Breaking News: MGSF Invited to Worldcon

Last night, while frantically trying to get Match Game SF and Westercon bid stuff printed, I got e-mail from Denvention 3 programming with my schedule. I confirmed my schedule and let them know that I wasn't being critical when I told people we hadn't been invited to do MGSF. They pointed out to me that when I filled out my programming questionnaire, I hadn't even mentioned the prospect of doing the game show, and while it's a little late in the process, would I be willing to do a show on Friday night after the Masquerade, 10 PM. I said that I'm willing to give it a try.

So it appears that we're going to do one show of Match Game SF at Worldcon on Friday night, August 8, at 10 PM. Exactly who our panelists, staff, announcers, etc. will be depends on who among our "regulars" are coming to Worldcon and will be available to do the show. I expect to discuss this with people at Westercon.

Note to our sponsors: Where practical to do so, if your prize does not go in the twelve games we're playing at Las Vegas, I will roll it over to our show in Denver. If you do not want your prize to roll over to Denver, you need to let me know about it.

Time To Go

Thanks to a delay caused by having to fiddle around with label formats to make "40-up" half sheets work with the labels designed for 80-up full sheet printing, We're just now getting ready to leave my office. And we have at least one more stop to make here in the Bay Area, so I can figure on being at least two hours behind my originally planned schedule.

However, I did get all of the printing done. And Lisa took care of getting her stuff packed into my van. She's waiting here patiently for me to stop dawdling and get a move on.

I will now be offline until I get to the hotel in Tehachapi later tonight.

Tehachapi

We made at least two unscheduled stops along the way south, as we were looking for a new pair of shoes for Lisa. We found an SAS store in San Jose that had the same (US-made) style she currently wears, and she's happy with them. We made a scheduled stop for a (by then rather late) lunch at Pea Soup Andersen's in Santa Nella. I was keeping the speed down below 60, and therefore was getting passed by everyone, although the road wasn't quite as full of low-flying aircraft as I-5 used to be. When I refueled in Bakersfield, I found that I was getting over 21 MPG, which is quite good for that van.

We made it to our scheduled overnight stop in Tehachapi, California, just after 10 PM, only about 45 minutes later than my previous projection. After the usual moving-in stuff, we decided to walk across the street to the mini-market rather than try and get out and find something for dinner. I dug in to my e-mail, but have only scratched the surface. Before I read more, I must have dinner.