A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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Hickman’s Killer Breakfast This is an event where Tracy Hickman kills the entire audience in a two-hour improv exercise, where the only thing that’ll keep you alive is being entertaining or a technical problem. Or both in our case. By…
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Day Two – Strange Devices, Strange Planets, and Strange Chocolate
The initial plan was to do a post every day. Clearly, this did not survive second contact with the enemy Gen Con, but I did keep notes, so here’s me turning them into something more readable. Friday Late on…
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Day One – Long Lines, Big Crowds, A Visit Form The Swag Fairy, Cremefillians, No Inspectres, The Late Late Late Show, and Bee Coffee
Long Lines In previous years I joined the line for VIG Early Access to the Dealer/Exhibit Hall early, to try to get a decent place. This year, based on some faulty assumptions, I decided that I could just join the…
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Day Zero – So, I’ve hit the “headings with commentary” stage sooner than I expected to.
“Hey, Cool Shirt”, and Pallet trucks on carpet kind of suck Before I made it into the central bit of Gen Con at the ICC (which I think of everything East of the Crossroads Concourse), one of the proprietors of Off…
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2015 VIG Swag – Yeah, I’ve got luggage problems
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2014 VIG Swag – I have no clue what some of this is
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Day Three – Under The Remorseless Assault Of The Day-Star
I started today with some plans to go and do tourist things, but a walk to find the CVS demonstrated just what I was in for. I did do a lap of the State Capitol building, to see whether I…
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Day Two – So. Many. Show. Notes.
3am, my old nemesis; We meet again. But this time, the advantage is … Well, still yours. I slept until about 9:30, which seemed OK at the time, but here at the wrong side of 3am, seems like a mistake.…
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Something I Forgot From The Los Angeles To Indianapolis Flight
This was a Delta Airlines flight, who, it seems, are trying to make their flight safety videos more interesting so that people will actually watch the damn things. They seem to have a bunch, so here’s the one I saw.…
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Root Beer, Cellphones, Cavernous Halls & Alterna-VIG; Wrapping Up Day One
Once I got to my room, I had a lot of shower, because I really needed it. Felt much better afterwards, so I took a walk to the mall through a mostly-empty Convention Centre to see whether I could find…
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