Bill Roper's Journal

My strategy for dealing with the snow and rain worked out as I had hoped. I went out early this morning while the temperature was still in the mid-20s and the snowblower made short work of clearing the driveway. I had to clear off my car (still parked in the driveway -- maybe next winter I will get it back in the garage) and move it into the street to expedite the process, but once that was done, things proceeded well. This is good, because it is a *whole* lot colder now.

In activities later in the day, Bill Sutton was good enough to send me the raw tracks from the recording he made of my Chambanacon concert and I did a quick mixdown this afternoon. As a high quality MP3 file, this ended up being 111 MB, which is a lot. :) But it was good to sit down and listen to it with Gretchen before I went to rescue K from the apparently very cold bus that they came back from Theaterfest in Bloomington on this evening.

Theaterfest was apparently a lot of fun. I'm glad.

Here's the song that I wrote for Brenda -- and anyone else who needed it! -- for my concert at the last Chambanacon. I'm glad that Brenda (and Bill and others!) liked it. And it was a lot of fun to perform it (and the rest of the concert as well) with Amy McNally, who is always a delight to work with. Actually, "work" is the wrong word, but it sounds wrong to say that Amy is always a delight to *fun* with. :)

Anyway, lyrics! I should post lyrics. And for those of you who haven't heard this yet, by virtue of not being at the con, it's upbeat and starts off with an Amaj7 chord...
( Lyrics inside... )

There are three items left to go into my bag and then I can haul it out to the car and get on the road to Chambanacon. I'm waiting for one of the items to come up from downstairs, but I may get lucky at any moment. :)

See you there!

(And the missing item just arrived by Child Express, so...)

Mixed emotions. That's the right phrase.

I wish that this were not the last Chambanacon -- and I understand all of the reasons why! -- but if this is going to be the last Chambanacon, then I am absolutely delighted to be the Music GoH there.

It should be a wonderful weekend. Thanks so much to Brenda for asking me!

Having updated the filk book, I am almost ready to head out for Chambanacon. (Having updated the filk book, I discover that I need to upgrade from a 2 inch binder to a 3 inch binder, so that's been ordered from Amazon and should improve the situation shortly.)

I have a few items left to pack, including CDs that I'm carrying to another dealer, and I need to run by Walgreens and pick up prescriptions that are ready, but I'm really close to getting out the door.

I hope. :)

See some of you there!

Dropped in on a bit of the virtual Chambanacon today, catching the Never-Ending Filk Panel, some bits of concert, and a few hours of the open filk. It was fun, although not nearly as good as actually seeing people in person. But we'll try that next year.

On the other hand, not being there in person was *far* less caloric...