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Turkeys on Darkover
Nov. 24th, 2005 05:30 pmIt's an odd thing that, if I were to identify a default Thanksgiving plan in my life, it has come to be Darkovercon in Timmonium Maryland. (The back-up default is the cousins in San Mateo.) The major family gathering efforts always go into Christmas, so there isn't the same pressure these days to do the same for Thanksgiving. But why Darkovercon instead? (Other than the given that Darkovercon happens Thanksgiving weekend.) It happened something like this.
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The plane trip was delightfully boring. I discovered that a full battery charge on my new laptop translates into about 1 hour 45 minutes of DVD play. About half an hour after I got to the hotel, it started snowing -- didn't stick, and today it's just cold but no precipitation. Today was mostly hanging out, relaxing, getting caught up on some paperwork, and the hotel's Thanksgiving Buffet with other early-arrivers. (The convention proper doesn't start until tomorrow.) With appropriate gestures to ward off jinxes, I seem to have ditched the hovering head-cold.
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The plane trip was delightfully boring. I discovered that a full battery charge on my new laptop translates into about 1 hour 45 minutes of DVD play. About half an hour after I got to the hotel, it started snowing -- didn't stick, and today it's just cold but no precipitation. Today was mostly hanging out, relaxing, getting caught up on some paperwork, and the hotel's Thanksgiving Buffet with other early-arrivers. (The convention proper doesn't start until tomorrow.) With appropriate gestures to ward off jinxes, I seem to have ditched the hovering head-cold.
