Jim and Shannon at MarsCon in Williamsburg, VA - 1/14-16/2011

[whingnut]

There are caves there.  People can hide underground.

good. good. Not as familiar with that area spent some time down south in South Boston only was in Williamsburg briefly. My fears assuaged PARTY ON!

[Chiroptera]

A lot of the commercial caves are northwest of Willliamsburg by about 3 hours, actually.  They'll just have to plan the evacuation ahead of time. 

[Serack]

A lot of the commercial caves are northwest of Willliamsburg by about 3 hours, actually.  They'll just have to plan the evacuation ahead of time. 

Yah, Williamsburg is in the tidewater, dig much there and you get water.

[Katty]

There's a couple of caves in Yorktown.  Supposed to be haunted, though.   

[Chiroptera]

I think Luray is the only one I've been to in VA.

[Serack]

Stinkin' people with talent.

I don't have anything I could bring to a talent show, but I just read an interview with Shannon where she said she is big on beads and I have a hobby that has me occasionally visiting the bead shop so I think I will be bringing some of the products from that hobby to the dinner and passing them out to anyone who wants.  It's not urban fantasy related, but it's certainly geeky in my eyes.  I think I will take a picture and upload it to one of those free photo uploading sights later today.

[whingnut]

I don't have anything I could bring to a talent show, but I just read an interview with Shannon where she said she is big on beads and I have a hobby that has me occasionally visiting the bead shop so I think I will be bringing some of the products from that hobby to the dinner and passing them out to anyone who wants.  It's not urban fantasy related, but it's certainly geeky in my eyes.  I think I will take a picture and upload it to one of those free photo uploading sights later today.

If you bring shiny things to the dinner you make a big impression on Shannon. She loves her crafts and her work is really good. Great Idea .

[Serack]

Ok my first image upload on a photo sharing sight, I keep hearing it's simple, and amaisingly it seems to have only taken me 2 minutes including taking the picture.

I wire wrapped all 33 of these necklaces in about an hour yesterday.  I'll be putting them on their own thongs either before, or at the party.



These are shark teeth I collected from a stream while I was going to UF in Gainesville.  They are approximately 3 million years old (depending on your interpretation of the universe) and Gainesville is pretty well known among shark teeth collectors for having some of the best variety in color for shark teeth, which I intentionally did my best to represent with this sampling.  There are 3 main types of teeth here.  "Grey" shark teeth (a loose grouping of many species of sharks that's teeth are nearly indistinguishable, they are the triangular teeth with tiny serations), Lemon shark teeth (lemon shark teeth and lower grey shark teeth are nearly indistinguishable, they are the pointy T shaped teeth), Hemiprestis or shaggel tooth shark teeth (these are the ones with all the big serrations), and a few tiger shark teeth.  The one on the bottom right is one of those.

[Chiroptera]

Those are cool!  And it would appear that you have a great deal of patience.

[Serack]

Those are cool!  And it would appear that you have a great deal of patience.

Finding them is a lot of fun, I actually haven't made so many necklaces since I was a teenager/tween (that wasn't a word when i was that age).  All the ones I found back in college I had sorted out for necklaces but never got around to making anything out of them until I had an excuse last night, and I had a lot of fun.  When I was a teen, I used to bring them on campouts and sell them which was one of my only sources of income as a 13y/o

[MarsCon1]

REQUEST FROM MARSCON CON STAFF - Priscillie - Could the dinner plans be moved from 7pm to 6pm. We have a charity auction at 8:30pm that we would like to have Jim and Shannon at. The charity is the Williamsburg Heritage Humane Society which helps out puppies and kitties. They even bring in several of their Cats and Dogs during the afternoon. Last year we raised over $2,500 dollars for them. We did so because David Weber auctioned off the chance to be in one of his books. He did two auctions and raised close to $1000.00. We would like Jim there to help us out.

Just for your information. At this time, we have tenatively scheduled Jim and Shannon for 2 hours on Friday, 3 hours on Saturday and 1 hour on Sunday (depending on their flight plans). So you should have plenty of time to spend with them.

Butch

[Highlander_II]

Gail and I will be there!  Hook us up! (( yeah, list me as H2, or they won't know who I am *g* ))

[Priscellie]

REQUEST FROM MARSCON CON STAFF - Priscillie - Could the dinner plans be moved from 7pm to 6pm. We have a charity auction at 8:30pm that we would like to have Jim and Shannon at. The charity is the Williamsburg Heritage Humane Society which helps out puppies and kitties. They even bring in several of their Cats and Dogs during the afternoon. Last year we raised over $2,500 dollars for them. We did so because David Weber auctioned off the chance to be in one of his books. He did two auctions and raised close to $1000.00. We would like Jim there to help us out.

Just for your information. At this time, we have tenatively scheduled Jim and Shannon for 2 hours on Friday, 3 hours on Saturday and 1 hour on Sunday (depending on their flight plans). So you should have plenty of time to spend with them.

Butch

No problem whatsoever!  Anything to better accommodate a worthy cause.   I've called the restaurant and changed our reservation to 6pm.  Thanks for keeping me updated!

[Priscellie]

Gail and I will be there!  Hook us up! (( yeah, list me as H2, or they won't know who I am *g* ))

Added!

[whingnut]

No problem whatsoever!  Anything to better accommodate a worthy cause.   I've called the restaurant and changed our reservation to 6pm.  Thanks for keeping me updated!

Puppies and kitties? Bring your checkbooks folks let's get together and see they BEAT last years $2500 !