As of this writing, I am doing what I usually do around this time of year: assessing the state of my various projects and trying to decide what I can actually finish before Dragon Con (which is now less than 3 months away). Unless I make a lot of progress soon, I am faced with the prospect of having nothing working at all this year.

(BTW, I realize that I’ve not yet posted a followup after last year’s cons. I started writing it, and then got sidetracked partway through as the style I was using petered out. I still have a draft that I may publish eventually.)

As I write this, we are mere days from Dragon Con 2021, and I am already tired.

That is primarily because for the last two weeks or so I have been busily getting everything ready that I didn’t get around to doing during the two years since the last in-person convention. (Due to Covid-19, Dragon Con was virtual in 2020.)

Largely this involved three fandoms: Star Wars, Hardware Wars, and Ghostbusters.

Since the previous post back in January, a lot has happened. Most obviously, of course, is the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, and lockdown. Sadly, many have suffered unemployment. I am fortunate enough that my employer is considered an essential business, so I’m still working — even working from home to some extent.

Naturally, I made my last post several months ago and I have now completely forgotten what I intended to write about Dragon Con 2019. But let’s see…

So it’s been nearly seven months since Dragon Con 2018. As I described back in From The ground Up, I meant to update long before this. In fact I wrote a large chunk of this post in September, to capture some of what happened at Dragon Con while it was still relatively fresh in my head. Then I promptly forgot to finish and post it.

Still, anyone who has read the last few years of posts knows how this tends to go … right after Dragon Con I get distracted by Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years in quick succession.  Last year was no exception.

To make matters worse, my post New Years droid plans were almost immediately derailed by a couple of real life upheavals, and I just haven’t had the mental space or time to do very much. I’ve just been trying to tread water since early January.

I just took a break to attend another con this past weekend, however, so I thought it was well past time to catch up.