Done yesterday (20110703 Su)

[mdlbear]

0703 Su
  * up 8am; W=197.8; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, light
  : Colleen got up, too.  Unusual for her, but then she went to bed ~10pm
  * print set
  * copy set list into to.do
  : LJ experiencing temporary lossage
  * leave house ~11:30
  & in business meeting (same room as my panel)
    Actually important, because the hoax won the bid.  Panel in doubt
    "Olive Country" (the erstwhile hoax) won the bid
  x Sunday, Jul 03  1:00 PM to Sunday, Jul 03  2:30 PM in room: Club Regent
    The Internet Goes Interplanetary
      The "internet protocol" has been extended to support connectivity and
      communications off-planet. You may not be able to Instant Message but
      you will be able to send email. How will this affect long-duration space
      exploration? -> apparently moved, but nobody told me.
  * Sunday, Jul 03  3:15 PM to Sunday, Jul 03  4:00 PM in room: California
    Concert: Steve Savitzky
    Join Steve in songs about computers, space, fantasy, friendship, and love. 
      dream      mil-dawn      where      ship      cicero 
      # 20min left at this point.  Dropped wheelin' from next to last slot
      daddys      quiet
  * Allison Lonsdale's concert.  Her mathematical lovesong might work for
    TGl.  I *love* "Grandmother's Place"
  * dinner at Johnny Rockets again.
  * showed off Plink in consuite; 
  @ South Bay Folks: a grassroots community of musicians and lovers of folk
    and acoustic music  
  % tired; it's 11:30 and waiting for YD to finish a game.

So it was... ok, I don't know what it was. Managed to get to the con without overloading this time, so the day was relatively relaxed. On the other hand, I missed my panel because it was scheduled for after the business meeting, and for some reason I failed to see the sign on the door saying that the panel had been rescheduled.

The business meeting took three hours. This was because the hoax bid, for Granzella's, had won the site-selection vote. Whereupon Kevin and Andy decided that, if selected by the business meeting, they would actually deliver, and hastily recruited a committee of convention veterans. They won.

Be careful what you wish for.

My concert went off well. The final set list was: "Keep the Dream Alive", "Millennium's Dawn", "Where the Heart Is", "Ship of Stone", "Cicero in the 21st Century", "Daddy's World", and "Quiet Victories".

I was followed by Allison Lonsdale, who is a brilliant songwriter and a polished performer whose sets are always high-energy fun.

We had dinner at Johnny Rockets again, which probably explains my weight gain over the last two days. After that I mostly hung out in the parties and with Colleen outside the filk room, though I did go in around 10:30, getting in one song ("The Owl and the Pussycat") before we left around 11:30.

Some excitement was added by my having forgotten to plug in the scooter the night before, so Colleen started the day fairly low on charge. And whoever plugged her in in the afternoon didn't check to make sure that the battery was actually charging. Which it wasn't -- it's all too easy to plug it in wrong. So it was touch-and-go at the end, or rather touch-and-go-very-slowly.

She stalled out on the ramp going into the house, and cleverly told the YD to put it in freewheel and push. With predictable results. I yelled "stop", but it was too late; the YD freaked out as the scooter started rolling back at her, and I had to finish the job (put it back in gear and push to boost the motor, not replace it) while the YD stalked off in a huff because I had yelled at her.

There is a good reason why I can't teach the kids to drive -- I cannot come up with words in a situation that requires a fast, accurate response. I either freeze altogether, or come up with something unhelpful, or that would have been helpful a moment ago but makes matters worse now.

And I discovered this morning that she hadn't put the garbage out, despite having been reminded twice.

But a good day on the whole.