Author: Craig
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Day One – Pancakes & New Shoes
Slept ok. Better than the admittedly terrible idea of a night on the floor, but I kept waking up from dreams about cleaning, or with a panicked thought that I’d forgotten to clean something or clear out something. I figure that I’ll have plenty of time for hotel breakfast buffets over the course of this…
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Day Zero: Moving Out, Moving On, Moving Slowly & Painfully
( posting this from day one, but let’s not get too concerned about that, shall we ) The last of the furniture went away on day -1, and I’m already regretting this numbering system. I’m also somewhat regretting my decision to make a bed on the floor for the last night; I slept ok, and…
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10/8 – Trying To Stay Awake
Our story resumes with me killing time in the early morning at Dublin Airport, waiting on the last of three flights. There was some sort of … I’m not sure what … during priority boarding where a couple of folks ( one of whom was loud & deaf ) seemed to be trying to get…
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9/8 – Long Way “Home”
Woke up during the early morning to see a thunderstorm outside. (not a lot of point in closing the curtains when you’re on the 30th floor, and it’s nice to wake to the sunrise. Decided to skip hotel breakfast today, in favour of sleeping in a bit & getting to the airport in plenty of…
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8/8 – The Day After
Had to change rooms, or at least potentially change rooms, for my last reservation of the three today. I could have gone down & checked, but since I’m going to have to pack things up anyway, it seemed easier to set up to leave the room completely.Housekeeping, or maybe the housekeeping supervisor, intercepted me in…
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7/8 – Stealing Stories For The Devil and Closing Time
Last day, which is always a bit melancholy, at least for me. There’s been a lot of travel, a whole year of anticipation, and you’ve almost reached the end of ride. Wandered down to LucasOil Stadium, just to see what was down there. At just before 10am Sunday, … Not a whole lot happening. There…
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6/8 – Wayfaring Strange, the Exhibit Hall, & Avatar: Legends
Wayfaring Strange is another of the Weird Americana games I found in the event catalog, run, in this case, by the game designer.It’s about hidden paths & folklore & limnal spaces. We were a bunch of Wanderers who all found ourselves in the same roadside dinner with no idea how we got there, where we…
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5/8 – Orc Stomp, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, Bulldogs!, and Nowhereville
Early morning recording went pretty well, I think. The Orc Stomp 5k was my first event of the day, but … Not a game. Much more sweaty.I beat my time from 2019 by about a minute, coming in at under 10min/km. ( To be clear, I walked it, apart from a couple of short ‘jog’…
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4/8 – Tales From The Floating Vagabond & Crossroads Carnival
I’ve given up on figuring out how the JW assigns people to tables for breakfast. I got a 6-8 seater to myself, having been walked past a few two-seaters, and I was in a section which maybe wasn’t assigned to anyone, as it had no silverware, glasses, coffee cups, …These things eventually happened, piecemeal, over…
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3/8 – The Beginning & The Stink
Slept well, so the lurgh is definitely on the way out. Or mutating.Met up with Tom in the ICC. He was in line to buy stuff from the Official Gen Con Swag stand.Yesterday, or maybe the day before, we’d seen them setting up a big Line Starts Here sign on a pole, with the idea…