Technicon 24 Saturday
March 31st, 2007
I should have gotten up earlier, but my copy of “Should’ve” got lost somewhere around those traffic accidents. Still, by 10:00 or so, I was clean and dressed, and shrewlet suggested some quick breakfast protein – I directed us to the nearby Hardee’s.
45 minutes’ wait for a dry, overcooked sausage biscuit. Not my best plan ever.
The day got better from there, though
Technicon 24 Friday
Here’s a little more detail on Technicon weekend, broken into three entries:
March 30th, 2007
I had played with the idea of getting an early start on Friday, but that turned out to be completely unrealistic. There was some household packing to do so that furniture could be moved over the weekend, and quite a bit of telephone-based red tape to handle. Suffice it to say that I didn’t get to leave the house until 2:00 p.m. 5 hours of drive meant I’d be late for the start of the con, but I’d make my 9:00 panels easily enough – or so I thought, until multiple accident scenes on I-64 cost me another 2 hours.
Technicon 24
Technicon was awesome.
It was just what I needed, frankly, to recharge my batteries a bit to offset the drain of the trying days recently. anterus and his staff did an amazing job. I’m a fan of the new hotel, too.
I’ll have a lot more to say – some of which will go in the special filter – after I’ve gotten a little sleep. Somehow, I’m still in no pain from dancing on Saturday night, but my body is beginning to ask me in a general sense just what the hell I thought I was doing all weekend.
LJ people who made the weekend especially nice for me: shrewlet, platypusgirl, krysturtle, meiran, tltrent, kittykatya, tzel, rainbowsaber, kittenchan, impink, southernsinger, pathia, rattrap, fishy1, colleenk, dracoshen, vond, kathleenroberts, jameshroberts, and jsciv. That’s not even everyone from my Friends list whom I saw there – just a list of people I remember helping me out when I needed something. My friends rock.
Special thanks to vileone and vilejynx, who do not hate me despite the fact that I completely ran out of time to participate in their LARP!
I definitely want the DVD – and I absolutely want copies of those pictures. You know which ones!
Field Promotion
Technicon, as it is wont to do, is putting on a Whose Con Is It Anyway? show on Saturday. A week ago, I gladly accepted a request to participate. Last night, I discovered I was running it.
Err… I’m not panicking. Really. Is it a compliment to be secretly promoted from Ryan Stiles to (Clive Anderson / Drew Carey)?
Seriously, I’m cool with this, this is just the standard con surprise 🙂 The news was a bit startling, though!
(P.S. It’s now 0930 on 03/28, and the banner on the con home page says that the con starts in 14 hours. If that is indeed the case, i will be a bit late.)
Hull breach
One of the screen hinges on my battered Apple TiBook has just snapped. This can quickly lead to screen failure (and is darn inconvenient). Had this happened 3 months from now, it would have been of little import, but time and funds are short just now, and I was planning on taking the laptop to TCon.
I have rainbowsaber‘s old TiBook casing. I might try to scrounge the part from it, but it’s major surgery if I do – last time I did this, soldering and heat-shrink tubing came into play. 🙁
