We got on the road to the con at about noon, and arrived with plenty of lead time to get checked in before our Friday events (
I was pleasantly surprised to get four players for a game that fully embodied the munchkin spirit and took the whole two-hour slot. I played a few other games (including an interesting card game called "Dominion" in which the players keep adding cards to their decks -- some of them are necessary and useful during the game; others are just dead weight during the game but are the only ones that could for scoring at the end), picked up one or two things in the dealers' room
When we both had a gap in our schedules, we headed out to grab some subs at Quizno's. We were slightly late in executing that plan -- the line for the Clam Chowder concert was nonexistent when we left, and already fairly long 10-15 minutes later when we returned. Fortunately, we got reasonably good seats anyway; most of the people ahead of us went to the left-hand side of the room so we veered right before anybody else noticed that there were much closer seats available there. As always, the concert was entertaining, and the money raised for Children's Medical Center was $4500+.
The Saturday night filk had the usual problem of competing with the traditional carol sing; I hung out in gaming until the caroling ended and the two groups merged. By that time, I was starting to get sleepy, and turned in fairly soon.
Sunday was mostly hanging around the con, doing last-minute dealers'-room checks (including picking up a bottle of Auntie Arwen's catnip to placate the furballs for being abandoned again). Originally, we'd planned to have dinner with
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