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  • 28/7 – That First Step Out The Door

    28/7 – That First Step Out The Door

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    Woke up stupidly early at 5amSent the travel plans email to Parents, read for a bit Coffee+Walk with Alex, who suggested Argos for a power bank.Did dishes, swept, unplugged everything, took out rubbish/recycling.Walked through the park to Argos, which has moved. Curry’s still there, bought power bank. Took many pictures of power sockets & windows;…

  • The Gen Con Schedule

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    Here’s how it looks; Not 100 on how I’ll fill that gap on Saturday, but I’m sure something will come up. All of the games are either in the JW Marriott ( it’s a convenient coincidence – I almost always stay there ) or in the Indiana Convention Centre ( over in the NE corner…

  • In Which Craig Looks At The Gen Con 2022 Event List

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    Being a listing of the things which I found by specifically looking for them by company or system, or just by scrolling through the list and spotting a name which made me say “What’s that about?” I have no idea how many of these I’m going to end up playing;Some are on the list because…

  • Gen Con (Online) 2021

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    For obvious reasons, I’m not going to be attending Gen Con in person this year; I’ll be doing the online variant instead. Last year they did an online version because there could be no in-person convention, this year they’re doing both, though the in-person one is reduced in number of people, number of events, and…

  • A Non-Gaming Gen Con Thing

    A Non-Gaming Gen Con Thing

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    I’ve not gone back to reread all of the Gen Con posts, but I am wondering whether they come across as more of a colossal tale of woe and despair than I’m really wanting them to. Yes, stuff went wrong; Transport getting there was chaotic & disrupted, and the ending of the holiday was not…

  • 9311 Eskenazi, 1432 SpringHill

    9311 Eskenazi, 1432 SpringHill

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    I think I got up to “Hey, new room! And new IV!!” in the last post. One of the particularly great things about the new room in the ward was that I was attached to IV pumps on a rolling stand, as opposed to gravity drip feeds on a stand attached to the bed, so…

  • Where Things Diverticulated From The Plan

    Where Things Diverticulated From The Plan

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    May as well cover this one.Fair warning, there will probably be awful pictures, starting with the selfie I don’t remember taking. The Timeline, As I Somewhat Recall It Started to feel unwell on Saturday the 3rd of August, day 3 of Gen Con.Not too bad at first, and I assumed it was a combination of…

  • Trying To Sum Up Gen Con / Holiday 2019

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    It’s difficult to know where to start.A lot has happened, both at the con and after it, much of it kind of horrible. Focusing On The Good – The Games Didn’t have a bad game this time around.There was one ( “The Strange” ) which didn’t start well because multiple players had also run the…

  • Jet Lag Induced Culinary Adventures

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    The view from my room is pretty damn good; Slept with the curtains open, partially to wake up with the dawn to force some timezone adaption, but also because, from the 30th, floor, it’s quite a view. There was a triathlon going on out there, though they were swimming in the canal, not the river.…

  • When last we saw our hero,

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    … He was sitting on his ass in the Metropolitan Lounge at Chicago Union Station, enjoying complimentary beverages & snacks. Eventually the train was called, and so we all trooped down to the boarding hall, where we stood around being occasionally required to move because they needed to get a motorized cart thingy through, because…