My sister Kendra just returned from college in Toronto, and will be hanging out here till classes start back up.

We are discussing maybe going to Otakon this summer, July 17-19 in Baltimore.

Any f-list people that might be interested in joining us?

One of the pleasant side effects of moving in with family is that life in general is far less sheltered. For instance, I actually get to read the newspaper for a change.

In WoW, I do not consider myself a gossip/drama connoisseur, but for some reason this local news story has me enthralled. Basically, Monday afternoon, after the NY State Senate ( Read more... )

I moved out of Pittsburgh. With RADAR having ended long ago, there weren't really enough reasons to stay in town. Currently moved in with family in upstate NY ( Read more... )

CMU Carnival is this weekend. If some manner of Stuff is going on, I'd probably be interested in showing up.

Tomorrow I'll load some board games into my car and eat lunch above the O, on the offchance someone I know is also doing so. Failing that, I'll watch LJ and AIM for other developments.

So, puzzlehunt. The "expected" workload of about 40 team puzzles was inflated to about 65 due to the hosting teams. Two teams set out to create their own events, but both burned out after about 75% of the work they expected to do. So they merged efforts and made this puzzlehunt, which is becoming known as PH123, the combination of (what was ( Read more... )

... you take a break from puzzle work at 6am, enter an unfamiliar restroom, suddenly realizing that that trip three hours ago was accidentally to the girl's room ( Read more... )

After spending most of yesterday hopping between various methods of public transportation, with an airplane or two thrown in, I've made my way to Seattle for the next incarnation of the Microsoft Puzzlehunt. The theme of the next game is the TV show Jeopardy, so I've been spending a lot of time browsing the glossary at the J-ArchiveDue to some poor ( Read more... )

Christmas went well. Presents included the boardgames Ticket To Ride Europe, and Settlers of Catan, the latter being somewhat long overdue, even though I didn't think to put it on my list ( Read more... )

A power outage ( Read more... )

I voted.