Hah, so it turns out even attending virtually, and not especially intensely, the post-convention fog is real. Day Two Virtual Worldcon This was my busiest day for panels. First off was Food and Fantasy, with …
Virtual Worldcon Day One and a Half
What with timezones, and having posted in my afternoon yesteday, the timeline gets fuzzy. That said, yesterday’s total ended up being two panels and the bid session. The first reading didn’t happen – I think …
Day One Virtual Worldcon
The good news is that although the parcel with my art arrived late, Spike and Tom arranged to have Ian Stockdale collect it and bring it down to Seattle! Having generous and resourceful friends is …
Conventions, convention prep, and lack thereof.
Worldcon is next week, I wont be there in person but have a virtual membership and have been enjoying the Discord in the lead up. While it is giving me massive fomo already, it is …
Zombies and Demons and Witches, oh my!
October may be a few months away yet, but my media consumption has been a bit horror-centric the last couple of weeks. First of all, catching up on Agatha All Along, which so far is …
Walking the Wall
John and I have been talking about walking the the Hadrian’s Wall path for a while now. It’s a big part of the local history, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and just kind of a …
The Clarke Awards
This year John was one of the Clarke judges, which meant that on Wednesday we took the train down to London for the ceremony. I was curious how it would go, being more familiar with …
Pimlico
Had a short weekend in London, chilling on the Saturday and then spending Sunday wandering Pimlico. It’s an area I haven’t spent much time in, so it was fun to have a little explore – …
A Map
After fiddling around on and off with several opaque map plugins, I’ve finally settled on a simple OSM embed and am working on making a nerdy map, mainly for my pleasure but hopefuly of some …
Vienna
We barely had time to unpack from Belfast when we had to leave for Vienna. Poor us! John had a work conference to attend, so for him it was not pure leisure, but I was …