As has become my habit, the main part of my con report will be a set of pictures.


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Tuesday evening, janeg and I had a dinner out with friends to celebrate twenty-five years of marriage. ...twenty-five. ...to each other ( Read more... )

This weekend a lot of my friends are at Can-Con in Ottawa. It's hosting "Canvention" this year, which is the roaming site of -- among other things -- the yearly Canadian science fiction and fantasy awards presentation ( Read more... )

I'm frequently amused (and amazed) at the turns conversations take when janeg and I start on a seemingly innocent topic. This is reconstructed from a couple of nights ago.

"I was reading an article about tomato blight.... No, don't go there; it had nothing to do with Vernor Vinge ( Read more... )

One of our cats is given pills now and then as a treatment for a skin rash that he develops due to some unknown allergy. There are treat-like things called "Pill Pockets" that he adores and will happily eat with no complaint about the crunchy bit inside. I emptied the most recent package of them a few days ago and went to the local pet store for ( Read more... )

(No, that title is not related to me planning anything.)

This is something that I've noticed now and then over the past few years but which has come to the fore recently: the design of wheel wells on Toronto Transit buses contributes to the increase of commute timeThe interior covering of the wheel wells on most buses currently in service are flat ( Read more... )

I was doing some recording yesterday, including a guitar part for a song of mine which we will pretend is nameless. :-) A bit later, I was talking to Jane and remarked that, whenever I go back to that song, it immediately becomes my favourite. Her response was that, although she liked it, she wouldn't exactly call it my best ( Read more... )

For the past few (4?) years my desktop computer has actually been a laptop. I added an external monitor and a larger, easier to use, keyboard and mouse and had the best of both worlds where I could just disconnect a couple of things and take my entire software environment with me when I wanted to go someplace ( Read more... )

...may be closer than they appear.

Eight weeks from today we'll be on our way home from OVFF. (What?!? Did I count that right?) Jane and I tend to sort out a convention schedule at the start of the year. That means when OVFF is on the list, it seems far off...and I somehow expect it to stay there ( Read more... )

The Pegasus Ballot is here.People call the phrase "it's an honor just to be nominated" a clichéd expression of false humility. In this context, for me, it's not. I look at the other names on this year's list for all categories and it's amazing. I click on the link to former writer/composer nominees and it's overwhelming ( Read more... )