{"id":758,"date":"2004-07-26T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T04:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/07\/26\/758\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:33:50","slug":"758","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/07\/26\/758\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Gave away what, 60 copies of HONOR?  Something like that.  Two of them I traded for other ashcans (Yeperynye and The Last Sane Cowgirl), which I totally count as sales.  And every copy given away was to somebody whose work I (or Will or Stephen) really respect, which is a worthwhile transaction, in my opinion.\n<\/li>\n<li>Left my hat at Preview Night.  Never got it back.\n<\/li>\n<li>Got to meet a lot of cool people from the online.\n<\/li>\n<li>Cool people I met from the online all had a curious need to run off to important, distant engagements within seconds of meeting me.  Either I smell bad or I&#8217;m Creepy Interweb Fan, or (probably) both.\n<\/li>\n<li>Had a really good time with Monica, Will, Stephen and Maria.  And Stephen&#8217;s lady <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~schpoopy\/\" title=\"Should really update more often, like everybody else.\">Erin<\/a>, at whose residence we crashed, is maybe the coolest person on the whole planet.\n<\/li>\n<li>Ran out of plane-ticket money and was unable to visit Leonard and Sumana.  That was a pretty stupid mistake, and I feel really bad about it.  Hopefully, a post-student-loan trip is in the works.\n<\/li>\n<li>Tycho and Gabe were the coolest, most professional people at the whole freaking Con.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Tycho and Gabe, I had one of the world&#8217;s most random encounters:  passing by their booth, I recognized Paul Mattingly, a great guy who was in Richmond Children&#8217;s Theatre with me a billion years ago and who now works as a Klingon and Second City understudy (!) in Vegas.  I literally hadn&#8217;t seen him in over a decade.  He even has a site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefamouspaul.com\/\" title=\"Complete with standard first blog post!\">The Famous Paul<\/a>, though I understand that&#8217;s mostly a placeholder for the moment.\n<\/li>\n<li>Getting to California by train was interesting, right enough, and I&#8217;m glad we tried it. but the people who work for Amtrak seem unhappy and unhelpful and it&#8217;s very bumpy.  I think I&#8217;ll pretty much be flying from here on out.\n<\/li>\n<li>I thought about taking a whole bunch of stuff to get signed, but eventually decided against it.  I had a better idea.  Thanks to the unlined pocket Moleskine my family got me for my birthday, I now possess what can only be referred to as\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/chalk\/view.php?dater=20040726\" title=\"Oh, right, that exists.\"><b><span style=\"{ font-size: 120%; }\">The Greatest<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"{ font-size: 220%; }\">SKETCHBOOK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"{ font-size: 160%; }\">Ever In The History Of Time<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>which basically means I win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I managed to take a whole roll of film, which is good, considering I frequently manage to wish I had a camera <i>while holding one.<\/i>  Probably more updates after I get that developed, but considering I still haven&#8217;t posted the pics from my San Francisco trip in February, one shouldn&#8217;t hold one&#8217;s breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gave away what, 60 copies of HONOR? Something like that. Two of them I traded for other ashcans (Yeperynye and The Last Sane Cowgirl), which I totally count as sales. And every copy given away was to somebody whose work I (or Will or Stephen) really respect, which is a worthwhile transaction, in my opinion. 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