They liked me, they really liked me
May. 9th, 2026 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessI am SO glad I'm a ridiculous overplanner. I get down to the HG Wells room and the door is still locked 10 minutes before my talk. The guy gets there and says sorry about the table in middle of the room. Someone needed a computer projector for their talk.
I need a computer and projector.
He looks at me gobsmacked. They were supposed to put everyone who needed one in a different room. No worries. I take out my computer, my slideshow advancer, an extension cord AND that new projector I bought recently. I have this buddy. (and later in a different talk I went to someone sneaked in to steal that computer and projector)
My talk went well. What a joy lecturing to people who WANT to hear what I have to say!! They had questions. Someone popped in from outside to interject how Bayer were Nazis (Yes true but that's the wrong time period) They clapped. They told the event organizer how good I was and he hunted me down to tell me. So that's a success (hope tomorrow is too)
My friend Leanna Renee Hieber had like FOUR ghost talks today. I managed to get to three of them and I sat in on a Steampunk worldbuilding lecture. I missed part of it (I guess they had so many panels that some were at off times that overlapped) He was good and his art was cool and he had a 4 volume steampunk/fantasy graphic novel series that I bought based on this. Got another books from someone else as well. I did see an author I've bought from before but honestly I hadn't liked her book so I didn't go back over (It had interesting ideas but fell into that it needed beta readers who were more honest or an editor or something)
ELD and I went to the Queen of Sheba an ethiopian place I found on best food in Louisville and it was good, different. I haven't had Ethiopian food in like 30 years. We got a late start though so I didn't make it back in time for the bourbon tasting.
I did go to my friend PQ's flavors in brewing and learned some stuff and drank good beer (he makes a peanut butter/chocolate stout I really like and a toasted coconut dirty blond) From there I went to the Jazzy Jane's Addiction swing dance live band show. Danced a bit (not swing. those days are done).
Steampunk Xena fire princess did her fire dance. I love fire dancing. In my brain I think I can do this. I will set myself on fire and die. But in my head I can do this.
Went to the burlesque show which was...well not as planned. I figured I could use some of this for Ezio's story. Apparently they were told a different time and were up at Calamity Dawn's booze talk (I love her but I didn't go to her panels this time) it took a half hour to get them down and then half the troupe was sick and not even there and I'm like if you only had two ladies left, you should have just canceled and I WOULD have gone to Calamity's panel and then into the absinthe panel and ELD could have come up to drag me back to the room.
Pictures another day because I forgot the cord for the camera and my phone pictures are stuck there because it's being really janky on this hotel wi fi
I need a computer and projector.
He looks at me gobsmacked. They were supposed to put everyone who needed one in a different room. No worries. I take out my computer, my slideshow advancer, an extension cord AND that new projector I bought recently. I have this buddy. (and later in a different talk I went to someone sneaked in to steal that computer and projector)
My talk went well. What a joy lecturing to people who WANT to hear what I have to say!! They had questions. Someone popped in from outside to interject how Bayer were Nazis (Yes true but that's the wrong time period) They clapped. They told the event organizer how good I was and he hunted me down to tell me. So that's a success (hope tomorrow is too)
My friend Leanna Renee Hieber had like FOUR ghost talks today. I managed to get to three of them and I sat in on a Steampunk worldbuilding lecture. I missed part of it (I guess they had so many panels that some were at off times that overlapped) He was good and his art was cool and he had a 4 volume steampunk/fantasy graphic novel series that I bought based on this. Got another books from someone else as well. I did see an author I've bought from before but honestly I hadn't liked her book so I didn't go back over (It had interesting ideas but fell into that it needed beta readers who were more honest or an editor or something)
ELD and I went to the Queen of Sheba an ethiopian place I found on best food in Louisville and it was good, different. I haven't had Ethiopian food in like 30 years. We got a late start though so I didn't make it back in time for the bourbon tasting.
I did go to my friend PQ's flavors in brewing and learned some stuff and drank good beer (he makes a peanut butter/chocolate stout I really like and a toasted coconut dirty blond) From there I went to the Jazzy Jane's Addiction swing dance live band show. Danced a bit (not swing. those days are done).
Steampunk Xena fire princess did her fire dance. I love fire dancing. In my brain I think I can do this. I will set myself on fire and die. But in my head I can do this.
Went to the burlesque show which was...well not as planned. I figured I could use some of this for Ezio's story. Apparently they were told a different time and were up at Calamity Dawn's booze talk (I love her but I didn't go to her panels this time) it took a half hour to get them down and then half the troupe was sick and not even there and I'm like if you only had two ladies left, you should have just canceled and I WOULD have gone to Calamity's panel and then into the absinthe panel and ELD could have come up to drag me back to the room.
Pictures another day because I forgot the cord for the camera and my phone pictures are stuck there because it's being really janky on this hotel wi fi
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