Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned

[hazelchaz]

Loscon 31 pictures are online. Click on shipofools999 to see them. Gina is sitting on a farm-style wagon I borrowed from my neighbor. It was a great help for loading the truck at the end of the convention, because they could pile up half a dozen or so art show flats or more, and one person could haul them down the corridors to the truck with ease. Or as Gina put it, "Chaz has the best toys."

Pictures are also online from the Loscon 30 wrap-up meeting last year; Bill and Anne's Partysaurus Party that night; Shawn Crosby's Rebel flight suit costume from Halloween (shown at left); Thanksgiving Dinner at my sister's house; the last pictures ever taken of our 1997 Honda Civic (taken at the impound yard after the accident that totalled it).

Picture Gallery news: I finally wrote my "pixrot" program, to take care of pictures that didn't get turned right-side up on my laptop. In this example, Kristi Smart is standing with some of the merchandise she sells at conventions. What does this mean for you? Not much, of course. Everything looks the same. The principal difference you'd see is that the high-resolution image (i.e. the original raw image from the camera) isn't rotated. I'm working towards eventually migrating from a Windows laptop for collecting my photos, to a Powerbook; this is part of that project. Plus it means that if I upload a picture that should have been rotated before uploading, I can correct it online instead of having to fix it on the laptop and re-upload.

At Loscon, library_lynn and I posed for a photo with my parents. Since Mom and Dad have their own silverback bear ears, and Lynn's hair is a dark blonde, the group photo was dubbed "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Of course, the classic Goldilocks look doesn't call for a pair of fuzzy ears purchased from the yaoicon people...

Incidentally, speaking of bears, I'm working on A BEAR WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN #2. I've got a few articles to finish writing, some polishing and editing, and a whole bunch of printing. I don't think I'll be abusing Elizabeth and Jerome's color laser printer for this issue. I'm working on a Corflu deadline. I'm trying to show that I can still get a fanzine out even with the other demands on my time, and I think it'll all come together just under the wire. I reprinted a few more copies of #1, so if you'd like one please let me know. (Or if you're in the UK, tell drplokta -- he should still have a few extra copies from the box I mailed him.)