Author: Craig
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Scenes From A Stag Do
In hindsight, I’d have done the ‘weekend’ a bit differently; Taken the train in the morning to have more time to hang out with folks. Friday The event was Alex’s stag/bachelor weekend, which he organised himself, so there was a lot of cricket involved, starting with day three of a match at a stadium in…
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Chicago to Dublin to London to Aylesbury
It’s a long & exhausting trip, and it’s not getting any easier. The Indy to Dublin route opened after I booked, or I’d have at least tried that, to take out an airport and some time. For some reason, the host/server at the hotel restaurant was singing Julio Iglecias (?) songs to himself, and seemed…
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Chicago
Mostly photos in this one. In hindsight, I maybe could have spent more time in Anderson, making a slightly longer weekend of it, but I didn’t think of that until far too late. This is the downside of a plan which was sort of bodged together as events changed & kept changing. Had an evening…
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A Weekend In Indiana
While in Michigan I got to try a s’more, and had conversations about the appropriate sizing of marshmallow to cracker, which led on to conversations about making tiny little s’mores using those mini-marshmallows, if you could find the appropriate size of cracker. Which it turns out SouthWest have already done. It was a double flight…
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Seattle Moving Day
Well, moving from Hotel to Hostel. It’s sort of a moving day. The hotel wasn’t in a great area, I think? The area about a block away towards the conference centre seemed worse, just from the number of clearly drugged-up people seen & count of meth pipes in use. I didn’t feel particularly unsafe, I’d…
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WorldCon Day Four
There is a fanzine zone just outside the vendor booth and fan tables area, so I spent some time there and read a few things.
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WorldCon Day One
At previous WorldCons I’ve arrived earlier, and so have usually picked up my badge before day one of the convention. Not this time though; I got to experience the slow shuffling queue version of things. I do not remember a board game or RPG Library at the other WorldCons that I’ve attended, but to be…