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CONvergence 2009 day 3 (Fri) Kelly's Con Report

Breakfast

We had breakfast at the OPH again, this time with Dwayne, Charlotte, Anton, and Anton's friend Tom. Laura had banana pancakes, and I had basted eggs and country bacon, yum. More cool conversation. Dwayne, like Laura is a physicist, and Charlotte told an amazingly cool story about meeting Jim Henson when she was a kid and how he helped her start down the path to becoming a TV writer.

Programming!

I was highly scheduled on Friday with no passing time between my first three events, which mea

A Tradition of Reading

In the years B.C. (before child), my partner and I had this wonderful habit of reading to each other during the performance of arduous chores, particularly she would read to me while I was doing the dishes. We recently resurrected this tradition. Now, not only is the kitchen cleaner on a more regular basis, but I also get the pleasure of hearing various horror short stories in collection (the book we chose for this time.)

A couple of days ago, she read me "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (H. H. Munro.)

Friday Cat Blogging, Now With Hot Squirrel Action

Synchronized napping.



I will go outside if you carry me.



Squirrels!



Squirrels! Jordan's down left.



Hey Bob, you find anything?



Damn cat's still there.



Here I come to save the day!

CONvergence 2009 day 2 (Th) Kelly's Con Report

Pre-Panel

Started the morning with breakfast at the Original Pancake House with Mandy, Mark, Megan, Laura and returning GoH Brian Keene who I'd never met before--great guy. OPH can do most of their pancakes and waffles gluten free which made them a great fit for Laura. Wonderful food and good company.

Afterward we headed back and wandered around the con for a bit, catching up with numerous friends and people-watching--which latter is one of the great joys of CONvergence. I didn't have anything sch

CONvergence 2009 Day 1 (Wed)

I'm going to break my con report across multiple days because it was a really experience dense con for me.

Packing and the drive in

Getting everything we needed for GoHing at a 4 day convention into the Smart was a fun challenge. It was also really cool to drive the brand new micro-car in to the convention. It was the last time I was allowed to drive for the weekend as both Laura and I were concerned that I would be too distracted once things got going.

Arrival

Laura and I arrived on Wednesday even

Realism in Comic Books?

Yesterday the mail carrier delivered Mason's Marvel Adventures All-Ages SPIDER-MAN #52, "No Substitutes" (Mark Sumerak).

As usual, I brought it to school and Mason devoured it in the back seat. The nice thing about this routine? On the days I bring comics, Shawn and I can have a mostly-interruption free conversation about her day. Mostly because Mason will still sometimes blurt out with, "Shhhh, I'm trying to read!"

I ended up reading the issue myself, and I want to make one comment about it. Fir

CONvergence 2009 1st (photo) post

I'm not up to writing a con report yet, so here are a few photos from my camera.

We got our new Smart car the day before the con



The car from our room



My badges...OMFFSM Chris Jones drew a
Connie/Melchior hybrid badge for me!



Did I mention OMFFSM? This rocks!



My schedule is on the kiosks...coooool...eeep.



Vilification tennis, in which
I get rug burn on my knees



OMFFSM it's a life-size mural of my Furies!
Created by the folks at the MNPoly party
They also had someone (Jess Karels)
who was cross-playing Ra

Recovering from the Con...

As has been mentioned, CONvergence was this past weekend. I was thinking that if any of the Wyrdsmiths write con reports we could list links to them here (except Kelly, of course, who has no other blog, who will just have to write here):

Lyda's Con Report


It would be cool, too, if you would add your con report to the comments!

Friday Cat Blogging

Summer and the living is easy.



Die, Ebil Couch, Die!



Arghhh! Chipmunk! Arghhhh!



Relax, I killz it with my mindz.



Does you likez, mah new split-level?

CONvergence is Immenent

Which is why, I suspect, it's pretty much crickets over here. Kelly may already be there (though not to worry, gentle readers, I see he has a "Friday Cat Blog" all set up in the queue.) If you somehow haven't heard, Kelly is one of the guests of honor at CONvergence this year.

When we occasionally talk about self-promotion there's usually a very quick, off-hand, "Oh, and go to conventions."

Most of the time, that's excellent advice. But not all science fiction conventions are created equal, and w