Another year, another Origins. Third time in a row without me, and next year is up in the air.

Hopefully next year the pandemic will actually be properly over, and not "we're sick of this and therefore we declare it over"...

True, but I've made con friends, and most the ones I look forward to the most may not be there next year because GAMA has a "rewards cap" for their event type. So the 4 of them that are still running the event would have to pay $270 to run the 5-hour, 300 attendee "panel" and attend the con on their off days.