Author: Craig

  • Tuesday

    Again, mostly images. Went to the Children’s Museum with Tom in the middle of the day, & caught up with Frank in the late afternoon.

  • Monday

    Also image heavy, so they’re behind the cut. This was the day that Tom arrived downtown, so I met up with him & Dawn for breakfast, once he’d got set in his hotel. Before that I was wandering the ICC halls & getting a few more pictures.

  • Saturday & Sunday

    A whole lot of images here, so I’m putting them behind the cut. Saturday was pretty much the “stay awake while the sun’s out” day, to try to adjust to the new time zone. Hung out with Naomi+Jay (whose place I was staying at), and then Tom. Sunday was a … Is it a cookout…

  • Getting There

    There, in this case, being a town outside of Indianapolis where I’m staying with friends because the downtown Indy hotel rates for that weekend were insane.

  • A Half A Day In Rotterdam

    It’s been a while since i posted here, but … Haven’t been doing much travelling lately, nobody wants to hear about needful but unpleasant trips to to the dentist, and if I posted work-related stuff I’d probably get fired.However, I had a couple of days of “use it or lose it” leave to use before…

  • The Client App I Use Prompted Me, So I’m Answering, To See What Happens

    If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? I’m thinking some kind of subscription-model gaming cafe. It’d probably only make sense in a place where housing is sufficiently small that gaming space is at a premium, so that it’d make sense to book a space somewhere. Bonus if you could…

  • Heading Back

    Walk to the JW, Taxi to the Airport, Flight to Chicago, Airport Transit to T5, Long-Ass line for Security, Flight to Dublin, Flight to Heathrow, Train into Paddington, Tube to Marylebone, Train to Princes Risborough, Rail Replacement Bus to Aylesbury, Walk to the Travelodge. Gave myself plenty of time with an afternoon flight so I…

  • The Monday After

    Once they start packing up Gen Con, it happens really quickly. By Monday morning, after I’d packed the suitcase & checked out, there were signs in various stages of dismantlement, most of the Gaming Hall was clear, and the Exhibit Hall was a mass of boxes and people packing up their stuff. I normally stay…

  • Sunday: Day 4 :: Urban Shadows & The Hall Of Spending

    Urban Shadows again. This time I went for something about as far from ‘normal person’ as possible, and played a ghost. I feel like I got the game more this time, the idea of using the influence of your group, the trading of debts to get things done, that sort of thing

  • Saturday: Day 3 :: Urban Shadows & Rapscallion

    Urban Shadows is a game I’d heard of, but never played, and was down in the unfashionable “these will never come up” tail end of my event wishlist. Well, it did, and after some misgivings during the game, I’m glad it did. Urban Shadows is political urban fantasy, so there’s a lot going on with…