Satellite’s gone up to the sky. Things like that drive me out of my mind. I watched it

More pictures from Noreascon 4, Sunday night and Monday (parts 39 through 50) have been restored. Click on the picture of l_zinkiewicz to see them.

Anyone going to be in Philadelphia this weekend? I could use some more help with the party Saturday at Philcon, please!

To continue my Loscon narrative... Friday night, we'd left my blue folding cart and my neighbor Tom's green wagon in the ballroom. On Saturday, I couldn't find it. I mentioned going to bed about 2 am; sometime between 6:00 and 7:00 my phone went off, and Maria wanted to talk. Among other things, she needed us to wire her some money. I promised I'd take care of it, and that if she hadn't heard back from me in 24 hours to check her e-mail. (Bad move; I should have told her to call us back, because we had proof that her calling in worked...)

I was scheduled to sit in the Fan Lounge for a shift, but I had to go out and do more shopping and take care of the wire transfer. The Friday night Kansas City party had cleaned us out of almost everything I ent out and bought for the convention, so I needed to get more cans of soda, another case of water, buy some macaroni and cheese, get some ice (so I wouldn't have to rely on a run down to the hotel's back ice machines) and so forth. Thankfully, library_lynn agreed to sit the room for my shift. ( As I left the building, she reminded me to get something solid to eat... )

More later, I've got stuff I need to do. But meanwhile...

[Image has been fixed and removed from this location.] Recovery is going slowly, there's a heartbreaking amount work and loss in the project. As an example. here's a photo of Michael Mason. The image has been corrupted by the disk drive failure. I can probably spend a few minutes rearranging blocks of pixels -- usually there are three rectangles that can be shuffled around and cropped, recovering most of the image. In the block of 100 recovered JPEG files that this photo comes from, we have 46 large images (viewing or high-res size) that can be rearranged as described to create an image that looks good enough, 3 thumbnail size images in the same category, 45 completely unblemished thumbnails -- and no unblemished large size images at all.

So I'm keeping the jigsaw-puzzle images, with an eye towards doing a lot of work down the road to bring those back, but it's still a daunting task to sort out of the pieces.

If anyone has saved copies of photos from my website, and they're not on my Picture Gallery anymore, please consider sending them back to me! A CD-Rom to my PO Box will work fine, if there's a lot of them.