I’ve been back for 9 or so days, the laundry is done (and, indeed, has built up to the point where it must be done again), the suitcase is mostly unpacked (should get onto that this weekend), and importantly to me at least, my back seems to be on the mend.

One Last Thing From Las Vegas

While failing to see the Bellagio fountains due to a trifling error in basic reading comprehension, I noted that a place named the “Cabo Wabo Cantina” was playing a familiar song; Outlook For Thursday, by DD Smash
This was on a Friday, just to add to the oddness of a place in Vegas playing a New Zealand song from 1983.

The Back

Hauling my suitcase off the conveyor probably didn’t do me any favours, as by the time I got back to House Needs A Name in Meadowbank, I couldn’t put weight on my right leg for a while after I got out of the car.
Various amounts of stretching & rest brought it back from there, but do more than that, so I saw a physiotherapist today, whose verdict was “not the disc, though there may have been some inflammation from the way the pain was migrating down one leg”, and who has given me some stretching sort of exercises to do.

It does feel better, so that’s a good sign, and there are some appointments next week to try to unlock my spine a bit, on the grounds that basically everything has tensed up.

Gen Con 2016 Plans

Oh, c’mon, we all knew I’d be starting planning.

I’m starting to think that the way to plan the next year or so is to figure out the events I definitely want to attend, and try to build a plan around that.
Gen Con (August 4 – 7, 2016) is one.
Right now it’s the only definite one, though if I were to do some travelling in the USA, Who’s Yer Con (April 1-3, 2016) has a certain appeal, as it’s in Indianapolis.

Having actually travelled around in LA, I now feel a whole lot more comfortable with the idea of venturing outside of the airport during long stretches between flights into & out of LAX, so that’s a good thing.