We are about 40 minutes into our AirTran flight down to Ft. Meyers, Florida. Since AirTran is providing free WiFi this month (courtesy of Google Chrome) I just couldn’t pass up the chance to post live from 35,000 feet. I didn’t see the lunar eclipse last night, mostly out of laziness. I was up at…
As I mentioned in my previous post, here is my tentative convention schedule for 2011. Obviously this can change, but this is where I am planning on being: RavenCon (Richmond, VA), April 8-10 Nebula Awards Weekend (Washington, DC), May 19-22 Balticon (Baltimore, MD), May 27-30 Readercon (Burlington, MA), July 14-17 Capclave (Rockville, MD), October 14-16…
Yesterday, we drove the new car up to Bronxville where we are staying with Jen and Jason while I attend the variously Writerly Events I have scheduled for today in New York City. We left at 8am and stopped in New Brunswick to meet Kelly’s cousins for brunch at a place called Old Man Rafferty’s.…
I spent Friday evening and all day Saturday at Capclave, the local science fiction convention put on by the Washington Science Fiction Association. I like Capclave because it centers around short fiction, which is what I write, and avoids media-related science fiction and fantasy. I had a lot of fun at Capclave. What follows is…
Today was the first full day of Readercon, and I did my best to get in a full day. One of the things they are doing this year is a series of Theodore Sturgeon readings. The first one today was at 11 am and Sturgeon’s story “It’s Nothing Really” was read by Scott Edelman. I…
I arrived at the Readercon hotel in Burlington, MA around 3 pm, after flying into Boston from Baltimore. Hertz gave me a Chrystler Sebring convertible but–of course–it was too hot to take the top down. The first person I ran into at the hotel was Mary Robinette Kowal, the new Vice President of the Science…
Around 7 pm, we headed over to Sarah’s. Originally, we were expecting 5 of us plus Oliver, the dog, to be going up to New Jersey, but Michael’s girlfriend was sick and didn’t end up coming. So as soon as we got to Sarah’s, we piled into her car and got on the road. It…
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I gave Kelly her Valentine’s gift yesterday, since we had a busy day today, and she gave me not one but two cards this morning, which made me realize that I hadn’t gotten her any cards. Nevertheless, we had a very nice Valentine’s day–our first as a married couple. I was up at 6 AM to feed the…
Another long workday. My hours are going to increase for a while until we get over the hump, which will hopefully be sometime in mid-March. In the meantime, I expect longer days. More than likely I’ll start getting up earlier, working from home until Kelly is up and ready to go and then head into…
Slept in late again today–got up close to 9 AM, but we were up pretty late last night with AJ and Denisse. I made us scrambled eggs for breakfast and we sat around watching Sunday Morning. I was interested in looking for a messenger bag to replace my backpack and so we took advantage of the cold, but…
It was a long travel day. We left Kelly’s parents at 9 AM and made the 2 hour drive up to Tampa. Our flight was delayed an hour and so we had lunch at the airport, watched some videos on the iPod, and finally boarded the plane for home. The airport in Tampa was empty, but…