Once in a Lifetime
Aug. 21st, 2017 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Today's the day of the great North American Eclipse of 2017. Here in Louisville, we're going to get about 97% totality, which is going to be enough for some pretty lovely things to see. I've seen something 55% totality before, and that was something - we still had a working cattle farm then, and the cows started gathering together like they did around sunset. The dogs headed for the porch to sleep, and the barn cats came out for a while. No pets here at stately Bourbon Manor, sadly, but I'll manage.
I'm as interested in the goings-on around the eclipse as the eclipse itself. The path of totality is going to pass through southwestern Kentucky, with the longest period of totality happening at (in? over?) Hopkinsville, finally giving anyone a reason to go to Hopkinsville. Estimates of a half-million visitors to the area are being thrown around, with warnings about emergency service response times, overwhelmed cellular phone networks, and food and gasoline shortages. Southbound Interstate 65 is crawling down around Elizabethtown.
GenCon was the 17th-20th, and I broke my attendance streak. Drove up to Indianapolis last night to see Alex and Pat. Good time catching up, met a couple of new people. Got some great encouragement and reinforcement, which I needed more than I thought. Some talk about me coming back onto the convention team, which may happen, but probably not at GenCon. PAX Unplugged is coming up; Pat's going and extended an invitation to me. Can't do this year, and ugh Philadelphia, but 2018 maybe. Besides, there's Imaginarium and Nerdlouvia here in the coming months.
I'm as interested in the goings-on around the eclipse as the eclipse itself. The path of totality is going to pass through southwestern Kentucky, with the longest period of totality happening at (in? over?) Hopkinsville, finally giving anyone a reason to go to Hopkinsville. Estimates of a half-million visitors to the area are being thrown around, with warnings about emergency service response times, overwhelmed cellular phone networks, and food and gasoline shortages. Southbound Interstate 65 is crawling down around Elizabethtown.
GenCon was the 17th-20th, and I broke my attendance streak. Drove up to Indianapolis last night to see Alex and Pat. Good time catching up, met a couple of new people. Got some great encouragement and reinforcement, which I needed more than I thought. Some talk about me coming back onto the convention team, which may happen, but probably not at GenCon. PAX Unplugged is coming up; Pat's going and extended an invitation to me. Can't do this year, and ugh Philadelphia, but 2018 maybe. Besides, there's Imaginarium and Nerdlouvia here in the coming months.