Wish me luck...

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 5:07 AM
Subject: Wish me luck...

> Well, I'm off to Atlanta for a week. It's the NFB convention... National
> Federation of the Blind.  They tell me there will be over 3,000 blind 
> people

Good hunting!

> clinical studies are headed. In Kansas City I will get the real scoop and

I'll be in KC next weekend myself for the Heinlein Centennial.
7/7/7 baby!


> But, for now, I'm off to Hot 'Lanta, a city where my band once played in 
> The
> Underground for a day and a half... :-)  Yes, pretty much non-stop.  This
> time, however, I am looking forward to the prospect of say... 600 guide
> dogs... all staying in the same hotel as me... with special astro-turf 
> areas
> set up fro them to do their thing.  I think I'm going to hate this. :-)
>
> The first day they say there is going to be a "Parade for Independence".
> Now, though 1,000 or so marching blind people?? might very probably gain

Last time I was in Atlanta it was for a different SF convention, DragonCon, 
where there was a parade that featured among other things, about 200 storm 
troopers.
There's always an Elvis trooper, and there was a Jimmy Buffet one, and a 
team of 6 or so that were intentionally comically crude, constructed out of 
white cardboard boxes and plastic mop buckets for the helmets, but the best 
was probably the Burger King trooper.
Dragon Con isn't much of a book lovers con though. _huge_ 45k to 50k people 
last year, but all about costuming and tv/movie celebs.
I could generally care less about that, but it was still cool having Don S. 
Davis (General Hammond) hang out with us at our Stargate party.
And dressing up in costumes and partying all weekend isn't exactly _not_ 
nun. :)

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