From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Great Con...
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:21:10 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Dear WSFAns...especially those that helped put on the Con...and most
especially Mike Walsh and Elspeth.

I really enjoyed this Capclave, as did anyone else attending as best I could
tell. Among other things, I wasn't familiar with Waldrop's work before the
con, and am now eager to read more, especially after attending his reading
late Sunday. I'm pretty fond of the Nielsen Hayden's so having them as GOHs
worked just fine with me.

Personally, I found it both relaxing and stimulating in just about perfect
proportions. Since I worked programming with Colleen, it should be no
surprise that I took a lot of satisfaction in the well attended panels...I
just wish I could have been at more. I was especially sorry to have missed
the "Mad Scientist" panel with Jon Singer, Yoji and others.

I liked the con supersuite pretty well too. EJ appreciated the regular
appearance of fresh veggies for me to balance my daily intake of chips and
pretzels with, and I especially enjoyed the beverages, including fresh
coffee that was put out. I understand it had been planned to move some sofas
from the hall into the room, and I think that would have been a good idea,
but all in all, I thought it worked nicely.

I'm looking forward to next year's con, as well as to taking advantage of a
lot of the work for this year's that can be quickly retasked for it,
especially a lot of the web page work.

Of course, the high points of the con for me involved the Future Washington
panel and sales, and my personal best moment was probably when Gardner
Dozois walked out of the dealers room with a copy under his arm saying that
he'd considered asking me for a freebie copy, but hadn't wanted to wait
until I showed up to ask. I saw hime reading it several times, and am
looking forward finding out what he thinks of it.

Anyway, I just happened to wake up at 2:45am and thought I'd check my email
while I was up and got to thinking about the con, so I thought I'd share.

Job well done. I'm looking forward to next year.

Ernest Lilley

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email: elilley at mindspring.com