Greetings to new reader tiger-spot. It was nice to see you at Fourth Street. Your journal looks interesting, so I'll probably follow you, but I haven't actually gotten to know you, so it'll wait till I've worked through my old posts privacy settings.

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Hah! I might have decent pattern matching, but I'm not so good at seeing an individual object I'm looking for in a mass of others. Which is to say that it was on a shelf I had already searched at least four times. Now to sleep. And then to packing.

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Bah. It's looking increasingly unlikely that I'll find my travel documents in time to make my flight. While I haven't cancelled my hotel bookings etc yet, I don't know that one should expect to see me there either. As problems go, this is comparatively minor, but it's still disappointing since for a number of friends, this is the one time this year ( Read more... )

That's day one for me anyway. Officially the convention hasn't started yet, but I'm counting from the day I arrive in sunny, then rainy, then sunny, Minneapolis/Saint Paul and get to have conversations that have 4th Street nature. Today that meant meeting
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Friday night ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off to Montreal for my first Worldcon. I'll be back in about a week. So much for writing about Mill Race beforehand. After I signed off last post, I woke up at lunch time on Tuesday. I thought that I might write in between moving laundry around and packing but I didn't get past the reading up that I had planned. I've got a twitter account ( Read more... )

Nous sommes arrivé à Montréal. We intend to stay for about a week. Obviously, I have internet access, but I may not be checking much until I get back home. In peripherally related news, I passed by my old primary school, where I was in beloved French immersion from Grade 1 to Grade 3, and it looks like it is going to be demolished shortly. For ( Read more... )

Four more days until the end of the Fringe , Polaris starts tomorrow, and I have yet to see a single show ( Read more... )

Huh. So when the new Fourth Street Fantasy Convention poster went up, I saw that Patricia C. Wrede (whose Dealing With Dragons is a favourite of mine) was now on the list of author guests. I'd already wanted to go, mostly to see mrissa and timprov again and meet markgritter as well as their friends but knowing that I'd see at least a few of them at farthingparty, that I dislike travel ( Read more... )