Travels with Ruby: Loscon so far

[mdlbear]

It occurs to me that my last Loscon post was Thursday, so I have a bit of catching up to do. Fortunately it's been mostly concerts and conversations so far, so there isn't as much to report as might be.

AJA and Dr. Jim Robinson both gave concerts yesterday -- that was good. Dinner with selenesue in the "good restaurant". Some open filking that started breaking up around midnight; I went up to the parties and finally got in about 1:30. Slept well.

Side note on the facehugger -- I seem to be getting used to it. I'm still having some trouble getting the mask tight enough so that it doesn't leak, and a little trouble getting to sleep. But by the time morning comes around I sometimes have to check to see whether I'm still wearing it, the way I do with my glasses sometimes. I can live with this. Ordered a CPAP pillow, which is back-ordered and should be back in stock later next week.

My concert (with the chaoswolf on drum and backup vocals) was today at 2:00, and seemed to go very well indeed. Smallish audience, but I think my performance was better than usual. Three weeks of practicing every couple of days with the Wolfling seemed to help. Got a decent recording with the H2. I think the drum came out too loud; we'll probably have to skip it when it's just two of us, and drop down to something quieter like shaker.

I'll post the set list later; for now, I'll just note the shortnames: cicero bugs rosie tool rrprayer barratry stuff bigger. Obviously I need a script that conses up an Emacs abbrev file, or something.

I'm no good at reporting conversations. I'll just note a good talk around dinner with mysticfig, mostly about CD production, and a couple of nice chats during soundchecks with Moira Stern.

Right now I'm avoiding the "Banned from Argo" sing; I'll probably go down in half an hour or so. The flower_cat is napping; she -- and a lot of other people -- seem to be suffering from an excess of air conditioning. Doesn't seem cold to me, but...

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* We darn near did "Cicero" ourselves tonight... and we *did* do "Argo"... Ann Prather showed with her 12-string to give that and "Hope Eyrie" the proper Fish sound... I don't know how that woman does it, the thing actually stayed in tune the whole set. (Officially billed as a filk jam, it was sort of a filk open mic with sing-along...)

So Alec's voice is coming into its own? Good to hear. Tricky Pixie (his band with stealthcello and s00j is scheduled in here just before conflikt, and also has a concert slot at Conflikt as well... if you've never heard him with these two ladies you're in for.... well, I was gonna say "treat" but that doesn't do it justice. If "treat" is one sweet, this is a whole freakin' sampler platter.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_amethyst_fire_/]

I got the package you sent me :) Thanks

Now for the question that will make me seem like an idiot... How do I use it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_amethyst_fire_/]

Never mind! one of the peices was hidden in the wrappings, now it makes sense :)

[mdlbear]

<grin> -- user documentation is everything.

Ping me if you have any trouble with it -- or if you need a website on which to host chunks of audio.

[mdlbear]

On second thought it was probably the interface, which was down at the bottom. Unless you opened the side opposite the address label, in which case you would have gotten to the documentation last.

[ifics.livejournal.com]

I would say your voice was very good through out your performance. The drum was loud in the mix. I did boost the overall sound some, but I did not want to blast out the audience so we just let it be. (Not an uncommon thing with drums in a small room).

[mdlbear]

Thanks for the feedback. I probably ought to look for a small, comparatively quiet drum that a vocalist can use near a mic. (Brenda Sutton uses a bodhran with a pair of paintbrushes for a beater, but that trick doesn't work for a hand drum.)