Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:05:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Several items
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Borders Books at Tysons is finally open in its new location, in a
newly built building about a mile south of its old location.  The new
location is close to the movie theater.  The new store is even larger
than the Bailey's Crossroads store.  I hope this means they'll have
lots of author events there.

It contains a coffee shop, as the old one did.  It also contains a
section of CDs and DVDs.  And bar-code readers which will play a
sample of any CD or DVD.

The only downside is that the drinking fountains are too cold to
drink from.  The old one was room temperature, which is just right.

I'm leaving for Torcon in less than two hours.  I still don't know
whether I'll be turned back at the Canadian border.  Some apparently
knowledgeable people are sure I will be.  Some apparently
knowledgeable people are sure I won't be.  If I am, maybe I can be the
Guest of Honor at Elizabeth's pity party, as the only one there who
paid for a Worldcon and round trip train tickets, and spent days on,
or waiting for, trains, only to be turned back.

Until my return (which hopefully won't be until the 3rd or 4th) this
list will be on autopilot.  That's the same as it always is, except
that there will be no subscribes, unsubscribes, or archive updates.

Also, there will be no website updates until my return.

But I did get three more old WSFA Journals online very late Saturday
night, and *another* three on Sunday night.  So we now have *fourteen*
full years online -- September 1989 through the present.  In other
words, of the five decades in which the WSFA Journal was published, we
have all of two of them (to date), and part of a third.  14 down, 26
to go.  Now if only someone can find the missing June 1989 issue, and
other missing issues.

There's supposed to be an Internet lounge at Torcon.  Unless it's
set up so as to disable telnet (which many Internet stations are), I
should be able to log on to my ISP, and post to this list.  If so,
I'll do so.

I never did get PR#6.  I've heard people in Britain have gotten it.
--
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