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hazelchazMy baby moves at midnight, goes right on 'till the dawn. My woman take' me higher...
Photos now online:
Thanksgiving Dinner 2007 with the Crosbys (22-Nov-2007)
Loscon 34: Friday (23-Nov-2007)
Loscon 34: Saturday (24-Nov-2007)
Loscon 34: Sunday (25-Nov-2007)
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midnight_rocket is from Saturday afternoon.
Made it toloscon and back. ala_mokita asked a favor of me and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
animelosangeles: since the Con Suite crew wasn't planning to keep the Con Suite open at night, could we take it over instead of having a party in our room? After talking to library_lynn about it, I said sure, and could we get a fan table, please? So come Loscon, I spent the days on the main hall at our purple table, and Andrew Vo and one or two of his crew and I moved to the Con Suite at night.
I was mostly sitting solo at the table during the day, although there were people nearby to talk to, such asbuddykat at the Conjecture table who was engaged by the end of Friday (Mr. Shirt proposed with a chocolate cake and a toy ring), and Nadine Armstrong who was so bored at the Arizona table that she stamped most of my Gallifrey One postcards. neo_serenity sat with me for a little time on Saturday afternoon, which was as welcome as a gentle rain after a long drought. I introduced her to a bunch of my friends that stopped by the table.
In the evening when Andrew was there, we went over what we needed to do for the Con Suite -- which meant a shopping trip or two during the weekend, to shore up the gaps in their supply -- and he and Jack and Jill (Friday night) made it work. I have every confidence that he'll do just fine running the Con Suite in 38 days, whichever room we end up putting it in.
I snapped a small number of photos in the Ice Cream Social, and I saw the Masquerade. I did a little bit of party-hopping, but not much as I kept magnetically returning to the Con Suite. We had it decorated, a little bit, with Anime Los Angeles posters and wall scrolls. On Sunday, Greg Hemsath sold me another 17 wall scrolls, so if I ever want to do up a room with wall-to-wall-scrolls, I can do it... wish I'd had 'em Friday...
In any event. "Sponsoring the Con Suite" isn't really a viable party option for promotional purposes, because a party on the party floor gets a lot more foot traffic. And the fan table gets more traffic still, because not everybody ends up going upstairs. Speaking of daytime traffic, I was startled on Friday by four or three people thrusting money at me for Animé Los Angeles members -- I wasn't prepared for actual membership sales at all, so I improvised using postcards to record their info and to serve as receipts. And I think I got another one on Sunday.
In fact... if I was going to try to wave the flag by taking over a con suite... I might like to do it Saturday afternoon. That's the biggest traffic period, at least at Loscon it usually is. Although the question remains of whether anyone will notice the message!
So what did we do differently than the daytime snack selection? Well, we bumped up the junk food quotient a notch or two. Basically it was about the same spread as what you've seen at our Peanut Butter & Jelly rooms at Anime Expo and Ani-Magic. More home-baked cookies and brownies, though, because Lynn was busy in the kitchen baking on Thursday. We looked over the Con Suite's selection of sodas, and about the only gap we saw was a lack of Cactus Cooler and a shortage of Mountain Dew. We threw in some Vernors Ginger Ale too. And by Saturday night, their stock of water was down to just one case, so we left that alone and Andrew bought some cases of water to serve instead.
More thoughts on the convention later, after I've finished typing in all my notebook's captions. I got a lot of them done for the first half of the convention before I pooped out; I'll work on it more later, and try to collect what else I want to say about the convention. A teaser, though: there are about 500 photos there, but I don't consider my coverage to have been up to my own standards...
Photos now online:Thanksgiving Dinner 2007 with the Crosbys (22-Nov-2007)
Loscon 34: Friday (23-Nov-2007)
Loscon 34: Saturday (24-Nov-2007)
Loscon 34: Sunday (25-Nov-2007)
The picture of
midnight_rocket is from Saturday afternoon.Made it to
loscon and back. ala_mokita asked a favor of me and animelosangeles: since the Con Suite crew wasn't planning to keep the Con Suite open at night, could we take it over instead of having a party in our room? After talking to library_lynn about it, I said sure, and could we get a fan table, please? So come Loscon, I spent the days on the main hall at our purple table, and Andrew Vo and one or two of his crew and I moved to the Con Suite at night.I was mostly sitting solo at the table during the day, although there were people nearby to talk to, such as
buddykat at the Conjecture table who was engaged by the end of Friday (Mr. Shirt proposed with a chocolate cake and a toy ring), and Nadine Armstrong who was so bored at the Arizona table that she stamped most of my Gallifrey One postcards. neo_serenity sat with me for a little time on Saturday afternoon, which was as welcome as a gentle rain after a long drought. I introduced her to a bunch of my friends that stopped by the table. In the evening when Andrew was there, we went over what we needed to do for the Con Suite -- which meant a shopping trip or two during the weekend, to shore up the gaps in their supply -- and he and Jack and Jill (Friday night) made it work. I have every confidence that he'll do just fine running the Con Suite in 38 days, whichever room we end up putting it in.
I snapped a small number of photos in the Ice Cream Social, and I saw the Masquerade. I did a little bit of party-hopping, but not much as I kept magnetically returning to the Con Suite. We had it decorated, a little bit, with Anime Los Angeles posters and wall scrolls. On Sunday, Greg Hemsath sold me another 17 wall scrolls, so if I ever want to do up a room with wall-to-wall-scrolls, I can do it... wish I'd had 'em Friday...
In any event. "Sponsoring the Con Suite" isn't really a viable party option for promotional purposes, because a party on the party floor gets a lot more foot traffic. And the fan table gets more traffic still, because not everybody ends up going upstairs. Speaking of daytime traffic, I was startled on Friday by four or three people thrusting money at me for Animé Los Angeles members -- I wasn't prepared for actual membership sales at all, so I improvised using postcards to record their info and to serve as receipts. And I think I got another one on Sunday.
In fact... if I was going to try to wave the flag by taking over a con suite... I might like to do it Saturday afternoon. That's the biggest traffic period, at least at Loscon it usually is. Although the question remains of whether anyone will notice the message!
So what did we do differently than the daytime snack selection? Well, we bumped up the junk food quotient a notch or two. Basically it was about the same spread as what you've seen at our Peanut Butter & Jelly rooms at Anime Expo and Ani-Magic. More home-baked cookies and brownies, though, because Lynn was busy in the kitchen baking on Thursday. We looked over the Con Suite's selection of sodas, and about the only gap we saw was a lack of Cactus Cooler and a shortage of Mountain Dew. We threw in some Vernors Ginger Ale too. And by Saturday night, their stock of water was down to just one case, so we left that alone and Andrew bought some cases of water to serve instead.
More thoughts on the convention later, after I've finished typing in all my notebook's captions. I got a lot of them done for the first half of the convention before I pooped out; I'll work on it more later, and try to collect what else I want to say about the convention. A teaser, though: there are about 500 photos there, but I don't consider my coverage to have been up to my own standards...
