. . .and the hunter, from the hill
Monday, September 19th, 2011 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniSteve and I are returned from The Great New England Steampunk Exhibition. The cats are glad to see us, for values of glad that include Scrabble sitting in the co-pilot’s chair in my office…with her back to me.
Ah, well.
We had fun at the con; met some interesting people; got to catch up a little with Kaja and Phil Foglio; saw lots of very, very well-conceived and well-done costumes, and a sword dancer. The Abney Park concert was super. I did get to shake hands with the band members and thank them for the pleasure their work has given me.
..which is always an odd thing, no matter which side of the transaction you’re on. I think it’s important to thank people — and especially artists — for a job well done. Yet, when people thank me for the pleasure our work has given them, I often find myself with nothing more intelligent to say than, “No, thank you.” And so it was with Abney Park; the band members were puzzled, but kind, and shook hands and the transaction was complete. And as I say, the concert was super, so — well done, all around.
The con. . . suffered from some organizational snafus, as well as some truly horrendous problems with hotel management. There was the all-too-common lack of hotel imagination when it came to the reality of hundreds of people needing to eat NOW and THERE, which put an unreasonable strain on the hotel staff, who nonetheless did their damnedest to provide good service.
In the end, it all got survived, and the majority of con-goers remained cheerful and pleased with the event. I hope that the concom will learn from its errors, and that they will find another venue for the event next year.
Personally, I discover that I need to be more mindful of my own scheduling and eating. Twice now in two cons I’ve managed to bork my blood sugar big-time by deciding that the show must go on, even if that meant lunch was half of a chocolate chip cookie and a glass of water. This apparently will no longer do — or it will, if I don’t mind the consequences, which it happens that I do.
Today’s tasks include finishing the bookkeeping, catching up the email, eating a good lunch and dinner (ahem) and probably taking a nap, so that I’m up and open for bidness tomorrow, which is, just by the way, Scrabble’s Appointed Birth Day, 2011. She will be, so we believe, nine years old.
So! How was your weekend?
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2011-09-19 03:29 pm (UTC)Well, it's so hard to ignore you when you're gone!
Our guys will ignore me all day when I'm home, and the minute my housemate comes in the door will be all over her... or vice versa, if she's home and I'm away.
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Date: 2011-09-19 06:36 pm (UTC)We bailed on half the concert at the Exposition, too loud in the case of the Broken Toys band. I'm happy to further damage my hearing for Abney Park, but we thought the opening bands were in the wrong order.
(Linda Cox, IRL)
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Date: 2011-09-19 08:52 pm (UTC)The music program would have worked perfectly well if Frenchy and the Punk had opened for Abney Park, then Broken Toys, the fire dancers and whichever adult bellydancing, striptease acts, angry-with-bad-language bands and/or poetry acts there were scheduled into midnight-and-after.
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Date: 2011-09-19 10:52 pm (UTC)If I had remembered "concert" and what that meant to me back in the day (heh) I would have brought earplugs, but the last time we were at a live music venue it was the Ryman Auditorium. *snerk*
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Date: 2011-09-19 07:19 pm (UTC)Other than that, too much frantic outfitting of our teens, who have discovered (!!) that the clothes of April do not fit the teen of October - either physically, or socially. Rapid visits to preferred resale shops ensued. Success was attained, and Mom and Dad's sweatpants are no longer the emergency cold-weather clothing.
- Laura
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Date: 2011-09-19 07:25 pm (UTC)It's amazing to me, coming into D&D in my mid-40s instead of 20-something years ago when it first came out, how much aspects of the game resemble books that I've read (or vice versa).
I'm glad you and Steve had a good time at the Exposition and I wish I could have been there, too. Maybe next year after I've finally found a job!
Maureen
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Date: 2011-09-19 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-19 11:01 pm (UTC)In spite of organization problems, it really sounds like an awesome con.
Scrabble sitting...with her back to me
Date: 2011-09-19 11:35 pm (UTC)Your transgressions *may* be forgotten by January (if you behave in the interim). You might consider coming home gift-laden from ChattaCon.
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Date: 2011-09-20 01:46 am (UTC)*ahem* THANK YOU!!!
*I was at the con too*
As for next year's con, it's going to be at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Conn. While I haven't seen it myself, it's brand-new, and in the middle of town, so, food should be plentiful!
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Date: 2011-09-20 04:42 pm (UTC)