I’m reviewing the site for Worldcon 2005, to be held in Glasgow, August ’05.
Registration price is $170 for the entire shebang, which I can actually split into payments, if I register now.
I alos jsut spoke to a friend, a travel agent, who actually sent to Boston’s Worldcon for a decent price, and he is of the opinion that there will be better prices a bit closer to August, but it shouldn’t be more than about $400.
Now, I don’t know how much the hotels will cost, but I can be sure it won’t be cheap.
So it’s a long-term concept dream, and who knows what will happen by then.
Author: MikeTheMan
My very own t-shirt!
Thanks to , I now have my very own T-shirt with a saying that pretty much encompasses what I want to say to everyone.
Oh what a night!
Late December back in ’63….
Don’t sit at home and wait for your friends to call to pick you up and NOT go to the bathroom.
They called about an hour late, and I had to take a leak. So I didn’t.
Now, after walking around downtown, drinking a couple liters at the bar, eating some fries at the bar, then riding over to my frined’s place, drinking some more, smokin’ some weed, watching some tv, heading home, and LOTS of laughter, I finally took a leak.
Felt like releasing the waters of the Gihon dam a second before they overflowed on theri own.
Just had to metnion it.
G’night.
“Let’s just be friends”
Goes well with “I like you, as a friend” and “He’s just soooo fun to hang out with”.
Why not just castrate us and be done with it?
What’s the point of it all, anyway?
She’s cute, nice, and is it me? Or is it her? I mean, I appreciate the honesty and all, but COME ON!
Aww, crap.
Ok, mid-day…
… Yet again, I’m stealing comp time from the Con. 🙂
It’s been a hectic, yet oddly not as buggy day that I thought it would be.
I have a great team of well-trained semi-professionals that keep the ball rolling fairly smoothly.
On the downside, my back is completely shot to hell, so anyone with any ideas?
Post #1 from Icon
Well, here I am, at the entrance of Icon in the Eshkol building, typing fast on borrowed computer time.
It’s been a LONG weekend, when I left the house on Friday afternoon to Tel Aviv, I wasn’t really sure what I had in mind.
I assisted in the general setup of Icon, even though I arrived nice and late, but I don’t think I minded that much. Then, I got picked up later that evening to head to a party in Haifa, a friend’s birthday. After partying hard for many hours, I got dumped back at Jax’s house to catch some Z’s.
Upon waking, spent the day lounging around and ate a nice relaxed lunch.
That evening, caught a ride to TLV, where the re-commencement of festivities continued. Oh, what a night!
Kept busy and hung around. Eventually slept inside the building, with people sparsely placed around in nooks and crannies. Go figure.
So now, I’m sleep deprived, and all wound up, and ready to start a new, exciting day!
Wish me luck!
It’s just a slow afternoon….
Well, it’s been a really nice relaxed weekend.
I got a haircut on Friday and spent some time with my friend Joe. Back at my place, we spent some energy on beating the crap out of each other on Tekken 4. What a way to waste time. 🙂
Yos came over and joined in the fun, and eventually, Yos took me along to “tea” at his brother’s family’s place, and spent a couple of hours relaxing on ntheir porch, chatting with the relativies and Yos’s godparents.
Eventually, Yos dropped me off at home, because I was dropping from exhaustion, and I took a long-needed nap.
Later that evening, he came back, and we watched a movie called “The Hebrew Hammer”. (link to IMDB)
If you are Jewish, and if you’re American, and better yet, if you’ve seen “Shaft”, I can alomst guarantee that you’ll laugh out load, or at least groan out loud while watching this movie. Interested parties should contact me to arrange for a private showing or personal copy etc.
It was pretty damn funny.
We also worked on his machine, which is still making noise right next to me.
After I got some sleep, I was up again today, and decided to take a crack at organizing data, yet again.
The ongoing, constant battle to keep ahead of download speed is at a constant loss. This week I had to turn off my downloads for a bit! I nearly fainted! But back on track again, and I’m still working on completing my database. About to finish the letter “G”.
(* Note to self – take some time to figure out how to get the Database back online.)
Well, in any case, I shall resume the attack.
Hope y’all have had as relaxed a weekend as I have!
Yargle, blargle, glingle and farb…
It’s one of those days.
What a useless day.
It started last night actually…..
After work, I met up with Shay to go finish a job at a lawyers firm upgrading their system.
Should have been a fairly simple job, hit-and-run kinda computer thingie, but it was not to be.
Running into a wide plethora of problems, and trying to knock out each one as it cropped up was definitely a challenge.
At about 10:30, Shay and got extremely peckish, and ordered pizza and beer to the office where we continued the job.
At one point, he even fell asleep while I was working on it.
Finally, we got 90% of what we wanted working, and decided to call it a night. At about 3:00am.
What a gyp.
Haven’t been called today, so I’m guessing that everything was ok.
