The first day of BayCon
May. 24th, 2003 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowanfFriday we got up and got Arthur off to school. Kurt & Marina & I hung out and then (picking up Arthur) went out to The Crepe Place for lunch. I wish we had a crepe house somewhere closer. I *love* seafood crepes well done. This was the hearty Belgian style rather than French crepes and was totally yummy. No Nutella crepes on the menu though. I really am sorry I didn't have a last one in Paris! The Bay Area definitely needs a Parisian-style crepe booth somewhere. I bet it would do quite well. If I were more entreprenurial I might be tempted (and if I had finished that degree in hotel & restaurant management instead of switching to anthropology back in 1974 ;-)
The original plan had been for me to drive Kurt's car over the hill and head to the Con whilst they finished packing. But I was just exhausted and opted for a nap instead and we all went over the hill to the Con at about 3pm. The holiday traffic had made Friday rush hour much worse than usual and we were glad we were going in the anti-commute direction! Kurt dropped me home and I got my own car to head to the Con.
I got there about 5pm and decided that an hour in the dealer's room would be just the thing. I got down the first aisle and then ran into J. Stelnicki of Wearable Starscapes and sat down to hear his "good news". Evidently back in his teenage years his grandparents had given him a family diary from the early 1700's (in Polish). During his years in college as a history major he had translated it and had tried to get various professors and others interested in it. A friend of his had said he would take it and novelize it and they could sell it. Nothing happened with it for 10 years but the novelization is finished and St. Martin's Press has bought the English rights and the German and Polish rights have been snapped up as well. J. was just thrilled that his family story was going out into the world. (I would swear I wrote down the author's name and the title but I can't find it. *pout* J. got translater credit but not cover credit so I can't find it that way.) We talked about genealogy and family stuff and that undoubtably saved me from spending money. *LOL* I did a quick spin of the rest of the dealer's room saying high to friends. Nicole at Sign of the Hawk had a really cool deerskin collar with a Celtic knotwork concha on it. I asked her if it could have red and rainbow crystals studs too and she said "sure" and she could even do it that night since she was heading home rather than staying at the Con. So I didn't get away totally without buying something!
I then met Kurt & Marina & Arthur and had dinner in the Coffee Garden. The menu is better than last year but the service was still pretty poor, at least at this meal. We had a nice periphery table though and waved and greeted various friends during dinner. We had meant to go to 7pm programming but dinner took longer than planned. Marina went off to meet the guests and I crashed out briefly in their hotel room until time for Steve Savitzky's concert at 9pm. The first two songs, his Challenger/Columbia tribute and a song for his father had me in tears. I was sorry when the time came to cut out and head over to pick up Russell from the airport.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ocean_song and I met Russell and took him home. He had been up for 25 hours and my energy was pretty low too so I didn't come back for parties Friday night but just went straight to bed.
The original plan had been for me to drive Kurt's car over the hill and head to the Con whilst they finished packing. But I was just exhausted and opted for a nap instead and we all went over the hill to the Con at about 3pm. The holiday traffic had made Friday rush hour much worse than usual and we were glad we were going in the anti-commute direction! Kurt dropped me home and I got my own car to head to the Con.
I got there about 5pm and decided that an hour in the dealer's room would be just the thing. I got down the first aisle and then ran into J. Stelnicki of Wearable Starscapes and sat down to hear his "good news". Evidently back in his teenage years his grandparents had given him a family diary from the early 1700's (in Polish). During his years in college as a history major he had translated it and had tried to get various professors and others interested in it. A friend of his had said he would take it and novelize it and they could sell it. Nothing happened with it for 10 years but the novelization is finished and St. Martin's Press has bought the English rights and the German and Polish rights have been snapped up as well. J. was just thrilled that his family story was going out into the world. (I would swear I wrote down the author's name and the title but I can't find it. *pout* J. got translater credit but not cover credit so I can't find it that way.) We talked about genealogy and family stuff and that undoubtably saved me from spending money. *LOL* I did a quick spin of the rest of the dealer's room saying high to friends. Nicole at Sign of the Hawk had a really cool deerskin collar with a Celtic knotwork concha on it. I asked her if it could have red and rainbow crystals studs too and she said "sure" and she could even do it that night since she was heading home rather than staying at the Con. So I didn't get away totally without buying something!
I then met Kurt & Marina & Arthur and had dinner in the Coffee Garden. The menu is better than last year but the service was still pretty poor, at least at this meal. We had a nice periphery table though and waved and greeted various friends during dinner. We had meant to go to 7pm programming but dinner took longer than planned. Marina went off to meet the guests and I crashed out briefly in their hotel room until time for Steve Savitzky's concert at 9pm. The first two songs, his Challenger/Columbia tribute and a song for his father had me in tears. I was sorry when the time came to cut out and head over to pick up Russell from the airport.
ocean_song and I met Russell and took him home. He had been up for 25 hours and my energy was pretty low too so I didn't come back for parties Friday night but just went straight to bed.
