A Bug's Life

I got back from Stabcon with a head keen to get busy and do something interesting this summer.

However, I got back from Stabcon with a bad back. Saturday's game of Twilight Imperium started at noon. Shortly after midnight I reached for a card, and put my back out badly enough that I couldn't walk to my room. People were very helpful, and fetched blankets for me as I lay on the games room floor and waited for things to improve. Unfortunately the hotel didn't have an emergency wheelchair I could borrow. I lay and listened as play continued for another hour and a half - this of a game that we'd been warned could take 4-8 hours, and since 5pm people had been "sure" that it would end after this round "or maybe just one more". We didn't reckon on the grudge match of the two leaders desperately trying to win and to thwart each other. I like the game, but in future I will warn people that after 8 hours I walk, regardless of where we've got to.

2am and I still couldn't walk. Someone got a table-top from the hotel, I slowly transferred myself to it, and four gamers carried me along the corridor on it! A few yards in, someone asked where my room was (A: very far away, like Bristol is to Stockport, and on the second floor) then offered a swap with theirs which was Much Nearer. Huge thanks to everyone who helped, fetched things, opened doors, carried bags etc, and if you remind me who you were I will buy you a drink next con!

Much less pain the next day, and today; I have a lot more mobility but I'm still very fragile and can't walk far/sit long/load a washing machine without it getting bad again. There must be something I can get working on to go with the "Get things done!:-)!:-)!" mood.