Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:16:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Great Con Redux...(DMZ Version)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I, too, enjoyed Capclave.  It was my 73rd con, my 24th WSFA-hosted con.

It was the same weekend as my workplace moved.  So I went directly
from teardown at work to setup at Capclave.  And not quite as directly
from teardown at Capclave to setup at work.

My old workplace was directly between the Farragut West and the
Farragut North Metro stations.  On Friday, I rode the Orange line to
Farragut West, then walked half a block north to work.  After work, I
walked another half a block north to Farragut North, and entered the
station just as a Red Line train to Silver Spring pulled in.  It
doesn't get better than that.

(The new workplace is two blocks northwest of the old one.)

I stayed up all night Saturday chatting with people in the hallway
near the con suite and dealer room.  Casual conversation is the main
thing I go to cons for, not the program.  But I did attend the Jack
Chalker memorial panel, the mad scientist panel, and the debriefing.
I also spent a fair amount of time in the dealer room, and bought two
books from Larry Smith.

At one point at Capclave, Walter Miles said he wanted to speak to
someone.  It was a little noisy, so I couldn't quite make out whether
he said "Dan Hoey" or "Dan Joy".  A few hours later, I saw him talking
to both of them at once.  They'd apparently never met before, even
though both of them are ex-WSFAns.

When I got home, I was a little disturbed to find both my doors
unlocked, the lights on, and a note from my landlord inside my
apartment, complaining, bizarrely enough, that they couldn't get
into my apartment.