NoNoNoNo Day 5, Part 2

Second Tuesday of the month yesterday, so it was meetup night. Once again, it was just me, MrPloppy, lytteltonwitch, awhina and meerkitten. We used to get a really good turn out to meetups, but for most of this year it seems to have been just the same few people. Not that there’s anything wrong with…

Ok, you knew I wouldn’t be able to resist finding something new to occupy my time now that the convention is over. Actually, I’ve found two new hobbies which both look like being suitable time-sinks. First is a new web-based hobby (well, new for NZ, anyway): Markeroni. It’s basically searching for historic places and markers…

Ok, so maybe I didn’t get the nasty gastric thingy from the water after all. Apparently they lifted the boil water notice a few weeks ago because they reckon they’ve put enough chlorine into the water supply to kill anything that might be lurking, but MrPloppy (who gets most of his news from the BBC,…

Well, I’ve been to my first ever ball game, and it was great fun. I think there was some sort of sport being played on the field, but I was more fascinated by all the other stuff going on, in the crowd, on the screens, and on the field when the players weren’t. There was…

Fort Mason Youth Hostel, San Francisco. This has been a really long day! I managed to get a couple of hours’ sleep on the plane, but I never sleep well in vehicles at the best of times, and it was a pretty bumpy trip. It seemed like every time I started to drift off we’d…

When I started this diary, part of the aim was to spread the Bookcrossing word a bit. And it looks like it’s working. One of the stats that is recorded on your Bookcrossing bookshelf, along with things like how many books you’ve registered and released, is your “tell-a-friend referrals” – the number of people (or…