As far as I can tell, the BASFA 1000 meeting was effectively the SiliCon Dead Dog Party. Lisa and I did not stick around long after the meeting, because it was after 9 PM and we wanted to get dinner. Fortunately, Chipotle is open until 10 PM, so we popped down for a couple of burritos and took them back to the hotel room. After filling up on ( Read more... )

As is often the case, there was some technical worries over this morning's setup for Match Game SF. It turns out to have been very useful for Lisa to have brought her new speakers and the full scale tech kit. Kudos to her for being able to get things running when the primary tech had problems getting their equipment back online from last night. ( Read more... )

Having eight solid hours of sleep helped me feel much better this morning. I'm heading off to breakfast soon, leaving Lisa to sleep in as much as she can. (She was seriously bedeviled by her tinnitus last night, and slept poorly.) Later this morning I will borrow a bell cart and we'll move the Match Game kit over to the Ballroom and (I hope) get ( Read more... )

Around 10:30 on Saturday night I started feeling unwell. I excused myself from the Westercon 64 party early -- Lisa and I had helped with the party setup after closing the table while Chairman Glenn Glazer went shopping for party supplies -- and turned in early. I really cannot afford to be sick.

Lisa made it down to San Jose faster than we originally expected, so she was actually at the hotel by the time I arrived. We moved all of our stuff into our hotel room -- it took three trips with the bell cart, and we'll need to get the cart again when moving in to do Match Game SF. I do hope we're able to find a way to make everything work. I ( Read more... )

Sara Bruce has agreed to join our panel of "ding-a-lings" on Match Game SF at SiliCon, along with Glenn Glazer, who joins our "returning regulars" Kevin Roche, Andy Trembley, Chris Garcia, and Leigh Ann Hildebrand on Sunday at Noon in the Siskiyou/Donner Pass Ballroom. I hope we'll see lots of people there trying to fill in the ____s.

I printed the questions for our Match Game SF show at SiliCon. Thank you to everyone who contributed questions. We'll need more, because plans call for a show at Westercon next July as well. (For Norwescon, we'll probably re-use much of the SiliCon material.) Tomorrow, I hope to finish the commercials and print them along with the intro, prize ( Read more... )

Remember that we're scheduled to do Match Game SF at SiliCon 2009 on Sunday, October 4, from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM in the Siskiyou/Donner Pass Ballroom. That's actually a bit too long, although it allows us time to get set up and torn down. I don't think we'll fill all three-plus hours. With that much leeway, and with a panel in the room before us ( Read more... )

I just got my program plans for SiliCon 2009, and now can confirm that we'll be staging Match Game SF on Sunday in the main Ballroom. I think the start time is intended to be 11:30 AM, but I don't know just yet if that means we're doing setup in the block before that or not ( Read more... )

We had another good Match Game SF show this afternoon.

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