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Now that Bubonicon 43 has come to a successful conclusion, that brings an end to this month’s gauntlet of reunions and conventions.  I’ll try to get back to regular posting on the blog again…  After all, there are so many inane and boring topics I haven’t posted about yet.

I’ll try to think of new ones soon.

In the meantime, though, Bubonicon was a blast and a half.  I make no claims about the merits of my weekend stint as toastmaster, but I can at least take comfort in knowing that I won’t go down in history as the guy who permanently destroyed Bubonicon.  I only wish I’d had more time to hang out with so many great people.  (I tried to be somewhat responsible so that I didn’t blow out my voice prior to introducing my friend Steve Leigh at his Guest of Honor presentation on Sunday.)   Man, what a good time.

Got back from Reno on Sunday night, after hanging out with some fantastic folks, and making new friends, at Worldcon.  

But, as anybody who knows me even the tiniest bit will know by now, I’m useless when it comes to writing up convention reports.  So let’s not insult ourselves by pretending I’m likely to do that.  Instead, let’s just take it for granted that it was a hell of a thing.  I met a ton of awesome people, including Alex Brown, Lauren Beukes, Saladin Ahmed, Katy Stauber, and Courtney Schafer; caught up with other convention pals like Corry Lee, Chuck Gannon, Dany Kollin, and Cory Doctorow; and watched GRRM dance the Time Warp. 

But now that I’ve just about recovered from Worldcon, it’s time to prepare for Bubonicon 43!

1)  This morning, as I was waking up from anxious dreams, I discovered that in my bed I had not been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.

Whew.  Sure, it’s like the 13,000th day in a row when that hasn’t happened… yet.  Still, though, a nice way to start the day.  I’ll take what I can get, morning-wise.  (Why yes, I am a morning person.  How could you tell?)

Many years overdue, but I finally watched Spirited Away this weekend.  What a lovely film.  I don’t know why it took me so long to get around to it. 

I haven’t seen all of Miyazaki’s films.  Just Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ponyo.  Some of which I enjoyed a great deal, though maybe I wasn’t in the right mood or frame of mind for Ponyo.  Then again, I was raised by wolves.

I’ve noticed that my last name seems to give people a lot of trouble.  I’m not sure why that should be the case—it seems pretty straightforward to me, after all.   And for people with whom I’ve interacted in person, it has the extra benefit of being phonetic: it’s spelled exactly like it sounds.  People who’ve only seen my name as text don’t have that extra pronunciation reminder, but oh well.

Anyway.  Yeah. 

For the record—and I’m sure this will do absolutely no good, since anybody reading this has already managed to find the proper spelling at some point—my last name is spelled

T-R-E-G-I-L-L-I-S

It is not spelled TREGELLIS, nor is it spelled TRIGELLES, TREGELLES, TERGIILLIS, TREGILIS, TEGILS, $%*@#$@%, or anything other than the above.