NORWESCON, Day 2.

.....Greetings All,

.....Day two brought about a whole different type of geekdom. Spent several hours playing with consumer robotics. A lot of fun and there are a lot of consumer lever robotics out there for not that bad of price.

.....Spent several hours on a couple of different writing panels. I'm not a brilliant writer, but I'm not a bad writer either and attending these reminded me of how much I enjoy writing and creating new worlds of my own. Re-awakened a hunger for writing again. I always seem to use the excuse that I never have the time, but as was pointed out several times yesterday, if you schedule the time (an hour or so each day) and discipline yourself to keep to your schedule, you'll be back up to full speed writing in no time. I'd like to do that.

.....Spent a couple of hours with someone who does bronze casting in their garage. Went through his entire process. It was great! Learned all of the low budget work-arounds for equipment that costs hundreds of dollars normally. Learned a lot of new tricks for actually handling wax and molds. It was a lot of fun. I've done sand casting and have most of the stuff for it. I've even done a couple of cuttle-bone casts with pewter. Maybe when we have the workshop set up with a good exhaust system, I can pull everything together to do some casting.

.....Went and saw all the new movie previews. Saw some clips from the upcoming Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It looks pretty good. But rather dark. I can see what everyone is saying about how much darker and grittier each Harry Potter book becomes. I saw clips from Spiderman and the new Beowulf re-make coming out. I'm reserving my judgment on that one. The costuming looked very Hollywood, and being a Beowulf snob (NOT only because of the Tolkien connections :-)), I'm ready for disappointment. The new Fantastic Four movie (with the Silver Surfer) looks rather interesting.

.....I'm rather bummed though that I missed the annual Rocky Horror showing last night at midnight. I was rather tired and not feeling hot and crashed a little early. Wah! But the Beloved Laurellen expressed and interest and the Vicarious Theatre Company is supposedly still doing shows somewhere in West Seattle, so we may have to go sometime (BTW, the butler's name is Riff-Raff, Tamm. I don't know why I couldn't remember that last night. :-)).

.....Some good filk stuff yesterday. I know that filk is generally considered as second rate by the SCA crowd, but the people yesterday were doing a really good job with their music and I enjoyed it immensely.

.....Gotta run, see everyone later.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

The Song Title Meme.

.....The crowds are pretty intense today downstairs, so I'm taking a break for a little while to refresh myself. :-)

.....This was one that was hard to narrow down. Do you go strictly from direct use of just the title of the song? Or do you think about the song itself as a whole and how it applies? I did a little of both, depending on the question. :-)

Describe yourself using one band and song titles from that band.

Choose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band: Sting (Solo)
Are you male or female: Something The Boy Said
Describe yourself: Englishman In New York
How do some people feel about you: Children’s Crusade
How do you feel about yourself: Rock Steady / I Was Brought To My Senses
Describe your ex girlfriend/boyfriend: La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
Describe your current girlfriend/boyfriend: She’s Too Good For Me / Little Wing / Desert Rose
Describe where you want to be: We’ll Be Together
Describe what you want to be: Fields Of Gold / Tomorrow We’ll See
Describe how you live: Tea In The Sahara
Describe how you love: Be Still My Beating Heart / Mad About You
Share a few words of wisdom: When the World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around

NORWESCON! Day Three.

.....Greetings All!

.....I'm starting to reach the point of NORWESCON where my brain is getting to the full point. :-) Kept missing panels today because I couldn't decide which one to attend. :-)

.....Went to another couple of writing panels this mornings. Good stuff. More motivation towards getting my own writing back on track. Went to another Movie Preview showing. Saw some more cool stuff and learned more later (after the panel). For the Battlestar Gallactica fans, it looks like the new season will have a complete set of 22 episodes. A TV movie focusing on the PEGASUS as well as a Caprica Pre-Qual are in the works. There is a Babylon 5 straight-to-video in production now, with another one possibly in the works depending on how well this one sells. The Hobbit is in pre-production. And YEAH, because Peter Jackson is being snotty with New Line right now, he's not involved with the screenplay at all. Huzzah! Maybe we'll get a story line that is something closer to what Tolkien would recognize rather than the soap opera that Lord of the Rings ended up being at times. Guess that another movie sequel for 'Serenity' is in the works as well. I'm sure that some of this is old news to many of you, but thought I would mention it just in case.

.....Went to another panel on runes. Some interesting stuff but nothing new. Went to a slide show of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Many, many good shots.

.....Saw the masquerade show and am now vegging out in the room. I'm a little tired tonight and will probably not go down to the dance. Mistress Sine (slysidonia (sp?)) was here today. I felt rather badly as I ran into her as I was off on a mission and couldn't talk long (My apologies, Sine!).

.....I'm about ready to go home tomorrow. Enjoy some Easter Dinner at Gwen's. AND SEE THE BELOVED TAMM!!!! She's coming with Rhys tomorrow morning to participate in an Easter Egg Hunt. I can't wait to see her. Wish we could have both spent NORWESCON here together. I'm sure that she would have had a heck of a good time.

.....Getting sleep so I'm going to run now. Hope that everyone has a good meeting with the Easter Bunny tomorrow. :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.