Some of you here might remember the rasfwr-j regular Becky/Nynaeve, from way back when. :-)

With her kind permission, and on her behalf, I'd like, on this momentous day for her, to raise the traditional toast: That's *Doctor* Becky/Nynaeve/ladybird97 to you, Punk! ;-)

Hooray hooray hooray! :-)

Since response for my call for people next month has, except for culfinriel, have all been negative, I can't see continuing for the weekend of April 13. melallen, you haven't indicated that you've gotten tickets yet (and since you won't answer your phone, I can't confirm :P), so I'm assuming you haven't. culfinriel, you indicated that you planned on driving up from NC, so ( Read more... )

Okay, so we're six weeks out from when I expect people to show up on my porch.

I'm looking for a mostly final count here...who's coming?

Crossposted to darkfriends, dfs, and jsbowden.

Author Brandon Sandenson to write A Memory of Light, the book to conclude The Wheel of Time.

Manuscript due next December---they are giving him a good long time---and publication scheduled for Fall 2009---they are giving the editing process a good long time, too.

James Oliver Rigney passed away yesterday, according to the Nielsen Haydens.

Right now I do not have anything else.

So, since I'm on the topic WRT this coming Saturday, the response I've gotten on an April DC DFS indicates that the final weekend of the Annual Cherry Blossom Festival (April 11 - 13) is a good time for people, and they'd actually be interested in showing up.

So, does this work for everyone?

I'd still like to plan a DFS in the VA suburbs of DC if folks are interested. From responses the last time I brought this up a couple weeks ago, it sounds like Spring is when most of you are interested and available.

Like, April...ish. Early April is probably bad, as most folks are doing family things for Easter and it's robeli's birthday right around ( Read more... )

A more wretched hive of scum and villainy...well, would be a great place to throw a social, and some of you have expressed interest ( Read more... )

For anyone whom it may concern, your new community maintainer is the really quite splendid silmaril, to whom I am profoundly grateful for stepping in at this moment and permitting me to depart the role with a light heart.

Can I get a round of applause, please, for the new maintainer!

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This is a permanent change.  While a redirection is in place so that the former URL will continue to function for the forseeable future, please update your bookmarks, web pages, mental notes, pieces of ( Read more... )