... really, really sucks sometimes. I dearly wish it would just let up, even for just a few months, to get some time to breathe...

The past three weeks have been basically a hash as far as Querki is concerned. Between the five-day trip to visit in-laws, the six-day trip for Origins, and last week's vertigo problem (which seems to have finally resolved itself on Sunday, knock on wood), with only a few days between each, I'd simply gotten out of the habit of getting things done ( Read more... )

Got back yesterday from spending almost a week in Ohio at the Origins Game Fair -- I tagged along with mindways, as I did two years ago ( Read more... )

[A friend asked in their own LJ how everybody was doing. I responded with the following, more or less, and it occurs to me that I should post it as a diary entry here ( Read more... )

So this past weekend was Arisia, which I did pretty full-immersion. (It's not Kate's cup of tea -- too big and crowded -- so I was on my own for it.)

Overall, it was a good time. Three of my four panels were great, which is a perfectly fine track record. (The "Hellboy's 20th Anniversary" panel was kind of doomed from the start -- having that ( Read more... )

Endless waiting, endless delay. So many distractions, all of them important, but each one another little delay ( Read more... )

Yet another transition in a year that had been full of them. Mostly expected, but still -- it's been busy.

I sold Jane's car (the Matrix) to Jesse and Rachel a few months ago. And the tow truck came to take my car away this morning:

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After almost a year and a half of planning, Kate and I formally tied the knot on Saturday. Here's a long ramble about it ( Read more... )

+ Yesterday was ladysprite's annual apple-picking outing. I'd been iffy about attending, given how wedding-busy we've been, and the weather as of Saturday evening looked dreadful. But it seemed more plausible on Sunday morning, so I gave it a shot ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that, in the pre-wedding rush, I entirely missed a big anniversary. I don't know the exact date, but sometime in the past two weeks marked 30 years since I joined the SCA. Time for a reminiscence ( Read more... )