This is the first even-numbered year since 2000 that I've missed Origins. Sorry, folks.

If Project X had bit me earlier, I'd probably would have made plans to go. At least one party involved encouraged me to go anyway, but going for X-related reasons right now would be just a tad premature. Interesting to use this as a benchmark for my ever- ( Read more... )

Hey folks. I didn't go to Origins; the Andys didn't wanna and the timing just didn't seem right. I am giving myself another day or three to decide if I wanna go to Gen Con. I don't have a really solid reason to go, since Volity is in such a weird transitional state. Networking is good, but until the web client's in full beta it all feels ( Read more... )

Another rare example of geek-jokery that actually made me laugh, seen at Origins:

A t-shirt with a pair of large d20s at chest-level, each showing "20", with the caption YES, THEY'RE NATURAL

I think unfortunately that if you can work in naughty bits or excreta I'll always think it's the height of comedy.

Random stuff before I turn in ( Read more... )

The dead license made it through four inspections in Hartford and two in Columbus. (Half TSA, half airline.) Nobody did anything with it other than glance long enough to confirm that its name matched the name printed on my ticket or boarding pass ( Read more... )

This was written Saturday night but I had trouble posting it from the hotel's crap Internet connection. Home now; more later.Finished the expo floor today, more or less. There were a couple of less promising booths we skipped once time started to get tight; we may drop by those as part of a cleanup-run on Sunday, but I'm just as likely to spend ( Read more... )

Today we cruised five of the expo floor's eleven aisled. It went really well; a couple of people were borderline dismissive, but about twice as many were really excited to hear about us, and everyone else was interested enough to invite followup conversation after the show. If I weren't completely exhausted I'd be pretty psyched ( Read more... )

After the last post I did a number of things. Got tea and dropped stacks of flyers around, including in the Looney room with permission from Mr. Looney himself. Then I started feeling poorly again, so I took a nap, while daerr improved the Game Finder a bit, which was pretty neat. Woke up feeling like a new man, and ate an actually pretty tasty and ( Read more... )

Sorted out the problems with registration, checked into our hotel room, have showered and shaved and eaten (though I probably could have chosen better than greasy pad thai given my abused stomach... oops). I have said hello to a few Looney people as I happen to run into them but haven't really debuted yet; been letting Zarf do this ( Read more... )

Didn't get cranky about all of this until I went through Hartford airport security for the second time in two days. (In the same direction.)

FWIW, the dead license has made it through four inspections so far. So that much is OK.

The worst thing is that I am now very sleep-deprived; was already running on deficit yersterday, and was allowed only ( Read more... )