I had hoped to do this post yesterday, but the bl*&^y internet wouldn’t work. Damn you, Optus! The sooner that contract runs out, the better!
So onto memories of the last day of Conflux 6. It started in a peaceful manner – I had the 9 to 12 shift on the CSFG table. I did take my knitting along, and was pleasantly surprised by how much I got done. I picked up a project I started some time ago – a backpack. It’s made of various panels in which you practice different types of knitting. I’m now up to the second last panel, which is good, and I’m back into knitting again. In fact, and Trudi you’ll be proud of this, I took it along and knitted during some panels. Wow!
During the morning, had a chat with Rob Hood, Paul Haines and Kathleen Jennings. Cat showed me the pics she’d taken of me and blow me down but some of them made me look half decent! Will be interested to see what publisher thinks.
Had a quick cuppa with Donna after my stint was over, then onto my last panel of the con – Twitterati. It was just Alan Baxter and I, and so it became more of a discussion with the audience than anything else. There were some intriguing ideas as to where social networking would go next – it seems we can look forward to being able to walk into a room and have an insert in our eye flash up information on the person on our retina as we look at them, an expanded face recognition thing. Never forget a name again!
After that was lunch – go the wedges! And a good long chat with Alisa and Joanna Kasper (who was a con virgin, and ended up knowing more people than me by the end, I think). Some of the timing of the panels got a bit confusing, so I missed the panel I wanted to go to on Historical Fiction. I didn’t miss Jim Minz’ last panel called “The Secret Formula to Getting Published” (surprise, surprise, there isn’t one). He was a fabulous guest.
Then the closing ceremony, in which I was surprised to be outed as a member of the Conflux committee. I was giving Karen a hand with things backstage in the lead-up to the con, but didn’t expect to be recognised as a committee member. So I guess that means that I’ve been on the committee for all six Conflux conventions – a record to beat, folks.
I kinda looked at staying around, but decided that I was done for the con. So I headed home and had a nap before going to the pick up Hubby at the airport.
Roll on Aussiecon 4!