Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
My grandmother died last night. This wasn't a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she's been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was surrounded by her three adult children.
My grandma was a kind woman. She wasn't perfect, but I always felt loved in her presence. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, and was still working when I was a kid. I have so many happy memories sitting at her kitchen table, and I'm going to carry those with me for the rest of my life. She was also proof that anyone who claims that you get more conservative as you get older is full of shit, because she certainly didn't.
I think it's interesting how the body processes grief sometimes. I don't know that I'll cry, but over the past month, knowing this was coming, I've felt a tension in my gut. Now that she's passed, instead of relief that tension is replaced by a sense of emptiness. That something is missing that should still be there. Something has been taken away, and I feel it.
Of course, as I wrote that, I immediately started crying... so I guess my body processes grief in pretty ordinary ways too.
I wanted to come up with something profound linking this to Beltane, which we sit in the middle of right now, but it just seemed hackneyed. Like I was trying to dig out some greater significance when the truth is death comes whenever it wants. The only predictable thing about it is that it's the end of all of our journeys. I hope that when I pass I'm so lucky to have lived such a long life with people that I love around me in my final days.
For the record, I will be fine. I just needed to get these words out while they were still in my head. I don't have some rousing conclusion or deep insight to tack on here at the end, just that gut feeling that something is missing.
Because it is.
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*takes a long satisfying drag on a cig* Goooooooood.
Oh, that’s evil. Eevil. This way Lynn gets her version of events out to the Unagi Con staff before Jim can. Not that Jim won’t try to spin it his way, of course.
That there is eloquent vengeance as its best.
*at its
It means word gets out to whoever monitors contact@unagicon.com. If it’s Jim, it’s Jim who gets the word first. “contact” looks like an address given out for all inbound communications to unagi con. It doesn’t look like an alias for the entire permanent staff.
Given that Unagi con is a bit chaotic behind the scenes, one wonders if and how long the contact address goes unchecked.
Question though: Shouldn’t Bork Con staff have Bork Con e-mail addresses? Surely they aren’t using personal e-mail for con business. It’s usually best to keep that kind of stuff separate.
Yes, but this shouldn’t come from Lynn@Unagi or even Director@Unagi, it needs to come from a more generic account or another staffer so that Jim can’t blame it on “Lynn’s sour grapes”. Staff@Unagi works for that.
(and I agree, her email needs to go to anyone but Jim. Contact probably doesn’t just go to him, but in her place I’d be CCing everyone on both boards so there was no doubt it would go through with a clear record.)
I think John was referring to Glenn and Maggie’s email addresses, not Lynn’s. They probably would want to have generic/business email addresses for each director or major position in the convention org, ones that aren’t personal/private addresses, either a fixed account on the convention server or a remailer/pointer that can be passed on. I think technically I have a generic address for the convention I work with, something like Tech@*.com; but since the passwords and access are always FUBAR, I never use it.
That said, it is notable that the domain for the above addresses is owned by Trae, so Trae doesn’t run afoul of sending traffic to or needing to procure the domains Bork-Con or BorkCon (*.com *.org *.biz etc etc)
Trae, 50+ year old punks would never use the expression 5eva for anything
You assume Glenn set up his own email address.
“…your your convention director…” Err? I suppose it’s realistic, too much anticipation of the burn makes for serious typo territory.
Normally I would correct that sort of thing, but I figure she hasn’t hit send yet 😛
My headcanon was correct!
she should have CC’d all the staffs personal emails
What is pmneauclaire.com supposed to represent? As of now it’s an actual website called “PMN Agent Login” with almost no content save a username and password field and a style that makes it look like it was put up in 2006, which is the earliest copyright date at the bottom.
It’s a domain I own from a client who hired me to make a website and never paid me in like 2006, and I use it as a placeholder.
The fake login page is for when I try to phish spammers
Amazing.