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Category: Holiday 2025

  • 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…

  • Auckland to Indy

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    I can’t entirely remember why this trip was divided into two days. It might be as simple as “that’s how the flight times worked out”, but it may also be that I wanted to try breaking the trip in Los Angeles. Got to say, I don’t think it worked the way that past me intended…