Sunday at Baycon
I started the day at the Christian service. It was a combined Catholic Episcopalian service. There was a Priest from each church jointly running the service. It worked out fairly well. The one thing that was odd for me was the Lord's Supper. The Episcopalian one did not use unleavened bread. I was not sure if I could take the Catholic Communion, so I did not go up for the bread and fruit of the vine.
I went to Richard Hescox's slide show, then to the digital photo restoration demonstration. Since we have recently inherited old family negatives dating back to the late 30s, I thought might be useful. It was presented by a professional photographer named Ctein, who also has a book out. I will have to pick that book up someday.
Our evening sound got started off late. Our concert room had a panel that ended at 6:30, but ran almost to 7pm. (This con had an half hour buffer between panels). When we finally got into the room we had to very quickly set up our sound system and do a quickie sound check. First up was Tres Gique. This is the first time I got to hear them in concert and they are quite good. Next was Taunya Gren and Paul Kwinn. The last person was Seanan McGuire. Paul stayed and played guitar for Seanan. I really liked her plague teaching song. (The Black Death.)
After tear-down, I hit the sack. We got up early, loaded up the van and headed south. We got through LA, (I-5 all the way), with out any traffic jams. The grapevine had one point where traffic slowed to 30 mph for a few minutes. About an hour or so the traffic report stated that traffic was backing up on the grapevine, so we managed to miss all the jams.
I went to Richard Hescox's slide show, then to the digital photo restoration demonstration. Since we have recently inherited old family negatives dating back to the late 30s, I thought might be useful. It was presented by a professional photographer named Ctein, who also has a book out. I will have to pick that book up someday.
Our evening sound got started off late. Our concert room had a panel that ended at 6:30, but ran almost to 7pm. (This con had an half hour buffer between panels). When we finally got into the room we had to very quickly set up our sound system and do a quickie sound check. First up was Tres Gique. This is the first time I got to hear them in concert and they are quite good. Next was Taunya Gren and Paul Kwinn. The last person was Seanan McGuire. Paul stayed and played guitar for Seanan. I really liked her plague teaching song. (The Black Death.)
After tear-down, I hit the sack. We got up early, loaded up the van and headed south. We got through LA, (I-5 all the way), with out any traffic jams. The grapevine had one point where traffic slowed to 30 mph for a few minutes. About an hour or so the traffic report stated that traffic was backing up on the grapevine, so we managed to miss all the jams.