And, Looking Forward...

[dagibbs]

Tonight: climbing/bouldering at Coyote?
Wednesday: dinner with parents, sister, niece; then climbing?
Thursday: date with gabriel_le.
Friday: moria's birthday party
Saturday: gaming at kattale's
Sunday: poly potluck at my place

Wednesday Jan 10th - Poetry Slam @ Cafe Dekcuf on Rideau
Jan 12-14 - Arisia in Boston?
Jan 16-18 - training in Montreal
Evening January 18th drive to TO/KW on way to Michigan
Jan 19-21 - Confusion in Michigan
Jan 22-25 - training in Michigan
Jan 22 - climbing with rainbowravenx
Jan 23 - Tio's
Jan 24 - climbing with renniekins
Jan 25 - open
Jan 26 - drive back to Ottawa, with visits along way?

April 20-22 - Penguicon?
June 29-July 2 - Cottage party.
August 2-5 - NASFIC?
October 12-14 - Conclave

And, of course, lots of work travel that I don't (yet) know of.

Comments

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

The NASFiC is shaping up to look pretty scary. The main hotel has instituted all kinds of crazy restrictions on when people can book rooms and how they can book rooms, and requiring people to pay in full in advance. It's really wacky. I think it's going to be a train wreck.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Oh, and yes, you should come to Penguicon. I'm running registration, in case you'd like to volunteer some time while you're there...

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

That does sound kind of scary. But, it is at a Holiday Inn, and I've got a whole bunch of free nights in Holiday Inns right now. And, it is relatively close -- I'd probably be able to two-wheel it.

I may wait and see what develops as far as trouble.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Could happen. How many hours does Penguicon want for reimbursement?

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

And maybe if you're staying on free nights you won't be subject to the weirdness. I just suspect there's going to be a lot of hotel nastiness.

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Assuming that what I found on the Penguicon website is accurate, 6 hours. If the convention is in the black, yada-yada-ya.

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what my work sked will be like, but feel free to give us a call while you're in town and maybe we can make you a meal or somethin'.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

So it looks like you will not need post Fusion crash space and will be arriving at Fusion on Friday, correct?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Absolutely correct.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Details: 6pm-10pm, at my place. (97 Cambridge St North.) Potluck.

Background: for years there was a regular bi- people get-together, once a month, at a particular restaurant (Maxwell's, IIRC). At some point, this morphed into a bi-poly get-together at the same restaurant. I started occasionally showing up around this point (which is still about a decade or so ago, I'd say.) The restaurant started providing horrid service, so the dinner moved. Around this time, there was a mailing list created for bi- and poly- events and discussion in Ottawa, and it is now a Yahoo group. (It has, since, been split into a bi- list and a poly- list, which is Polyamory-Ottawa@yahoogroups.com). Over time, after some discussion, and the issue being raised loudly by one particular person that restaurants are expensive, and potlucks would be less expensive, it was decided to alternate restaurants and potlucks (hosted at volunteered member homes) on the last Sunday of each month. (This person attended approximately one potluck, hosted one, and then was not seen at another potluck. This is characteristic of the person in question. (No, I'm not bitter, not at all.)) "But", you say, "this Sunday isn't the last Sunday of any month." This is perfectly true, but the last Sunday was New Year's Eve, and that wasn't a good choice, and doing it one Sunday earlier would have been Christmas Eve, also not a good choice, so I volunteered to hold the potluck one Sunday late, this Sunday.

Enough details?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

That would be awesomeness. You, concordantnexus, and my sister are on my "to be visitted with" list for the time I'm there.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

You are very definitely welcome to show up. I have no actual solid idea who, or how many people, will make it.

[brendand.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we can get you a staff position, if you're interested.

[rainbowravenx.livejournal.com]

as a side note, you're not going to laugh at me when I can't keep up with you are you ? I haven't been climbing in a long time :)

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I promise to not laugh at you for not keeping up. What I like about rock-gym climbing, is that climbers of quite different skill levels can go out climbing together just by picking different walls, or even sometimes different routes on the same wall, and it isn't a problem.

If we were going mountaineering, we'd both have to be able to climb similar pitches, or the stronger climber would be restricted to what the weaker could climb, and it might be less than as interesting as it might be. But for gym climbing, that isn't an issue.

Looking forward to seeing you in a couple weeks.

[rainbowravenx.livejournal.com]

Ok cool :) Yepp I'll see you in a couple weeks !