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  <title>mariness</title>
  <subtitle>The meandering words of Mari Ness</subtitle>
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    <name>mariness</name>
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  <updated>2011-11-27T04:03:06Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:276434:230670</id>
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    <title>This is how we do holiday decoration:</title>
    <published>2011-11-27T04:03:06Z</published>
    <updated>2011-11-27T04:03:06Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://mariness.dreamwidth.org/230670.html#cutid1"&gt;Cut for large image.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mariness&amp;ditemid=230670" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:276434:128635</id>
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    <title>Con report, day two: the actual con</title>
    <published>2010-08-18T15:45:47Z</published>
    <updated>2010-08-18T15:45:47Z</updated>
    <category term="microsoft"/>
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    <content type="html">Notes: We began encountering major, but major, disability access problems right after our arrival, most of which I may be covering in a separate post.  Assume that many of the time gaps are filled by my irritated realizations that I can't actually get where I am trying to get, thanks to stairs, holes, lack of elevators, or other issues.  (The others are filled with resting at the hotel or lounge or gaming.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, certain incidents have been removed to protect the guilty. For instance, it's entirely possible that a pillow fight occurred at some point during the con, but I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not said incident actually took place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I took far more pictures than this, but as it turns out, my camera hates, but hates, indoor shots - as the following pictures will amply demonstrate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://mariness.dreamwidth.org/128635.html#cutid1"&gt;Cut for large images, including steampunk wheelchairs, three dimensional chess, and my Stitch backpack commandeering stuff.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mariness&amp;ditemid=128635" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:276434:127856</id>
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    <title>Not real update again</title>
    <published>2010-08-08T22:36:21Z</published>
    <updated>2010-08-08T22:36:21Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Back home.  Feeling sick, so posting my post from Saturday that didn't go up because of internet issues. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I have found a &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://dragonbane.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://dragonbane.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;dragonbane&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and a &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=bijili'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=bijili'&gt;&lt;b&gt;bijili&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!  Also a &lt;a href="http://www.jenniferbrozek.com"&gt;Jennifer Brozek&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href="http://www.jason-sizemore.com/"&gt;Jason Sizemore&lt;/a&gt; and a lot of other people. It's a crowded con.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Secret message to my father: Stormtroopers.  Stormtroopers in kilts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Secret message to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=silviamg'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=silviamg'&gt;&lt;b&gt;silviamg&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=thesnowleopard'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=thesnowleopard'&gt;&lt;b&gt;thesnowleopard&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: tables and tables of Cthulhu and Arkham Horror games. &lt;em&gt;It's working&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Secret message to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=anaisis'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=anaisis'&gt;&lt;b&gt;anaisis&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: jewelry. Tacky and non-tacky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Secret message to everybody else: Singing pirates. The world needs more of these.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Contrary to popular opinion, I have not spent the entire con so far playing various versions of Settlers of Catan (specifically, the Trails to Rails game.) However it would not be correct to say that I have not graced them with my presence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.Not working: Disability access. This is bad, very bad; I'll be writing more about this later (and the city of Indianapolis will be hearing from me.) ON the bright side the scooter and I have only fallen into a busy street once [edit: three times] and were immediately helped by awesome congoers and a robot.  But.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Disability access aside, the con is awesome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Real updates about robot wars, my Stitch, the mararena, steampunk wheelchairs, and other assorted matters forthcoming in a couple days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mariness&amp;ditemid=127856" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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