Category: Holiday 2019
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A Non-Gaming Gen Con Thing
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…
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9311 Eskenazi, 1432 SpringHill
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…
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Where Things Diverticulated From The Plan
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…
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Trying To Sum Up Gen Con / Holiday 2019
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…
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Jet Lag Induced Culinary Adventures
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.…
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When last we saw our hero,
… 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…
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Posting from Union Station, in the Metropolitan Lounge, of course
Right, well, that was a journey. Flight from Heathrow to Dublin was delayed by almost an hour by the end of things. Arrival in Dublin for some reason involved getting a bus to make it to connecting flights, so said bus was full of many irritated folks wondering whether they’d miss their next flight. I…
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Up To Three “Well That’s Not Good” Situations So Far, And I’m Still In England
First was the strike action, announced on Wednesday, affecting my flight. That eventually got cancelled. Next was my phone declining, or at least being difficult about, taking a charge. Annoying, but I’ve got my old NZ phone with me, which is very slow, but does still function for communication. Which is how I found out…
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Plans For An Eventful Gen Con
For some reason, possibly related to having too much free time, I decided to do a roundup of this year’s Gen Con plan; Specifically, the games.