Worldcon, Day Five
Aug. 11th, 2008 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jcfialaSunday was much nicer. For one, my feet hardly bothered me after Saturday's meltdown.
We got up that morning together, and headed out for some breakfast at Sam's #3, where we ended up sitting next to another local Worldcon attendee at the counter. Astonishingly, not only did he currently live in Denver, but he came from North Carolina like my wife Tammy. For a while there I sort of leaned out of the way and let them discuss various NC-related topics.
Once breakfast was over Tammy dropped me off at the convention, although unfortunately at the wrong spot, requiring me to walk all over the place to find a door that would let me in. Sigh. Once in, I hit the Dealer's room for the last time, picking up some pins from the Foglios, some Interzone magazines from that publisher (who was running a last day of con special, probably because of the trouble of shipping all of the issues home), and picked up a Heroes tshirt and a slogan tshirt, as well as a gift for Tammy's upcoming birthday.
That done, I looked around and realized I was done with the Dealer's room. There really wasn't anything left over I wanted to get that I couldn't get in Denver the rest of the year, so I quit it and went off to a panel.
The first panel had to do with Heinlein at the Worldcons, a few people up front giving us some very interesting stories about Heinlein before the big event - a recording of his Guest of Honor speech at the 1976 worldcon, which was fascinating to watch. I never got to meet him, and so I was riveted during the entire speech.
That done with, I went on to a panel on remembering Robert Asprin, who recently passed away. Phil Foglio and two other folks were on the panel, discussing Asprin's work and life and his desire to perform all the time - I thought it was really interesting, and there's another person I wish I'd gotten to meet.
Finally, Closing Ceremonies. Everyone got into a room and - well, it's necessary, I suppose, but basically we watched a succession of people thank the convention runners and the guests. Lois McMaster Bujold, the GoH, got a mostly standing ovation for her heartfelt thanks even though she'd lost her voice.
Emboldened by all the praise given to the volunteers, and the requests for more help, I went by the Treasury office after the closing ceremonies, where I was happily given work until I finally stumbled out again at 6:30, calling my wife for a ride home, where I mostly just vegged on the couch tiredly until we gave up and went to bed early at 9pm.
Well, I need to get to work - I suppose I'll write up a general wrapup and a list of the neat stuff I got later.
We got up that morning together, and headed out for some breakfast at Sam's #3, where we ended up sitting next to another local Worldcon attendee at the counter. Astonishingly, not only did he currently live in Denver, but he came from North Carolina like my wife Tammy. For a while there I sort of leaned out of the way and let them discuss various NC-related topics.
Once breakfast was over Tammy dropped me off at the convention, although unfortunately at the wrong spot, requiring me to walk all over the place to find a door that would let me in. Sigh. Once in, I hit the Dealer's room for the last time, picking up some pins from the Foglios, some Interzone magazines from that publisher (who was running a last day of con special, probably because of the trouble of shipping all of the issues home), and picked up a Heroes tshirt and a slogan tshirt, as well as a gift for Tammy's upcoming birthday.
That done, I looked around and realized I was done with the Dealer's room. There really wasn't anything left over I wanted to get that I couldn't get in Denver the rest of the year, so I quit it and went off to a panel.
The first panel had to do with Heinlein at the Worldcons, a few people up front giving us some very interesting stories about Heinlein before the big event - a recording of his Guest of Honor speech at the 1976 worldcon, which was fascinating to watch. I never got to meet him, and so I was riveted during the entire speech.
That done with, I went on to a panel on remembering Robert Asprin, who recently passed away. Phil Foglio and two other folks were on the panel, discussing Asprin's work and life and his desire to perform all the time - I thought it was really interesting, and there's another person I wish I'd gotten to meet.
Finally, Closing Ceremonies. Everyone got into a room and - well, it's necessary, I suppose, but basically we watched a succession of people thank the convention runners and the guests. Lois McMaster Bujold, the GoH, got a mostly standing ovation for her heartfelt thanks even though she'd lost her voice.
Emboldened by all the praise given to the volunteers, and the requests for more help, I went by the Treasury office after the closing ceremonies, where I was happily given work until I finally stumbled out again at 6:30, calling my wife for a ride home, where I mostly just vegged on the couch tiredly until we gave up and went to bed early at 9pm.
Well, I need to get to work - I suppose I'll write up a general wrapup and a list of the neat stuff I got later.
