There you go and baby, here am I. Well, you left me here so I could sit and cry...

Did anyone leave some kind of crocheted baby dress (or something) in our car during animelosangeles? library_lynn and I can't figure out where it came from...

Photos now online:
Mom leaves the convalescent hospital (03-Feb-2007)
Our wedding quilt Dorothy made (14-Sep-2007)
Benches part 4: The Box Instructions (04-Oct-2007)
Cooler parts needed (12-Oct-2007)
Maria tries to sit in a chair (31-Oct-2007)
Jim stops by (04-Nov-2007)
LASFS/Aftermeetings part 303: Coral Cafe (27-Dec-2007)
Ribbon rosettes received (27-Dec-2007)
Candy and Soda portraits part 1 (28-Feb-2008) et seq.
Anime Los Angeles 5 meetings part 11: Newsletter Computer (08-Jun-2008)
Anime Los Angeles 5 meetings part 40: Picking up Lindsay (09-Jan-2009)
Christmas 2008 part 3: Dinner and Gifts at Dorothy and Bob's (24-Jan-2009) et seq.
Christmas 2008 part 10: Sunday Brunch (25-Jan-2009) et seq.
Dinner with Dan (29-Jan-2009)
Gallifrey 2009: Pre-convention Meeting (08-Feb-2009)

As you can see, I've been posting a lot of flotsam and miscellaneous short batches... The picture of friendlypinet is from the committee meeting last weekend for the doctorwho convention Gallifrey One next weekend.

Trying to catch up with November. We went to loscon. Here's part 1 of my Loscon 35 report. (Other sections: part 2, part 3.)

You don't have to have been paying attention that much to know that "we" means myself, library_lynn and missmea. Not counting animelosangeles, Loscon is our "home convention." If we only go to one convention a year, it'll be Loscon. Some people can't go to Loscon because it's on a big family-holiday weekend and they've got family they need to be with; some people like going to Loscon because it lets them get away from the family they don't want to spend the whole weekend with; some people (like myself) bring their families; and for some people, the "family" they care about are their large circle of friends who also make Loscon their home convention.

While I've been to five Animé Los Angeles conventions, and nine or ten Worldcons, and an assortment of others, Loscon is the one I've been attending consistently the longest.

I used to be a productive staff person at Loscon, a department head running something or other. Lately, I've just been coasting -- I'm an ordinary member, and some years I'll pull enough of my weight to get a pass-on to the next year. Of course, this year I had a ready excuse: I was representing Animé Los Angeles.

( The co-chairs (Cathy Beckstead and Joyce Hooper) and I had worked out an arrangement... )

To be continued. Next: More about badge ribbons.