ConText So Far
Aug. 29th, 2010 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomA fine time as usual. Between hanging around with nice people like Mark Peters and rms_butterfly after Opening Ceremonies and remembering where's what in this hotel, I just barely made it to my 9:00 Friday set. As it was supposed to segue into the Open Filk, I went about 1:15. A small but enthusiastic crowd, grown to about two dozen by the end. One of my favorite parts was a guy named Roy who wanted to know if I could do some Johnny Cash. I made up a five-verse riff on "Folsom Prison Blues", and suddenly this guy is my new best friend. Unfortunately, I wasn't recording this set, and I didn't see that anyone else had either, so it's lost to history, but it was a lot of fun.
Afterwards, I stayed at the open filk till about 11:30, and went up to the room.
And could not get to sleep. Till about 2:00. And then I woke up at 7:00.
Damn hamsters.
So I ended up getting some more sleep, at last, and basically stayed in the room till about 3:00. After that, I hung out down by the dealer's room, talking with all sorts of lovely folks, including Juanita, Trace, the Winks, Sally, etc., etc. Saw but didn't have a chance to talk to Kim, so I'll have to do that today. Bought a few raffle tickets -- we'll see if I get toys. ;) Also got a couple of old classic boxed D&D campaigns for $10 each. Probably shouldn't have, but I wanted them, my precious. Very happy.
Bill Roper came along, and asked about dinner. So he, Juanita and I went over to Champps, and I got a quite serviceable French Dip sammich, and we sat and talked about Every Little Thing for awhile. Very nice, and not something I get much of a chance for lately. I do think, however, that at OVFF I'm gonna try Sushi Ko -- it was getting some good buzz.
At 7:00 we had a vaguely described filk panel. I'd been trading e-mails with the moderator, and thought it might end up being us talking about and maybe singing the music we like to listen to on our own time. It kinda morphed into Juanita and Bill sharing Tales Of When Filk Was Young, with me throwing in a few con stories and jokes along the way. Pleasant.
I had to miss Bill's concert, which distressed me, but I got down there for the open filk, which basically consisted of the three of us and a few listeners. So the evening-long conversation continued there, punctuated with songs. Oh so very fun.
I finally wrapped up a bit before 12:30, and got to sleep by about 1:30, so the gap is narrowing, at least.
And now I'm going to get my stuff out to the van, come back in, and hang around for a few hours before getting some Skyline Chili for lunch and then heading home.
How's your weekend been?
rms_butterfly after Opening Ceremonies and remembering where's what in this hotel, I just barely made it to my 9:00 Friday set. As it was supposed to segue into the Open Filk, I went about 1:15. A small but enthusiastic crowd, grown to about two dozen by the end. One of my favorite parts was a guy named Roy who wanted to know if I could do some Johnny Cash. I made up a five-verse riff on "Folsom Prison Blues", and suddenly this guy is my new best friend. Unfortunately, I wasn't recording this set, and I didn't see that anyone else had either, so it's lost to history, but it was a lot of fun.Afterwards, I stayed at the open filk till about 11:30, and went up to the room.
And could not get to sleep. Till about 2:00. And then I woke up at 7:00.
Damn hamsters.
So I ended up getting some more sleep, at last, and basically stayed in the room till about 3:00. After that, I hung out down by the dealer's room, talking with all sorts of lovely folks, including Juanita, Trace, the Winks, Sally, etc., etc. Saw but didn't have a chance to talk to Kim, so I'll have to do that today. Bought a few raffle tickets -- we'll see if I get toys. ;) Also got a couple of old classic boxed D&D campaigns for $10 each. Probably shouldn't have, but I wanted them, my precious. Very happy.
Bill Roper came along, and asked about dinner. So he, Juanita and I went over to Champps, and I got a quite serviceable French Dip sammich, and we sat and talked about Every Little Thing for awhile. Very nice, and not something I get much of a chance for lately. I do think, however, that at OVFF I'm gonna try Sushi Ko -- it was getting some good buzz.
At 7:00 we had a vaguely described filk panel. I'd been trading e-mails with the moderator, and thought it might end up being us talking about and maybe singing the music we like to listen to on our own time. It kinda morphed into Juanita and Bill sharing Tales Of When Filk Was Young, with me throwing in a few con stories and jokes along the way. Pleasant.
I had to miss Bill's concert, which distressed me, but I got down there for the open filk, which basically consisted of the three of us and a few listeners. So the evening-long conversation continued there, punctuated with songs. Oh so very fun.
I finally wrapped up a bit before 12:30, and got to sleep by about 1:30, so the gap is narrowing, at least.
And now I'm going to get my stuff out to the van, come back in, and hang around for a few hours before getting some Skyline Chili for lunch and then heading home.
How's your weekend been?
