I returned this week from attending Philcon (in New Jersey) and visiting friends in Philadelphia. I didn't do anything touristy due to the weather (cold and/or raining).

I went to a neurologist yesterday. Some tests have been scheduled.

I finally was able to delete my livejournal today. I gave them 4 reasons in their exit survey.

I imported my LJ, which I hadn't updated in 3 years, to dreamwidth today and have been going through it and deleting a few entries. I will eventually delete the original LJ.

I expect to be heading out within the hour for NorWesCon.

Around 1800 Monday, it stopped raining, so I left ExCeL, picked up my luggage from the Ibis hotel, and took the DLR to Bow Church. Even though the CityStay hotel was just west of the DLR station, it took me a few minutes to find it, since the map showed it to the east. Tuesday morning, leaving my bags at the hotel, I got a glimpse of St. Mary's while looking for the tube station, which turned out to be a few blocks west, while the church is to the east. Then I went to South Kensington by way of King's Cross St. Pancras and took the subway (an underground walkway, about 1/2 mile) all the way to the Science Museum. I looked at only 3 exhibits: the history of steam engines, 18th century science and British electronic music. In the afternoon, I returned to Bow Church by the direct route (30 minutes instead of 60), picked up my bags, and took the DLR to London City Airport.

Some Sino-Japanese theory terms I happen to remember (diacritics are omitted):
esho funi
shiki shin funi
jukkai gogu
inga guji

I finally got to talk to the guy who will have a room at the Embassy Suites, so it looks like I will be there instead of the Ramada. It won't cost much more and the breakfast sounds better.

I haven't felt like doing any serious conlanging lately, but I did work a couple hours this afternoon on the latest version of MNCL (6 or 7).

The MNCL morphosyntax mostly allows free word order in both clauses and phrases. Non-final words in a phrase, whether nouns, determiners, or other modifiers end in -o while the final word takes a case-ending, such as -a (absolutive) or -u (ergative). The primary verb of a clause takes the ending -e. This is all more or less true for all versions of MNCL. There are other endings for secondary verbs and/or additional cases. One exception to the free word order is that a relative clause must begin with the relative pronoun and end with the clause terminator pronoun.

One thing I have to decide is how much of the morphemes (roots and suffixes) are to be carried forward from previous versions. I'm redoing the TAM, so that will mostly change.

I still don't know if I'll be able to go to Worldcon, given the high cost of crossing the Atlantic. I'm considering going to Balticon in May and NASFiC in July instead -- 8 days of convention instead of 5 days. In either case, I need to find someone to share the hotel room(s) with. I'll also need to sell my Worldcon membership if I don't go.