Well, I've packed everything I can think to pack and done everything I can think of doing in preparation. Nothing left but a quick stop by the liqour store, and then I'm off to Providence for my first convention ever. Ten mortal long years of waiting and wanting culminate in this one weekend.

Should be interesting.

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So, this last weekend was... Interesting. My mother and older brother came out from Idaho for my middle sister's Big Gay Wedding, so I've been getting more Family Time in the last five days than the previous few years. The wedding itself was quite nice- my sister and her partner have been together for ten years already, in the most stable ( Read more... )

Grandma Sims is gone. Apparently she just got in bed, got comfortable, and... Left.

She never was one to drag things out.

Exactly one month to Botcon, and I've (finally) got my schedule for all of the next two months set. I managed to work out one that gave me all the days off I'd need between my sister's wedding and the 'con without actually losing any hours and without asking the guy who works opposite of me to do too many days in a row, and both he and my boss ( Read more... )

I'm now officially Going to Botcon. Faxed the form in at work, got a confirmation call the next day. #778, whatever relevance that may have. Sprung for the the boxset, since I might as well, and the movie ticket, because that's half the point. Didn't go for any of the Wednesday stuff, tho, both because it's fairly pointless (and expensive!), and ( Read more... )

You may not know this, but I'm a fairly big fan of the Elder Scrolls game series. Have been ever since randomly picking up Daggerfall at a computer show and promptly falling in love with it, despite its annoying habit of crashing back into DOS with the last note from the soundtrack ringing in the speakers until I rebooted the PC. When I built my ( Read more... )

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And for more than the obvious reasons, too! Although the snow we've been getting over the last few weeks gives me more than enough reasons on its own, to be sure. I always seem to get stuck driving on un- or under-plowed roads, and the poor Eagle can't seem to get any traction worth a damn in that tire-kicked slush you get on those surfaces. Having ( Read more... )

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