Montreal here I come! Flying out to Albany, NY tonight and meeting up with tammy_g in the morning. Driving in from there to Montreal. Meeting up with pezazul and clsinstl ... Munchies In backpack Pillow In backpack Med supplies In backpack Meds used to be so easy. Just a little daily pill container. Now I've got all kinds of stuff to cart around. *sigh

Half of my flist seems to be heading for Montreal, which means that a good portion of the rest is sitting at home. So it's time for another Bittercon! I'm going to start looking through the program in earnest, to pick a topic a day to blog about, but it would be great if there were more of us!

We're received some additional committee reports and accordingly updated the WSFS Business Meeting information on the Anticipation web site. This is the last of the reports we expected to receive and...of postponing consideration of the Best Graphic Story Hugo Award until a Monday meeting so that the meeting could have the benefit of seeing the detailed Hugo Awards nomination and voting results

We have very little time today to work directly on actual issues of CG today; it was our last non-work day before we leave for WorldCon so we had to make the most of our time to get ready. We went shopping, we packed, we cleaned. We got a lot done. The main issue-related things today involved emails. We sent a few out to contributors and people we hope will contribute to future issues. I’ve still...

17:25: After our train arrived at the station, we decided to walk to the convention center, it being only a few blocks away. When we got there, we couldn't find Worldcon registration. There were signs for a cattlemen's convention, but nothing about Worldcon. Oh, that's right: that was last year. We arrived at Denver with a huge layover due to the diversion through the faster Wyoming route, and...

...how much freedom of action we'll have at Denver? If we really are there for something like three hours, we should be able to go walk around downtown, with which we're familiar on account of last year's Worldcon. 14:35: Just like our driving route to Worldcon last year, the train turns south near Cheyenne and head down to Denver. Even though it's a diversion out of the train's usual route, the triple...

8:00 After having breakfast and a short walk this morning, we checked out of the hotel and drove back to the Emeryville Amtrak station, returning the rental car at the adjacent Avis station. That rental...concerns about the difficulty of making the beds were overstated. We started to turn in just before Elko, and watched the train make its Elko station stop from our beds before trying to get some sleep

…or at least, the end of this seemingly neverending span until we leave for WorldCon. I can’t wait! Today saw a pretty good response to Issue 9. I decided to forgo advertising except a few penny ads here and there, to see what kind of response we’d get without it. The results were pretty much what I expected: less overall numbers, but each visitor stayed longer and looked at more pages. And a high...

...the next few after are usually kept busy with reading submissions. But since we planned ahead and have read them all, after we contact submitting authors, we’ll be frantically getting ready for our WorldCon trip. I’m not going to post the whole long list of things we have to do, but wow are we busy. Also, we’re going to have to trim down our “Stuff to take” list or it might not fit in the trunk....