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hazelchazPart 2 of 3
Three doors down from the Number 36 Guest House is The Flower House, at 33 St. Vincent Crescent. (On the same side of the street as Number 36.) They have an amazing amount of flowers all over their entry -- it's like they took a normal flower garden, and folded it over doubled or tripled up to surround the entry. Very pretty, very striking.
Our room comes with two twin beds, and they've been made up with fitted bottom sheets and duvets on top. Very simple for making the bed, with no flat sheet to worry about tucking in! You just have to wash the duvet covers from time to time.
On Friday I took a taxi down Argyle Street to go to the Vodafone place. The lady there took out the battery from my phone, took out the SIM card, re-seated everything, and it worked -- it didn't come up saying "Emergency Only" anymore. Grrrr. I called Earthlink and took care of Lynn's account, I think; I'll have to try later and see if we can pick up her e-mail. But later that day, on site at the SECC, it went back to saying "Emergency Only." Double grrrr. That means my Saturday afternoon's shot now too.
While I was downtown, I saw a Woolworths. I didn't realize they still had any left anywhere! It was across the street from a place that sold duplicate kes. They had a board showing different types of key-packaging, like the tie-dyed keys and other colors to help you pick the right key from your keychain. I guess the key from my room is typical, not an old carry-over from victorian times or something.
Our friend Giulia de Cesare turns out to be the no-last-name Giulia who's been posting to the Masquerade mailing list -- she's the only one in the Masquerade crew who has one of our "Chicago Moon-Times" bags from Chicon 2000. At the Masquerade check-in desk I told Sandy Manning to go ahead and take care of signing people up for the Masquerade post-presentation photography, and handing out the brown "Event Photographer" ribbons. Vlatko was trying to find me, because he'd volunteered to help. Honestly I don't expect there to be that much real work -- mostly we're doing crowd control. Allan McBain is helping with these things too. The photography session is supposed to be in a big room, so taking sign-ups is a formality to weed out those people who don't plan ahead, and to get an idea for how many people we'll get. Giulia and Sandy told me that if the weather is bad Saturday evening, they'll make a go/no-go decision at 6:00 pm as to whether to cancel the photography entirely. In which case a section of seats will be set aside for them to do available-light photography if they wish.
I talked to David Stewart in the press office, to explain that press photographers needed to go the Masquerade check-in desk to sign up for the photography sessions, in addition to checking in at the press office. We're not going to have sign-ups for the post-Hugos photography -- all you have to do is follow the Hugo winners after the end of the ceremony to take those pictures. There won't be quite the large number of people clamoring for those shots, so it doesn't need to be as regulated.
People I saw and photographed on Friday included: Margene Bahm, Trevor Barker, Zara Baxter (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarabee), Alan Bellingham, Egil Brautaset, Antje Brand, Jim Briggs, Ruth Brown, Ewan Chrystal, Noel Collyer, James Daugherty, Kathryn Daugherty, Steve Davies, Karen Dawson, Linda Deneroff, Miki Dennis, Zoe Deterding-Barker, Robin Donlan, Vence Donlan, Will Dunston, Lynn Edwards, Herman Ellingsen, Jan van 't Ent, Allison Ewing, Wendy Graham, Ed Green, Kjetill Gunnarson, Alasdair Hepburn, Yvonne Hewett, Chip Hitchcock, Robin Hobb, Ed Hooper (with a badge that said "Grasshooper"), Joyce Hooper, Shouichi Hachiya, Irene Harrison, Cathy Holroyd, Andres Holmström, James Hudson, Masaharu Imaoka, Mutsumi Imaoka, Hiroaki Inoue, Tamie Inoue, Alice Irving, Peter Irving, Edward Jones, Frank Kalisz, Jerry Kaufman (jerrykaufman), Grant Kruger, Petra Kufner,Lisa Lagergen, Stef Lancaster, Matt Lawrence, Tony Lewis, Heidi Lyshol, Robert J. MacIntosh, Sandy Manning, Laurie Mann, Diane M. Martin, Holly Morgan, Feòrag NicBhrìde, Karl Johan Norén, Chris O'Halloran (chriso), John O'Halloran (johno), Ron Ontell, Val Ontell, Dave Peterson, John Pomeranz, Ted Poovey, Kat Rennie, Sparks Rennie, Gary Robe, John Sapienza, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Fred Smith, Mr. Smith, Robert Sneddon ("Nojay"), Vlad Stockman, Charles Stross, Linda Subias, Suzanne "Suzle" Tompkins (svtompkins), Sally Turcato, Alex von Thorn (avt_tor), Ran Van Tilburg, Maho Watanabe, Eileen Weston, Peter Weston, Laurie Williams, Sally Woehrle, Bazooka!, Carmental, and Melchior.
Vlad had a t-shirt that said "Stitch's Disobedience School -- Learn from the Best."
Karen Dawson was dressed as a wolf -- she had some costume bits she threw together. She'd never heard of Florence Ambrose, the spaceship engineer wolf.
Lots of people are looking for "No, I don't know where Chaz is" ribbons.library_lynn ran out quickly, and people keep asking me where to find them. I guess I should have packed more. At least we have plenty back home for getting through NASFiC!
Margene told me that the K.C. in 2009 bid had signed up for the pre-show advertising slides option, and they were using the phrase I'd come up with at ConQuesT -- "Hot and cold running redheads."
