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Lisa and I did not rush this morning, because there were only three remaining pieces of WSFS business for today's "overflow" final meeting. However, when we got to Crystal Ballroom B, we found that it had been reset for the Closing Ceremony happening later in the day, and the previously unoccupied area from which Lisa had been recording was full of chairs. It's fortunate that we got there as early as we did, because we then had to move a bunch of chairs around to create an area from which Lisa could record, which meant also moving other chairs away from near her "camera nest," so people wouldn't sit nearby and ruin the audio. When Jared Dashoff arrived, Lisa consulted with him, and Jared agreed that everything in the back half of the room was officially out of bounds. Sure enough, a couple of times, people started to park themselves in the back of the room, and I would tell them, "If you sit back here, you are considered furniture." It was not as though the front half of the room was crowded. With all but three items disposed of, turnout today was light.
Here's the recording of today's meeting.
( Heading for the Finish Line )
What was left were courtesy resolutions, announcements, and thank yous. I gained the floor and finally got to give Jared an engraved gavel with his name and first year chairing on it that I was going to give him back in 2016 after his first time chairing the Business Meeting. Jared had been in such a tearing hurry in Kansas City to adjourn the final meeting that he closed us out before I could make the presentation. I did not want to give it to him "off stage," so I waited. For six years.
The meeting thanked lots of people. I got in a specific thank-you to Lisa for having to work under far more challenging circumstances than she ever expected.
With all the thank-yous said and the gifts presented, we adjourned sine die ("without date," closing the parliamentary session and thus concluding this year's series of meetings) with time to spare before we would have been thrown out of the room to allow the reset for the Closing Ceremonies to continue. I recruited people to help us reset the chairs that we'd moved. Lisa packed up, and I retrieved the Gavel of WSFS from Jared, asking Jesi Lipp to tell convention chair Helen Montgomery that I'd get it to her and the stage in time for Closing. There was still one more WSFS function left.
( MPC Meeting )
The WSFS MPC meeting set up our plans for the coming year and relatively efficiently held the meeting in less than an hour, which is good because it gave me time to get the Gavel of WSFS back down to the Crystal Ballroom.
( Closing Out )
Eventually I made my way back to the hotel room. Lisa and I made a trip to Bockwinkle's grocery. We made lunch in the hotel room, and I spent the rest of the afternoon editing video and uploading it to YouTube. I wasted a whole lot of time uploading the wrong video to YouTube and having to delete it and upload the correct one. I also am glad that there are no more meetings, as I've managed to nearly completely fill my hard drive with video files. I will have to bail a lot of material to archives when we get home.
Tonight is the only other party I'll be attending that isn't in room 3176 (the Winnipeg suite): the Old Pharts (Former Worldcon Chairs) party. There's also some Winnipeg work still to do. I'm not sure how long I'll manage do stay up tonight, as much as I enjoy the Old Pharts Party. But at least I have no plans for tomorrow and Lisa and I do not have to get up much too early to go record a WSFS Business Meeting.
Here's the recording of today's meeting.
( Heading for the Finish Line )
What was left were courtesy resolutions, announcements, and thank yous. I gained the floor and finally got to give Jared an engraved gavel with his name and first year chairing on it that I was going to give him back in 2016 after his first time chairing the Business Meeting. Jared had been in such a tearing hurry in Kansas City to adjourn the final meeting that he closed us out before I could make the presentation. I did not want to give it to him "off stage," so I waited. For six years.
The meeting thanked lots of people. I got in a specific thank-you to Lisa for having to work under far more challenging circumstances than she ever expected.
With all the thank-yous said and the gifts presented, we adjourned sine die ("without date," closing the parliamentary session and thus concluding this year's series of meetings) with time to spare before we would have been thrown out of the room to allow the reset for the Closing Ceremonies to continue. I recruited people to help us reset the chairs that we'd moved. Lisa packed up, and I retrieved the Gavel of WSFS from Jared, asking Jesi Lipp to tell convention chair Helen Montgomery that I'd get it to her and the stage in time for Closing. There was still one more WSFS function left.
( MPC Meeting )
The WSFS MPC meeting set up our plans for the coming year and relatively efficiently held the meeting in less than an hour, which is good because it gave me time to get the Gavel of WSFS back down to the Crystal Ballroom.
( Closing Out )
Eventually I made my way back to the hotel room. Lisa and I made a trip to Bockwinkle's grocery. We made lunch in the hotel room, and I spent the rest of the afternoon editing video and uploading it to YouTube. I wasted a whole lot of time uploading the wrong video to YouTube and having to delete it and upload the correct one. I also am glad that there are no more meetings, as I've managed to nearly completely fill my hard drive with video files. I will have to bail a lot of material to archives when we get home.
Tonight is the only other party I'll be attending that isn't in room 3176 (the Winnipeg suite): the Old Pharts (Former Worldcon Chairs) party. There's also some Winnipeg work still to do. I'm not sure how long I'll manage do stay up tonight, as much as I enjoy the Old Pharts Party. But at least I have no plans for tomorrow and Lisa and I do not have to get up much too early to go record a WSFS Business Meeting.
