A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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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…
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WorldCon Day Five
The crowds were less and the tiredness was more.
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WorldCon Day Four
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.
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WorldCon Day Three
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WorldCon Day Two
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WorldCon Day One
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…
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Gen Con Sunday – A Gentle Rain on Our Brilliant Ruin
This was my earliest event of the con, at 9am, and it was a bit of a struggle. This doesn’t speak well for my transition back into working life. In previous years I’ve done early morning podcast recordings, or 5k…
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Gen Con Saturday – I’d Like To Add To The Inventory Of Holes, If I Can
Saturday morning had been an empty spot for a while, but I eventually found something to play; A cozy GM-less game called Good Soup, about woodland animals making soup for travelers. Sadly, the game session was cancelled just before Gen…
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Gen Con Friday – The Leviathan Squirrel Is Friend-Shaped, But It Is Not A Friend
This was my “8 hours of RPGs in a row” day. I don’t like to have two events back to back, especially not in different hotels, but sometimes it just works out that way. We (Tom, Naomi, Jay, & I)…
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Gen Con Day One – Thursday
With the JW Hotel Buffet non-operational & non-existant, I was forced to forage for breakfast. By which I mean that I got a breakfast sandwich from one of the ICC foodcourts, which was also an accessway to the skywalk to…
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