Had a fabulous time at the Nebula Awards weekend. Slept in this morning to recover. Was part of the volunteer group helping SFWA put on the event so my weekend started Wednesday night when we loaded large numbers of boxes of books onto the rental truck at the Sapienzas house. And then Thursday was mostly spent unloading the book boxes and ( Read more... )

Can't decide whether to celebrate the end of Passover with the "traditional" beer & pizza or to go for beer and pad thai instead ( Read more... )

23. Living With the Dead by Kelley Armstrong ( Read more... )

Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith, one of the longest running Dr Who companions has died ( Read more... )

Back from Ravencon in Richmond, VA. Had a good time. Went to Q Barbeque and had a bbq pork sandwich and hush puppies for a late lunch on Friday. Threw a party with wmslawhorn and makotohanabi Friday night, pretty much ran out of beer and cider, but not as much of the hard liquor, although the Jack Daniels, the spiced rum and the coconut rum were all completely consumed ( Read more... )

and in keeping with the season.

If Moses had the internet:

http://www.aish.com/h/pes/mm/Passover_Google_Exodus.html

Hosted the Northern Virginia Doctor Who Viewing Society this afternoon. So the apartment is nice and clean. We did our usual order a pizza and watch a dvd. With the recent passing of Nicholas Courtney, we decided a Brigadier episode would be appropriate. I only had Pertwee era dvds featuring UNIT, and they were mostly the 7 episode ones, which ( Read more... )

Had a good time at Lunacon. Spent most of it parked at the Capclave table. Didn't sell any memberships but did sell a copy of the Turtledove signed, limited edition book we did for Capclave 2009. Did make my pitch to a bunch of people (helped along by the bribe of homemade hamentashen), and given the lack of free internet and the unreliability ( Read more... )

Packing finished. Will be at Lunacon this weekend mostly sitting at the Capclave fan table selling memberships. Have made hamentashen, which will be used to lure people to the fan table.

Game night at samthereaderman's place last night. We played several games of TransEuropa and then re-learned how to play Ra. Ra requires somewhat longer range strategic planning than I can usually manage to do well, given that each game consists of 3 epochs and you have to keep track of six or seven things in your own hand in addition to what everyone else is ( Read more... )