Back from Windycon

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What a wonderful convention they run down there.  Becca had class on Thursday Night, so I rode down to Chicago with Chasophonic and bonz_lizard.  We got to Becca's aunt's place and played for her over the better part of the evening.  A couple more friends of theirs came and played with us and a good time was had by all present.  Meanwhile, Becca had gotten through her class and was put on the Megabus and was enroute to Chicago upon our arrival.  The following morning, I got up and walked down to the Metra rail station to meet Becca as she was scheduled to arrive the following morning.  She was to disembark the Megabus and catch the train to her aunt's place and meet us at The Lucky Platter for breakfast.  We spent pretty much the rest of the morning playing and chatting with Becca's aunt and her new boyfriend,  (Delightful fellow, by the way,).  Friday afternoon we packed up and made our exodus over to the convention hotel.  We did the usual things, getting settled into our accommodations, getting registered, going through opening ceremonies, yada yada yada.  Then, the obligatory greetings with friends I have not seen in far too long.  Due to a medical emergency on the part of a member of Toy boat, some things got shuffled around and the round robin I was to do with Brenda was altered so Brenda had a full hour concert all to herself on Sunday morning, and I was given a full hour in the same slot for Saturday.  It was very well attended considering the short notice, and I apologize to all who found out too late that this was going on and missed me on Saturday and met with some disappointment when I was not playing on Sunday.  Brenda gave a fine performance and certainly did not disappoint.  The most memorable part of it, though was making the acquaintance of one Deborah_C from the UK.  She was one of the members of the choral group who did the neatest vocal arrangement for Chocolate is a Vegetable and brought it into their repretoir.  I was tickled to hear about it and equally tickled to meet a representative of said group.  And what a talented person she is, too.  A virtuoso violinist, all-around great performer and an absolutely charming person to boot.
I also have to give cudos the the Fan GoH's for hosting some really fun parties on Friday and Saturday night.  I played some of the open filk on Saturday and got to reconnect with my old friend and filk collegue, Michael Longcore.  He's always good for for a most enjoyable chinwag.

Thank you, billroper and the rest of the cast and crew who made Windycon the marvelous time it was for us.  See you next year.