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11/05/2004 Entry: "Off to Orycon"

I would have gone to Bloggercon, but I decided I'd rather go to Orycon with my husband. We had a remarkably easy drive down to Portland, with fair traffic and no rain! Our grandson will be cared for by Jack's parents who drove up from Newport to meet us.

First program item we went to: Hugh S. Gregory on colonizing Mars. I was dubious about this but he was a fun speaker and the talk was interesting. His bio from another convention: "Professionally an avid Space Flight Historian, he has worked as an Engineers' Surveyor and an Industrial Paramedic/E.M.T (Industrial Ambulance Officer). On the side he manages his own Occupational Health and Safety Program consulting service, lectures in local schools on spaceflight history and astronomy, and owns and operates the H.R. MacMillian Planetarium's Affiliated educational BBS service 'SpaceBase'(tm), source of the 8 'SB-' prefixed space news conferences available world wide on over 5,000 FidoNet BBS's. On weekends he's a private pilot, amateur astronomer, cricket umpire, and enjoys hiking in the Rockies with his wife Anne. He's produced (and sells) videos on 'Voyager at Neptune', 'The Gas Planets', 'SSTO - The DC-X', 'Soviet Space Disasters' and 'The Flight Of Buran'. His slide/video shows have appeared at Conventions across North America, Europe and Australia."

Now Jack is off with some friends to play Unreal Tournament, which he could have done at home (but not with his friends in the same room). I'm taking advantage of the con's internet cafe to post this.

Posted by Julie @ 11/07/2004 08:41 PM PST

Good choice. Orycon!

Posted by meg @ 11/07/2004 09:58 AM PST