Day 3 of Spocon.

by | Aug 14, 2011 | Journal

We had just one 2 hour panel: me, Jane, Patricia Briggs, Mark Ferrari, John Dalmas and Deby Fredericks—advice on writing. I’m seriously beyond burned out on writing panels, but it was pretty painless. It wasn’t the funnest way to end a con, for me,...

day 2 of Spocon

by | Aug 14, 2011 | Journal

The leg’s acting up a bit more. And there was a lot of walking. I actually used the cane most of the time. Did a panel on terraforming with Jim Glass. We did a lot of discussion on terraforming Mars, Venus, Europa…discussed, say, moving Europa into Mars...

Day one of Spokon…

by | Aug 13, 2011 | Journal

…I spent most of sitting in a green and white chair near the lobby and the latte machine. We were there from noon until about nine—and I did great for most of it. I had two programs, one a one-on-one writing critique: I couldn’t find the story...

Morning breaks, and the back is much better…

by | Aug 12, 2011 | Journal

Babying it all day, pillows, Aleve, the s-i belt, the knee-band, ice, and heat—and I am mostly out of pain this morning.  It doesn’t say this is going to hold up through a convention day, but it’s way better than yesterday. I think we’ve got it...

Pain. Oh, pain. :(

by | Aug 11, 2011 | Journal

Remember I took a downhill-facing tumble a few days ago. Well, between landing on the hand belonging to the bandaged shoulder, thus screwing that, I twisted mid-fall to avoid a faceplant among the foot-diameter sharp rocks I was aimed at, and now my right leg is, to...

OMG—slide show alert—major LOLs over on Jane’s blog.

by | Aug 9, 2011 | Journal

We got a second cat tree—because we have a half-Bengal, and they climb. If you’re smart, you provide them something to climb. If you don’t—they FIND something to climb… …and you hear mysterious and horrid crashes from the kitchen....

OMG—slide show alert—major LOLs over on Jane's blog.

by | Aug 9, 2011 | Journal

We got a second cat tree—because we have a half-Bengal, and they climb. If you’re smart, you provide them something to climb. If you don’t—they FIND something to climb… …and you hear mysterious and horrid crashes from the kitchen....

Scary couple of hours this afternoon with Seishi…

by | Aug 8, 2011 | Journal

Seishi turned up limping violently on a left hind foot, as if his whole leg was affected, and I feared he’d had a hip dislocation. .. He and Shu leap and dive like gymnasts and Seishi’s spent his whole life in the confines of a cattery, much of it probably...