2 hours in

6 empty bottles; 21 open bottles of 37 total. 1 empty n/a Ginger People lemon ginger beer; 5 open n/a. Good times.

2:27am, 4 hours, 27 minutes in

15 empties, 14 open, 7 unopened. 6 fans around the bar, 3 others in the room. Age range: 47 (Victor Gonzales) to 96 (Art Widner).

Non-alcoholic PS

7 open bottles; 1 unopened, but it was an accidental dupe. 1 of the empties previously reported reported was N/A.

5:17am

I've been back in the room for about 15 minutes. The 2:27am numbers are pretty much correct for the Corflu bheer tasting, hosted by yours truly, with fringefaan as the fabulous, genial bartender from start to finish, bheer tasting set-up and Saturday night consuite maintenance by carl juarez, Pat Virzi, Ruth Sachter. and vgqn, each a pleasure to work with. I knew that about Pat and KMS from decades of fun times together, and Ruth, too, though more like a dozen years and some. Bice to finally start getting to know carl after all this time. Had a great time shopping with John Lorenz and Ruth Sachter, followed by dinner at Podnah's Pit BBQ. I sent my leftover smoked prime rib home with John & Ruth; I made it through about two-thirds of it.

Party dropped from 9 to 6 Corfluvians sometime between 3 and 4am. Actually, we added 1 in there as Dan Steffan returned around 3 (or was it 4?) after spending the evening at home putting together FAAn Awards for tomorrow's presentation of them. Ah, fandom, it's so reassuring to see similar traditions of yore alive and doing so very well.

Anyway, 6 of us sat around the smaller of the two conference tables for a good long while stretching to 4:30, 4:45 or so, then Lynn, Dan, and I cleaned up for 15-20 minutes and talked a bit after that. Toddled downstairs to unwind a bit more, carrying the remains of the Klamath Basin's Vanilla Porter and Brouwerij Huyghe's Delirium Tremens. And here I thought I didn't like Belgian Ales....

Good times. Have many bheer photos and Post-Its. May even manage to publish at least some of them in some form, um, soon?

Corflu banquet starts at 11am. Must shower before then. Hmmm...how soon do I need to be back up? 'night, all.

Lucy Huntzinger, Corflu XXX GoH

Lucy is giving her GoH speech in Old Norse, translated by Ulrika O'Brian and ably acted by Jeanne Bowman, Tami Vining, David Levine, and Pat Virzi.

past president, fwa

Leroy Kettle, by acclaim.

FAAn awards

David Levine & Kate Yule, presenters.

More later; I'm going to video now.