gonzai | Life Is Too Damn Short

It took a lot of poking and prodding from Balticon gamemaster and 2010 Fan Guest of Honor Hal Haag to finally get me to go to an open games session at the Baltimore SciFi Society's clubhouse. I went Sunday. Had fun. Hal groused about whether he might wind up as the con chair for the 2010 con. We swapped more e-mails Monday and Tuesday. He promised to teach my mother to play Dominion. Appropriate, since he taught me to play.

This morning, Hal died, apparently of a heart attack. He was a great guy, patient with newbies and enthusiastic for all things scifi and gaming, and integral to all the local conventions; I cannot fathom the idea of a con without Hal. I'm really...I don't know what else to say.