Con again, home today

Got back from the NZ National Science Fiction Convention last night (travel time 2:45, distance 255 kms, whee!)

It was a generally good time, with only a modicum of the "Bad" stuff that arises from throwing a small group of wonderfully wierd, extroverted, enthuseastic and generally not quite sane (who needs normality anyhow. I know I don't) people together.

This was the smallest NZ Natcon for some many years, mainly due it being held in Rotorua and not Wellington or Auckland (the two main conglomerations of Fandom in NZ)

Greg Benford was good as GOH and Bob Eggelston was way cool as artist guest, usually found sitting in the con foyer painting to the collective delight of the attendees, as you'd past by early in the day and see the first layers going onto blank canvas and as you drifted by between events you got a time-lapse like impression of the building of a painting.

It was great to meet up with all the usual suspects that I generally only see at Con's and as usual the worst moment of the con is the time when you realise that you have to leave and that it might be a year before you see these wonderful people again.

But leave you have to. And this time it was tinged with sadness as at the con I (and fuzzyben as well as others) learnt that a friend of ours from earlier times had lost the battle with cancer and passed away (as I found out later) Thursday night. Her funeral is today and a better group of people to be gatherd together for the wrong reason I am hard pressed to imagine.

So this Easter weekend has now contained the majority of the elements of the Christian story of Easter.

Love, Death, Hope, Friends, Sadness, Joy.

Tis not the belief I follow but still the message is one I honor.

Poing!

Season 5 Babylon 5 shipped today!

Whee!!!!!!

Just cause I havent' Quizzed for a while

Here are two from people I've recently friended

Which Prime element are you:
( Cut for those who care to pass )

and a poly geek test ( But I hate the ones with music questions )

Sentence Meme

Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ.


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