![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
[Note: I've added links to a few videos at the end of my last post, many of which by some miracle include glimpses of me.]
Monday, Jan. 3:
We woke up early (Kim eats these days on a schedule a hobbit would envy), and I put on my Vinyar Tengwar T-shirt in honor of Tolkien's birthday. The ship had reached "Half Moon Cay", so we took a tender to the island and found a place to settle in a good distance down the beach (as it turned out, Wil Wheaton and his family spent the morning just a stone's throw away). Kim relaxed in the shade of some trees while I went for a swim in the stunningly clear, blue water. I swam along the shore for quite a ways, and despite my lack of glasses I managed to recognize our friends from the hotel and hang out with them in the water for a bit before heading back to Kim. (I found Kim's shady spot on just my second nearly-blind guess. :) ) After I did a bit more of a stroll to the far end of the beach and back, we headed back to the ship for lunch.
In the afternoon, I went to the game room again (I'd decided that was one way to make myself actually socialize a bit). I played a soon-to-be-released game called "Orbit" with its designer (and had a conversation about the Elvish letters on my shirt along the way), and then I moved on to a game of Monty Python Fluxx followed by Munchkin Cthulhu (both of them new variants of games I know well).
Finally, at 4:30 it was time for the very first JoCo group show! When it was time to start, the lights went down and "I'm On A Boat" started playing from the speakers. Moments later, Jonathan Coulton came on stage along with Paul (from Paul and Storm) for "morning announcements" (about schedule changes and upcoming informal events), the crowning of the "Monarch of the Seas" before introducing Wil Wheaton. Wil read three of his narrative stories, with musical accompaniment by Paul and Storm. They were fun and touching and it was all very cool.[1]
After Wil's stories, Paul and Storm played their own set. I hadn't heard them play before, but again, lots of fun. In their patter between songs, they quickly established what became the meme of the cruise: "_____ is my _____ cover band." (One example: after Storm explained his expanded facial hair by saying, "Yes, my beard is in double overtime", Paul jumped in with, "Double-overtime beard is my ZZ Top cover band.")
After the show we changed for dinner. It was open seating, so we joined an eight-person table and had a good conversation with a wide range of other geeky types. There was a mysterious, never-explained delay of half an hour or so between the time we finished soups and salads and the time they finally brought our entrees; we got the impression that there was some sort of problem in the kitchen. But it was all tasty once it got there. After that, we went back to the room to rest a bit (sadly, we skipped the Mustache Formal event, which sounds like it was a lot of fun). Finally, at 11pm we went to the "Drama Club" event where Peter Sagal and Bill Corbett each presented a play.
Video evidence: Videos are only gradually showing up, but here's [updated!] a somewhat complete set from the first night's show in a handy playlist. And here's the beginning of Bill Corbett's play "My Monster"; I won't link to all the separate parts, in part because this camera was apparently out of focus. [Or follow the original links I gave for the main show: Welcome and announcements, Monarch crowning, Wil Wheaton intro, "The Trade (I)", "The Trade (II)", [missing video about Rocky Horror], "The Excellence Incident" (a good, brief example), Paul and Storm: "Opening Band", "Cruel, Cruel Moon", "Nugget Man" (with JoCo), "Nun Fight", "Ten-fingered Johnny", The Frogger Musical, various tribute songs, and finally "The Captain's Wife's Lament" (with Wil Wheton and zillions of "X is my Y cover band" jokes) (two more parts will be uploaded shortly).]
Monday, Jan. 3:
We woke up early (Kim eats these days on a schedule a hobbit would envy), and I put on my Vinyar Tengwar T-shirt in honor of Tolkien's birthday. The ship had reached "Half Moon Cay", so we took a tender to the island and found a place to settle in a good distance down the beach (as it turned out, Wil Wheaton and his family spent the morning just a stone's throw away). Kim relaxed in the shade of some trees while I went for a swim in the stunningly clear, blue water. I swam along the shore for quite a ways, and despite my lack of glasses I managed to recognize our friends from the hotel and hang out with them in the water for a bit before heading back to Kim. (I found Kim's shady spot on just my second nearly-blind guess. :) ) After I did a bit more of a stroll to the far end of the beach and back, we headed back to the ship for lunch.
In the afternoon, I went to the game room again (I'd decided that was one way to make myself actually socialize a bit). I played a soon-to-be-released game called "Orbit" with its designer (and had a conversation about the Elvish letters on my shirt along the way), and then I moved on to a game of Monty Python Fluxx followed by Munchkin Cthulhu (both of them new variants of games I know well).
Finally, at 4:30 it was time for the very first JoCo group show! When it was time to start, the lights went down and "I'm On A Boat" started playing from the speakers. Moments later, Jonathan Coulton came on stage along with Paul (from Paul and Storm) for "morning announcements" (about schedule changes and upcoming informal events), the crowning of the "Monarch of the Seas" before introducing Wil Wheaton. Wil read three of his narrative stories, with musical accompaniment by Paul and Storm. They were fun and touching and it was all very cool.[1]
After Wil's stories, Paul and Storm played their own set. I hadn't heard them play before, but again, lots of fun. In their patter between songs, they quickly established what became the meme of the cruise: "_____ is my _____ cover band." (One example: after Storm explained his expanded facial hair by saying, "Yes, my beard is in double overtime", Paul jumped in with, "Double-overtime beard is my ZZ Top cover band.")
After the show we changed for dinner. It was open seating, so we joined an eight-person table and had a good conversation with a wide range of other geeky types. There was a mysterious, never-explained delay of half an hour or so between the time we finished soups and salads and the time they finally brought our entrees; we got the impression that there was some sort of problem in the kitchen. But it was all tasty once it got there. After that, we went back to the room to rest a bit (sadly, we skipped the Mustache Formal event, which sounds like it was a lot of fun). Finally, at 11pm we went to the "Drama Club" event where Peter Sagal and Bill Corbett each presented a play.
Video evidence: Videos are only gradually showing up, but here's [updated!] a somewhat complete set from the first night's show in a handy playlist. And here's the beginning of Bill Corbett's play "My Monster"; I won't link to all the separate parts, in part because this camera was apparently out of focus. [Or follow the original links I gave for the main show: Welcome and announcements, Monarch crowning, Wil Wheaton intro, "The Trade (I)", "The Trade (II)", [missing video about Rocky Horror], "The Excellence Incident" (a good, brief example), Paul and Storm: "Opening Band", "Cruel, Cruel Moon", "Nugget Man" (with JoCo), "Nun Fight", "Ten-fingered Johnny", The Frogger Musical, various tribute songs, and finally "The Captain's Wife's Lament" (with Wil Wheton and zillions of "X is my Y cover band" jokes) (two more parts will be uploaded shortly).]
Tags:
no subject
no subject
Cleveran Asshole" near the end of the week.no subject