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  • Origins Game Fair Thursday

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    I played more demos on this day than I have in the entirety of my Gen Con attendance. Also found out about a bunch of other games but didn’t demo them. We got premier badges for Origins, because we are elitist snobs it made getting a downtown hotel easier, and this includes getting into the…

  • Indianapolis to Columbus

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    It took us a while to find the convention centre once we got situated in the hotel. It’s kind of a maze in places, and the signage, to me at least, works along the assumption that you already know the layout; Directions to specific things in the centre, not to the place itself. The route…

  • Chicago to Indianapolis

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    Slept well, and woke up at a sensible time. Well, sensible enough; There was sunshine & the hotel restaurant had coffee. ( there was an actual ‘Mr Coffee’ coffeemaker in the room, and I discovered why you don’t put too much water in the reservoir of those things. fortunately it was in a little tray,…

  • London to Chicago

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    The hotel didn’t have AC, but did have windows that open a bit, so I could get some cooling effect & got a decent amount of sleep, admittedly in “only my feet are under the covers” mode. Woke up a little bit before my alarm.Hotel breakfast wasn’t as crowded as I’d dreaded. ( there was…

  • It begins, as always, with an indifferent railway station coffee

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    This is the last few months of my ‘sabbatical’ – I’m going to a convention in the US, on to NZ via a week in Fiji, then back through the US for two more conventions, and back to the UK. That’s the plan, anyway. The trip from Aylesbury to Heathrow wasn’t entirely smooth. I got…

  • An Irish Wedding: Getting There & Getting There

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    It was an early start; Everyone else in the car was heading for Gatwick, but I was flying out of Heathrow because I’d booked later due to being in Thailand, so I was very kindly dropped off along the way. My flights were later than the other folks, so I was there well before check-in…

  • A Few Days In Auckland

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    I’m still dealing with jetlag induced slump, so this is a bit of a short one.

  • Friday through Sunday – LAS to LAX to NAN to AKL

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    I’m going to be adding to this as I go along, assuming airport WiFi happens.

  • Thursday in Las Vegas

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    This was a slow day; Hard to wake up, hard to get moving, and the noise & crowds were getting to me more than ever before. There’s a non-zero chance that some level of Con Crud¹ is at play, because I felt cold today; Not outside, but when indoors, it felt cold. Did a few…

  • Wednesday – Kà

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    The original plan was to do some kind of trip out into the desert today, either a Grand Canyon tour or one of the others, but I decided not to to because of the heat warning – pretty sure my travel insurance would laugh at me if something happened, and it’s hot enough that my…