So, given that I was Fan Guest of Honor, I guess I owe the world a con report ( Read more... )

I'm home in one piece from Windycon. Sorry I couldn't stay for more of the dead dog but as tired as I am now, I would not want to still be on the road for sure ( Read more... )

WTF? I wrote this last night, but it didn't post, and I only noticed now.

I have returned from Capricon, where in spite of my initial feelings when I looked at the schedule, I was never without enjoyable ways to occupy my time.

Friday we arrived a little late and missed the beginning of billroper's Cafe set, but I got to hear several good songs. I ( Read more... )

So, my Thanksgiving festivities are over a little early this year ( Read more... )

Safely home from Windycon. There was a lot of music. Wall to wall concerts from Friday at 8 until Sunday at 2, the only gap being Saturday evening. They need the stage for the masquerade. Enough of the concerts were ones I wanted to hear that I didn't get to any other programming (even though there was a fair bit of programming I would have ( Read more... )

Went to a new-to-me restaurant in Urbana for dinner this evening. It's a tiny hole-in-the-wall Mexican place called Huarches Moroleon. It's located at Washington and Philo, in a building that I've seen a bunch of places rotate through, but I hadn't been in it for several incarnations ( Read more... )

On a more pleasant and less sensitive note, Mother's Day is coming up Sunday, and since birder2 is going to be kind of busy that day, we decided that we'd go out to dinner today. I had heard that her favorite Indian restaurant had closed, but I'd also heard in the same conversation that a new Indian restaurant had opened in downtown Urbana. Google found ( Read more... )

Rather than sit at home and feel sorry for myself for New Years, I decided to drive up to Milwaukee for the party at Lytheria. If I'd known what the weather was going to do, I might have stayed home. The drive up was only somewhat bad; it started snowing lightly north of Kankakee. The biggest problem was the salty goop on the road constantly ( Read more... )

It seems unlikely that this will matter to anyone who reads it, but what the heck ( Read more... )

Back from Capricon.  Had a good time.  What limited how good a time I had was mostly me and not the con ( Read more... )