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notalwaysright_feed) wrote2026-05-20 10:00 pm
Read The Late Notice
I've just come back from a week off. At 9 AM, I was visiting my first client of the day, whom I'll call Client Bill.
Bill was hard of hearing, so on entering his house, he liked me to shout:
Me: "Hi Bill!"
Read The Late Notice
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guardian_learning2026-05-21 06:23 amcimorene) wrote2026-05-21 12:33 amnotalwaysright_feed) wrote2026-05-20 09:00 pmRead ID-ing A Crime
Me: "Can I see some ID, please?"
The customer shows me a paper driver's license.
Me: "I'm sorry, I can't accept that. I need a proper ID."
Customer: "This is a proper ID! It was issued by the government!"
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trobadora) wrote in sid_guardian2026-05-20 11:02 pm
facethestrange, who came to our rescue. ♥ ♥ ♥ notalwaysright_feed) wrote2026-05-20 08:00 pm
Me: "Oh, this is my current favourite band! They are called [Band Name]."
Coworker: "Never heard of them."
Me: "Yeah, they are pretty new. Only been around a couple of years."
Coworker: "I don’t like new music. It’s all made by AI these days."
wwdn_feed) wrote2026-05-20 07:42 pmIn an average year, I travel to around 5 or 6 cities for conventions. Almost every time I announce an appearance, the most common response is some version of “that’s great! When are you coming to [my town]?”
I’m not coming to your town, but I am coming to your computer (or your tablet or your phone or even your TV, I think) on June 7 for a virtual convention that needs a much better name than Couch Con, because at this moment in time, that creates a very specific, very unfortunate, image. (Maybe it will happen today).
Seriously, I hate every name I think of for this. What would you call a virtual convention where I am the guest of honor, the toastmaster, the featured author, and also the only guest? Wil Wheatcon is kind of cute, I think, but I feel like there’s something better. If you have one, would you comment?
The Untitled Wil Wheaton Virtual Convention came out of an unrelated meeting with my friends and partners in crime at Stands about how we wanted to turn some of my designs into stickers. One thing lead to another, and I’m just going to get to the graphic you’ve probably looked at already:
I love going to cons, and spending time with my people. I love sharing how much we love all our nerd shit. I love the safe place we create together. And I know that money is tight for everyone right now, everything costs more than it should, and just the price of a ticket can put a con out of reach for a lot of people. And that’s not even accounting for whatever we spend on merch, art, autographs, and photo-ops.
So a big, big part of my wanting to do this is the opportunity to do something convention-ish, which is way more affordable, at just fifteen bucks. Hell, get ten friends together and everyone can cover the ticket with the change in their pockets. People still have change in their pockets, right?
I have met tens of thousands of people over the years. I know that this is an unscientific, heavily-skewed metric that would fail any peer review, but I still think it matters that the single most common thing they tell me is some version of “I loved your panel discussion. I wish you’d had more time for questions.”
Well, if you’re one of those people, this is probably going to crawl your dungeon. We have as much time as we want, I can take as many questions as I want, and if enough people ask, I’ll even read you some flash fiction I wrote. And we’re offering some break out, private meet and greets, for anyone who wants that experience.
Oh, I’m also going to pull my kitty ears out and put them on for a Wil Wheatcon exclusive autographed 8×10, if that’s your thing and you wanted to add some whimsy to your life.
A few people I know have done this kind of event, and they all tell me that it’s so much fun, so uplifting, and a wonderful way to spend a couple hours together. I believe them, and I’m excited to experience that for myself. I hope you’ll join me!
I’m so glad you are here. If you’d like to get my updates via email, here’s the thingy:
bbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2026-05-20 08:11 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2026-05-20 07:30 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2026-05-20 04:07 pmbbcnewsworld_feed) wrote2026-05-20 03:58 pmbloodygranuaile) wrote2026-05-20 03:45 pmnotalwaysright_feed) wrote2026-05-20 07:00 pmRead Using Your Words
I'm a Middle Eastern-looking dude, but born in America, and I speak English just fine. A couple comes in, and I greet them:
Me: "Hello, welcome to [Restaurant], how can I help you?"
Customer: "Hi, can we speak to someone who speaks English, please?"
Read Using Your Words
magid) wrote2026-05-20 03:01 pmoursin) wrote2026-05-20 07:50 pmWhat I read
John D MacDonald, The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee, #4) (1964) - pour me out a shot of that cheap whisky.
Change of pace - this was more, this was actually I wanted to be reading something like this, but this wasn't quite hitting the spot, nevertheless I continued and finished: Gail Godwin, A Southern Family (1987), bits of which I remembered and bits of which I didn't.
Have just finished Alba de Céspedes, There's No Turning Back (1938) - for in-person reading group. Young modern women in Rome in the late 1930s - they are modern in that they have left home to study, but they are living in an institute run by nuns (and not all of them are actually studying). A more complex picture of the lives of Italian women in the Fascist era than one perhaps supposed (though the education mostly seems to be with a view to teaching ho hum) - politics is all rather on the margins, though one of the women is Spanish and the situation in Spain affects her.
The latest Literary Review
On the go
Persuasion, for the bluesky daily chapter read-through.
Up next
About to embark on Dorothy Richardson, Interim (Pilgrimage, #5) (1919) for online reading group.
And then, maybe, can get to Vonda McIntyre, The Curve of the World, just posthumously published by Aqueduct.
full_metal_ox) wrote in fancake2026-05-20 02:32 pmsuspicious_popsicle,(Tumblr-locked) notalwaysright_feed) wrote2026-05-20 05:55 pm
One day, my boss hires a new person. No big deal, except my boss kept cutting my hours more and more and giving them to the new person. I went from working over thirty hours a week to working less than fifteen. Oh, and I was training them.
