Home from Worldcon

[akirlu]

Coming home after the relentless furnace that is Reno, Seattle presents me with lovely, cool grey and green prospects, and gloriously soft rain. Pale mist rising from the Green River blurs the lines of trees on the far hills. I do love it here. The house is awash in drifts of pet fur, but the little shedding machines are happy to see me. They shadow me around the house, and whenever I sit down at the computer they settle about me. Typically there's a cat in each chair, and one or both dogs flopped on the rug at my feet. I have done some punctuated pottering around the house: unpacking, putting away dishes, prepping to do a bit of laundry, vacuuming, Thai food with Hal.

Worldcon, in flashes: squeeing at the baby Zamboni in the Tuscany Ballroom. Imagine a meeting space so big it takes a riding vacuum cleaner (like a riding lawn mower, only built along the lines of a diminutive street sweeper) to clear the detritus from the previous event...helping with stapler triage at the WOOF collation: how fannish is that? Always buy the correct staples turns out to be key...discovering that, whatever may previously have been the case, John Scalzi is now a by-ghod-faan, complete with shibboleths...meeting drpaisley and ckd and katster for the first time in meatspace. Dr. P.: "Oh, hello, you're one of my pretend internet friends!"...playing steampunk dress-up with Lucy and getting stopped by the kid whose first Worldcon it was so he could take our picture...dancing every day...knitting panel: brain scans prove it - crafting is an anti-depressant...staying up 'til dawn in the fan lounge...Grant Kruger positively resplendent in his Coat of Many Colors: "I just come for the hugs."...Dave Cake explains: Australia subsidizes hobby equipment sheds for old men as depression therapy; Ulrika wonders, what about depressed old women? Also, what about me? Where are my state-subsidized wood lathes and drill presses and AutoCad-driven milling machines, dammit!?! (Note to self: move up timetable on declaring war on Canada -- need to be conquered by socialists)...Favorite line of the closing ceremonies: "I'm having a Chris Garcia moment."

Oh, there was ever so much more. It was a good con. A lovely con. I am entirely in humor with this fandom business as I have not been in a while. I feel renewed in fandom. Perhaps there will be more of a con report by and by, but then again...

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

It was a most excellent con. I feel much the same way...

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

I feel renewed in fandom.

I used to feel that way after every MiScon. Grief, I miss those days.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

A very fine con.
The Mens Shed Movement is a real thing http://www.mensshed.org/

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Bless you, I never doubted you for a moment. But thanks for the link. I see they are fair dinkum sheds. How adorable is that? Didn't know anyone still said that. Still say it's horrifyingly sexist. We want co-ed sheds.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I, also, am in charity with fandom thanks to the Worldcon in a way I have not been in a long time. I will cherish the memory and so forth. I won't go to any more cons for a while, though. I feel every so slightly resentful that I have to go out this evening, even though it's for something I love and know I'll enjoy.

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had utterly no idea you were also there!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

The times I lived in Seattle, I loved the mist. You could still see, but it was gentle on your face.