Hello again!

Live from the Universal Hilton!
(I better get this out before I fall over from lack of sleep, too, as it
is really
2:00am by my internal body 'Michigan clock' and I am already
zombie-ville.)

Anyhow, there are as you can guess, around-the-clock efforts to get the
IRC up and running but downloading the proper software is taking a
great deal of time. Randy is faithfully determined to have it running by

tomorrow. We have yet to get the quest's schedules and a great deal
of the con guests are due to arrive tomorrow.

Anyhow, what is going on you ask?(!?)
Well, as I said before, got back to the hotel after returning from the
Studios just in time for Registration. The line was already pretty long
when we arrived and Fran and the others were frantically working
to get moving along pretty quickly.

I went upstairs to change since it was a bit chilly for shorts (for me)
before going back down to get in line. On the way down again, I
spotted Lee in the lounge with Art and finally I got to meet James
Lee. After hanging around for iced Capuccino, and for them to
finish their meal, I wandered on down to register. It really was not
too long of a line although I heard a few grumbling.  There will
always be a few anyhow, and things began to move well enough.

I combed the line a bit and around the lobby to see if I could find
more list-members and finally found my roommate Laura.  I
figured she was around somewhere as things were a bit amiss
in the room or I figured the housekeepers were perhaps a bit
liberal about reading my newspaper (and the TV remote was
moved too). (Lonnie) Wayne was there, too.

After registration, a few members decided to get some
real food and we decided to look for something on the
Universal Studios Skywalk, a series of shops and restaurants
just outside the Studio's entrance. So we ate and killed time
there until festivities began at 7pm.  All I can say is that
Sanna's dad must think we are a pretty strange bunch...
(Well, Robert H. was with us, so you _know_ how that
 is... )  ;-))  *hugs to him*

Arriving back, some of us we went straight to the ballroom
to check things out.  A bunch of people were already milling
around Terry Carter and asking questions.  He was very
animated and seemed to be enjoying himself immensely.

I went for the 'Ambrosia' punch and sought a place to sit.
A group of us found a table over by Lee and sat down
for some cake.  Ah yes, the 'famous' Viper cake... Very
nice! After the blue punch ran out, it was switched to
red and became 'Ovion' punch.

Soon John Colicos arrived, dapper as ever, and Terry
Carter went over to embrace him.  Much applause was
put forth and the atmosphere was wonderful.  After a
short time, the two made there way to the front for
announcements.  Deejay presented a plaque to each
one of them with quotes.  Tigh's said: "There is only
one thing worse than stealing rations from the officer's
mess --  and that is getting _caught_ stealing rations
from the officer's mess."

Baltar's plaque was from the 'Baltar Anti-Defamation
League' and simply read "You haven't heard the last
from Baltar!"  Each of the actors read it out loud to
the audience and the everyone cheered and clapped.

After the presentation, both men went to a corner
were they chatted to fans for a while before retiring
for the evening to their own accomidations.  I
spotted the man who played Reese, and he actually
was very nice and humourous about how we teased
him mercilessly about his Character.  I also saw a
couple of the writers milling around.  I did not ask
for any autographs as of yet as I figured there would
be plenty of time tomorrow for just that sort of thing.

The guests left around 9-ish to retire for the evening.
So, I went and hung around Randy and Jeff doing
computer things and James Lee was there, as well
as a German fan who asked me to add him to the
list just today.  Later Laura, Sanna, Rae (II)
and a few others whose names escape me for the
time being showed up in the room Randy was
'hiding' in.

But alas, I began to nod off and excused myself.
But now I am nodding off on the computer, so I
_really_ better get myself to bed. All interested list
members are gathering in the lobby at 8 tomorrow
to go out for breakfast.

Post again soon... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

--
Tina Louise Vivian (tvivian@fao.ford.com)