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mdlbear0528 Fr Baycon * up 6:35; W=195.8; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, C @ Privacy groups on Facebook updates: meh @ OLPC partners with Marvell, gets into tablet game with XO-3 @ FDA says it had urged Johnson & Johnson to improve practices * bank: $5's, quarters * bank: talk to Ann. Bring checks. Set up roll-over IRA. & Call from N -- she has a Nook! * reserve Baycon room for YD+BF (she's buying) conf# 39278348 * Arrive at Baycon ~noonish; the suite is huge; bathroom sucks as usual. * WiFi isn't free, and it's totally disjoint from the wired system Also, it's under _colleen_, not karen, stephen, or steve. Dumb. The desk clerks don't really understand it, and try to argue about it being worth the price. As if it actually cost them $10/day/room. * Opening ceremonies, Ming the guests (which was fun, until they started setting up for karaoke) "We're the *fan* guests of honor, so we're sitting down here with the fans." Not to mention no way for Colleen to get on stage. Oops. * drove home to retrieve meds. :( * filk circle: Bigger On the Inside, Owl and the Pussycat * bed maybe 1am; snuggle. Wakeful ~4-5am.
Apart from the hotel -- don't get me started on that -- Colleen and I are having a blast as fan guests of honor at Baycon. So far we've been to the Opening Ceremonies and the MING the Guests (with the con chair dressed up as Ming the Merciless). Of course Colleen, on her scooter, couldn't get up on stage with the others, so we stayed down with the other fans.
And, probably because I bought two rolls of quarters at the bank, it naturally turns out that the hotel doesn't have laundry facilities for guests. Well, it's cheaper at home. So's the breakfast. (When I asked, they handed me a card for some laundromat that was actually further away than the house.) I am now officially worried about Westercon.
On the downside, I've had rather little guitar practice, and still need an order for the setlist. The fact that the hotel doesn't have free wi-fi (wired access is free for Baycon attendees by special arrangement) doesn't help. Except for providing one more reason to spend two hours at home with my ergonomic chair, my Model M keyboard, and my 22" monitor.
I'm still not entirely sure when my concert will be -- probably 6pm -- but our GOH interview will be at noon, and at 2pm Colleen is hosting tea in the bar while I'm on a panel on "from home recording to MP3".