Home again!

[mdlbear]

The usual Thanksgiving drive down to Loscon (in the LAX Marriott this year) with the usual stop at Pea Soup Anderson's in for lunch. We use US101 rather than I5; it takes a little longer but it's a bit less hassle.

Loscon was good; moderately relaxing. Both kids did some gofering, but no marathon sessions this time. Both of them stayed out of our hair for the entire convention, and went to bed at 1:30 with little protesting. The YD actually brought a book (one of the Harry Potter series) and read it rather than complaining about being bored. The fact that there were several girls her age at the con helped a lot, too.

Filking was good, but rather sparse. I had the first concert, half an hour at 1:00 on Saturday. Desolation --- Oh, No!
I Am the Walrus
High Barratry
Cicero in the Twenty First Century
Paper Wings
A Note on the Implementation of RFC1149
Vampire Mega-Byte
The Stolen Child

Function space was good -- very large. However, it was downstairs in the basement (the floor directories in the elevators tried to claim that "B" stood for "Ballroom" -- yeah, right), and some people were aparently having allergic reactions to mold. Cell phone reception in most parts of the hotel was marginal to nonexistant (plenty of signal in our room, for what that was worth). The restaurants were a coffeeshop trying to be upscale, with a "Pacific Rim" theme, an overpriced steak joint, and a noisy sports bar that served burgers, sandwitches, and fish-and-chips. The girls subsisted on the latter; Colleen and I made use of the steak house after figuring out that essentially all of the items on the menu were large enough to provide two reasonable-sized portions. So we shared.

I decided not to spend $10/day on a net connection, so I've been unconnected all weekend. See, I can quit any time I want. Really.

The drive back was uneventful, with only one stop (State St. in Santa Barbara) for gas and bio-break. Left at 2:15, arrived at 8:45. 390 miles. Probably lost half an hour or so to stop-and-go traffic on the 405 and later around Santa Barbara. I'm tired. Good to be back.

Comments

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Once in a while, I miss Santa Barbara... especially State Street. And doing theatre at the Granada.

And you can always feel free to link to I Am the Walrus or anything else of mine if you wish to. :)

(Unless that's someone else's "I Am the Walrus", in which case I'm about to be really embarrassed.)

:)

[mdlbear]

No, it's yours; many thanks. It fits perfectly with several of the other songs I do.

You should consider using HTML rather than raw text for your lyrics pages, though, in order to put in links. (Use a <pre> element to protect chords if necessary.) If nothing else, you want a link to your home page.

You can find most of my TeX-for-filksongs tools in http://thestarport.com/people/steve/Doc/TeX/

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I probably should. I haven't done much maintenance on the site in a while... need to take some time for that. Out of my copious free time, of course. :)

I know the problem

[mdlbear]

many parts of my site(s) have so much dust on the bits I can hardly find them. Amazing how much cruft can accumulate over the course of a decade or so...