My con report as Interfilk guest to Consonance 2003

These files are put together from the log I kept on my PDA *.

1. Intro (5k)
   What this report is about, and why: How I Spent My Long Weekend. And how to read it.
2. There... (10k)
   Waking up. Getting to SFO, with walking stick, landscape, and time travel. To the Thiesens' by way of the coast, memories, and salute to the Pacific. Meet the family (and puppies). This car occupied exclusively by Interfilk guests. The conguests' dinner with concomm: many meetings.
3. Friday (8k)
   Morning chez les Thiesen. E.T. phones home. Auto jam all the way to the hotel. Will our Interfilk guest enter and sign in, please? Consuite. Islamic/Chinese dinner. Talis & Company's Alien Filk Music circle. Cindy McQuillin's Darkness circle. Simon Fairbourn's Harmony Workshop. More consuite.
4. Saturday, part 1 (8k)
   Button, button... Heather Rose Jones and I lead a Linguistics and Languages circle. Joy and regret in the Dealers' Room, tea and cookies in the consuite, and Carla Ulbrich's concert. Worship at the altar of the baking goddess, with bird and minifilks. My concert (and my Evil Idea for Consonance [also here]).
5. Saturday, part 2 (13k) The Interfilk auction: what went for how much to whom and (sometimes) with what amusing byplay. Simon Fairbourn's concert. Dinner. Concert of Songs of Don Simpson. Rika Körte's concert. Talis & Mythical Beasts' concert. My Bawdy circle.
6. Sunday (12k)
   Breakfast and a linguistic guessing game. My Religious Filk circle. Harmonic Convergence. Dr. Jane applies Logistical Science. Ookla the Mok's concert. More of the Dealers' Room. Angelica & Athrylis Sather Hodgetts' concert. Dealers' Room, with Fish. The J.T. Filkers' concert. Merav Hoffman's concert. Two-fers. Simon's harmony workshop performs. Dinner, with dangerous veggies, chat, and a picture. The Undead Dog Filking.
7. ... and Back Again (2k)
   Timezones backward, or is it forward? The beginnings of this report. What I didn't do that I wish I had done. Home again.

* Using Paul Nevai's pedit, an absolutely wonderful text editor for the Palm OS, with zillions of useful features, a low price, an enthusiastic and responsive developer, and a devoted community of users. I have no interest in it other than as a member of the last.

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