Another FKO has come and gone. It was a wonderful time -- despite needing to be in bed so early both nights, and needing to leave so early so as to make it home still awake today ( Read more... )

The news coming in from Japan just breaks my heart ( Read more... )

Happy New Year all.

( Vacation notes )

Yeah, I'm down under -- about half way through with our trip -- and while Clark is off running the City to Surf (half) marathon I'm using his computer to catch up on LJ. (Internet is not included and is way expensive, so we bought a prepaid Virgin Mobile dongle... which fortunately works on the windows side of his computer).

Anyhow, I just saw ( Read more... )

traveller42 & I are home safely from FKO. astro_not1 made it as far as our place and has headed on ( Read more... )

( Thanksgiving weekend, Chambanacon )

Labor Day weekend:

Overall it was a good weekend, (WorldCon didn't compete with the Mackinac Bridge Walk -- yay!) but there were frustrations.

The weekend was a long one, as is my post -- so it's behind a ( cut. )

My flight home from worlcon was delayed about 4 hours -- as the plane that I was supposed to get on was delayed in Detroit due to mechanical difficulties. That plane never flew; they sent a replacement. I just got mail from the General Manager of Customer Care at NWA, giving me 2500 bonus frequent flyer miles and a personal apology. Wow ( Read more... )

Anticipation: WorldCon trip 2009, Montréal, Canada
Not going to give a con report, but I will type in all sorts of randomness, and if you actually read it, and some aspect of it strikes your fancy, I will be happy to elaborate on request.

( Ok... this was a lot longer than I expected. )

Drove down to a convention with a friend -- Good conversation on the way, both down and back.

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