Magus's Grimoire [Abridged]

I'm off to Origins. I'm not taking the work laptop, and my current plan is to be offline except possibly to check in for my return flight. I return Sunday night

Those of you who'll be there, I look forward to seeing you. Everybody else, I'll miss you.

NOTE: If you went to Vassar with me, you may be interested in the last couple of paragraphs even if you're generally uninterested in convention reports. Just saying...

Arisia was this weekend. Friday I got there just in time for the Victorian Ball. They had live music, which worked out quite nicely, and the Pugliesis called/MCed/taught. There were a good number of quite good dancers, including some new people who caught on quickly. I hope some of them made it to the tea dance on Sunday. (I didn't.) After the dance I wandered around a bit getting a feel for the new hotel, and did some hanging out in the Con Suite and the like. Then I got tired astonishingly early (around midnight) and headed home.

Saturday afternoon I got a chance to try out a cute card game called "King's Blood". It's basically an Uno variant with a heredity theme, incredibly cute artwork, and a couple of features supporting the theme and making it not Uno. Of course, the guy who was teaching the rules had them completely wrong, so I kept finding things as I flipped through the rulebook to the extent that we were playing a completely different game.

Except for a couple hours filking (late-ish Sat, Sun afternoon), I think that's it for the stuff I did. The weekend was primarily characterized by spending time with friends, which I really can't complain about. And this was the convention of "OMG You'll Never Guess Who I Saw!"

So I'll tell you. But first, some of the unsurprising people I hung out with.