Roadside Picnic

Sleep Now in the Fire

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:33:24 GMT

I'm still, much a certain asteroid, not entirely stable, but I'm getting there.

Being back in Louisville has been pretty darn good. I'm working with good people. I'm spending time with friends. Playing games around an actual table again. It's pretty darn good. Meeting tomorrow to apply for an apartment, and assuming that works out, I'll be in a much better place, in more than a few ways.

The crowdfunding effort has seen some success, not as much as I had hoped for but more than I tell myself I deserve. Donna apologized for not having enough rewards points to spend on putting me up in a hotel again - she's too good for this world.

I was all set to mix some couch-surfing and hotel time next week, until talking with Alex F this evening about plans for next week's GAMA trade show. I guess, once again, I'm going to be a guest of Crafty Games! I'll be in the friend-of-the-company role on Sunday afternoon, and something more but not entirely official from Monday evening through the end of the show on Thursday. Alex's flight gets here late Monday evening, and I'm going to pick him up and take his generous offer to stay in the AirB&B for the duration of the show. Going to take a sick day on Friday and run around town with him until he flies back west that evening.

I'm excited about GTS. I've gotten comfortable with the GenCon experience; I expect GTS to be a whole other thing. Alex suggested going to the Sunday events and collecting freebies, and that's incentive enough for me. Some folks I've gotten to know at cons are going to be there, and seeing them will be nice.

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Once in a Lifetime

Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:37:14 GMT

Today'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.

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