kmusser

And we're back. My computer died about a week ago and I've been spending that trying to fix it, and after I gave up on that, rebuilding it from scratch. I've now regained access to the Internet, my music collection, and Skyrim - so there's my priorities for you. Social media went by the wayside, so if I missed anything important ping me.

In other news my contract at work ran out and the replacement contract has yet to be awarded, so I'm basically on furlough until the new contract is in place (which I do expect us to win) - hopefully it'll only be a week or two.

For the Brunswick folks - don't forget to vote in the city elections today.

For the Chicago folks - I'll be in town Dec. 27 to Jan. 1. Anything happening for NYE?

Also a reminder that after the holidays we have Brunswick Games Day on January 5th, so hope to see you there.

A follow-up to my previous post, the hostel is available to be taken over, but definitely not for free. So I want a little better idea of a head count to see if it would be worth it (if not I'll probably still do something similar, just at our house instead of the hostel).

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July 13-14th I'll be at the Annapolis Irish Festival.

July 22-27th I hope to be in San Diego for the ESRI conference, but the Feds are waffling on whether they'll pay for it, so that may get scratched.

July 27th mark's radiant_one's completion of class work for her acupuncture degree! We'll be celebrating by indulging in poutine at Victoria Gastropub My how time has flown.

August 4th party at auror's!

August 31-September 2 TCEP, one of Maryland's best little game conventions. byronczimmer is running the LARP "Miskatonic Archaelogical Expedition" and doling out characters now.

September 5-9th I'll be in the Outer Banks with zammis.

September 14-24th I'll be in southwestern England with radiant_one (not August as previously advertised).

October 6-7th I'll be running games at Brunswick's Railroad Days, so come and join us.

Sometime late October/early November off to Greece with auror.

November 10th party at tirani's.

Sorry I haven't been posting much real content lately, I blame Skyrim and Game of Thrones (I'll just leave that icon up in the corner there).

This weekend I'll be at GCOM Games Days over near Baltimore, hope to see some of you there.

After that zammis and I are taking a road trip through the Midwest. Currently it looks like:

May 1 - Tiffin, Ohio
May 2 - Chicago
May 3,4 - Baraboo, Wisconsin - pilgrimage to House on the Rock and Circus World.
May 5,6 - Chicago
May 7 - Muskegon, Michigan
May 8 - Tiffin, Ohio

Most of you thinking of joining us will hopefully also have gotten an e-mail.

Brunswick Games Day is coming up soon and we've had a bit of a scheduling snafu with the city that has required us to change the date, so please take note - our new date is January 22nd! Same place as last year and still free and still full of gaming goodness.

The website at http://www.fantasymaps.com/gaming/brunswick.html has more details and has been updated with the new date.

Facebook page will get updated when I'm not someplace that blocks facebook.

Yes this means I'll be hosting events on back to back weekends, that's ok, sleep is for the weak.

I had an excellent weekend at faire, as seen in the new icon :-) It was good to see everyone.

A quick reminder for the gamers that pre-reg for Euroquest is this coming Sunday. Euroquest is Nov. 12-15 in Timonium, come join us for games.

Work has been keeping me too busy to keep up with the blogging, which is good for work but sad for the LJ. Last month we had a lovely trip to the Pacific Northwest including Oak Harbor, Victoria, and Seattle. While I haven't had time to do a proper write up I did get our pictures uploaded which you can enjoy here.

For the gamers, this weekend is the Congress of Gamers in Rockville. I'll be there for at least part of it.

I will be at Fires of Venus on Friday only.

First a LJ-related comment. My work has done something to make LJ somewhat dysfunctional, I don't know what it could be as other sites work fine, and LJ still works fine from my home computer - but at work LJ pages take a good 10 minutes or so to load or refresh. So, I haven't been posting or commenting as much as I used to, but I am still reading what you fine people are writing (except for the twitters - I skip those).

So anyway, currently our lives are being consumed by adventures in flooring. We're ripping up the carpet and replacing it with wood. When the estimator came out we got the pleasant surprise that parts of the house already have hardwood, so we're getting that refinished and the parts that don't will get new (why a house that only had one previous owner has 3 different types of floors, and then covered them up with carpet, remains a puzzle). I picked up the wood the weekend before last and the installers are due to arrive on Thursday. Meanwhile we've been busy trying to clear our crap so that they'll actually be able to get to the floor. The poor kitty is already traumatized, probably convinced that we're moving. Once they're done we'll have the fun task of putting it all back which will probably takes us the rest of the month.

This past weekend I had a fun diversion with Games Club of Maryland's Games Days, games played will get their own post following.

Plans for next month include Free Spirit - I hope to see many of you there. I don't have any official duties this year so plan on spending most of my time relaxing (though if any FSG staff reading this are still short-handing in their dept. I could probably be talked into helping).

I'm also hoping to make to Celtic Fling due to their drool worthy musical lineup. Any one else I know going?

zammis and I are once again hosting Thanksgiving dinner - joins us for food, drink, and games! If you're planning on coming for dinner please RSVP here and do bring food, notes on what you're bringing can be done here as well so we don't end up with 15 green bean casseroles. Rides from within the metro area can probably be arranged and we do have crash space available if needed.

While on the topic of gaming cons - my next gaming con will be Essen - allow me to squee for a moment (SQUEE!) The next local one I'm planning on attending is Euroquest, which is lots of fun and everyone should go. I will be missing Congress of Gamers because it conflicts with the Lullaby of Broadway LARP which I'm going to be helping out with. Lullaby does still have openings, and it is highly recommend for anyone looking for an incredible LARP experience - go sign up now. After that the next con I'm considering is Darkover about which I'm still undecided, also vaguely on the radar is Philcon.

Also - The date of the next Brunswick Games Day is set for January 3rd, 2009 - save the date now. Our regular GCOM-Brunswick sessions will resume in October (I know I told a bunch of you Novemeber, but I checked the calendar and I will have one in October if anyone is interested).