{"id":3031,"date":"2011-08-14T07:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2011-08-14T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T14:19:00","slug":"day-2-of-spocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/day-2-of-spocon\/","title":{"rendered":"day 2 of Spocon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leg&#8217;s acting up a bit more. And there was a lot of walking. I actually used the cane most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Did a panel on terraforming with Jim Glass. We did a lot of discussion on terraforming Mars, Venus, Europa&#8230;discussed, say, moving Europa into Mars orbit and creating a dumbbell paired-planet orbit which might do a bit of warming on Mars&#8217; core, but wouldn&#8217;t necessarily melt Europa into water-loss&#8230; Or maybe crashing one of the ice-moons into Venus. Or cleaning up its greenhouse effect.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting hour, as was.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day was a bit more work: panels on blogging and e-pubbing, and just wandering the halls. They didn&#8217;t schedule Jane and me where we had the same hours off, so we couldn&#8217;t hang out together, OSG&#8217;s off to worldcon and Patty&#8217;s scheduled up to her eyeballs, no surprise. Hung out in the green room a bit. Real nice fare there. Which is not a bad thing, because food at this hotel is through the roof. Don&#8217;t even talk about the hotel bar. One of the real drawbacks to the Doubletree: pricey food and drink, and the bar food is not that great. The restaurants across the street would be a better choice, but Jane hates Azteca and Chili&#8217;s takes an hour to produce a sandwich, and neither of us had a schedule that matched well enough to go across for actual food, so we just noshed in the green room until supper.<\/p>\n<p>We stayed for Dragon Dronet&#8217;s movie costuming and sfx panel, then headed home, late and tired, a bit sore, but not bad.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got one last panel left, on writing. I&#8217;m not inspired. I almost sat in on the string theory panel with Jim&#8212;they scheduled Jane for that AND for her reading at the same time&#8212;but it was way crowded, and esoteric math is not my strong suite. It was so crowded I decided to head for the green room.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll see, today. I get so tired of writing panels. Always the same stuff, endlessly repeated. What can you say? Don&#8217;t pay people to publish your book, learn to paragraph and punctuate: that&#8217;s how you make it readable; don&#8217;t expect your editor to fix your prose; and don&#8217;t trust an agent who tracks you down to ask you to hire him. The Pacific NW has endless writing panels. I swear I may start telling cons I&#8217;ll do one, only one, per con.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leg&#8217;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&#8230;discussed, say, moving Europa into Mars orbit and creating a dumbbell paired-planet orbit which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}