There wasn't much going on yet Thursday morning so after a breakfast at Hanlon's (the diner that took the place of Big Mama's, which took the place of Steel City Diner), I crossed the yellow bridge over to the north side to do two geocaches, Cache of the Month Challenge: April and Everybody Loves Blue 26. The former is a challenge cache requiring ( Read more... )

After a light dinner on Tuesday, I finished packing for Anthrocon and loaded everything into the car. Started out at around 8pm so I had plenty of time to geocache along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and still arrive in Pittsburgh the next morning. I actually only had 8 geocaches to do on the PA Turnpike westbound so I supplemented that by stopping in ( Read more... )

Got back last night from a weekend in Pittsburgh for my 14th Anthrocon. Executive summary: I had a great time. There was never a dull moment and there really were too many things to do and friends to see to cram into a few days. This is not to say that everything went perfectly but we worked around the problems when we could and didn't let those ( Read more... )

Busy morning. Seems like all the good job leads came in at once and all shortly before Anthrocon. What I was really looking for is somewhere to use my Perl (or Python, or Ruby, if it came to that) scripting skills. I'd been doing the C and C++ gig for over 14 years and I would prefer not to go back to that if possible. I came across a few openings ( Read more... )

The con may be over but the festivities didn't stop after my last post. I was able to meet up with quite a few friends in the last moments because everyone was back in the hotel and they were easier to spot in a smaller crowd. I also put on the raccoon fursuit, went to the dance at the Dead Dog Party, got into a number of photoshoots around the ( Read more... )

Started the day with breakfast at Steel City Diner. I had a gyro omelette. I happened to sit at the diner counter right next to mejeep. Both he and I thought we were going to be eating alone but that apparently wasn't to be. :) I didn't have anything planned for the morning so I went to the Dealer's Room to look for Sunday specials. Indeed there was. I ( Read more... )

I woke up pretty early in the morning because I'm a light sleeper and the sound of someone showering can apparently travel through the wall. So I took the opportunity to head out to Steel City Diner before the Anthrocon crowd and have some French toast. Then I went to masquerade rehearsal. I was in magnusdiridian's skit, "Oh noes teh drama", with magnusdiridian, mejeep, aquafoxzorro, axelwolf, bondage-husky, and syberfoxmi ( Read more... )

Started the day with a southwest burrito breakfast at Fernando'sFurnando's. Then I went to the opening ceremony. The attendance figure at open was already 3,127, which is remarkable for a recession period. Then I went to the Dealers' Room to drop off my charity auction donation, pick up my Sponsor con shirt, and browse the Dealers' Room and Artist ( Read more... )

I started the day with breakfast at Steel City Diner with marauderosu. I had the Steel City Special. After breakfast, I headed out to the Strip District for two geocaches. There was an 80% chance of rain so I brought an umbrella. Thank goodness I did because it started raining heavily after the first geocache, Running Dogs in the Strip. It wasn't a ( Read more... )

Got a few last-minute items for Anthrocon on Tuesday: the state flag and a flagpole. I wasn't planning to carry a flag in the fursuit parade but I found out where to get one close to home so I figured why not? After work, I had a dental appointment. Same as always: teeth are solid, gums are bleeding at a low level. I'd finished packing the day ( Read more... )