Baycon: part 2

I'm having a wonderful Baycon, in spite of only being able to get to a fraction of the programming I wanted to (including several concerts -- bah!) and an on-again/off-again dry throat that threatened several times to cut off my singing but never quite did.

Yesterday was my busy day for programming: two panels and a "filk sing-along" in kids' programming. None of the kids sang along, but several of the parents did. I was ably assisted by cflute; my infinitely fuzzy ursine brain will probably not be able to recall all of the setlist.

The first panel, on "found filk", was noteworthy for the fact that the schedule on our badges disagreed with the programming grid; after a certain amount of conflicting advice from green room staff, we eventually went with the poocket program, and had a pretty good turnout. The second panel, on music publishing and recording, was scheduled opposite a concert (fortunately not Puzzlebox, which was the hour before) and immediately after a panel on polyamory, which was in full swing when we got there. We looked in, decided we were outnumbered, and set up in the hall at what had been the autograph table. It worked, and was a good panel.

Lots of good conversations at this con. Lots of old friends coming out of the woodwork. More later -- it's time to do some packing and have some breakfast.

Set list for Baycon 2006

So, as promised, here's the final setlist for my concert at Baycon 2006:

( set list behind cut )

I managed to plan ahead far enough to actually print out lyric sheets for the set, though as it turned out there was a printer glitch on one so I had to pull "Vampire Megabyte" out of the songbook. I'm usually re-arranging my set at the last minute; this time I was actually resorting things on the stage in real time. Remind me not to do that too often.

Mostly, I had trouble getting the first half of the set to settle down into a sensible story arc. Moving "Cicero" out of the "stuff I do with Callie" end section and putting it after "I Wanna be a Webmaster" with a unifying theme of "things that don't change" made it work.