Author: Elaine

Northern Neighbors

The lower house was built a few years after we moved here.  The house on the ridge was for sale when we were looking, but out of our preferred price range.  I also wanted a place with relatively flat ground for a horse pasture.  Having seen the lightning walk along the ridges during thunderstorms, I am just as glad we didn’t pick the place on the high ground.

COSine Science Fiction Convention

The eight annual COSine Science Fiction Convention is being held this week-end at the Crown Plaza Colorado Springs. Our guest of honor is Sharon Shinn.  I am running a game of Dominion on Saturday and am also on two panels, one of which is the obligatory Heinlein panel.  (I was on a Heinlein panel at the most recent Worldcon in  Denver.  Someone in the audience said it was the best panel at the convention.  I suppose that was flattering, but I wanted to say “You don’t get out much, do you?”) Jack is on a panel Friday night about Science Fiction and Anime.  That should be worth attending if only to hear Connie Willis’s views on the topic.

In other fannish news, the Atlantis Hotel room block in Reno for the World SF Convention this summer sold out within 24 hours. (The con is investigating getting another block of rooms.)  I am so glad that my great desire to be in the party hotel for once led me to book the room within the first hour.