A good weekend, all told
Jan. 24th, 2005 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsDespite the chaotic prelude, and sudden change in plans, I had a good weekend.
Thursday I drove down to KW where![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mycrazyhair and whynotsteve provided hospitality and entertainment. Thank you again for the use of your bedroom on short notice. Helped mycrazyhair with cataloging a few things, sorry about the illegible hand-writing on one of them, and walked away with a few things myself. And, foms, I have a box with a telephone picture on it, and I'm told some sort of computer stuff in it (I haven't looked) for you.
Friday morning, met up withredsash and took a few things away from his (former) house, then the two of us were joined by horsetraveller for a very enjoyable breakfast, with interesting discussion of community vs government and good food.
Then on the road for Troy, MI. Due to the blockade happening on the 401, I chose to take 7 west from KW, taking it accross until it ended, then following the county roads (that probably used to be highway 7) almost to Sarnia, crossing over into Michigan at Sarnia/Port Huron, then I-94 to Metro Parkway and the hotel. Driving was mostly clear and dry, with some clear and wet areas -- no problems at all.
Arrived at the convention around 3:30pm on Friday, and spent most of Friday helpingrmeidaking with the green room. (Joy and Mara (sp?) also helped out.) Green room seemed to run fairly smoothly, and to work fairly well this year. I've agreed to help again next year.
After green room closed, I wandered around a few of the parties, and hugged and chatted with various people, and somehow it became 3 in the morning, and I'm not quite sure where the time went, but I had to go to bed as I had a shift starting at 10am the next day.
Saturday, got up around 9am (though was woken at 7am by the alarm clock, time inheritted from previous room occupant), and worked in the green room from 10am to 2pm. Then went to the Regency Dance workshop, and had a good time spending two hours learning, and doing, regency dances. We did 4 dances, including the ever popular "Hole in the Wall". I think I shall make the regency dance workshops/dances a regular part of my congoing. Wandered around a bit more, had dinner withzencuppa, though I didn't know at the time she was zencuppa, and then got changed for the evening. Wandered down to the dance about when it was starting (9am) and danced off and on until about 1am, when I just got technoed-out. Yes, they did a couple of sets of other music, but there was just a bit too much "club" music for me. People can go to clubs for club music, this is a con dance, we don't need very much of that music. But, it isn't easy -- I've tried DJing a bit for (a smallish, relaxicon) con, and yup, it isn't easy. In bed for about 3am, again.
Oh ya, it blizzarded on Saturday, which thoroughly encouraged me to not leave the hotel.
Sunday, got up at a more mellow 10:30 or so (and the alarm was turned off, so no 7am pain), dropped by green room to see how things were going, did a couple little things. Had a nice lunch withelizilla and all the friendly people who dropped by to chat. Unfortunately, elizilla suffered from the attack potato salad, but had other clothing to change into. (It was a con, you know, everyone packs lots of clothing, right?) Bought a couple games from the dealer's room (India Rails and Bang!) to bring home with me. Said various good byes (and missed saying a few others) then headed out for Sarnia, where I was overnighting at jeffreyab's place. Driving was mostly ok, some snow on the road accross Big Beaver/Metro Parkway, but mostly not too bad, and I-94 was mostly fine, too.
Then, Monday morning, on the road again. Metmycrazyhair for lunch in KW, where I was handed some stuff that I'm told needs to be relayed to iclysdale for some further routing that was complex enough to understand that I've already forgotten it. I feel like I'm moving email along an old-style ! path. It started snowing while I was in KW, which I did not regard with glee. The drive out of KW, was snowy and slippery, but once on the 401 things were better -- for most of the rest of the trip home the highway was clear and wet, though there were a few intermittent snow patches, but I made generally pretty good time -- I don't think I needed to drop below 90 km/h at any point.
Thank you every one I saw, spend time with, hugged, etc. I had a good weekend.
Thursday I drove down to KW where
mycrazyhair and whynotsteve provided hospitality and entertainment. Thank you again for the use of your bedroom on short notice. Helped mycrazyhair with cataloging a few things, sorry about the illegible hand-writing on one of them, and walked away with a few things myself. And, foms, I have a box with a telephone picture on it, and I'm told some sort of computer stuff in it (I haven't looked) for you.Friday morning, met up with
redsash and took a few things away from his (former) house, then the two of us were joined by horsetraveller for a very enjoyable breakfast, with interesting discussion of community vs government and good food. Then on the road for Troy, MI. Due to the blockade happening on the 401, I chose to take 7 west from KW, taking it accross until it ended, then following the county roads (that probably used to be highway 7) almost to Sarnia, crossing over into Michigan at Sarnia/Port Huron, then I-94 to Metro Parkway and the hotel. Driving was mostly clear and dry, with some clear and wet areas -- no problems at all.
Arrived at the convention around 3:30pm on Friday, and spent most of Friday helping
rmeidaking with the green room. (Joy and Mara (sp?) also helped out.) Green room seemed to run fairly smoothly, and to work fairly well this year. I've agreed to help again next year. After green room closed, I wandered around a few of the parties, and hugged and chatted with various people, and somehow it became 3 in the morning, and I'm not quite sure where the time went, but I had to go to bed as I had a shift starting at 10am the next day.
Saturday, got up around 9am (though was woken at 7am by the alarm clock, time inheritted from previous room occupant), and worked in the green room from 10am to 2pm. Then went to the Regency Dance workshop, and had a good time spending two hours learning, and doing, regency dances. We did 4 dances, including the ever popular "Hole in the Wall". I think I shall make the regency dance workshops/dances a regular part of my congoing. Wandered around a bit more, had dinner with
zencuppa, though I didn't know at the time she was zencuppa, and then got changed for the evening. Wandered down to the dance about when it was starting (9am) and danced off and on until about 1am, when I just got technoed-out. Yes, they did a couple of sets of other music, but there was just a bit too much "club" music for me. People can go to clubs for club music, this is a con dance, we don't need very much of that music. But, it isn't easy -- I've tried DJing a bit for (a smallish, relaxicon) con, and yup, it isn't easy. In bed for about 3am, again. Oh ya, it blizzarded on Saturday, which thoroughly encouraged me to not leave the hotel.
Sunday, got up at a more mellow 10:30 or so (and the alarm was turned off, so no 7am pain), dropped by green room to see how things were going, did a couple little things. Had a nice lunch with
elizilla and all the friendly people who dropped by to chat. Unfortunately, elizilla suffered from the attack potato salad, but had other clothing to change into. (It was a con, you know, everyone packs lots of clothing, right?) Bought a couple games from the dealer's room (India Rails and Bang!) to bring home with me. Said various good byes (and missed saying a few others) then headed out for Sarnia, where I was overnighting at jeffreyab's place. Driving was mostly ok, some snow on the road accross Big Beaver/Metro Parkway, but mostly not too bad, and I-94 was mostly fine, too. Then, Monday morning, on the road again. Met
mycrazyhair for lunch in KW, where I was handed some stuff that I'm told needs to be relayed to iclysdale for some further routing that was complex enough to understand that I've already forgotten it. I feel like I'm moving email along an old-style ! path. It started snowing while I was in KW, which I did not regard with glee. The drive out of KW, was snowy and slippery, but once on the 401 things were better -- for most of the rest of the trip home the highway was clear and wet, though there were a few intermittent snow patches, but I made generally pretty good time -- I don't think I needed to drop below 90 km/h at any point.Thank you every one I saw, spend time with, hugged, etc. I had a good weekend.
