ConChord: Sunday (and a bit of Friday)

Before I proceed to yesterday's events, I'd like to go back to Friday afternoon, when I went up to the front desk to ask somebody why my room Wi-Fi didn't work in the lobby. It turned out that they're on different networks, and for some unguessable reason (probably having a lot to do with greed trumping good customer relations) you have to pay separately for them. Foo.

The amusing thing, though, was the Russian desk clerk's name: Alexander Savitzky. (OK, I don't know how it's transliterated; I'm sure it would be the same in Cyrilics, though ours came through Polish and so would have been transliterated back in my great-grandparents' time, if not earlier.) In case you don't know, that's also my nephew's name. (Waves to asavitzk.)

OK: back to Sunday. Caught Kathy Mar's concert -- unfortunately very thinly attended. The whole con was very thinly attended, in fact, but that's another matter. Missed most of the two-shots getting ready for the Callie and Steve Hour. We ran through "Staying Home Tonight" in the dealer's room for Joe Bethancourt, who had to leave to catch a plane at 3:00. Caught the very tail end of Lorien Patton's set -- must hear more of her -- and proceeded to set up my mics in the back of the room.

The concert went pretty well, I think. (Some people have said it went very well, but there were at least one major trainwreck and a couple of minor ones. It was basically the Callie (cflute) and Steve show, with tibicina on vocals for Callie's material, and me on guitar for some of it.

( concert set and details )

Dinner was Chinese, this time across the street in P.F. Chang's with the Ronnie and Arthur Rubin. Tasty, if more upscale/pretentious than authentic. I'd originally planned to follow the flower_cat down to dinner, but ended up in a long conversation, mostly about home recording and CD production.

The dead dog started decomposing shortly before midnight, since many people had to catch flights at ridiculous hours in the morning. Still, it was a nice little circle. I need to keep better track of my singing, but it included "Daddy's World" (when the Y.D. dropped in for a hug), "Demon Lover" (after a sequence of love songs took a slightly weird twist), and a couple of others.