…OryCon 33, to be precise, which happened this past weekend in Portland, Oregon. DeeAnn was this year’s Liaison for Artist Guest of Honor (GoH) Jim Pavelec, and we watched him do a painting demonstration: https://picasaweb.google.com/sparckl/OryCon33JimPavelecArtistGoH Our friends The Doubleclicks performed…
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Renovation in Words and Pictures
(TL:DR – Worldcon was lots of fun!) On Monday, DeeAnn and I returned home from our road trip to Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention. This was the first Worldcon we’d attended since Denvention in 2008, and all the…
Rainforest Writers Village, Day Five
Last day of the retreat! We gathered in the lounge for a group photo and some wrap-up activities, including a word count tally (DeeAnn came in 6th overall) and door prize drawing. There was a giant gummy bear involved. DeeAnn’s…
Rainforest Writers Village, Day Four
Today’s sightseeing highlight: Roosevelt elk! We had to drive a couple of miles down the road to find them, but there they were. One of them had antlers. Also in that field: cats! Two of ’em. I know what you’re…
Rainforest Writers Village, Day Three
“Fiction? I hate fiction!” That’s my new rallying cry. Sorry, you kinda had to be there. It snowed a little last night. We could still see some of it in the trees up on the mountain this afternoon: Today was…
Rainforest Writers Village, Day One
Highlights from our first day at the Rainforest Writers Village: We arrived last night so we could spend today sightseeing, and we did. Recommended by both the AAA guy who gave us our Olympic Peninsula map and Shawn(sp?), the front…
Kitten Dylan Has Found a Home
One final update on the stray kitten we fostered for a few weeks: the lady at the Humane Society confirmed that he’d been adopted last weekend, and yesterday, we got a message (via online photo comment) from his new family:…
Kitten Dylan Does Some Paperwork
Tye and Dylan have been playing through the gap under the bathroom door ever since we brought Dylan home. They usually bat a paper ball or toy mouse back and forth. This afternoon, I saw Tye playing with something larger….
The Kitten Dylan Chronicles
As you know, Bob, we’re currently fostering a stray kitten. We’re keeping him in the guest bathroom right now so our two other cats won’t feel their territory is being threatened. (Jasper and Tye seem to be dealing with it…
Kitten Has Name (Also Claws, and Teeth)
Those of you who follow me on Twitter, watch my Picasa Web Albums feed, or subscribe to my YouTube channel may already know that we currently have a kitten staying with us. He’s a stray who showed up outside our…