First day at Notacon/Blockparty

[RobertB]

     A short report, because I should be editing a video for the Wild Compo part of the Blockparty competition.  I arrived in Cleveland at around 6:30 a.m., having only had 3 hours of fitful sleep on the plane.  Kris of Notacon picked me up at the airport and brought me to the Wyndham hotel.  My accomodations wouldn't be ready until later in the day, and so, I hung out with some other attendees (Pete and Sylar (sp?)) in front of the gaming room, waiting for it to open.  An hour later, it opened, and I started setting up the 50 pounds of C= stuff I brought.  Jeri Ellsworth had come in the night before and had already set up her Fatman and Circuit Girl chat show equipment in the demo-making room.
     Trouble happened right off the bat.  The two heavy-duty power supplies I had brought failed; the C64 and VIC-20 needed power!  Fortunately, Jim Mazurek showed up and said he would work on the power supplies, and another long-haired man said that his friends were coming from Detroit and would bring C= p.s.'s with them.  Cross my fingers!  So far, the attendees have been playing with the North American and European C64 DTVs, looking at the displays, going through the disks, asking lots of questions, and taking photos of the C= stuff and themselves with the C= stuff.

                 Jet-lagged,
                 Robert Bernardo
                 Fresno Commodore User Group
                 http://videocam.net.au/fcug
                 Notacon 6 / Blockparty 3 happening now!
                 http://www.notacon.org , http://www.demoparty.us