Bill Roper's Journal

And here we are, home again after Chicon! I would have posted something yesterday, but there was *way* too much tired going on. :)

The kids and I had a good time at the convention. So did Gretchen, actually, although she saw pretty much nothing except the Dealers Room and the elevator between it and the skybridge to our tower. I got to the open filk every night and had fun singing with a variety of old friends. I also made it to three concerts, which is pretty good given the table.

Sales were pretty good, much better than I had expected.

The ConSuite -- well, if you were watching Facebook, you saw me complain about the lack of Diet Coke there. (Seriously, if you are running out of *any* particular flavor of soda long before you run out of the others, then you have an ordering problem that you need to fix. There's a frequent tendency to under order diet soda for cons and I wish we could fix it globally, but it requires some retraining, I think.) Aside from that, the ConSuite volunteers were pleasant and doing their best in an environment where they were restricted to single-serving sealed packets of food.

It was good to go.

It is good to be home. :)

Chicon 7 had their space allocation meeting today and shsilver and Dave invited me over, as I have a fair amount of experience with laying things out in the Hyatt Regency over the last few Chicons. The meeting went well, there was no bloodshed, and it looks like it ought to work out nicely.

I then went home to help daisy_knotwise (who had been good enough to watch Katie and Julie while I was at the meeting) as she was trying to clean up various old messes upstairs. Later, we went downstairs and finished excavating the library so that catalana and syalune would both have places to stay on their trip to Marquette next week.

It's amazing how much better it looks. :)