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*cough*sniffle*sneeze*

I caught the con lurgy relatively early, it combined with caffeine abuse and lack of sleep to leave me pretty out of it on Monday. I'm getting better now, but getting to work this morning was hard. Have returned to a Coke Zero on my desk, an entirely useless product. Also vegemite, I'll use that one.
At the moment the con is all a bit blurry, so I'll save detailed response until I have my notes.

( A few random things for now: )

To make myself feel better about keeping (some of) my opinions to myself, I'll just note that the area behind my back gate was, as of Tuesday, still litter-free. It isn't always so, but regular clean-ups seem to be occurring.

Still too tired to complete to the Con report, but I'll try to keep up with the present.
The Dead Dog Party last night was good. We arrived fashionably late and raided the remains of the food in the Volunteer Party. Grabbed some free books and posters (oops, just realised that kriste's poster was rolled up with ours and now she's gone home without it... guess we'll deliver it next time we're in the area). Then the auction started.
Lots of neat stuff we don't need going cheap, from multi-region DVD players to packs of rubber bands. These were the convention supplies that were no longer needed, and in many cases hadn't been used at all. Since we have so little space we restrained ourselves (except for one anime DVD), but I decided I would get some of the packs of paper if I could get them cheap. Printer paper is always useful, and a pack of 500 sheets for a pound or two would be a good buy.
I ended up with a box of 5 packs of pink paper, another with 5 packs of green paper, and one pack each of white, blue, yellow and a sort of peach colour, all for £3.60. I don't know what I'm going to do with it all, but I'm sure I'll think of something.
We shuffled that lot out of the way, and after watching the bidding for a while longer I wandered off to find David and see who else was around. Things get vague again after that, we talked to people... about... stuff. One room now had big sheets of paper up on the walls inviting people to write about their con experiences, which made entertaining reading. At about 1am the party was still going strong, but the houseguests and I were feeling tired and footsore, so we collected my paper supplies and caught a taxi home. davidcook remained behind to party until dawn.

Today I slept until 10ish, dozed until 11ish, said farwell to kriste then dozed some more until 12:30 or so. Still tired but thought I should probably get up. We took mireille21 to an ATM, then the post office to send books back to Aus (pricey!), then to the delivery centre to collect a parcel. We were then feeling exhausted again so flopped about at home until it was time to take her to the airport. Got to see the new "average speed" cameras on the M77, which was a little annoying since we were trying to get to Prestwick in the time we had allowed for getting to Glasgow airport. Got there in time, the place was crawling with Worldcon refugees. Did the grocery shopping on the way back, but I think I may have been sleepwalking for much of that. Ordered in Pizza for dinner because we really didn't feel like standing up long enough to cook.

I now have the remains of mireille21's Bundaberg OP Rum, which will be very nice in Hot Chocolate, a ginger cake from kriste which will probably disappear rather quickly, and yet more Vegemite. I think I now have at least two years worth of Vegemite in the cupboard, if anyone wants some come and visit.

Now it's time I went to bed, I have work tomorrow.

Today we went to the Glasgow open meeting for the 2005 Worldcon.
( Details cut because they won't interest most people )

Glasgow strikes me as an excellent city for an SF Worldcon. Everywhere you look there is architecture that looks like it belongs in a vintage SF movie. A generally nifty place.