Confluence: Pittsburgh's Literary Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror convention

In a little over a month, Confluence will be taking place at the Doubletree Pittsburgh Airport hotel. Our Guest of Honor is Robert J. Sawyer, author of Flash Forward and WWW: Wake, WWW: Watch, and WWW: Wonder. Our Featured Filk Guest Alexa Klettner. Online registration is available until July 16th but the hotel room block closes on July 1.

ETA: We always do a musical travesty --a parody of an SF classic set to the music from a well known musical. This year's production is "20,000 Leagues of Music" --Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea set to the music from The Sound of Music. Yes, that's right, The Sea is Alive with a Thousand Fishes!

Please consider attending and/or boosting the signal. I've already crossposted this to the Pittsburgh LJ community.

Thanks

Updates and such

I keep writing posts in my head but I never have the time to sit down and actually write them down here.
So here are some random thoughts:

First I want to let theyarnproject know that I got his package! Thank you so much for the perfectly crocheted piece of cake and cookie (it looks so good I want to eat it!) and the crochet hook! I'm sure I will get use out of it. In fact, yesterday I was crocheting the first horn for the baby viking helmet (hat actually) that I'm making for a friend's baby and the crochets are so tight that I instantly understood why theyarnproject would be cursing at his projects! LOL! I decided to switch hooks down a size and that seemed to solve the problem for now.

Today I went over to a friends house to drop off a couple of things and visit. She fosters rabbits and she had a lionhead rabbit that she said looked like he should be a steampunk rabbit! And he does have quite the sideburns going on there! But I said he needed goggles. She didn't have goggles but she did have a collar and bowtie (for her cat but it worked on the rabbit). So here you are, Sir Rothschild:




I had to take about 20 pictures to get a few good ones. LOL!

Things are busy at work and at my house we are getting ready for Confluence. Which is the local literary science fiction, fantasy and horror con that dergeis and I help run every year. dergeis is getting ready with the video program. He's purchased a new projector screen. I'm directing the musical and also helping in the art show. It's a crazy time in the household!

It might be a bit quieter around here. I'll be reading, though.