Author: Craig

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…

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…

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…

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’…

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…

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…

Did breakfast at Patachou with Tom.Sat & chatted a while, then went wandering through the ICC to see the con coming together. I was feeling a bit dehydrated, so we regrouped at the JW to take advantage of lounge access so that Tom could sort through games he was interested in. I’d thought that there…

Move out day, or at least room change day.I packed up my minimal stuff, expecting to be stashing it for a few hours until the next reservation’s check-in started, but at the desk they offered to let stay in the previous room. Seems like the desk person was wrong when I first checked in, or…

Cookout DayThey’re starting to assemble the gaming halls in the ICC, so grabbed a few pictures.Dithered a bit on shorts Vs jeans, but went with the shorts & didn’t regret the decision. ( Packed a warmer layer just in case ) About five minutes before Tom picked me up the JW Forecourt suddenly turned into…

Slept pretty well, in chunks.4h, then 2, then blocks of an hour for a while. Breakfast buffet was in operation, though I recognised NONE of the staff. Not surprising for multiple years away. Went hunting for a suitcase/bag.The ICC is deserted, in the corridors at least, though there was some setup or breakdown going on…