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I am completely satisfied with this con.
Friday I bought a book by Terry Brooks about the "Writing Life". I told Juli when she called that night. She told me to take it back, that she already had it. [It's hard for me to buy a book that Juli doesn't already own!] FOrtunately Mark decided he liked it and bought it from me.
Saturday I got up at ... I forget... 9? I needed to get to the first autograph panel at 10. Juli sent me off with some books to be signed by Kim Stanley Robinson, the Guest of Honor. Unfortunately I din't have the schedule of which pros would be at which signing session. [I later found it in the pocket program, but by then it was too late.] None of the pros I was looking for were at the first session, so I returned to the room and surfed on the internet for a bit. Next year I will have my stories on my laptop to work on.
I returned for the 11 am session Luis Royo was setting up. I found out he would be doing more then signing each item. I ran down to the dealers room and picked up a small copy of his sketchbook. He had his rejects printed up. Very cool idea!!! You can learn more from the rejects. While I was about the 12th person back it still took about an hour to get through the line. THat was truly okay by me. I got to watch hime sketch for every person in front of me, and some of them had the max of three items to sign. What a treat to watch the man draw!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got out of that line at 12, just in time to get into Kim Stanley Robinson's line. I was the third back there, so that went fast. He personalized them for Juli. Cool! Juli was happy.
I ran into Gene and Michael just after taht, and contacted Mark. We hiked over to Denney's for a meal that was a little better then what the hotel offered. I returned to the room to get it set up for the Tai Pan Room Meeting. The other's went to Gene and Micheael's room to schlep supplies over for the meeting. As I unplugged computers the Maid knocked on the door. I stepped out on the balcony to get out of her way. Mark showed up about then and brought his computer out on the balcony to work on stories.
The maid raced through and did a great job. I gave her some "George" dollars for a tip. She came back later and asked if everything was okay. Very nice maid.
The meeting was well attended by a number of people we hadn't met before. We all chatted with them for a while. They all eventually left. We were about to call it quits when one returned in hopes to hear the readings. So Chuck went ahead and read "Cargo" by Gerald Perkins. That was a tribute to the man. He will be missed. Mark read the scenes he had been working on all weekend, about Micki Ito. That promises to be a good story.
Abut this time we went off to dinner in the Coffee Garden. I ate my only burger for the weekend, and left the fries. Then we had our annual"Give Me The Brain" marathon. I won lots of brains.
One the way back to our room Mark talked me into climbing up the stairs to our twelfth floor. I called out each floor we had reached until we got to the fifth. Then I gasped, "To hell with it. We know where we are." and kept going. It actually felt pretty good after we were through.
I remembered that I had Easter Cards to get out to people. I wanted to slide them under peoples doors so they would find them the next morning. [I through Marks at him and said something like "Pretend you didn't see me".]
Sorry Jeff and Jerri-Lynn, if I had remembered to ask where you were I would have got one to you. happy Easter!!!!
Sunday I got up early again, and registered for next year. J'wyl was very nice and rolled Juli's membership into next year. I got into the art show and found out that I had won my print. An aerial view of three Koi fish. We then schlepped our stuff out of the room and down to the car. Here is were it was fortunate to be on the twelfth floor. By the time the elevator got to the eleventh it was full. It stopped at every floor on the way down. We saw many unhappy people. It didn't help that one of the four elevators was down for maintenance.
I think we ate again. Then Gene, Michael, Mark and I waited in the second floor lobby for Edd Vick's reading. We listened to our ipods and talked a bit. We were all pretty tired. I was beginning to really feel that 12 floor climb from the night before.
Edd's story was "The Raft" which he read to us a few weeks back at writer's night. It's a very cool story! I hope he sells it soon.
Dinner at the Broiler with the four of us, Edd, Amy and child, and Juli and Mike. The food was more expensive, but just okay in my mind.
Friday I bought a book by Terry Brooks about the "Writing Life". I told Juli when she called that night. She told me to take it back, that she already had it. [It's hard for me to buy a book that Juli doesn't already own!] FOrtunately Mark decided he liked it and bought it from me.
Saturday I got up at ... I forget... 9? I needed to get to the first autograph panel at 10. Juli sent me off with some books to be signed by Kim Stanley Robinson, the Guest of Honor. Unfortunately I din't have the schedule of which pros would be at which signing session. [I later found it in the pocket program, but by then it was too late.] None of the pros I was looking for were at the first session, so I returned to the room and surfed on the internet for a bit. Next year I will have my stories on my laptop to work on.
I returned for the 11 am session Luis Royo was setting up. I found out he would be doing more then signing each item. I ran down to the dealers room and picked up a small copy of his sketchbook. He had his rejects printed up. Very cool idea!!! You can learn more from the rejects. While I was about the 12th person back it still took about an hour to get through the line. THat was truly okay by me. I got to watch hime sketch for every person in front of me, and some of them had the max of three items to sign. What a treat to watch the man draw!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got out of that line at 12, just in time to get into Kim Stanley Robinson's line. I was the third back there, so that went fast. He personalized them for Juli. Cool! Juli was happy.
I ran into Gene and Michael just after taht, and contacted Mark. We hiked over to Denney's for a meal that was a little better then what the hotel offered. I returned to the room to get it set up for the Tai Pan Room Meeting. The other's went to Gene and Micheael's room to schlep supplies over for the meeting. As I unplugged computers the Maid knocked on the door. I stepped out on the balcony to get out of her way. Mark showed up about then and brought his computer out on the balcony to work on stories.
The maid raced through and did a great job. I gave her some "George" dollars for a tip. She came back later and asked if everything was okay. Very nice maid.
The meeting was well attended by a number of people we hadn't met before. We all chatted with them for a while. They all eventually left. We were about to call it quits when one returned in hopes to hear the readings. So Chuck went ahead and read "Cargo" by Gerald Perkins. That was a tribute to the man. He will be missed. Mark read the scenes he had been working on all weekend, about Micki Ito. That promises to be a good story.
Abut this time we went off to dinner in the Coffee Garden. I ate my only burger for the weekend, and left the fries. Then we had our annual"Give Me The Brain" marathon. I won lots of brains.
One the way back to our room Mark talked me into climbing up the stairs to our twelfth floor. I called out each floor we had reached until we got to the fifth. Then I gasped, "To hell with it. We know where we are." and kept going. It actually felt pretty good after we were through.
I remembered that I had Easter Cards to get out to people. I wanted to slide them under peoples doors so they would find them the next morning. [I through Marks at him and said something like "Pretend you didn't see me".]
Sorry Jeff and Jerri-Lynn, if I had remembered to ask where you were I would have got one to you. happy Easter!!!!
Sunday I got up early again, and registered for next year. J'wyl was very nice and rolled Juli's membership into next year. I got into the art show and found out that I had won my print. An aerial view of three Koi fish. We then schlepped our stuff out of the room and down to the car. Here is were it was fortunate to be on the twelfth floor. By the time the elevator got to the eleventh it was full. It stopped at every floor on the way down. We saw many unhappy people. It didn't help that one of the four elevators was down for maintenance.
I think we ate again. Then Gene, Michael, Mark and I waited in the second floor lobby for Edd Vick's reading. We listened to our ipods and talked a bit. We were all pretty tired. I was beginning to really feel that 12 floor climb from the night before.
Edd's story was "The Raft" which he read to us a few weeks back at writer's night. It's a very cool story! I hope he sells it soon.
Dinner at the Broiler with the four of us, Edd, Amy and child, and Juli and Mike. The food was more expensive, but just okay in my mind.
