Like Douglas MacArthur, or perhaps last night’s lasagna, I have returned.
The entire family spent the weekend down at Dreamcon, a first time convention in Jacksonville. I don’t normally do first time cons, but Shana, my eldest daughter, lives in Jacksonville and the con was willing to fly the whole family down there, so why not? Overall, aside from a few glitches, the con was smoothly run although it didn’t draw as many people as I think anyone would have liked to see. Ron Perlman was the headliner. Met Mercedes McNab (hey, if Mercedes McNab moved to Massachusetts and married Julie “Darla” Benz, she’d be Mercedes Benz), Brian Thompson (the Judge who uttered the famous line, “What’s that do?” before being annihilated by Buffy with a rocket launcher). But the high point was seeing Jewel Staite again. Before playing an engineering genius on a spaceship in “Firefly,” she played an engineering genius on a spaceship on “Space Cases,” co-created by Bill Mumy and me. It’s wonderful to see people paying attention to this wonderful and up-and-coming actress.
After the convention, we went up to Disney and stayed there a few days. It was Caroline’s first exposure to the House of Mouse, and she spent it in two modes: Wide eyed or asleep (I guess the wide eyes helped make her tired.) Managed to hit the three major parks, not to mention our favorite hang out, the Adventurers Club. They’ve outdone themselves for the new novelty cup, by the way: Specialty drinks are now served in a purchasable carved wooden monkey head.
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