I had thursday off work to make preparations for the Con. I'd rather have a day to do so at leisure than an evening of running around panicking. Not that others didn't have a hell of a lot more to organise than me, but I'm pretty sure no-one else's to-do list included "change head on snare drum and de-wax earplugs".
This has taken a while to appear because I went straight from the Con to spend a further week with friends in Manchester, and it's only now I've finally returned home that I've had time to write it.