Done yesterday (20100529 Baycon

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Despite ongoing confusion about scheduling, my concert went really well (at the origninally-scheduled 5pm). I came down at about 4:30 after a practice session with Kat that went badly enough -- we kept getting out of sync -- that I decided to go solo. The Wolfling was disappointed, but I think it was the right call. A couple of very minor glitches, but on the whole it was one of my better concerts. I think I surprised a few people. I set the Wolfie up as my cashier; she sold a couple of CDs and the one pre-order set I had left. It's been a pretty good weekend for sales.

Of course, after carefully replacing the batteries in my recorder and setting it up, I forgot to turn it on. Fortunately hvideo got video, so there will be audio posted.

The computer theme circle went less well -- I arrived half an hour late, minus my filk book, due to having misplaced my shoulder bag. After dashing back down to the restaurant, soothing a distraught YD (who'd been lied to about something bad happening to Colleen -- WTF?), and coming back to the room to find the bag still on my suitcase where I'd put it. Not to mention the two fire alarms during the circle?

And there was no ethernet connectivity in the room when we went up to crash. I blamed it on the fire alarms and things being improperly shut down, but it was still flaky this morning.

Public service announcement

If I'm obviously frazzled and desperately looking for something valuable that I'm afraid I've lost, DO NOT say something to the effect of "It's all right." It is manifestly not all right, and you will get snapped at. I don't want to snap at you.