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Kings of the Breakers

NFL season looms. I'm watching a Bears-Bills preseason game tonight, not a great game so far and I'm barely invested in either team outside of the existence of Buffalo wings, but it's pleasant to have the comfortable background noise and I'm going to return to the Sunday afternoon ritual of football, pizza, and homework in a couple of weeks.

Yowzers. Not yet halftime and the Bears are up 28-0.

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family,
movies

Bend in the Water

Superman was everything I wanted out of a summer blockbuster. Mister Terrific was great, Lex was a villain and a half. The only complaint I have is Hawkgirl should have had more to do.

Saw Dad last night. His group had a performance in Edinburgh this morning so we took advantage of the opportunity to get together for dinner, and I drove him up there after. We had a little moment during the drive - how many hours have we spent together on a relatively empty Interstate, in companionable silence, just rolling along. Most of those hours with him driving, but last night he was in the right-hand seat, and all was well with that.

So, I resigned my seat on the Nerd Louisville board a few weeks ago. I hadn't accomplished anything and didn't see that changing, so I decided to just get out of the way.

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Execution

I headed up to Indy Wednesday morning, easy drive, recharged AC in the Impala doing what it's supposed to. Got into town, had some confusion about directions to a new storage unit, got things sorted, went to the ICC to set up the booth and that's when I started suffering the effects of only eating a couple of donuts so far in the day. Nearly passed out a couple of times. Got helped back to the hotel, started cooling off, ordered a pizza, went to bed.

Thursday morning, much better. First of the weekend's breakfasts at the Jugs Catering tent. Incredible sales on Thursday - the second biggest single-day total we've ever had at GenCon. Picked up a couple of things from Green Ronin, company dinner, sleep.

Friday, good sales but down from Friday. Played the upcoming Cyberpunk Legends card game and proceeded to sign up for an early order. Played some BattleTech until midnight or so.

Saturday was my day off, and I slept in. Some more BT, then a Cypher RPG session. Good times at the tables. BattleTech Gothic looks good, but not enough that I'm buying into it.

Sunday, we sold out of everything we had at the booth, including display/demo copies. Tore down the booth in under 45 minutes. Drove home, unpacked, started sorting purchases, slept so very well.

After Wednesday, the weather was delightful. A cold front blew in and knocked air temps down into the upper 70s.

Most of the publishers I heard from reported very good sales, and overall good table experiences. The Exhibit Hall was busy, of course, and props to GenCon for implementing and enforcing a policy banning wagons and carts and strollers-as-wagons in the hall.

It was a good time, a good crew, and I got to see a number of friends and chat briefly with Mike Pondsmith and Mike Stackpole and Ken Hite. Got stuff to read and four new Mechs.