post-ovff

Wandered down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast yesterday morning, and ended up sitting with a bunch of filkers including Rob Wynne, Larissa March, David Rood, Mary Ellen & Ed & Corwin & Rowan, Erica Neely, Gwen Knighton, Melissa and Daniel Glasser, Stephen Joel Zeve, and others. I had accidentally given away my Monday breakfast coupon, so Ed Stauff kindly gave me an extra that he had.

Daniel and Melissa Glasser were kind enough to shuttle some of us to the airport (THANK YOU, DANIEL AND MELISSA!) in several trips. I went with Melissa, Rob & Larissa, and Erica. Since Erica's and my boarding gates were close together, we decided to hang out in a restaurant. It was the first chance that Erica and I had had to exchange more than a few words during the weekend. Great conversation; we were both disappointed when she had to leave to catch her flight.

Sunday night, Rand and Bob Kanefsky and I were going to meet some other filkers (including Stevemac, Katy, Ju, Steve Simmons) at an Indian restaurant for dinner. Sadly, we got a bit lost and couldn't find it, ended up eating at Appleby's instead. Found out later from Stevemac that they had trouble finding the restaurant as well, when they did find it was closed, and they ended up eating at a nearby Thai restaurant.





Like most fun filk cons I've attended in the past, I didn't get nearly as much time to hang out with all the people I wanted to. Unlike most other conventions, however, I got more of a chance for one-on-one conversations than I usually did (such as with Graham Leathers and Diana Huey), which was great. I missed a lot of the late afternoon programming on Saturday because I was braindead and decided that it would be better for me to nap for a couple hours rather than embarrass myself during someone's concert by falling out of my chair.

I really enjoyed hearing some performers new to me, like Boogie Knights and The Fibs. And thanks largely to the efforts of Rob Wynne, also got to hear a Three Weird Sisters concert not scheduled in the programming. More highlights/photos in upcoming Blatherings.





Hey, here's a Guest Blathering from Rob Wynne:

Guest Blather from Rob Wynne

So Debbie says to me, "Hey, wanna do a guest blather?"

On Monday morning. As if I can still string together a coherent thought. But since I adore Debbie beyond all reason, here goes.

Wow. OVFF was a blast, from start to finish. Larissa and I had a marvelous time seeing all our friends, listening to all the wonderful music, and celebrating our first anniversary. (We got together at OVFF last year, so this was an extra-special occasion).

Biggest highlight of the con: The interfilk auction. The final item up for bid was a private concert from Three Weird Sisters. The bidding started high and went up from there, so I formed a coalition: "Support my bid, and I'll make it a public concert". In the end, it came down to my group vs. a group headed by Harold Feld, and we agreed to combine our bids and throw the room open. The final combined bid on the concert was $800.

I had an absolute blast as the Interfilk guest to OVFF. Thanks to Interfilk for asking me to come, and to the OVFF concom for being so wonderful and supportive, and everyone who was just absolutely great the whole weekend, which was everyone, really.

Oh, and since there's no point in getting a guest shot in Debbie's page without abusing the privilege: Happy anniversary to my sweetie, Larissa. I love you!

See everyone next year.





Links/News:

For NaNoWriMo updates, see my Livejournal. Words written so far: 3,225, 46,745 to go. I did most of my writing in airports this past weekend.

Last year, I got e-mail from Shane(the Weta Digital guy)'s girlfriend. Photos: me & Luisa, Scott, geeky Scott & me.

Two years ago, I didn't post much during November because I didn't want to bring you all down. I was pretty unhappy.

Three years ago, I loved my Inkspot new office even though I hadn't yet moved in.

Four years ago, my favourite season was autumn. It still is.

Five years ago, I watched an X-files season finale.

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Today's Blatherpics:

Were all taken at OVFF.