Yea, it’s already hit. There’s a draw about the gratification of notifications of posts that seems irresistible. A good time to come here, I’d say. One doesn’t need that dimensionality to their day-by-day experience to remain social, but the want for it is definitely strong. I still have Facebook Messenger fired up, so I can talk to everyone important to me that way. I had reactivated Facebook momentarily to try to get Adium (a macOS Jabber client) hooked up, but found that I couldn’t unless I had an active account.
So, at least for the moment, those messages will be on my phone only. It’s probably better that way, but it would have been nice to have things pass off as seamlessly as Signal.
The Twilight Zone Official Trailer
Inside The SpaceX Launch That Just Made History
Data & Picard
Ok…so, yea…that writing thing…
Well, keeping up with this thing is harder than I thought 😉 So, yea…Zoey has grown a bit since the last post. lol. She has most of a full set of teeth now, she babbles like nobody’s business, and really digs music.
She’s on the verge of walking. She has taken three steps over two separate occasions now. Just today, she took two just to get to a TV remote. She really digs the lights on it, I think.
Missing Dragon Con. We won’t be going this year, in favor of selling our house and getting a new one. That’ll take a bit of payola and such. We’ll probably take a few weekend trips here and there, though–particularly for our anniversary. We don’t have any particular house in mind. We haven’t been looking too hardcore, to this point–going to wait until the house is sold, or at least on contract, so as to hopefully lessen the stress of it all. No use in drooling over a house when we can’t get into that house right now.
Been playing Grand Theft Auto V. Awesome game, just awesome. I’ve mostly been playing the online portion of it. I’m not getting stomped too badly by online players, though most seem to be generally decent in the mayhem they cause–to NPCs, as opposed to me. heh. I have a car that pretty much resembles a Mustang.
Dragon Con 2014, IV
DC 2014-C
Yet another day of awesomeness, of course. We saw a voice acting panel, a Guardians of the Galaxy panel, a BSG panel and yet another Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. They did The Call of Cthulhu. They had done it a couple of years back, and it was just as awesome the second time around.
Oh, and the annoying self-absorbed dude who gracelessly ruined the front-end of the Walking Dead panel nearly did the same with the Guardians of the Galaxy panel. However, the awesomeness of that panel supremely overshadowed his suckiness.
Tonight’s agenda includes checking out a hacking panel, one that looked interesting in years past, but I never went to. Costume pics, perhaps, in the Marriott later, too. They should just extend this Dragon Con thing to be a month long…why not all year? 😉
Dragon Con 2014, part deux
Things have been pretty awesome, so far, this year. Sadly, already we are over halfway though. I have dreams about this every year, and always it goes by far too rapidly. I can’t wait to bring little Zoey here and show her the awesomeness.
Anyhoo, went to a few pretty awesome panels yesterday and today. Most of it was Star Trek related. The best one, though, was probably the Patrick Stewart and Gates McFadden one this particular afternoon.
Saw a screening of Prelude to Axanar this evening. That was astoundingly cool. I had seen the video on YouTube this week, but the enthusiasm in this panel may just drive me to contribute to the kick starter to make this thing a full-fledged movie.
About to check out a podcast panel called Night Attack. Never heard of it. Funny, how many things are new to me at Dragon Con that I just lap up and assimilate…I’ll probably be a fanboy by next year 😉
D*C!! 2014 Edition
Ok, so I haven’t stayed very up-to-date with my little blog. But, see the baby blog for details 😉 Zoey has been a complete joy and has kept our world quite busy.
However, it’s time for another Dragon Con! So, what better time to start again than the bestest geek fest in the galaxy, if not the known universe?
Keith’s on the way in this morning, and Meacham and I are already here. Staying at the Sheraton again this year. Nice hotel, overall, and a bit more quiet than the others–good for when we actually do want to get some Zs 😉
D*C: Day Three
Our first panel today was George Takei. It was kind of a disappointment, mostly because I didn’t realize it wasn’t on the Trek Track. Some of what he said was quite interesting, not the least of which being his involvement in the LA subway system. But, it got mostly political and it just ended up pissing me off. But, it still wasn’t the worst panel ever–the Walking Dead one where the cast didn’t show up holds that honor, but only because of the annoying moderator 🙂
We were going to try to squeeze into a Futurama voice acting panel just after, not the least of which because the current season is the last one for that show. Alas, it couldn’t be. You can’t really do one panel right after the other at D*C, because of how many people attend these things–you generally have to plan your schedule such that you have at least an hour (maybe two) to wait in line. Anyhoo, we ended up playing some Munchkin for a little while.
After which, we waited a couple hours or so to finally get into a successful Walking Dead panel. Unfortunately, the annoying moderator was still flapping his gums before the panel began *sigh*
Our last panel of the evening was the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. Their feature that evening was a radio version of War of the Worlds; it wasn’t like Welles’ version of it, because it was more congruent to the plot of the novel–with a few twists of its own (e.g., a professor named Moriarity using biological weaponry to take down the Martians).