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A bit delayed, yes. There is also the problem that it's a bit hard to judge what next year's con will be like by this year's event, seeing as how the hotel chose the weekend of the con to rip the lobby and parking lot out and build new ones... This is truly a con to be immortalized in song (I'm working on that). The lobby was cordoned off with plywood, leaving single-file walkways to get to the con areas at the back. Apparently many of the no-shows simply took one look at the hotel from the freeway and assumed it was closed (there is precedent for that, alas). There was the fire alarm that went off all weekend because a workman cut a cable; there was the fact that there *were no stairs* connecting the ground floor to the event rooms on the second (the fire stairs let out *outside* on the ground floor; the stairs in the lobby were being poured while we were there), which in turn led to one of the two, count 'em, two elevators being out most of the weekend; I am told (I was staying at a friend's house) that the hot water wasn't and that the workmen were up bright and early Sunday with their jackhammers... Oh, yes, and apparently they were initially planning to demolish the dealer's room while the dealers were still in it. This, fortunately, was averted. Filks were held Friday and Saturday nights; since I worked Friday night I was only able to make Saturday nights, at which there were ten or twelve people all told and from four to six at any one time. I wrote down names and have, naturally, since misplaced the notebook. J-Mag was there, I know, and Celine -- could you two help me with names, please? I'm especially trying to remember who it was who had been on the Midwest circuit before she moved to Houston a few years ago. Also, how did the Friday filk go? (Part of why I'm asking is that I'd like when the info is more complete to post this as a con report to our website and also to r.m.f...) Mike, the art show looked pretty good, considering; again, it's hard to judge under the circumstances how you would do at a future ConSortium by way of commissions. Joe/Fax -- a"} HAVE PUN, WILL TRAVEL |jwa@play -- NEW HOME /_\ Fax Paladin, Waco |http://home.swbell.net/jwabbott -------------------------- "It'll all work out." "HOW?!" "I don't know -- it's a mystery." Stoppard & Norman, "Shakespeare in Love"