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"Lost". No matter how many tiems I tried, I just don't connect. I've never had the chance to see any of the early episodes of "Supernatural", but the couple of later season one's I've seen, I don't click with.

I always find it a bit creepy when I run across an actor who I first 'met' playing a fairly sweet and well mannered character playing someone who puts up the hackles on my neck. This was certainly one time.

Alan Tudyk The lovable pilot Wash from 'Serenity' and 'Firefly' is on 'CSI' right now as a pedophile arsonist.

'CSI' - 'Burn Out'

Mild, well mannered and all *too* believable.

[shudder!}

Well, another NorWesCon's come and gone. #31 has been put to bed, at least for me. I'm sure the concom is still digging out from the four day mini-marathon of sleep deprivation, set-up, take down and hearing things like 'Okay, has anyone seen where I put that last bundle of cable ties? Some Neanderthal want's me to peace bond his club.'

That sort of thing.

Just another day at the con. And other then a couple of people who seem to go out of their way to harsh my personal space, things were good. I want to thanks crazedcamel, amycat1959 and a couple of others for the offer of a quick, shallow pit and a few bags of quick lime. And to Rocelyn for just being and understanding.

For those who don't know, I have this wonderful work-trade agreement with amycat1959 who owns Book Universe - a wonderful traveling book store that makes the rounds of various SF&F, gamer, actor and other cons. The deal is she pays my membership and I schlep books: unload, unpack, sort, helper, repack, reload, etc. I are a minion. :} It's tiring, but in a good way and it's fun. The last con was NorWesCon31 and she did good, I had fun and all is well.

This year some of the concom set up and slammed together a last minute donation project to help raise matching funds for Alzheimer research. In Dec of 2007 Terry Pratchett [a UK writer best known for his 'Discworld' books for those who don't know] announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer. Early this year he donated $1,000,000 US for clinical research into the disease. Fans have taken up the call and started an Internet fund raiser called Match It for Pratchett. NorWesCom was hoping to raise $2,000 over the four day con. But fans dug deep and did even better - $3,403.70! NorWesCon's Livejournal

And amycat1959, bless her, donated *all* proceeds from the sales of all the Pratchett books that she sold this last weekend.

Isn't fandom great? :}