I got back from San Jose last Wednesday, having had an awesome time with Cat, Deb, Garth, Sean and everyone else. It was wonderful seeing old friends, hanging out with the Locus gang, and making all kinds of new friends.

So, you ask, why haven’t you updated us on your exploits before? Well, as the photo might hint, I came home (having felt wonderful during the whole trip) and immediately fell ill. Today it was diagnosed as H1N1, so I am wearing a mask, trying not to infect the family, and basically attempting to get over it. Correspondence will be somewhat intermittent.

ETA: Since this is getting picked up around the place, I should clarify for accuracy: while my GP diagnosed it as H1N1 and is treating it as such, no clinical tests were done. It’s likely it’s H1N1, but there’s no actual clinical tests were done.

Well, I will blog properly soon. I will. Maybe. Anyhow, we went to San Jose and had a party. It was fun!

See? I told you I wouldn’t get to post :) I’m alive and having fun. The plane flight was fine from Sydney after a lovely visit with frinds. Then a trip down to SJ in a cab, and two days of talking and parties. Details to follow?

Well, here’s the now traditional Macbook Photobooth photo of me at the airport. I’m in Perth headed for Sydney. Art and dinner tonight, then San Jose tomorrow. I intend to blog more about the trip, but then I always do. I also intend to finish some Life on Mars submissions on the plane, and maybe read some of Legends of Australian Fantasy. Here’s to good intentions. See you on the other side!

The countdown is well and truly on.  Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, I head out to Perth Airport and begin then big World Fantasy Adventure for 2009. For those who don’t already know, I think World Fantasy is the best, most fun convention on Earth.  I haven’t been to every convention, and friends certainly say good things about Readercon and ICFA and other places, but WFC is the one for me.

The trip will start at 9.00am with a flight to Sydney. I will, of course, mean to blog a lot about the trip and to take photos. I definitely will mean to.  Based on previous experience, though, you might get one or two posts from airports and such, but not much more.  And, unless I buy a camera in the duty free area at Sydney Airport on Wednesday, the only photos will be taken using Photobook on the Macbook, but who knows?  I’d like to do more.

The plans right now include going to Nick Stathopoulos’s ‘Toy Porn’ art exhibit in Sydney, sharing a flight with Cat and Sean to San Francisco, and then dinners, parties and all sorts of things in San Jose.  Should be awesome.

I should add that I’m away until Wednesday, 4 November.  What that means is that I will pay at least cursory attention to email and so on during that time. I am sorry about this, and will check in daily for urgent stuff, but essentially I’ll be gone for the week.