Home Again (And Tired!)
Jan. 14th, 2025 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI'm back from GAFilk, where I had an excellent time, even with so many folks who couldn't make it there because of the weather or other factors. Traveling companion My Good Buddy Clif and I had good fortune with clear and dry weather on Thursday for the trip down and Monday for the trip back. But it is a *very* long drive. :)
Thanks to the Midkiffs (mostly Phil, who had to deal with it :) ) for keeping Clif's car so that we could meet up in Indianapolis on the drive down. And to Sutton and the concom who had found a speaker system that *worked* well this year, so that I could hear the concerts and such in the Dealers' Room -- which was very nearly the singular Dealer Room, as Sally Kobee couldn't make it for a variety of reasons, I'm told. And neither could the Blibbering Humdingers or Marc Gunn. But Leslie Hudson ended up with a table and we had a nice conversation or two.
I had nice conversations with a lot of people, which is mostly why I go to conventions. That and the singing, which was also fun. And I got to perform in the 2x10s with Amy, which I always enjoy. And the dinner dance with Play It With Moxie where I tended the board for a few songs so that James Mahaffey could get on stage and play. And the Interfilk Auction, which was quite brief, and where Gretchen won the Interfilk Quilt raffle in absentia, Brenda having been good enough to write her name on the tickets I'd bought for her while I was auctioning things. At one point, I was auctioning an OVFF thumb drive that claimed to have the Pegasus Nominees for 2024 and 2025 (!) on it. I would have been greatly interested to hear the latter... :)
And I got Sutton to sing "Stray Dog Man" before heading off to bed on Sunday, because I had been requested to sing it on Friday in his absence and it seemed like he should sing it at least as many times as I did, he being the author and all that. I suspect that was the only time he led a song all weekend, because he stays very, very busy at GAFilk.
Oh, and we released "Liftoff to Landing" (which I should now go turn loose on Bandcamp) and sold a few copies of that as well, which is good, because I have a *lot* of copies of that album. :)
I have tables for next year, so I should be back, weather permitting. :)
Thanks to the Midkiffs (mostly Phil, who had to deal with it :) ) for keeping Clif's car so that we could meet up in Indianapolis on the drive down. And to Sutton and the concom who had found a speaker system that *worked* well this year, so that I could hear the concerts and such in the Dealers' Room -- which was very nearly the singular Dealer Room, as Sally Kobee couldn't make it for a variety of reasons, I'm told. And neither could the Blibbering Humdingers or Marc Gunn. But Leslie Hudson ended up with a table and we had a nice conversation or two.
I had nice conversations with a lot of people, which is mostly why I go to conventions. That and the singing, which was also fun. And I got to perform in the 2x10s with Amy, which I always enjoy. And the dinner dance with Play It With Moxie where I tended the board for a few songs so that James Mahaffey could get on stage and play. And the Interfilk Auction, which was quite brief, and where Gretchen won the Interfilk Quilt raffle in absentia, Brenda having been good enough to write her name on the tickets I'd bought for her while I was auctioning things. At one point, I was auctioning an OVFF thumb drive that claimed to have the Pegasus Nominees for 2024 and 2025 (!) on it. I would have been greatly interested to hear the latter... :)
And I got Sutton to sing "Stray Dog Man" before heading off to bed on Sunday, because I had been requested to sing it on Friday in his absence and it seemed like he should sing it at least as many times as I did, he being the author and all that. I suspect that was the only time he led a song all weekend, because he stays very, very busy at GAFilk.
Oh, and we released "Liftoff to Landing" (which I should now go turn loose on Bandcamp) and sold a few copies of that as well, which is good, because I have a *lot* of copies of that album. :)
I have tables for next year, so I should be back, weather permitting. :)