Then today at work I have the pleasure of yet again confronting the insanity that is this company.
Now they say that nobody’s perfect. But nobody should be so imperfect that they stay in existence by the skin of their teeth.
It’s getting more and more annoying.
More and more people are asking me why I don’t work elsewhere. System administration, Technical Training, Management…
And here I am, answering your call.
What a weekend.
What a weekend.
Thursday night – Finish work at 5, head to the gym for a spinning class. Ride a lot, sweat a lot.
After class, meet Yos, meet up with Ran, Elon and Jax for drinks at O’Connel’s (nice Irish pub). After drinks and snakcs, all head back to my place, where we hang out and get high. Lotsa fun.
About 2am, all gone, asleep.
Friday:
8:15am – awakening, and Yos comes over a bit later to work on his machine.
12:30pm – Dad picks me up, go visit sister in hospital after baby boy is born.
2:30pm – preparing to leave Betar (Dad’s place) with one niece to other sister’s moshav for my eldest niece’s Bat Mitzva – first in our family, big event. Ride was nice, played lots of Blues music. Slept a bit.
4:15 – arrive at moshav, unpack car, run around like headless chickens. See people that I’ve never met.
6:15 – Make really strong coffee. Drink. Feels like a boot to the head.
6:30 – Preparing food and whatnot for Friday night meal. Lots of food. Not an understatement. 30 people at each meal. Although20 of them are kids.
8:00 – Big dinner. Finally meet these weird extended family relatives from South America, related by marriage or whatever. All speeches made in 3 languages, if not 4 (English, Hebrew, Spanish and Yiddish. Go figure).
9:45 – dinner over, clear off tables and prep for after-dinner party with all residents of moshav. Whoa. Got heckled by some guy who remembered me from my childhood. Whoopee. Like I give a damn.
01:00am – about to go to sleep, notice the military truck parked behind sister’s house. Head over to say hi, and bring a plate of goodies. Poor reservists. i hope on my reserve duty there are guys as nice as me to come round and sit and schmooze to pass the hours while they have to sit around and stare at a small screen for 8 hours.
02:00am – pass out from exhaustion
Saturday:
08:00am – wakeup call sounds like “Why are you still asleep? Half the day is gone already!” In my head: What am I, Amish? let a guy sleep! Fall out of bed. stone floor hurts. a lot. not recommended, especially in the early hours of morning.
09:00 – prepping fod for “lunch” at 10am. bleah. TONS of food. Oh, and beef tongue. Yarghl.
10:00 – lunch. tons of food. I am the official catering expert, and have to assist in everything, from place settings to presenting the platters and what have you. joy.12:30pm – meal over, cleanup. get rid of the kids, work on that for a bit. Sit down afterwards for a nice cold beer with bro-in-law. relax. Head back to sister’s for a nap.
5:30pm – wake, prepare final meal, bagels and cream cheese. Sounds simple enough, right? NO. piles of everything, as if we’re welcoming the starving population of wherever.
7:35pm – meal over, Shabbat over. CLEANUP! Work like crazy to get everything where it needs to go, ordering everything just right etc. Get sent home with leftovers, always a good thing. Except for that tongue stuff. eww.
8:30pm – make another platter of goodies for reservists, and walk the 20 feet to their truck. spend a bit chatting, and find out that one if them is virtually my neighbor in the city. Huh. Small world? I think so.
9:30pm – parents pick me up, drive me and niece back to Betar, drop off niece and mom. Climbin staris to their house, my knee start hurting. Sharp pain. Ouch. Shake it off. Dad drives me and my leftovers back to J-Town. Climbing my own stairs, my knee is really complaining, so I slow down. BIG ouch.
10:45 – pack some ice around my knee. smoke a bowl. life is a bnit better. watch some TV.
11:50 – pass out
Sunday:
06:30 – alarm with decent music. In shower knee dies on my. I want to die.
08:00 – at work, find out how to go to a doctor. not my forte. schedule for Tuesday.
10:25 – realize that I’m not walking anywhere for lunch, order in.
12:00 – now. Wrote all this for me, to remind myself that family matters, but how much and to who are a big question. If I can barey walk as a result of this weekend, I’m going to be mightily pissed at the family.
I’m soooooooo bored!
This day has been nothing but a total mental drain.
I keep trying to stay upbeat, but it’s pretty damn hard when nothing works.I got a call about a job today. First one since the CV has begun to circulate again.
It was kind of weird, but it was a guy from a placement agency, and he wanted to know a bit about me.
His first question was (after mentioning that this could save us both some time) was about what kind of salary expectations I have. I tossed a figure out there, approx. 20% higher than my current income, even though I’m worth more.
He hesitated, and then continued with an “ok, I think that’s feasible”.
So we chatted for a few minutes, and he said that he would be in touch.
Sounds interesting, at the least.
Gotta keep moving along.