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So I just got home from traveling out to Maryland to visit my sister and her family for the Easter weekend. We got in the truck and drove the almost exactly one thousand miles to her home in Rockville, MD. It's the second time we've done this, and we genuinely spend twice as much time traveling as we do actually spending time with family.
I genuinely love a good road trip, and the journey, which crosses through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, is deeply satisfying. Almost exactly in the middle, of course, is Pokagon State Park in Indiana.
Searching through my blog, somehow I've never mentioned Pokagon by name here, though it has come up. We first went there almost ten years ago for our fifth wedding anniversary, and we fell in love with the place. Indiana has a historic inn system in its state parks, and Pokagon sits on a beautiful lake. I know Crysta doesn't enjoy the traveling as much as I do, so I think visiting Pokagon is the only reason she hasn't demanded we switch to flying out to Maryland when we make the trip.
I love the journey though, I really do. And I love seeing my family so much. It's easy to feel isolated from them when we're often so far away. It's been an amazing six days. Besides my sister, her husband, and my two niblings, my parents, my brother and his long time girlfriend were also there. We won't be together again until this summer, and that won't come fast enough.
That said, it feels so amazing to be sitting in my own chair in my own home again right now. One of the best parts of a long trip like this is feeling yourself relax when your travels are over. Of course, we don't get to relax for long with a con this weekend -- but I'm going to take it where I can get it.
The world never stops.
This Saturday, April 26th, I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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I’m picturing 10 more minutes of intermittent “But what if” “No.” 40 seconds later: “Yeah but what” “NO.” 2 minutes later:”Wait” “NO!” She’s demanding a lot here!
The internal explanation can also include the reasoning that they aren’t worth our time. We’re too busy planning a successful convention.
She may be demanding a lot, but this is the only good path to take. Honestly, one I would as well.
The best response to someone who is trying to game you is to not play the game. At least, not play the game by the rules they set.
While I agree playing his game is a bad idea, it seems there should be -some- official response.
Absolutely not.
Making any kind of public response is giving it credence. It actually makes it WORSE when you acknowledge crazy shit because its the crazy shit that’s looking for attention.
If it were something that Borkcon did that was fucked up, and them admitting fault, that is one thing. But this? This is another person making a seemly ‘private’ e-mail public and editing it for his own game in the hopes that he can bring down another con through a drawn out negative PR game.
No matter what you do publically it puts you in a no-win scenero, not even recovering PR. What Jim did is genius sure, but it wasn’t smart.
Because people figure this out eventually when the cards are play correctly, which is what Lynn is going for.