{"id":26619,"date":"2023-04-10T19:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/04\/10\/norwescon-45-wrap-up\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:34:40","slug":"norwescon-45-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/04\/10\/norwescon-45-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwescon 45 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:140,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260129185329\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 03:07:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 15:32:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 16:53:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 20:38:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 03:23:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 19:09:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 06:02:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:34:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 11:12:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 11:12:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1258,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/djwudi.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302120156\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.djwudi.com\\\/djwudi\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/djwudi.com\\\/djwudi\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:53:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:53:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1259,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitch.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.twitch.tv:443\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1260,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mixcloud.com\\\/djwudi\\\/nwc45-thursday-night-dance-multiverse-of-music&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302123508\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.mixcloud.com\\\/djwudi\\\/nwc45-thursday-night-dance-multiverse-of-music\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mixcloud.com\\\/djwudi\\\/nwc45-thursday-night-dance-multiverse-of-music\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:53:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:53:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:125,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org\\\/con\\\/p-k-dick-award&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250603144522\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org\\\/con\\\/p-k-dick-award\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 03:07:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 03:42:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 00:43:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 00:41:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 10:26:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 02:24:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 02:24:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/\">Norwescon<\/a> 45 is done, I\u2019m back at home, and have had a day to rest and do the usual day-after duties (unpack, laundry, and various post-con website updates and scheduling social media posts). Our second year back was a good one and went smoothly from everything I could see, and was particularly good for me on a personal level.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, during the evening pre-con volunteer party, I was awarded a Lifetime Member award, given to ConCom members in recognition of years of contributions and hard work. It was a really wonderful surprise \u2014 this was something I\u2019d thought I might achieve someday, but certainly hadn\u2019t been expecting it. As many of the existing Lifetime members noted, there\u2019s no escape now! :) Long-time photographer Thom Walls also received Lifetime Status.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26614\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"Me and Thom holding our Lifetime Member award plaques.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9270-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday night marked the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/djwudi.com\/djwudi\/\">DJ W\u00fcdi<\/a>, as I let my alter-ego out for the Thursday night dance. The Thursday night dances may be the most sparsely attended, but I still had what I\u2019d consider a good turnout, and those that were there seemed to be having a good time. I\u2019d also had fun adapting the OBS graphics I\u2019d created for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitch.com\/djwudi\">my Twitch streams<\/a> so that I could throw them up on the video wall behind me on stage, so I had a pretty good-looking setup as well. I snapped a quick pre-dance selfie, and hopefully one of the con photographers got some good shots of me and the full setup as things were going on. As usual, I recorded the full set and have it uploaded it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/djwudi\/nwc45-thursday-night-dance-multiverse-of-music\/\">my MixCloud page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26615\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"Me in front of the video wall with my graphics on display.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9281-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Friday, of course, was all about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/con\/p-k-dick-award\/\">Philip K. Dick Award ceremony<\/a>. Two of the nominated authors were able to join us this year, and so the first official-ish (-ish because for this, I was just a member of the audience) part of the day was the \u201cAll About the Philip K. Dick Award\u201d panel, where the nominees and award administrator Gordon Van Gelder discussed the award and its namesake. Later that evening, after my inaugural Lifetime Dinner (an annual invite-only event for Lifetime members, Guests of Honor, PKD nominees, and Norwescon Exec Team members; until Wednesday evening, I\u2019d thought my invite was only due to my position as PKD ceremony coordinator) was the award ceremony itself.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the ceremony went just fine, and I didn\u2019t fall on my face, set anything or anyone on fire, or otherwise embarrass myself or the convention. So I\u2019d say that\u2019s a success! Both attendees read from their works, the other readers read from the works of those nominees who couldn\u2019t attend, and then the winner was announced \u2014 and it was one of the two attending authors, which is always a lot of fun. The only downside is that a technical glitch dropped the audio from the first six minutes of the video stream of the ceremony, which was the section where I was talking, so there\u2019s no good recording of my first time doing this. But as far as potential issues go, that\u2019s really not that big, if a little personally disappointing. We\u2019re going to work on using subtitles to approximate what I said, and it\u2019ll do well enough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26616\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"Award winner Kimberly Unger holding her award certificate.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image0-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday and Sunday, then, were fairly unscheduled days for me&#8230;though, somehow, I managed to find a surprising number of things that needed doing or that I could assist with. But even with that, I did make sure to get naps, food, and plenty of time hanging out, socializing, and being silly with friends old and new. And eventually, the closing ceremonies rolled around, and mid-afternoon on Sunday saw me packed up and heading home.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights: Being gifted some adorable wee little 3D-printed gnomes from one friend and a &#8220;LOOTR&#8221; (Loyal Order of the Ribbon) pin from Dragoncon from another, seeing a number of friends I hadn&#8217;t seen in a long time, soaking my feet in the hot tub one evening (must remember my swimsuit next year), dancing a lot at the two dances I wasn&#8217;t DJing for, and generally reveling in my annual geek vacation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26617\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"Two small gnomes and a dragon hatching from an egg, all 3D printed in grey, but the gnomes have had their hats painted red.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9272-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-scaled.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26618\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"A small square purple enamel pin with a stylized black dragon and the letters \u201cLOOTR\u201d in fancy type.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_9311-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a good weekend. And now it\u2019s less than a year until Norwescon 46!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a good weekend. And now it\u2019s less than a year until Norwescon 46!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,2045],"tags":[61,4286],"class_list":["post-26619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-djwudi","tag-norwescon","tag-nwc45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}