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Capricon 29 is over. I had a strange and wonderful weekend.
Friday was the big logistical day. Since Lynne was doing a poster session in Downtown Chicago, I had to do most of the packing and prepping for the weekend. Caitlin doesn’t travel light, so packing consumed most of my morning.
After a long drive, Caitlin and I spent the rest of the day with my family. We had a nice visit, and then went to my mom’s apartment. Caitlin had a rough, barfy night, and we barely slept. She was fine by morning, so Lynne and I braved the snowpocalypse and drove up to the convention.
This was my first Capricon. It’s a lot like Windycon, but with fewer authors. In fact, we knew very few people there. Thanks to snow and illness, many of our planned meals with friends were cancelled. Much of our convention was spent with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shsilver and his lovely family. This included a trip to his house to see his mighty SF collection and a wonderful dinner at the Big Bowl restaurant.
All of our panels went well, more or less. There was one problem panelist who was a bit loony tunes during one of my panels. This wasn’t the first time that I had an uncomfortable panel with this person. Unfortunately, I think that I need to start requesting to not be on panels with this individual. I hate doing that to the programming chairs, but that person is panel poison.
A lot of the people who we spent time with were from various concoms. They are wonderful folks, but all of the behind-the-scenes con talk started to give me Aicardi Syndrome Family Conference flashbacks. I’m glad that there are dedicated people running these wonderful conventions. I don’t think I could ever do that again.
We were pretty exhausted for the whole con. We actually skipped the Saturday night parties and just went to bed.
Overall, it was a fun, well-run convention. I’m looking forward to next year.
Friday was the big logistical day. Since Lynne was doing a poster session in Downtown Chicago, I had to do most of the packing and prepping for the weekend. Caitlin doesn’t travel light, so packing consumed most of my morning.
After a long drive, Caitlin and I spent the rest of the day with my family. We had a nice visit, and then went to my mom’s apartment. Caitlin had a rough, barfy night, and we barely slept. She was fine by morning, so Lynne and I braved the snowpocalypse and drove up to the convention.
This was my first Capricon. It’s a lot like Windycon, but with fewer authors. In fact, we knew very few people there. Thanks to snow and illness, many of our planned meals with friends were cancelled. Much of our convention was spent with
shsilver and his lovely family. This included a trip to his house to see his mighty SF collection and a wonderful dinner at the Big Bowl restaurant. All of our panels went well, more or less. There was one problem panelist who was a bit loony tunes during one of my panels. This wasn’t the first time that I had an uncomfortable panel with this person. Unfortunately, I think that I need to start requesting to not be on panels with this individual. I hate doing that to the programming chairs, but that person is panel poison.
A lot of the people who we spent time with were from various concoms. They are wonderful folks, but all of the behind-the-scenes con talk started to give me Aicardi Syndrome Family Conference flashbacks. I’m glad that there are dedicated people running these wonderful conventions. I don’t think I could ever do that again.
We were pretty exhausted for the whole con. We actually skipped the Saturday night parties and just went to bed.
Overall, it was a fun, well-run convention. I’m looking forward to next year.
