The flights to get to Helsinki went smooth. I even got some sleep and 50 pages into Johanna Sinisalo's (Worldcon 75 Guest of Honor) The Core of the SunWhen I got to Helsinki it was raining heavily. So I checked into the Holiday Inn West Helsinki. This will be hotel for 2 days before I get to the hotel I booked through Worldcon. That hotel was ( Read more... )

I got behind on stuff and the last day of the con and vacation was busy.

I switched from registration to sales to members. I got some of the Guests of Honor their complementary shirts and sold some more shirts.  I also used a spreadsheet to track the cash box total.

Then I was on a panel FIAWOL (Fandom Is A Way Of Life). I did not realize I was ( Read more... )

The big day of any con and NASFiC 2017 was not different. I opened up registration with . I did 4 panels and that includes 1 that I was on. The panels where the following ( Read more... )

I started the day with a quick breakfast at Subway with Patty.  On the way back it started to rain. By the time we near to the hotel it poured. Of course I decided not to bring my umbrella so wew got soaked. I told some volunteers in con suite I would be late opening up registration while I got changed.  Registration went OK. I think Sharon ( Read more... )

The convention got started proper. After helping move some stuff from the van to the con area, It was time to set up registration. There were as usual a few bumps but overall it worked out. I got help from volunteers to set the "bag of stuff" and to put the badges into badge holders. I made the mistake of telling people to put the lanyards on the ( Read more... )

The big thing for the day was going to the Arecibo Observatory. The nice concierge could not get a package tour becuase not enough people were interested, so I went on my own. This was my first use of Uber. It went and well the driver was cool. He was surprised I was more quiet than the usual tourist. He also knew there might not be any Uber ( Read more... )

After my usual tradition of seeing Red, Hot and Boom with friends near Altamonte Springs I got some sleep (3 hours) before my early flight. The flight went well. I learned always show the cab driver the address in case there are multiple hotels with the same name in the area. The hotel registration went well too. It paid to register with Starwood. ( Read more... )

What a year.

I spent the first 2 months in a splint or cast again.  The only good thing about it was I got more mobility in my left hand.

We all lost someone. It was hard for me when David Hartwell died a week after David Bowie. I wrote about that here. Chica, the family dog, died but at least I had one quality afternoon with her. My oldest aunt ( Read more... )

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