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Yesterday was my birthday. I'm not going to get anything but virtual celebration again, but that's okay. It was nice to hear from people throughout the day. I spent the evening co-solving Panda puzzles with a Hunt teammate, which was a good, quiet way to celebrate (though since I left my phone in another room to avoid distractions, I missed my sister calling with my nieces to sing happy birthday). We solved a variety cryptic, a gimmicked diagramless, an image ID puzzle, and we cracked a word puzzle we'd gotten stuck on the last time we worked on this set. It was a very satisfying night. I am not very experienced with diagramlesses, so it was fun to go through one with a partner and learn more about how you work through it. Next week I'll come as close as I'm getting to a party, with some friends joining me to virtually co-solve Puzzled Pint. I've been using Puzzled Pint as my birthday party for a few years now, it generally suits my inclination for a party that is a low key gathering of friends doing something we enjoy together.


The big news I got for my birthday is that Discon has announced the decision that it will run an in-person convention, with some virtual components, in December. I am excited! A large part of my motivation for volunteering was the hope of being able to attend a Worldcon so close to home, so the prospect of it being virtual was frustrating. There was a lot of legal mess, and a lot of tough choices, and there is a lot of hard work ahead of us to figure out what will surely be a strange and unique Worldcon, but I am excited.