As of the last time I had the presense of mind to update this page, NonCon is less than 3 weeks away, so if you're going, you should really start making travel plans. The big showy surprise I had planned for this year was to unveil the official retail version of The Massive Vs. The Masses, but uh... that isn't happening, sadly. I factored in a month or two of unforeseeable delays into the ordering of every component, but the custom sculpted Gamorzillas I ordered back in November seem to have fallen into a wormhole, so it's going to be another month or so on that. On the upside, I have two new games to show off, which just need me to spend some time printing cards and making pieces. Plus I can at least give a sneak peek at the sort of quality MvM is getting produced with.

For the curious, here's a rough indication of how much work needs doing on everything, and what my schedule should look like. Keeping in mind that the only panels I've heard about so far are the ones I'm on, so I might end up spending less time in the tabletop room than implied here:

My predicted schedule for 2007:

What I actually end up doing at NonCon is never quite what I have planned going in, as one can see from this comparison.

My predicted schedule for 2005:

My actual schedule for 2005:

I'd say I was pretty close really.

As you know, I have for the last few years been a guest speaker at NonCon. Every one of these years, I have returned and written up a summary of how it went. Here they are.

• 2006: Demos and a concert.
• 2005: Demo, demo, demo.
• 2004: Gaming, gaming, gaming.
• 2003: Fun talks with authors.
• 2002: Record setting head smacks, varied activities.