All Right on the Night, Again

It sure was a good thing that we had to go over to the Sheraton early. The first bit of luck was that we took the heaviest gear over before a severe thunderstorm rolled in.

( And luck continued to be with us )

After quickly showering and donning my suit, I grabbed the rest of the Match Game gear, including the poster tube and the board that holds the questions, and trotted back to the Sheraton. The rain still held off.

( On With the Show! )

This has got to have been one of the best shows we ever did. It wasn't perfect, but it was darn close. We couldn't have the panelists tiered because the riser was in Tower C and it would have cost money to move it to Ballroom, and it might have been nice to have had a long cord and some other things, but all in all this was a fantastic show. In retrospect, the set in Grand Ballroom was wonderful. Oh, sure, we could have handled hundred of additional people, but we had more than enough seats for everyone there, everyone involved had a good time, and it was just a real successful event of which I'm proud to have done. I'm not proud of not having written down everyone's name so I could give proper credit.

Oh, and while Lisa was too busy to shoot anything during the show, she did shoot these pictures while we were getting people settled in. I posed for some photos with the ECM-51a even though I couldn't actually use it during the show.

We regret not being able to get to the parties, but by the time we hauled stuff to the room, we were utterly beat and had to have a light snack (thank goodness we brought that electric ice chest) and unwind. If I hadn't really wanted to get this report written before I got to sleep, I probably would have been in bed 45 minutes ago.

My thanks to Denvention Programming for putting us on the program, Deb Geisler and Mark Herrup from D3 Facilities for swinging everything we needed and running cover with the hotels when we needed that, Jim Mann for his help in Program Ops, and Alex Latzko for putting up with me peppering him with cell phone calls while we fretted over the tech, and for giving Lisa permission to move the gear and set up the microphones. (She did well working by herself.)

Now to collapse for a few hours before getting up and doing the Business Meeting. Thank goodness we have a light agenda today.

More Business Meeting Photos

And here are more photos of smofs in their natural environment, the Business Meeting, in thus case Friday's Main Meeting.

Hugo Awards Night

I've been away from an internet connection most of Sunday, and much of the time I've been at a computer I've been making data DVDs of the recordings of the Business Meeting to give to Pat McMurray so he has them for reference in preparing the WSFS minutes. It took five DVDs to hold all of the data files. Much editing will be necessary, I think, before we can produce a usable DVD of the Business Meeting.

( Just another day at Worldcon )

( On to the Hugo Awards )

Cheryl was live-blogging the ceremony, and she posted The Hugo Awards results only minutes after the ceremony ended, for which she and I were very pleased. I had a minor part in it, as she waved me over to proofread it before she put the results live.

I also shot some video of some of the Hugo Award presentations before the batteries gave out on the camera; however, most of the shots are hard to keep in focus because the camera kept wanting to try and focus on the people sitting a couple of rows ahead of me rather than on stage. There must be a way to disable the auto-focus, but I can't find it.