Nailing It

As I type this, it was a week ago that Kayla visited for the day. I decided that I liked her nail polish sufficiently that I would keep wearing it for a few days.

( Yes, Even to SMOFCon )

But speaking of interesting, I had to leave an interesting panel at SMOFCon this afternoon about managing online social media crises, because I did not get enough sleep last night, and I have to help out with the Montreal Worldcon bid, which co-sponsoring tonight's Con Suite. Falling asleep in the panel would be bad. I have retreated to the hotel room and am going to take a nap for a while.

Friday Night at SMOFCon

I ended up napping for a couple of hours, and when I woke up I needed to put in some work helping the Montréal 2027 Worldcon bid, which hosted the SMOFCon 41 Con Suite this evening.

( Montreal in Seattle )

SMOFCon is always a time to make connections and talk with other people about plans for future events, such as in my case Westercon and Worldcon. I did participate in a number of such conversations this evening. I am not going to talk about them now because the plans need to develop and reach a point where we can deliver on them. However, I will say that in general, and subject to change, if Montréal wins their bid, I expect to be chairing their WSFS Business Meeting, and I have been working on having a team selected to operate it. We haven't won yet, and we aren't the only known bid, so it is premature to say much more. There are, after all, two Worldcons to come before 2027.

I then hung out in the Con Suite until about 11 PM, and as much as I like this part of the convention, I did pull myself away to go back to my room, unwind, take care of some bid business, and get ready for tomorrow, which as usual will be the busiest day of the convention. I'm going to be recording the Worldcon and Bid presentations (for posting to the Worldcon Events YouTube channel) and also the evening "keynote address" by featured speaker Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station. As the SMOFCon 41 website says, "He’s going to speak to us about his experience in analysis and commentary, with a special focus on the Sad Puppies’ attempt to hijack the Hugos, and how he helped turn that into a positive experience for fandom." I do not yet know where his presentation video will be posted, but I'll write about it when it happens.

I expect to have several announcements to post tomorrow, or possibly in the wee hours of Sunday morning, maybe backdated. That's because I will be busy a lot all tomorrow evening, with the Probability & Statistics Seminar (not on the published schedule; it's a private item open to all attendees of the convention, which has given us Cascade 7 for that purpose) happening after the keynote.