Writing this morning from the computer terminal in the Hunt Valley Marriott lobby.<\/p>\n
On a random note, it’s odd to see my webpage on a computer other than mine. I think I made some decent generic font choices, and it looks nice, but I miss seeing the various Doctor Who<\/i> fonts used on the page. As I said, it’s a random little thing. I realize that, for the first time really, I’m seeing the webpage the way everyone else does.<\/p>\n
As for the convention, so far, so good.<\/p>\n
The trip itself was a minor nightmare, mainly due to the insane traffic on the Washington Beltway, a sinkhole on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway that dumped a lot of traffic onto other roads, and a nasty accident outside Baltimore that closed three lanes of a four lane interstate.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the sun burned my left arm during the drive. It’s a little on the painful side, and my right arm matches not at all.<\/p>\n
Met several people last night for the first time. David Henderson, the proprietor of the Psi Phi<\/a> webpage. Andrew Timson. Geoff Trowbridge<\/a>. Three people I’ve known through the Internet for years, and now I have faces to place to the names. Good times.<\/p>\n I also met Richard White, author of the Gauntlet<\/i> novel and an upcoming Star Trek: SCE<\/b> novella. Long-time readers may recall that my review of White’s Gauntlet<\/i> novel wasn’t that favorable, so it came as some surprise recently when I discovered White’s webpage and its link back to mine. I’d never commented on that, though I felt some sense of guilt. So, when I presented White at the autographing party last night with a copy of his Gauntlet<\/i> novel for signing I think he was somewhat surprised. We had a good conversation, and it was a true pleasure to meet him.<\/p>\n Today will consist mainly of attending panels, though I will be at the SFWA Charity auction in the morning. I spoke last week with my marketing department about possibly donating marketing materials relating to Star Trek<\/i> and Star Wars<\/i> video games to the auction as a way of assisting the SFWA and putting the company’s name out there, and the marketing department has been extremely<\/i> supportive of the idea. So, in the Beetle are several marketing posters and a banner for Destroy All Humans!<\/i> for the auction.<\/p>\n The panel I’m most looking forward to today is the one for Star Trek: Titan<\/b>, devoted to the novels about Captain Riker and the Titan<\/i>, post-Star Trek: Nemesis<\/b>.<\/p>\n I should be meeting Jim McCain for breakfast sometime in the next half hour, so I’ll draw this to a close.<\/p>\n Will there be more updates from the convention? We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Writing this morning from the computer terminal in the Hunt Valley Marriott lobby. On a random note, it’s odd to see my webpage on a computer other than mine. I think I made some decent generic font choices, and it looks nice, but I miss seeing the various Doctor Who fonts used on the page.Continue reading “On Shore Leave II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[51,892,160],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-fandom","tag-gauntlet","tag-shore-leave","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}