Typically, conventions given their Guests of Honor some sort of gift. We had intended to do so at Westercon 74 as well, but those of you attending the Closing Ceremony (a recording of which should be online realsoonnow after I do some editing on it) at Westercon 74 know that all that Myrna Donato and Kevin Andrew Murphy got were "Lovely Parting ( Read more... )

Day Jobbe caught up to me last night, and I had work late at night that led to an eight-hour job. It wasn't me having to actively work on something, but a computing job that normally takes a few minutes running for more than eight hours. I was able to set it up and go to bed. It ran longer than the eight hours I expected, but it did get done this ( Read more... )

We deliberately scheduled one extra day in Tonopah after the move-out day for two reasons: (1) Leaving time in case there was some sort of post-con hitch that needed our attention, such as a complication in move-out, and (2) If the first did not apply, giving us a day when we could sleep without worrying about hotel check-out. Item 1 did not apply ( Read more... )

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As the Keeper of the Keys (of the Tonopah Convention Center), on account of being the person who locked the doors late last night after we finished set-up, I also had to be there shortly after 7 AM to let the people who needed to run the online/hybrid programming in the Gold Room. Consequently, I got maybe three hours' sleep last night ( Read more... )

Expect less information from me, not more, for the next few days. I'm already feeling overwhelmed and we don't get the keys to the Tonopah Convention Center until tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

Late this morning, Lisa and I drove the Astro to Reno, did yet another stop at US Foods Chef'Store (stuff for Hospitality) and at Staples (more ink cartridges just-in-case because we were down to the final black cartridge), then to Savers (where we bought some old blankets for less than furniture pads would have cost, and then we collected the ( Read more... )

While I have been working on printing Westercon 74 program books and Lisa has been packing Hospitality supplies, it was the day that Kuma Bear had been dreading: his annual bath.

( Poor Wet Bear )

Westercon 74 Progress Report 5 was released today. You can download it from the Westercon 74 website (even if you don't have a membership), and we mailed printed copies to those membership who requested them (or who did not have an email address - yes, there really are people who don't have email addresses) - about 18% of our members have paper ( Read more... )

It took us a fair bit longer to get packed out of the hotel room in Tonopah today, and indeed, we just barely made the 11 AM check-out time. Leaving Tonopah took even longer because the ROL card-lock gas pumps (off the main road) weren't working. That's a shame because they were 20 cents/gallon cheaper than the ones on Main Street ( Read more... )