Worldcon 76 Day 3: The Day Just Flies By

After finally getting shut of the Business Meeting, I had a few hours of time to attend Worldcon.

( It's Colonel Chinstrap! )

We didn't have a lot of time to ourselves, and Lisa's feet were howling from the hard concrete floors, so we changed out of our costumes and I went off to help count Site Selection ballots. The full results will be in the Worldcon 76 newsletter and are not official until received by Sunday's Business Meeting, but there were no surprises in the vote tally for the two uncontested races.

Lisa turned in early — I can't blame her for that, as she's been working very hard — and I didn't have a whole lot of energy myself.

( Saturday Evening at Worldcon )

I walked over to the Fairmont with Scott Sanford, but I didn't brave the parties. Instead, I went to Safeway and bought a few things for Lisa and me, and then stopped at Taco Mania on the way back and bought a burrito because I'd missed dinner on account of the ballot count and writing up the results for the newsletter. (Unfortunately, food service at Callahan's had ended by the time I got there.)

I headed back to the hotel room, where Lisa had been trying to sleep. I hope I haven't disturbed her too much. I hope to get some sleep soon myself, but I know from experience that if I don't write these posts as soon as I can, I never will. And at that, I'm leaving out some other good stories from a packed day that I simply don't have enough time to tell them all.

It was a long middle day of Worldcon, but a good one.

Worldcon 76 Day 4: Second (and Final) Main Business Meeting

After three consecutive years of overloaded agendas leading to a WSFS Business Meeting being held on the final day of Worldcon, normal service has been restored, and the Sunday Business Meeting was able to handle all Site Selection business and also some additional WSFS business before adjourning sine die (without date, ending this year's meetings).

( Officially Receiving Site Selection Results )

I'm afraid I didn't get any pictures of the NASFiC kick-off, and by the time I remembered to do so, the committee had left to start selling memberships.

After Site Selection, we had Question Time for Dublin 2019, followed by short presentations from the DC in 2021 and Chicago in 2022 Worldcon bids. Then we recessed for a few minutes to allow those people only interested in Site Selection business to leave.

There were still a couple of pieces of substantive business to consider, and I'm afraid that we got into a classic case of business expanding to fill available time. The summary was that both proposals were referred to committees to revisit the proposals and come up with better wording for next year. But getting there required a trip through the parliamentary long grass.

( Business Meeting Summary )

The final motion was to adjourn sine die ("without date," which ends the entire series of meetings for the year) in memory of Anna Moffat and Milt Stevens, both past Worldcon chairs who passed away in the past year.

( Worldcon Chairs Photo Session )

And with that, we were done with the Business Meeting for 2018. Lisa and Scott packed the camera gear, and we moved everything back to the hotel room. We met up with Linda Deneroff and made for the exhibit hall and lunch. The food there isn't that exciting, but service is fast, and there are lots of tables, and we could socialize not only among ourselves, but with the other fans coming through.

I told Lisa to take the rest of the day off. I, however spent much of the afternoon up in the hotel room converting the videos she shot today to make the higher-quality video of the Business Meeting and getting them set up to upload while we have enough bandwidth to push the large files online. The three days of WSFS Business Meeting are now online in six segments on the Worldcon Events 2018 WSFS Business Meeting (Higher Quality) playlist.

That was the first half of the day.