Okay, here's some fun. Check this out: somebody sent me this out of the pocket program:

Wow, this looks really cool: a panel on fight scenes (which I've written and can speak to how hard it is to do properly), a panel on the apocalypse (badass! I've written apocalypse stories, shit yeah!) and a panel on killing characters (I've done that too! Rock!).

Trouble is this: nobody ever told me I was supposed to attend these panels. That's right: when I went to pick up my badge, I had no schedule printed on the back, nor did I have a schedule in my welcome packet. My arrangement to appear at the Con didn't get worked out until so late that I just figured they couldn't get me on panels in time. So I just went to the Needcoffee panels I had planned on attending anyway.

To anyone who showed up thinking I would be at these panels: I do apologize. They sound fucking cool. I hope they went well. I'm sorry as hell I didn't know, because I would have done my best to show. I've also written an e-mail to the track director, explaining what happened.

Dammit. Figures.

Thanks to Lisabetta for letting me know.

Update: Well, I have good news and I have D'oh news. The good news is that's not me. There's a major in the USAF who shares my name (well, one of my names) and that was him. So I feel better. Anyway, if there was confusion and people mistook him for me, then…well, that's cool, actually. Because a major from the USAF probably looks a lot more impressive than I do sitting on a panel. As for the D'oh news, well…D'oh.