On the road again: CoastCon, day 3

After a fitful and frequently interrupted sleep, I showered and headed to a reading. As I'd predicted, only one person I didn't know attended--but I read anyway. He liked what he heard enough to head to the dealer's room and buy one of my books, so I count that as a tiny triumph.

Our day then sort of spilled away, with BBQ lunch again the The Shed; a break for a movie (The Knowing, about which all you need to know is that you should either wait for the DVD or skip it); a lucrative thirteen minutes playing blackjack at The Hard Rock Casino; an entertaining dinner afterward at the Ruth's Chris Steak House with Toni Weisskopf and David and Sharon Weber; and very enjoyable and late-into-the-night conversations with John Picacio, Traci Picacio, Chris Roberson, Diana Rowland, and various other folks who wandered by. I stayed out too late and now must pay the price by working even later, but so it goes; cons are like that, and I'm not complaining.