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1036 is the number of miles I put on my vehicle getting to and from Kansas City for Worldcon. I also did a bit of driving around town, but that amount is trivial to the total. Convention thoughts:
1) I spent an inordinate amount of time in the WSFS Business Meetings. Compared to last year's fun-fest (ha, I joke) this session was somewhat less tense and hostile. At Spokane we had a couple of Sad Puppies and several small-c conservative (i.e. "make no sudden changes"). This year with the exception of the singularly ineffective Kate Paulk they all stayed home or at least out of the business meeting. So after the usual hot-air-machines did their thing, stuff got passed quickly.
2) Speaking of the Business Meeting, my own 4 and 6 got amended to 5 and 6. I'm a bit ambivalent about that and EPH, which also passed, but the point of democracy is that you take as much of the pie as you can, which is rarely the whole thing. I do think that, after EPH does it's voodoo and Three Stage Voting gets in, we'll end up dropping EPH. It's too damn complicated and opaque.
3) I've been to KC often enough to hit some of the more well-known attractions. This didn't stop me from visiting Jack Stack's, of course. In the interest of getting away from the con for a bit, I drove to the River Market to visit the Steamship Arabia museum. Driving proved to be a bit problematic, as Sunday they have a flea market there, but the museum itself was a nice 90 minute diversion.
4) I ran into a number of friends and acquaintances, who I shall not list here. I will note I had dinner with new writer Adam Rakunas, who shares an agent with Tim Akers. Nice guy, and good dinner.
Now my dryer is buzzing, so enough with the Internet.
1) I spent an inordinate amount of time in the WSFS Business Meetings. Compared to last year's fun-fest (ha, I joke) this session was somewhat less tense and hostile. At Spokane we had a couple of Sad Puppies and several small-c conservative (i.e. "make no sudden changes"). This year with the exception of the singularly ineffective Kate Paulk they all stayed home or at least out of the business meeting. So after the usual hot-air-machines did their thing, stuff got passed quickly.
2) Speaking of the Business Meeting, my own 4 and 6 got amended to 5 and 6. I'm a bit ambivalent about that and EPH, which also passed, but the point of democracy is that you take as much of the pie as you can, which is rarely the whole thing. I do think that, after EPH does it's voodoo and Three Stage Voting gets in, we'll end up dropping EPH. It's too damn complicated and opaque.
3) I've been to KC often enough to hit some of the more well-known attractions. This didn't stop me from visiting Jack Stack's, of course. In the interest of getting away from the con for a bit, I drove to the River Market to visit the Steamship Arabia museum. Driving proved to be a bit problematic, as Sunday they have a flea market there, but the museum itself was a nice 90 minute diversion.
4) I ran into a number of friends and acquaintances, who I shall not list here. I will note I had dinner with new writer Adam Rakunas, who shares an agent with Tim Akers. Nice guy, and good dinner.
Now my dryer is buzzing, so enough with the Internet.
