Well, as I feared, most of my pictures did not come out. On the bright side, since my camera is an excessively cheap one, it's easy for me to blame the camera, not the photographer. (I also had my iTouch around, but I keep forgetting that can take pictures.)

( Cut for large and in this case not very good pictures. )

The initial, picture-free report! (I haven't actually had the chance to look through my pictures yet, not that I took many since my cheap camera kept objecting to the light, even when my camera and I were in nice cheery sunlight.)

( Cut for length and continued suppression of the pajama incident. )

I have just spent some quality time inside a steampunk submarine and killing some bunnies.

Not surprisingly, this has greatly improved my mood and left me woozy and ready for bed. Later all.

S, C and I are off for Gen Con tomorrow, which means my access to and time on the internet will be greatly limited for a week or so. So, some small things before I go, in case I don't get around to it tomorrow ( Read more... )

Right! Appearances! Where I will be in 2011:

1) Driving arrangements permitting, I should be stopping by the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. I have absolutely no schedule for this, so if you are planning on being there, and want to meet up, let me know and I'll try to work something out.

2) MegaCon 2011, Orlando, on ( Read more... )

Notes: We began encountering major, but major, disability access problems right after our arrival, most of which I may be covering in a separate post. Assume that many of the time gaps are filled by my irritated realizations that I can't actually get where I am trying to get, thanks to stairs, holes, lack of elevators, or other issues. (The ( Read more... )

Part one of the catching up on blogging begins, as I finally work out how to get my trip notes off the iTouch and more or less into the temporary and overworked netbook computer. Grr ( Read more... )

Back home. Feeling sick, so posting my post from Saturday that didn't go up because of internet issues.

1. I have found a dragonbane and a bijili! Also a Jennifer Brozek and a Jason Sizemore and a lot of other people. It's a crowded con.

2. Secret message to my father: Stormtroopers. Stormtroopers in kilts!

3. To silviamg and thesnowleopard: tables and tables of Cthulhu and ( Read more... )

Internet access: surprisingly good.

Disability access: surprisingly bad.

More later, after I drown my sorrows in coffee. Gamers are calling.

1. From multiple sources on the net, this, from the good folks at the Christian Science Monitor, may just be the headline of the year: "Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts....The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys." (I am quoting. Directly ( Read more... )