A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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Dropped off a couple of board games with the collection for Military Persons in the VIG Lounge. This, I think, is an awesome addition to the lounge, since there’s always something a person’s not interested in, and I know I…
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Gen Con Day Two – Dirty Walkin, Zombie Dropping, Coffee Shopping Fun
Woke up to my alarm, which was deeply confusing to me for some reason. In retrospect, maybe “The Weekenders” by The Hold Steady wasn’t the best choice for wake-up music. Good song though. She said “The theme of this party’s…
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Gen Con Day One: Squid, Sheep, Pasta & Moxie
I set an alarm this morning, then woke up a solid hour & a half before it. ~sigh~ Still, breakfast with steel-cut Oatmeal was good, and then, on my way to the VIG lounge, this happened; We, by which I…
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Gen Con Day Zero (Day Three By The Old Reckoning)
I slept pretty well last night, woke up feeling good, and headed down to breakfast to find that a storm of gamers had blown in, littering the lobby, the restaurant, and most importantly the Starbucks, with throngs of people. Around…
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Day Two – An Unexpected Gift-Bag
Last year, I wound up chatting late into Wednesday night with the Family Lewis, eventually wandering back to my hotel sometime after midnight, suddenly realising I was hungry, and ordering room service at 1:30am. That totally didn’t happen again, because…
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Day Two – Bookstores, Chance Meetings, And Abraham Lincoln
My book for the trip was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which was quite good, and which I have now finished. And started reading again, thanks to the Insomnias. Clearly I need a new book, so I picked up an on-sale…
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Day Two – Bookstores, Chance Meetings, And Abraham Lincoln
My book for the trip was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which was quite good, and which I have now finished. And started reading again, thanks to the Insomnias. Clearly I need a new book, so I picked up an on-sale…
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Day Two: Post-Sleepytime Update
The exercise thing worked, it seems, as I got something like four hours of sleep; I’ll remember that, I hope, should the Dread Insomnia raise it’s ugly head again. As it almost certainly will. ~ sigh ~ Free Breakfast today,…
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The Big Red Couch Would Like To Thank FedEx, …
… for taking my half-arsed idea of little slips of printed paper as promotional thingies, and turning it into these awesome little card stock creations, all done while I waited. They even cut them up for me. The original idea…
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Day Two – Well, Jetlag Combined With Insomnia Sucks
I was tired enough a handful of hours ago that I was nodding off while typing; Now I can’t sleep at all, and am reduced to sending blog updates to amuse myself. Somewhere below there is a security patrol car…
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