For those of you wondering and who are not on Twitter or FB, FydySyfy will be happening as scheduled at the Hyatt Regency at 5:30PM tonight. Hope to see some of you there, don't forget your umbrellas!

After about ten days of mostly travelling about I am heading home. You would think I'd be glad, and I am a bit, but World Fantasy was such a good con that even in my travel worn condition I could easily have wished it to be at least one day longer.

The highlight of the con was working the Consuite, which I had been worried would take up too much of my time but ended up being a blast. I'll be doing a write up for SF/SF for both WFC and Steamcon, probably as one single piece since the contrasts and comparisons are pretty interesting.

The question for me now: which is larger, the pile of books or the pile of laundry?

 Missed my train, spent the better part of a day in Portland (books! donuts!) and made it back in time to get the last leg of the trip rerouted because of the Great Bay Bridge Disaster of Ought-Nine. 

Meeting up with my brother, who is in town for just the night. Also maybe dinner with friends. Then going home, laundering and repacking and off to San Jose for World Fantasy. 

Then I swear I am doing sweet FA until Thanksgiving.

Last night trinsf  nudged me into going to w00tstock, which I am very glad about since it was an amazingly cool show. 

Highlights; Wil Wheaton read a story with musical backup from Paul and Storm, Adam Savage did a slideshow presentation called '100 Wishes' and Kid Beyond, who I had never heard of before did some just incredible live looping beatboxing thing that made me really, really wish we were had been in a danceclub instead of a theater. And although she 

We started, and then ended the evening at Home and I went home finished packing and now me and my overfilled suitcase are just counting down the minutes until I board the train to Seattle. 

Good lord, it's mid-October. This time next week I will be on a train to Seattle.

In the meantime, though tomorrow it's time for another Fydysyfy. The last few have been pretty small what with one thing and another, but with the exception of days I am out of town I plan to fly the flag there until at least year's end.

On that subject, the pre-Halloween costume friendly Fydy will actually take place on Wendesday since the Hyatt is having a Halloween thing of some sort. Details to follow at some point.

I have a room reserved for both World Fantasy and Steamcon and am looking to share.


Steamcon I have Thursday, Oct 22, checking out Monday.
World Fantasy I have Thursday Oct 29, checking out Sunday. I probably won't take Friday off after all, so might cancel Thursday unless I find a roommate who wants to take that day over. 

I wanted to post it to my flist first, anyone interested or know someone who might be?

 Oh whoops, I told myself I'd update my LJ today since it's been far too long. But now it's 5pm and time to head down to Fydy, so that's not going to happen.

I've given up getting online at home except on my phone, since that seems to wake the viruses and I need the machine stable enough to use Photoshop, so I guess I'm off the hook until Monday then :)

My weekend has suddenly gotten busy.

Friday is Fydysyfy, of course-which will probably be a mellow one. Then Saturday I'm going dancing for the first time in ages at Villainy.

Sunday has two good events; the Tachyon 14th Anniversary party at Borderlands and the Steampunk Picnic at the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose. I wish I could do both, but San Jose is just a little far and I will probably be just a little hungover, so I'll be at Borderlands.

There are also a bunch of movies I really want to see before they leave theaters, but it looks like maybe I should leave those for the weekdays, geez.

Issue 92 of SF/SF with Trepidation coverage is done but 'delayed at the printers', so to speak. Hopefully it will be up this weekend.

In mere minutes I will be leaving for for FyDySyFy, which is good because I am starving. Skipped lunch for no good reason and the Eclipse's sweet potato fries are calling my name. Then after FyDy it's off the the Bridge for Midnight Mass.

If the weather holds maybe I'll finally make down to the Sloat Garden Center, or to SFinSF, or something. Not sure yet, but aside from that I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there will be Doctor Who and bacon on eggs at some point, at least.

The next few months are packed. Here is my ideal convention schedule;

September 26 - From the Land Beyond
September 27 - Handcard Regatta
October 2-4 - Silicon
October 23-25 - Steamcon
October 29-Nov 1 - World Fantasy
November 27-29 - Loscon

The sure things are Silicon, World Fantasy and Loscon.

FTLB and the Handcart Regatta I would ideally do as one thing, heading up to Sacramento on Saturday then back to Santa Rosa that night, spending the night and heading back to San Francisco on Sunday. It seems to be kinda doable by train but I'll probably only go it if I can find someone to drive.

Steamcon is a "probably", dependent only on budget.

Am not at the Hugos right now, wah.

But, bitterness aside, am definitely appreciating the live twittering (yay Reno and Raleigh) and the Conreporter coverage, complete with 'red carpet' photos of the lovely outfits.

Trepidation 2009 was excellent, thanks in no small part to the awesomeness of fandom in general and of my friends in particular.

Although, now I simply cannot shake the feeling that it is a post-con Sunday XD

Preparations for Trepidation 2009: A Bittercon continue apace and there are even whispers of plans for a a Bittercon 2.

We have a lovely website courtesy of shipofools999  a Yahoo Group for updates and you can follow us @trepidation2009 and under the hashtag #trepidation2009 over on Twitter.

Trepidation 2009: A Bittercon

It's official, but it's happening next weekend, Friday July 31 through
Saturday August 1st. There are currently tentative plans for programming
including gaming, costuming, and stuff!

We should run 24hrs and are hoping to announce our GOHs, although
Jason Schachat will be our Fan GOH.

Find us over on trepidation2009 

Plans are (maybe) afoot for something to keep those of us not going to Worldcon busy.

Stay tuned for more details.

Mostly played with Illustrator and Photoshop, with mixed results still, and watched DVDs. On to season 4 of my latest Buffy re-watch (must purchase Angel boxed set), some Entourage, a Hartnell Who for Saturday morning (The Rescue) and Let The Right One In-which was as good as everyone told me, so yay.

On Saturday I got to see the aftermath of the MUNI accident at West Portal. I saw a tweet about it while waiting at the stop, considered just going home, but since the train was coming up the hill I figured how bad could it be (the first tweets said 12 injuries) and hopped on. When the train dropped us off before WP I was amazed to see the whole block cordoned off and a whole bunch of fire trucks and ambulances. I took a couple of photos and posted a couple of tweets, ran my errands and went home glad that I had no reason to deal with the giant transportation headache it must have caused.

Sunday I had a burrito :)

Tonight is Fydy again of course, and I'm looking forward to heading over to the Hyatt again after missing a week (thanks for holding down the fort iamradar !) and of course seeing how poor Brian is doing.

Saturday jaylake  is over at Borderlands and later Kage Baker is reading for SFinSF and , I'm thinking I might try to hit both events, why not-it's been too long since I did either. There are a bunch of other interesting events, as alwasy-but I doubt I'll be doing anything on Sunday except maybe cracking open my Supernatural season 1 set finally.

Although I'm sure many folks are off work today, we will still be having Fydy over at the Hyatt Regency as scheduled, 5:30m till we get bored or run out of gossip and single entendres.

Thank goodness.

So, of course, here's your reminder that I will be at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Eclipse Lounge from 5:30 onwards for Fydy. I cannot promise anything other than that I will be drinking a lot make up for the last two weeks of Italian sodas.

On Friday my boss asked me to get keys for some new people and sort out the random/possibly obsolete keys floating around.

In doing so I ended up with my own keychain in my hand for an unusual amount of time, and cleverly put it away in the drawer with the spare sets before leaving for the day.

Which mean when foxmoor headed up to Sac on Saturday I had no way to let myself back in if I left and thus spent the weekend not doing all the stuff I had planned out.

Ah well, I needed the rest still ;)