mdlbear | Saturday at Baycon (Reply)

It occurs to me that I haven't written about Saturday at Baycon yet; guess I'd better do that before I forget even more of the details.

Actually, not much went on most of the day, except for the Cynthia McQuillin memorial. That wasn't as well attended as the one at Consonance, of course, but well enough. It could easily have run longer; we only had one 90-minute timeslot, and we had to circle the chairs ourselves, then uncircle them at the end. Not really enough time. One of the high points for me was Don Simpson singing "Ship of Stone"; I sang "Green Passions" (the flower_cat's favorite) and joined in on anything else I knew.

Dinner in Spencer's (the hotel's expensive-but-good) restaurant with cflute, and Alisa and Luis of Puzzlebox. The trick to eating cheaply in Spencer's is to order a variety of appetizers and side dishes, and share them around the table Chinese restaurant style. It came to just about $20/person including drinks, which isn't bad for a place where entrees range from $25 on up into the $40's.

The concerts I went to (Tony Fabris and Michelle Dockrey -- tfabris and vixyish -- in the first slot, and the Bohnhoffs in the second slot) were excellent, as usual, as was the open filking. I skipped the Avalon Rising concert (I like them, but they're loud), confirmed that the party floor was almost totally dead, got my guitar, and joined the circle. Cornered cflute to work up a duet version of House Carpenter. Over the course of the con we eventually did all of our concert songs in open filking.