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So... let me talk about Gencon a little.
Wow.
I played (Living Death, Firefly, TechnoTerra, Living Dragonstar, Living Spycraft), I hung out with friends (old and new) and wandered the exhibit hall, playing demos and catching up with my contacts in the industry. I drank till the bar closed (and hardly ever had to buy my own drink) and slept in when I wanted to. Dang. I think I know now why it is people go to conventions -- it's FUN!
There's a philosophy that holds that when things are meant to be -- when it's the RIGHT thing -- that everything flows. Everything you need falls into place. The stars are right. And boy, were they ever for me at Gencon. I'm starting to think that perhaps my life might be turning around.
I didn't have a single bad table. I had a lovely dinner with my friend (it was nice to see you, Lisa!), and another friend let me share her Marriott hotel room gratis -- and even covered the cost of parking my car. Thanks, Cynthia, from the bottom of my heart.
Everywhere I went, people sought me out to chat, to hug, to tell me that they value me and what I have done -- and what I may do in the future. I'm even told I got an ovation at the member's meeting (I left it early on because the echo made it hard to hear and what I could hear overflowed my BS buffers after about 10 minutes). Despite efforts to disparage and discount me, it looks like I'm still an opinion leader. This gives me great hope for the Gamer Fellowship project (about which there will be more, as soon as I settle on a content manager for the site).
It was, in short, fabulous. And I'm going to go to Gencon Southern California in December, and have just as much fun. I'll even run a couple of Living Spycraft games for AEG games.
The bitch is back!
Wow.
I played (Living Death, Firefly, TechnoTerra, Living Dragonstar, Living Spycraft), I hung out with friends (old and new) and wandered the exhibit hall, playing demos and catching up with my contacts in the industry. I drank till the bar closed (and hardly ever had to buy my own drink) and slept in when I wanted to. Dang. I think I know now why it is people go to conventions -- it's FUN!
There's a philosophy that holds that when things are meant to be -- when it's the RIGHT thing -- that everything flows. Everything you need falls into place. The stars are right. And boy, were they ever for me at Gencon. I'm starting to think that perhaps my life might be turning around.
I didn't have a single bad table. I had a lovely dinner with my friend (it was nice to see you, Lisa!), and another friend let me share her Marriott hotel room gratis -- and even covered the cost of parking my car. Thanks, Cynthia, from the bottom of my heart.
Everywhere I went, people sought me out to chat, to hug, to tell me that they value me and what I have done -- and what I may do in the future. I'm even told I got an ovation at the member's meeting (I left it early on because the echo made it hard to hear and what I could hear overflowed my BS buffers after about 10 minutes). Despite efforts to disparage and discount me, it looks like I'm still an opinion leader. This gives me great hope for the Gamer Fellowship project (about which there will be more, as soon as I settle on a content manager for the site).
It was, in short, fabulous. And I'm going to go to Gencon Southern California in December, and have just as much fun. I'll even run a couple of Living Spycraft games for AEG games.
The bitch is back!
