Westercon 76 Day 4: Hand it Over
Lisa and I once again went to Perkins for breakfast, joined by Martin Pyne. Martin is not only Parliamentarian of the WSFS Business Meeting this year in Glasgow, but has accepted my invitation for him to Chair the 2025 Westercon Business Meeting in Santa Clara.
After we walked the approximately 1000 m back to the Doubletree after breakfast, I asked the hotel if we could extend our check-out, and we were able to hold onto the room until 2 PM, which was very useful. I got our room keys extended. Lisa took a nap while I hunted up Linda Deneroff and we spent about 90 minutes updating the WSFS rules pages with some new material.
With the WSFS material updated, I returned to the hotel room and dealt with the last of my current messages and then packed away my computers and started packing my suitcase. Lisa woke up and together we worked to lodge-comb the hotel room and get everything back into the minivan. We then finished checking out of the room.
I passed the time between check-out and the Closing Ceremonies at the Westercon 77-BayCon 2025 / Montreal in 2027 Worldcon bid table. Occasionally, I even answered questions about all of those events. Lisa was out taking a few photos of the last day of the convention.
At John Hertz's request, Lisa took photos of the Fanzine Corner in the Dealer's Room.
At 4 PM, about twenty or so people filed in for the Closing Ceremony.
Westercon 76 Chair Charles Galway thanked everyone who attended and all of those people who worked on the convention. He also reported that they think they had about 160 individuals who attended the convention.
With everyone from BayCon busy at this year's BayCon, I stood in on their behalf when Charles officially closed Westercon 76 and handed the Gavel of Westercon to his successor convention.
I am nominally a member of the BayCon committee now as they've asked me to run their Westercon Business functions (Business Meeting and Site Selection). I'm responsible for getting the Gavel of Westercon to them as well as the information and money for memberships sold on their behalf here. There was not a whole lot that I could tell the people here about next year's convention because I've not been involved with it before they agreed to host Westercon 77.
With the end of the Closing Ceremony, the four days of Westercon 76 came to an end, except for the Dead Dog party in the Con Suite. Lisa and I, however, could not stick around. We had a hotel reservation in Elko, Nevada, so we said goodbye to everyone and set our faces to the west for our return home. But that's another story.
After we walked the approximately 1000 m back to the Doubletree after breakfast, I asked the hotel if we could extend our check-out, and we were able to hold onto the room until 2 PM, which was very useful. I got our room keys extended. Lisa took a nap while I hunted up Linda Deneroff and we spent about 90 minutes updating the WSFS rules pages with some new material.
With the WSFS material updated, I returned to the hotel room and dealt with the last of my current messages and then packed away my computers and started packing my suitcase. Lisa woke up and together we worked to lodge-comb the hotel room and get everything back into the minivan. We then finished checking out of the room.
I passed the time between check-out and the Closing Ceremonies at the Westercon 77-BayCon 2025 / Montreal in 2027 Worldcon bid table. Occasionally, I even answered questions about all of those events. Lisa was out taking a few photos of the last day of the convention.
At John Hertz's request, Lisa took photos of the Fanzine Corner in the Dealer's Room.
At 4 PM, about twenty or so people filed in for the Closing Ceremony.
Westercon 76 Chair Charles Galway thanked everyone who attended and all of those people who worked on the convention. He also reported that they think they had about 160 individuals who attended the convention.
With everyone from BayCon busy at this year's BayCon, I stood in on their behalf when Charles officially closed Westercon 76 and handed the Gavel of Westercon to his successor convention.
I am nominally a member of the BayCon committee now as they've asked me to run their Westercon Business functions (Business Meeting and Site Selection). I'm responsible for getting the Gavel of Westercon to them as well as the information and money for memberships sold on their behalf here. There was not a whole lot that I could tell the people here about next year's convention because I've not been involved with it before they agreed to host Westercon 77.
With the end of the Closing Ceremony, the four days of Westercon 76 came to an end, except for the Dead Dog party in the Con Suite. Lisa and I, however, could not stick around. We had a hotel reservation in Elko, Nevada, so we said goodbye to everyone and set our faces to the west for our return home. But that's another story.