Yes, while others have a streak of posting, I have a streak of NOT posting.
Go me.
Not impressed? Well then. I, uh, have you seen this card trick?
There are no good excuses. Of COURSE I'm busy – if I weren't busy I'd find myself something to do, and then I'd be busy again, so it was like I was never not busy in the first…
So, as most readers of this blog know, I'm a bit of a Gamer.
(Rida is probably laughing to hear that – I'm a "bit" of a gamer is perhaps a wee bit of and understatement – but let's move along)
I'm also a big fan of the webcomic Penny Arcade. Two smartass gamers with the power to change the console and computer…
One of the big differences between Rida and I is in how impulsive we are in how we acquire things.
Rida is a researcher – she studies, she finds reviews, she compares and contrasts…she is relatively risk-averse to the idea of buying something that is less than what she wanted.
Me, I'm a lot more impulsive. I heard one song from Eddie…
A topic that came up during the Book Festival:
Should an author who has established themselve as a certain genre writer use a pen-name (or, in some cases, a DIFFERENT pen-name) when they write in other genres? What if it's a very different voice and genre?
Personally, I think no – why dilute the brand of your name? A good book is a good…
It's interesting, I think, how preparation for events and happenings sort of overpower you and take over large tracts of time and attention. Such that when they happen, you find yourself lost for a bit, trying to get back to life-as-usual and figure out what's the next thing that is going to overpower you, and take over those large tracts…
Well, the Baltimore Book Festival is over.
It was a weekend of great weather, interesting – good interesting and bad interesting, sometimes – people, food, music, and books.
Also, of learning to live at a 15 degree incline.
I drove more of Baltimore this weekend – mostly trying to find parking! – than I have in years. COMBINED years. …
Wait, not it's not.
So, we're like a broken record, about the Baltimore Book Festival. So, we're like a broken record, about the Baltimore Book Festival.
So, we're like a broken record…you get the idea.
(And for those of you who don't know what a broken record is – sheesh! Kids! Get off my…
Hosting my mostly-weekly chat tonight, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM Eastern.
Topics will include just about whatever you want them to include. Except erotica, 'cause that's Rida's bag, not mine.
–Robert
Back from Gen Con – had a good time, thanks for asking. Not the time of my life, but it's not often that I do nothing but game and spend money for four days straight.
Of course in this mad swirl of gaming, I didn't sleep well – or much – and as such I caught a cold. Stupid immune system and it's inability to deal with a few nights…
So next week I depart to the wild and wooly state of Indiana for Gen Con, a gaming convention that promises to be as strange and weird as it has been the last several times I've gone.
Also, expensive.
Gaming conventions for me are always interesting – I regret if I don't go, but typically after going I come back griping that I…
