I think it isn't too early to ask... after all, http://www.anticipationsf.ca/English/Home]Anticipation (host to the 67th Worldcon) is only a shade over two months from now.
Alas, I can't make it. I can't justify spending a week away from Ottawa and work when (a) one of my co-workers is off to care for his wife while she succumbs to cancer, and (b) my mother is still recovering from a stroke. (Things I didn't bother mentioning at the time, because Bob had more important events happening in his family's life at the same time. There's a time and place to kvetch, and that wasn't it.)
I recall somebody who attended last year's Worldcon has a relative who collects shot glasses from the various Hard Rock Cafes, and I have a spare from the Ottawa Hard Rock... and I've got a Neil Gaiman hardcover that's just perfect for a dedication... and I can't be there.
But I can justify the drive from Ottawa to Montréal and back to Ottawa for one evening (it's about 2.5 hours each way by car), if people are going to Worldcon and getting together for dinner. I'll just need to know at which restaurant and when on which evening, so I can take the afternoon off work and show up at the right place at the right time...
Oh, yes... if you're coming from NYC or Detroit, http://www.viarail.ca/en_index.html]take the train - the train station in Montréal is less than a kilometer from the convention centre, while the airport is far enough away that the Ottawa-Montréal train stops there before reaching Montréal. (NYC to Montréal by Amtrak direct run. Detroit: to Windsor by car, then Windsor to Toronto by VIA Rail, then Toronto to Montréal by VIA Rail.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Alas, I can't make it. I can't justify spending a week away from Ottawa and work when (a) one of my co-workers is off to care for his wife while she succumbs to cancer, and (b) my mother is still recovering from a stroke. (Things I didn't bother mentioning at the time, because Bob had more important events happening in his family's life at the same time. There's a time and place to kvetch, and that wasn't it.)
I recall somebody who attended last year's Worldcon has a relative who collects shot glasses from the various Hard Rock Cafes, and I have a spare from the Ottawa Hard Rock... and I've got a Neil Gaiman hardcover that's just perfect for a dedication... and I can't be there.
But I can justify the drive from Ottawa to Montréal and back to Ottawa for one evening (it's about 2.5 hours each way by car), if people are going to Worldcon and getting together for dinner. I'll just need to know at which restaurant and when on which evening, so I can take the afternoon off work and show up at the right place at the right time...
Oh, yes... if you're coming from NYC or Detroit, http://www.viarail.ca/en_index.html]take the train - the train station in Montréal is less than a kilometer from the convention centre, while the airport is far enough away that the Ottawa-Montréal train stops there before reaching Montréal. (NYC to Montréal by Amtrak direct run. Detroit: to Windsor by car, then Windsor to Toronto by VIA Rail, then Toronto to Montréal by VIA Rail.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
