Hodgepodge

location: Wheeling, Il

mood: bouncy

music: Lobby Muzak

I didn’t make a separate post for yesterday since it was a short day, did opening ceremonies and watched Hellboy 2 in the film room.

Today started with Brian Pelezewski’s excellent panel slideshow about the end of the shuttle and what’s next.

We then a few other panels before the Trivia bowl hosted by the always entertaining Bob Passavoy. I was actually on the winning team and answered several questions!

Somewhere in there we got sucked into Larry Smith's book stand and bought a pile of books. Larry likes us and we like him. It is a symbiotic thing.

Janice and I then went out for an early dinner at the Claimjumper restaurant across the parking lot which was pretty good, including sharing a slice of six-layer chocolate cake – as you might guess we did NOT finish it.

We did a quick spin thru the art show – light in content but some good pieces. Blame the economy. Janice then went to the film room and I hot the lobby where the only free internet is and caught up on the LJ.

In about 30 minutes I will head off to the Tom Smith concert – always a highlight of any con the world’s fastest filker is at.

After the concert we will do the party crawl an d head home.

The whole camp theme is working and collecting patches and stickers is fun and seeing old friends and making new ones is always great.

Still plenty of fun left for Saturday and Sunday so come on down.