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Early Thursday morning, we woke up and I helped Oded take the big TV to his new place. After the YES and air-conditioning technicians came, he took me to the Con grounds where we parted once more, Karen having left to her classes earlier.

Arriving at the Eshkol, I met up with Amichay and Yael and we talked for a while. They went for an RPG session while I stayed for Yuli‘s writing workshop. I liked it very much. Three groups of amatuer scifi writers sitting about and just pouring ideas and critisizing each other. I met Noam who is, apparently, a friend of Omri, one of my best friends from school.

At about 13:00 the workshop was over and after meeting my dad to get the book he brought me (I had to have Tim Powers’ Earthquake Weather signed) I went upstairs to join a game of Grave Robbers from Outer Space my brother started with Danny, Yael and her friend Moran. Not very long after, we arrived at a situation of the game that should be for six players, supporting nine when more than half of them only learning to play.
There’s one catch with those Grave Robbers/Pigmies games: The less you know the game, the more funny it is but the slower it is. The better you know it, the faster it is but the funny stuff are more worn out.
So, eventually, the game was very funny but dragging and we lost a lot of players to other events. Rotem chose around that time ot join us but she didn’t want to play.

When the 4pm came ticking close we all realized that we were suppose to go to Nihau’s lecture about lies throughout history but none of us had tickets. So we played out ‘We know the lecturer and she won’t start until we’re in’ card to get passed the stern Con Ticket Ripper (or is it Reaper?).
Her lecture was great. Even Tim Powers didn’t have about 130% capacity of the room alocated taken in less than 15 minutes. But he had the auditorium and she had a small classroom.

After the lecture was over, I almost ran downstairs to get my book signed. I ended up buying its prequel too and Tim Powers signed them both. I told him that I should be thanking him and not the other way around and we shook hands. Only a few moments later I realized I don’t fully know what he wrote on Last Call.

Books signed and happy as a badger with a sequioa tree we went to eat. By ‘we’ I mean: Me, Amichay, Rotem, Nihau, Danny, Dragoran and Amit. After much heated discussion we ended up at Odeon which served us great, if slightly squishy, hamburgers that required some man-handling to fit with all the vegetables inside the buns.
We spent about an hour and half, waiting and talking about RPG, then eating and talking about RPG, then digesting and talking about RPG and finally walking back to Eshkol… and talking about RPG.

Our last act of the day was a large game of Grave Robbers/Cannibal Pigmies/Skippy’s Revenge with Remetz, Danny, Amit, Myself, Some guy who joined up and turned out to be the chairman of the Israeli Firsbee Association, Raziel, Colonel Mouse, Amichay and Rotem who just watched us and read the cards.

This game was over quicker than I thought with 8 players and Amichay, Rotem and myself went to the Cinemateque to finally get my picture of me using the Holodeck Arch to “End Programme” (of the con, that is).
After meeting Danny and Amit again, we all said goodbye. Amichay went to his friend, Ariel’s house to sleep while Danny and Amit walked us back to the parking lot from where Rotem and I continued to the train station.

Well, the train from Azrieli, according to the internet was suppose to leave at 23:42. We got there and 23:39 only to be notified that the train station is closing because the train left exactly one minute earlier. So we tracked back down Petah Tikva street towards the central bus station. We caught the 24:00 bus in the middle of the street and took it to Afula. I thought I’ll probably fall unconcious during that ride but we ended up talking about all sorts of things the entire trip and it was a long one, through Hadera.
At Afula, her father met us and agreed to do a 15 minute trip in the opposite direction in order to take me home. I thanked them all and arrived at my place around 2 in the morning. And now I’ll go to sleep because tomorrow I’ll have to be back at the base.


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