that jam during the ( Read more... )

World Fantasy Con 2021 reported today (and sent email to its members, which is how I first heard about it) that they "received a report of a positive COVID result that was likely contracted during the convention."

First off: it's not me.

Second: I'm fully vaccinated, was tested before I went to Montreal, right as I arrived at YUL, and on the Sunday ( Read more... )

This morning after the big English Breakfast, the sun came out and the wind sort of died down, which gave me a chance to walk for a little while along the Brighton Promenade. It didn't last, and I was getting rained on by the time I got back to the hotel, but it was wonderful just to get out and look around at places I've never been and might never ( Read more... )

I have been "showing the flag" of SFSFC at World Fantasy Con, in the form of our WFC 2009 book bag, which I find much handier than the one they gave folks here at Registration anyway. (Mind you, I'd broken the zipper a while ago, and Lisa repaired it just before I came over here, which made it much more useful again.) I also was able to get away ( Read more... )

I got to Brighton on Thursday by way of Portsmouth Harbor, where I had about 20 minutes to walk around and look at things and say, "This might be worth coming back again someday when I have more time to look at stuff."

Arriving in Brighton and the Metropole for World Fantasy Con, my first impression was, "They held a Worldcon in this place?" It ( Read more... )

Lisa pointed out to me last night that, given that I have to be in Chicago next week anyway, I should have flown there this Thursday, then flown on my own dime to Columbus to attend the World Fantasy Convention, returning to Chicago on Sunday. In effect, my employer would have paid to get me most of the way to Columbus. She's right, but it hadn't ( Read more... )

One of the things about which I feel personally frustrated about the just-ended 2009 World Fantasy Convention in San Jose was that our signage, while good, could have been better, particularly at a couple of key points, especially the top of the main stairs, which proved to be the most-common entrance for most people first arriving. It was not at ( Read more... )

This morning at the World Fantasy Convention, we showed up to discover that a pipe from the swimming pool on the 4th floor had broken and was sending water down through a service stairwell in between the registration area and where the dealers' room is. Despite what at least one person Tweeted, the ballroom was not "flooded." Some water dripped ( Read more... )

...and didn't buy your membership yet, you'd better go look at worldfantasycon to find someone selling a membership, because the 2009 World Fantasy Convention has hit its membership cap and has stopped selling memberships. The only practical way to get a membership now is to buy it from someone else.

Was working until after 2 AM this morning before getting a few hours of sleep, then getting back up and heading off to a WFC committee meeting in San Francisco. When I got home, there was plenty of fannish work piled up, most of it from Worldcon, but also some Westercon and WFC stuff. And I'll need to be up early on Monday because I need to get to ( Read more... )