Done yesterday (20110704 Mo)
0704 Mo * up 6:45; W=198.8; drugs, nose, laundry, light & took out garbage, since YD hadn't done it. @ How an Elm Tree Helped Win America's Independence : TreeHugger * leave the house at 9am for 10am panel; go home for Colleen afterward. * Monday, Jul 04 10:00 AM to Monday, Jul 04 11:30 AM in Regency Ballroom 2 The Future of Privacy Technology has made it easier for people to find and share information. At the same time it's become much more difficult to preserve personal privacy. How will the challenge to privacy affect us over the next 50 years? Is this a right to be protected, or is the concept of privacy an illusion -- for example, how much privacy did people have living in small towns before mass communications? * took Colleen and YD to con; back around 3:30. % tired. Not quite out of spoons, but about halfway. * do I have a membership in Westercon 65?? (I think yes) -> we have 2. * YD made dinner: lemon turkey with biscuits. I probably ate too many biscuits; they were tasty. A dozen for three people; do the math. : Call from Mom @ The Beer Archaeologist | Smithsonian Magazine ( gmcdavi) @ firecat | mini-linkspam (good articles) Tempo trouble is especially thought-provoking % This evening's somewhat stiff glass of gin seems to have really relaxed the knot in my right shoulder. So... good. % sleepy. 8:30 * Tried a velcro loop attaching Minnie to Chami's "shoulder"; it seemed to work very well. The best configuration may be a short loop between the "Y" and Chami's handle. = according to Colleen the final body count at Westercon was 540. That's pitiful. * split Westercon concert * bath 11:15; splat ~midnight
Yesterday went pretty well. I got to the con around 9:30 for my 10am panel on the future of privacy, when went back for Colleen and the YD. We finally got back home somewhere around 3:30. I cleverly packed my netbook charger, but cleverly forgot the netbook itself (after carefully syncing it, of course). Clever bear.
My evening glass of gin seems to have helped considerably with the spasmed muscle in my right shoulder, so that's good. The YD made dinner - lemon turkey with biscuits. I ate too many biscuits. That's not so good for my weight.
Westercon is definitely in trouble -- the final body count, according to Colleen, was 540. Now, admittedly, falling somewhere between Baycon and Worldcon, in an expensive but wretched hotel and a bad economy, one can expect fewer people than usual. But still... Hopefully the next two can, with top-notch committees and plenty of publicity, reverse that trend.
Some links in the notes.