Saturday

Once again, I woke up to a coughing fit and stumbled out of bed at 6:30 AM. Thank heavens Cool Beans was open so I could get my morning caffeine fix. I got over to the Convention Center at 7:00 AM only to find that one of the doors to one of our event spaces that was supposed to be locked was unlocked. I called DLCC Security, but they said it might be a while to take care of it; I then put in a call to the Dorsai who sent someone over lickety-split.

I straightened up Artists Alley a bit and assembled the artists’ receipt books and headed up to signups, which started at 8:00 AM. Holy cats! I had hoped that the numbers might go down some, but after 114 people signed up on Friday, 113 signed up on Saturday. Fortunately, with the improvements I made to my spreadsheets everything ran perfectly. Something that I had eaten was making me feel mildly nauseous but I soldiered through, though I skipped lunch.

The Alley and Con Store ran well all day, and I was able to relax a bit, though I was still pretty much tied to Hall C. I got in a quick pass through the Dealers Room and Art Show, which turned out to be pretty much as much as I’d see of either of them. At the end of the day, payout improved somewhat, particularly with the addition of a third receipt writer. It still wasn’t quite what I would have liked, but it was miles ahead of Friday. After sorting out everyone’s register and getting cash squared away, we wrapped up in the convention center at 7 PM. Second day of con: 12 hours worth of work.

Dan had some counting still to do in Ops, so I was informed that I was going for sushi. Well, if you insist…we wound up with me, jimcyl, chronocoon, and Bay, a Chambana fur who I had not met before going to the Original Fish Market at the Westin. The sushi was…OK. Certainly not worth what we paid for it, though. At least the company was good. After dinner, I met Dan at Pizza and Panini (which is better than the Pizzaria Uno it replaced, though not by much), then it was up to the room to prepare for the Fine Potables Party!

Woody was kind enough to lend the use of his suite. There were numerous jokes about the party which he had hosted earlier in the day, but the space was perfect (and clean! I’d expect nothing less for Woody, though). It was a parlor suite, much bigger than our corner suite, and better suited for parties. We set out our contributions (several Scotches, Grey Goose vodka, Dutch Chocolate Vodka, and other goodies) as well as some sodas and munchies and by about 9:30 folks started pouring in. I think at one point in time we had a good 20-25 people in the room, including some of the fine Dorsai there to help “secure” our liquor. Several other bottles of quality liquors appeared (and some of rather lowbrow quality – I’m looking at you, DaveQat 🙂 and everyone had a wonderful time. I would try to list everyone who attended, but I’m afraid my recollections aren’t the best. I wonder why? Thanks to everyone who made it, though, and I hope you had as much fun as I did! The only bad note of the evening was one uninvited and unwelcome guest who made off with two of our glasses at the end of the evening. He will absolutely not be welcome at future parties. We wrapped everything up at around 12:30, and we got to bed at 1 AM. I knew I had an early morning ahead of me, and I wasn’t looking forward to it.