Still No Time

[kevin_standlee]

3 AM again and no entries from today. Frankly, I was having too much fun to come back to the room and spend time writing about it. We actually got a chance to walk around an look at a few things (just as they were being torn down), we had a late lunch with fr_john, and then went to the Closing Ceremonies. While we were sitting waiting for them to start, I learned only then that Nippon 2007 wanted all of the committee to come on stage during their part of the ceremony. I left Lisa with Father John and headed back stage. The rest of that story will need another entry.

After that, we went back to the room. Lisa was still not feeling that well and needed to rest for a few hours. I changed into more comfortable clothes and headed back downstairs and hung around for a while. I ran into cherylmorgan in the bar and we both went and had something to eat. I then went back to my room, where Lisa, after three or so hours of rest, was feeling well enough to head to the Former Worldcon Chairs' Party. Again, that needs an entry of its own.

After 90 minutes or so, Lisa was fading out again and went back to the room, but told me to stay as long as I liked. As I was starting to leave just after Midnight, I got a phone call from David Clark pinning me back into the room at least long enough for us to hold an impromptu BASFA meeting. (It was Monday, and it was dark outside...) At 12:52, I raised a Question of Privilege saying that if I waited much longer to leave, my wife might kill me, which acting Chair David Gallaher interpreted as a motion to Adjourn, and I went back to the room.

By now, Lisa was hungry -- remember that at dinnertime she was sick and in bed. So we walked down to Denny's for a late dinner.

Returning to the hotel, we were both awake, so we took the opportunity to move most of the boxes of stuff to the van. This means we'll probably only need two trips in the morning. However, now we need to get some sleep so we can get moving in the late morning. We don't want to be driving during morning rush, and we want to be clear of the LA metro area before afternoon rush begins.

Across from us in the parking garage was a Range Rover with this license plate.



I know who this must be even though I've never seen this particular vehicle or plate.

I used to have California license plate SF IN O2 -- California does not allow the number zero, so I had to use the letter O instead. I never got around to getting CONJOSE plates, although I did consider it.

Edit, 8/29 9:20 PM: Added photo.

Comments

[redneckotaku.livejournal.com]

At least try to make a little time in the morning, it seems like you are having a great time. When I go to conventions, I write about my day on a piece of paper and then post con I write my Journal entry.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

If I had time to write stuff on a piece of paper, I'd have time to write the journal entry. I can type around 40 wpm or more and can compose much faster on the computer than I can with note paper. I reckon you mean "when I'm not at the computer" and I have been known to do such written journals that I transcribe later, but there was never enough time. Besides, if I sat still for more than a few minutes, someone would have come up to me to talk and I would have written nothing anyway. This gets Lisa annoyed sometimes -- she complains that I can't walk twenty meters at a convention without running across someone who "just wants to chat," and therefore it takes an hour to walk between (say) the dealers room and our hotel room.

[chocolatescifi.livejournal.com]

As I was reading the last paragraph, the theme from MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE started playing in my head.

Former Worldcon chair party

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. Did info about this get distributed somehow? Morbid curiosity now, I suppose.

--Mike Glyer

Re: Former Worldcon chair party

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

You mean, were invitations to the Old Pharts Party distributed? Yes, but I discovered (with difficulty) that if you were a Program Participant (and therefore registered in the Green Room), you wouldn't get your invitation.

It appears that if you registered at main registration, the computer would stop the person registering you and tell them to give you an invitation. The program participants were pulled out and moved to Green Room/Program Ops, and didn't have the same workflow. Therefore, those of us -- me, and presumably you, Mike -- who were program participants didn't get invitations. I figured there would be a party, and asked other former chairs until one of them produced invitations that he said came with his membership package. I then went back to Program Ops, who said they'd never had them, and traced it back to Main Registration, where they did things with the computer and said, "Oh, we owe you invitations."

I wondered where you were! The Party was held in the Presidential Suite, with the nice view of the fireworks, which meant we had to hurry with Former Chairs Photo. Unlike last year, where Interaction scheduled a separate time and photo-friendly location for the photo session, we once again showed why trying to take that photo in a hotel room, even a large suite like that, is not a good idea.

Re: Former Worldcon chair party

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I dunno- I would think that a pic of y'all in front of the window with the fireworks going off would have been kinda cool....

Re: Former Worldcon chair party

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the explanation. I should have just asked you the first time I saw you. Though at Opening Ceremonies I was still getting over feeling frazzled about the adventure of getting the family to the con. Sunday seemed far away, then.

Re: Former Worldcon chair party

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have been able to help you at Opening Ceremonies, anyway. I didn't figure out what was going on until Friday, or possibly even Saturday.

[lyzard13.livejournal.com]

It's J and K's car, but I assume you have guessed that already... It appears that it wasn't taken when they went to look for license plates! (My car's plate is in my user pic on this post.)