My cousin wants to attend his 1st Worldcon so I'm shopping for a MidAmeriCon II membership for him. Used is fine (aka no voting rights included). I'll be glad to pay $120 for one.

Just got my hotel reservations made for Loscon, LAX Nov 23-25. The room rate was good but the parking is painful especially since I don't expect to be making any use of the in-n-out (for the car, not the burger chain ( Read more... )

Retired from real life job in April 2011 and doing a lot more travelling - mostly to SF conventions. Had such a good time at the Seattle Westercon in July that we're planning to go to NorWesCon next year. Loved the drive but thinking of taking the train next time.
Stayed with a friend after the con and she seems willing to have us again.

Sorry I'm not more active on LJ. Another social network (subject of a recent movie) has been sucking all my time ( Read more... )

I found out that my mother-in-law will not be joining us at Denvention so I have an attending membership for sale. You can e-mail me at cmarble@gmail.com to work out the price.

At the Ice Cream Social on Friday night I will be using liquid nitrogen to freeze ice cream. I think this will be the 6th time I've done it. Flavors will remain a secret until the Ice Cream Social starts. Please stop by and watch me make ice cream in 1 minute. It's some of the smoothest ice cream you'll ever have. It freezes so quickly that ( Read more... )

As I have for 6 of the last 7 years I expect to be using Liquid Nitrogen to freeze Ice Cream in 1 minute. As usual the flavors I chose will be a surprise (except to me and Mark Poliner).