Well, crap.

I'd volunteered to run a game for this year's Necronomicon over the Easter long weekend, but hadn't heard back from con organisers about it. Just found out why:

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Necronomicon will not be happening this Easter 2007 weekend. The venue, Newtown High School of Performing Arts, has just changed its mind on hiring the venue to us - after doing so regularly for over 15 years. A change of administration and a change of mind that is not helpful to us. When we learnt of this earlier this week, we spent days trying to find a similar venue in the inner west on short notice.

I don't know NHSPA's reasons and I'd prefer to hear both sides of things before passing judgement, but one would hope they had an EXCEPTIONALLY good reason for pulling the plug on a major event on just three weeks' notice.

Elections

State election here yesterday. Both Labor and Liberals spent most of their campaign encouraging me not to vote for one another - happily, I was able to oblige both of them at the same time - and both sides seem to think the result vindicated them. How often do you see an election that pleases everybody?

(Except maybe the voters...)