Lisa telephoned me while I was sitting in the Masquerade with my phone turned off. She left a message saying, "Tell everyone she wishes she could have been at Costume-Con, but instead I went to the Oregon Electric Railway Museum and spent eight hours working on the railroad. I'm very tired." I'll bet she is. But I'm glad to hear she got out ( Read more... )

There are more photos from Saturday evening in my Saturday photosAfter closing Site Selection, Raven O'Neill helped me take the Cart o' Stuff back up to my room. By then it was close to time for the SF & F Masquerade to open. There was a queue that stretched down the stairs and toward the Dealers' Room entrances, so Raven and I sat down and ( Read more... )

Still more photos from Costume-Con 26 are in the Saturday collection, including pictures from the Mad Science Fair, the Hospitality Suite (featuring the League of Evil Geniuses Hall of Fame), and the Costume Exhibit.

I have added a few more photos from Saturday afternoon here at CostumeCon to CC 26 Flikr pageLate last night, I realized to my chagrin that I'd left the only site selection ballot received by mail locked up in my safe box at home. I had to drive back up to Fremont around Midnight to go retrieve it. Of course my prime location parking space was ( Read more... )

It's been a fun evening here at the CC26 social, with its Victorian Underwear theme. I mainly hung around the photo backdrop and took lots of photos. I haven't had time to properly process them (and in particular to rotate the majority of the photos that I took in portrait direction) because I appear to have dropped the ball and left a small ( Read more... )

I got to the Doubletree without incident and snagged one of the better parking spaces. (Which means of course that I am trapped and cannot drive away without losing my prime space.) Just as I was checking in, jbriggs, who is my deputy in Site Selection, found me, and helped me move into my hotel room. He went off to see about our Site Selection table ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for Costume-Con in a few minutes. Had a bit of a panic this morning when a report I needed to print ran the printer out of paper and I hadn't remembered to go get more paper a few days ago, so I had to dash out and buy a ream ( Read more... )

I collected clothsprogs and Tom from the Fremont BART station about 1:15 and we high-tailed it down to the San Jose Doubletree. I dropped them off out front with their copious luggage and parked the van for a while, then wheeled in my ice chest. As it happens, Teddy and Tom were just finishing checking in, so I helped them roll their luggage up to their ( Read more... )

This evening, I set the printer (which is located a fair distance away) to printing 500 copies of the Costume-Con site selection ballot, figuring that should be more than enough to handle anyone who would want to vote this year. A little while later, I went down to the printer room and could hear it continuing to crank out copies. I looked in the ( Read more... )

This evening Cheryl and I collected clothsprogs and Tom from the Fremont BART station and came back to the apartment before taking them off to tonight's BASFA meeting. Cheryl, alas, was not able to come along to BASFA because of pressures of work that probably will keep her from even being able to attend Costume-Con this weekend ( Read more... )