Windycon 2008:
It was wonderful to see people at the con; the best part, to me, was wandering around and chatting with con friends I hadn’t seen in a while and catching up with them. Long chats with Kerri Ellen Kelly, Christa (Linda Sugar’s sister), Deb Kosiba (who was minding her store, so to speak, and I found her vinyl cutter system highly interesting!), Kathy (my cow-orker on the Windycon foodguide), Dale Cozort, the present OE of Point of Divergence, Michelle Solomon, Robert Alley, Dermot Dobson and many others.
Lots of people were curious or concerned or both about my condition, and I got tons of egoboo - both on the foodguide, and on my postings here. One person who I’m always thought a great deal of from the standpoint of a Serious Brain in particular said something like - I may not comment much, but it’s obvious you think things through about current events and other material and do a fantastic job of putting it out there.
The other nice thing egoboo-wise, of a sort, was when I was congratulating someone on a particular major SMOF advancement, and he gave me a good deal of credit in the matter - that he’d adopted the attitude that you get into con running not because of a power trip, but as a matter of service and doing a good job. Which has always been my central position.
Was greatly surprised to *finally* meet Craig Newmeier in person. Wonderful writer when he was in POINT OF DIVERGENCE, and we got him a spec copy and a please-please-please to get him back in the Apa.
Mere was with me, and Xapno (on lj) and her 9-year-old daughter ran around with Mere for a while on Saturday. Mere was very upset that one of her con friends didn’t show (an unexpected death in the family) and was trolling for Other Kids. There was a certain young Mr. King that she said was cute and funny later…
Mere basically ran me into the ground, which is why I didn’t come back Sunday. I was exhausted from a few spills on the carpet, especially at carpet-tile interfaces. I learned long ago to roll well (very useful if you’re cursed from birth with crappy balance) and managed to avoid major damage to me. Especially on Sautrday evening, Mere wanted to run around and Not Be Bored, and I simply was struggling to keep up.
The GT Suite was a lot of fun, and I wanted to spend more time there chatting, but…
I broke loose and bought a few books at Larry Smith’s table…HALF A CROWN, THE DESTROYERMEN (found out later the one I picked up was #2 of a series), a technical book on Solar Sails, and a few other paperbacks. First time I’d picked up much of anything at a con for a LONG time.
Liked the hotel. Great improvement. Loved seeing everyone. Stirred up my creative juices a great deal. Thank you all!