Dorothy Marley's Journal

Bad news first.

I had a talk with my physical therapist yesterday about DragonCon, and while he didn't say "don't go," the things we talked about led me to the conclusion that going would not be fun. Everything I want to do involves either standing in line (or sitting on the floor in line) or sitting in horrible hotel conference chairs. I finally realized that I would either be in the hotel room lying down, or in a lot of pain. While the opportunities for hotel-room socializing are not to be discounted as a primary factor in my going to the con in the first place, I finally realized that I just wasn't prepared to face the prospect of the pain involved to do anything else. Such as drive five hours and haul my luggage through the Atlanta subway. So, I'm staying home.

The silver lining to all this (there's always one :)) is that I'll be able to maybe do some bookmarking. I've been trying to figure out a way to cross-post my Delicious bookmarks directly to my journals. I've been using the always-awesome Text Wrangler to code my finder lists by hand, but it would be nice to have a way to share the links.

This can be done from Delicious with other blogs, but not with LJ-based clients. I know there are a couple of scripts that can do it, but I don't have the hosting capabilities to run them. I'm experimenting with Twitter, but the automatic Tweeting from Delicious doesn't seem to work, at least not from the LJ add-on window, and doing it from the Delicious site is a royal pain in the ass. We'll see how it goes. :)

ETA: Ha! Figured out what was wrong with the auto-Tweeting from Delicious. I've now set up LoudTwitter, so hopefully my links will now funnel back onto my journal (under a cut, of course :)). Right now, I'm only doing it on Livejournal to test it.

David Nykl will be at Dragon*Con.

So will Gareth David-Lloyd.

I'm just going to be over here in the corner, quietly hyperventilating.

Right. DragonCon is a week away. Well, tomorrow it will be a week away. Naturally, the most urgent, burning issue of my preparations is "What am I going to knit?"

( The Seaweed Afghan is right out. )

I'm still working on the detailed daily reports, but here's the overview:

( DragonCon, so much fun.... )

So, I think I'm packed for DragonCon. Maybe. You'd think after twenty years that I'd have con-packing down to a better art than this. But, no, I'm still dithering around knowing I'm packing too much and still wondering what I'm forgetting to bring. Still, it's no mean feat to even be at this stage at 11pm the night before.

( Random packing thoughts )

Picked up Melissa's three paintings last night, brought them home and put them in Boo's room to prevent curious felines from destroying them. I had a dream this morning that one of them became thin as gauze and started developing runs like a pair of panty hose. I was trying to hang them, but kept screwing up and putting them facing the walls and poking holes in the canvas. No, I'm not nervous about being entrusted with her babies, not at all....

Anyway, I should probably quit fooling around on-line and get to bed, so I can wake up fifteen times thinking, "Oh, I forgot to pack X!"