Category: Holiday 2014

I don’t know why I bother setting an alarm; I’m always awake 20 minutes before the bloody thing anyway, even if I don’t want to be. Packing up the last of the room went well, as far as I know, and hit the lobby a bit after 6, to hand in my room key/card &…

Today’s big thing was visiting this place, Where I had one of these, It was a pretty slow start to the morning, and I spent a bunch of it sitting in the lobby on the comfy chairs, trying to summon the will to go out into the outside world. It’s not a bad walk to…

I normally avoid map-making panels* at cons for professional reasons, but thought I’d try the one here. This was a mistake, but not for the usual reasons of Really Bad Maps and Really Bad Advice; This one was just Really Boring, with one presenter murdering the development of star maps with quasi-straw man comments about…

A bit of a mixed bag on today’s events. Kids With Jobs, talking about the need to get YA protagonists away from Family & Mentors, unless you want to end up writing a school story. The panel spent a lot of time talking about the tendency to kill off the parents, as opposed to merely…

I started this con in the usual manner, by waking up too early & being unable to get back to sleep. I killed some time responding to, or at least reading, the pertinent bits of yesterday’s email barrage, most of which had to do with LonCon, so as to hit the breakfast room(s) at a…

So, what to do with my first day in Dublin? Based on my wanderings last night, it looks like the hotel was being entirely honest when they said that the City Centre was walking distance away, so that’ll help. I’m thinking maybe the Old Library at Trinity College, so that the zCats do not murder…

It’s like a Train To Malta in some respects, .., I didn’t sleep well last night, probably due to concern about getting to my train on time. On the positive side, that did give me the opportunity to watch a documentary about the London fish market, possibly Basildon, and a chunk of a thing about…

rather than just blasting out the whole email, which was … long … , here are the highlights Gen Con Attributes Record-Breaking 2014 Numbers to Growing Partnership between Gamers and Indianapolis Community INDIANAPOLIS (August 19, 2014) Gen Con 2014, completed August 14-17 at the Indiana Convention Center, experienced another year of record attendance numbers and…

I slept in today, and it was awesome. The one thing I ‘needed’ to get done today was picking up my train tickets for the trip to Dublin & back. Promptly got onto the wrong DLR train, so ended up going to Euston Station via Stratford. Given the idiotic degree of interconnectedness of the London…

John Wyndham – The Invisible Man Of Science Fiction This was a documentary on John Wyndham, who was spectacularly closed-mouthed about himself & his past, and seems to have been quite an odd man. This gave Wyndham & his works the sort of analysis I was hoping for from the Raumpatrouille Orion fan group presentation;…