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  • Chicago to Dublin to London to Aylesbury

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    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…

  • Chicago

    Chicago

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    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…

  • A Weekend In Indiana

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    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…

  • Seattle Moving Day

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    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…

  • WorldCon Day Five

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    The crowds were less and the tiredness was more.

  • WorldCon Day Four

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    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.

  • WorldCon Day Three

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  • WorldCon Day One

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    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…

  • Gen Con Sunday – A Gentle Rain on Our Brilliant Ruin

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    This was my earliest event of the con, at 9am, and it was a bit of a struggle. This doesn’t speak well for my transition back into working life. In previous years I’ve done early morning podcast recordings, or 5k runs, though at this particular moment I’m not sure how. The game that Tom &…