Three doors down from the Number 36 Guest House is The Flower House, at 33 St. Vincent Crescent. (On the same side of the street as Number 36.) They have an amazing amount of flowers all over their entry -- it's like they took a normal flower garden, and folded it over doubled or tripled up to surround the entry. Very pretty, very striking.
Our room comes with two twin beds, and they've been made up with fitted bottom sheets and duvets on top. Very simple for making the bed, with no flat sheet to worry about tucking in! You just have to wash the duvet covers from time to time.
On Friday I took a taxi down Argyle Street to go to the Vodafone place. The lady there took out the battery from my phone, took out the SIM card, re-seated everything, and it worked -- it didn't come up saying "Emergency Only" anymore. Grrrr. I called Earthlink and took care of Lynn's account, I think; I'll have to try later and see if we can pick up her e-mail. But later that day, on site at the SECC, it went back to saying "Emergency Only." Double grrrr. That means my Saturday afternoon's shot now too.
While I was downtown, I saw a Woolworths. I didn't realize they still had any left anywhere! It was across the street from a place that sold duplicate kes. They had a board showing different types of key-packaging, like the tie-dyed keys and other colors to help you pick the right key from your keychain. I guess the key from my room is typical, not an old carry-over from victorian times or something.
Our friend Giulia de Cesare turns out to be the no-last-name Giulia who's been posting to the Masquerade mailing list -- she's the only one in the Masquerade crew who has one of our "Chicago Moon-Times" bags from Chicon 2000. At the Masquerade check-in desk I told Sandy Manning to go ahead and take care of signing people up for the Masquerade post-presentation photography, and handing out the brown "Event Photographer" ribbons. Vlatko was trying to find me, because he'd volunteered to help. Honestly I don't expect there to be that much real work -- mostly we're doing crowd control. Allan McBain is helping with these things too. The photography session is supposed to be in a big room, so taking sign-ups is a formality to weed out those people who don't plan ahead, and to get an idea for how many people we'll get. Giulia and Sandy told me that if the weather is bad Saturday evening, they'll make a go/no-go decision at 6:00 pm as to whether to cancel the photography entirely. In which case a section of seats will be set aside for them to do available-light photography if they wish.
I talked to David Stewart in the press office, to explain that press photographers needed to go the Masquerade check-in desk to sign up for the photography sessions, in addition to checking in at the press office. We're not going to have sign-ups for the post-Hugos photography -- all you have to do is follow the Hugo winners after the end of the ceremony to take those pictures. There won't be quite the large number of people clamoring for those shots, so it doesn't need to be as regulated.
People I saw and photographed on Friday included: Margene Bahm, Trevor Barker, Zara Baxter (
zarabee), Alan Bellingham, Egil Brautaset, Antje Brand, Jim Briggs, Ruth Brown, Ewan Chrystal, Noel Collyer, James Daugherty, Kathryn Daugherty, Steve Davies, Karen Dawson, Linda Deneroff, Miki Dennis, Zoe Deterding-Barker, Robin Donlan, Vence Donlan, Will Dunston, Lynn Edwards, Herman Ellingsen, Jan van 't Ent, Allison Ewing, Wendy Graham, Ed Green, Kjetill Gunnarson, Alasdair Hepburn, Yvonne Hewett, Chip Hitchcock, Robin Hobb, Ed Hooper (with a badge that said "Grasshooper"), Joyce Hooper, Shouichi Hachiya, Irene Harrison, Cathy Holroyd, Andres Holmström, James Hudson, Masaharu Imaoka, Mutsumi Imaoka, Hiroaki Inoue, Tamie Inoue, Alice Irving, Peter Irving, Edward Jones, Frank Kalisz, Jerry Kaufman (jerrykaufman), Grant Kruger, Petra Kufner,Lisa Lagergen, Stef Lancaster, Matt Lawrence, Tony Lewis, Heidi Lyshol, Robert J. MacIntosh, Sandy Manning, Laurie Mann, Diane M. Martin, Holly Morgan, Feòrag NicBhrìde, Karl Johan Norén, Chris O'Halloran (chriso), John O'Halloran (johno), Ron Ontell, Val Ontell, Dave Peterson, John Pomeranz, Ted Poovey, Kat Rennie, Sparks Rennie, Gary Robe, John Sapienza, Peggy Rae Sapienza, Fred Smith, Mr. Smith, Robert Sneddon ("Nojay"), Vlad Stockman, Charles Stross, Linda Subias, Suzanne "Suzle" Tompkins (svtompkins), Sally Turcato, Alex von Thorn (avt_tor), Ran Van Tilburg, Maho Watanabe, Eileen Weston, Peter Weston, Laurie Williams, Sally Woehrle, Bazooka!, Carmental, and Melchior.Vlad had a t-shirt that said "Stitch's Disobedience School -- Learn from the Best."
Karen Dawson was dressed as a wolf -- she had some costume bits she threw together. She'd never heard of Florence Ambrose, the spaceship engineer wolf.
Lots of people are looking for "No, I don't know where Chaz is" ribbons.
library_lynn ran out quickly, and people keep asking me where to find them. I guess I should have packed more. At least we have plenty back home for getting through NASFiC!Margene told me that the K.C. in 2009 bid had signed up for the pre-show advertising slides option, and they were using the phrase I'd come up with at ConQuesT -- "Hot and cold running redheads."
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#33 St. Vincent Crescent
Date: 2005-08-06 07:37 am (UTC)Re: #33 St. Vincent Crescent
Date: 2005-08-09 02:43 pm (UTC)Chaz