I seem to have picked up a cold. It's mostly stuffy head and a sore throat from drainage. I'm hoping tea and soup will keep me lubricated 'till it leaves. Julie has a runny nose and Katie has a cough, so maybe we're sharing a cold. OVFF was nice. Katie loved Kidspace. The only down side was the four stitches to close the cut in Katie's eyebrow from running into one of the console tables in the long...

Just packin' up. I've got Whose Line? at 1:00, with markbernstein , billroper , daisy_knotwise , and cadhla , ericcoleman moderating. I got in "Smash the Frickin' Fairies" and "The Folker" (or whatever it's called) last night, carefully chosen and timed, and they went over well. It was a really good sing for awhile. I also had the chance to talk with Trace...

This weekend at the Crowne Plaza in Romulus, MI, just north of Detroit Metro Airport. Should be much fun, as usual. unclekage , the original Bill and Barry Show, jimhines reading from The Mermaid's Madness , that sorta thing. Musically, there's a heck of a lot -- me, ericcoleman and toyboatband , markbernstein , billroper and daisy_knotwise...

The past month and a half I've had an interesting trend: I've exhausted the heck out of myself, and not made that much money, but the sheer fun of it all has been amazing. GenCon, ConText, Dragon*Con, and now FenCon -- lotsa work, not as much cash as I expected, but such good times. Many, many thanks to the whole FenCon crew, especially Russ and Tim who are consistently above and beyond the call...

billroper told me last night that Ray VanTilburg had an emergency triple bypass yesterday. Apparently he's doing much better, but still. Hugs and good thoughts go to him and Barb.

I posted the short version of this on Facebook earlier, so here's the longer version now that I have a minute. :-) The Pegasus Awards final ballot is out, and Wild Mercy is nominated for the Best Performer Pegasus Award this year! Our favorite fiddler, sweetmusic_27 , is also nominated, as are s00j , stevieannie & micktim , and Heather Dale & Ben Deschamps. Huge...

Something that I see a lot in economic and political discussions: "Such-and-such huge company does a great job, and I don't begrudge them making money for it." (Most recently on billroper 's journal, about the pharmaceutical companies who are--I believe--trying to block the move to a single-payer health care system in America.) This is an amazingly sweeping statement. Suppose you are standing...

From la_marquise_de : My LiveJournal Sitcom Living With smallship1 ( TBS, 10:30 ): smallship1 (Laura Dern) finds a coat in scendan (Emma Thompson)'s sock drawer. That weekend, tigerbright (Samuel L. Jackson) makes lots of money playing guitar on the street and makes billroper (Jennifer Connelly) jealous. That same day, braider (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) gets lost on the way...

Had a fine time at Concertino, even though we didn't get there until after midnight on Friday. My flight from Chicago (where I had business meetings Thursday and Friday) to Boston was delayed two hours due to the thunderstorms and biblical deluges that hit the Midwest on Friday. Truly impressive; even flooded and shut down one side of Mannheim outside the airport. Ended up chatting in the con suite...

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