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Sep. 5th, 2012 10:51 amMonday morning I attended the Mark Protection Committee meeting in my new capacity. It was mainly housekeeping stuff, such as how to organise a Skype conference for the committee later in the year when the majority of the committee is in the US and I'm in England and Stephen Boucher is in Melbourne. I have to go online late at night, he early in the morning.
Did more or less the last shift on the membership table before going to the closing ceremony. After a rest I went out for a fine meal with a few others before hanging around the Dead Dog party for an hour or so. Ann Woodford produced a bar of chocolate containing hickory smoked bacon, which tasted better than it sounded.
Tuesday, and back to being the tourist. Went over to the Fields Museum, which was full of fans. It's a museum of natural history and ethnography. So, there is a gallery on the history of human occupation of the Americas from the Clovis period 10,000 years ago up to the Incas and the Aztecs and the coming of the Spanish, which leads to a gallery on the North American tribes. There was a reconstruction of a Pawnee earth lodge in which there was sitting a woman who I presume was Pawnee, willing to talk about how a lodge would be constructed. She said there had been a lot of English people through lately - other fans, I presume - and she was a great fan of English sitcoms, especially Keeping Up Appearances.
Their star exhibit is Sue, the most complete specimen of a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil discovered. It had just been installed when I was last there in 2000, and actually I don't find it quite as impressive as some of the other dinosaur specimens they have on display. But they do show a 3D film on the discovery of the fossil, plus reconstructions of how a Tyrannosaurus might have lived. Sue apparently suffered from arthritis.
Between going into the film and coming out of the adjacent exhibit on dinosaurs and evolution, I appear to have dropped my glasses case, but not my glasses, fortunately. I must had taken my glasses out of the case to put them on to read the description of an exhibit and failed to put the case in my pocket. It had not been handed in before I left the museum an hour later.
There's an Italian restaurant just round the corner from the hotel called Giordano's. I'd thought about eating there during the con, but it seemed to be popular. Wasn't so popular last night and I went there and ordered a starter, a pizza and a beer. I didn't need the starter. It said on the menu that the small size was suitable for 1-2 people, but I struggled to eat just over half of it. I was offered a box to take the rest away, but I can't say I'd have wanted cold pizza for breakfast, and I didn't want it smelling out my hotel room for the rest of the week.
It was raining when I got up this morning, but it appears to have cleared up now. Thunderstorms are forecast for the day, apparently, but I'll chance going out in a minute.
Did more or less the last shift on the membership table before going to the closing ceremony. After a rest I went out for a fine meal with a few others before hanging around the Dead Dog party for an hour or so. Ann Woodford produced a bar of chocolate containing hickory smoked bacon, which tasted better than it sounded.
Tuesday, and back to being the tourist. Went over to the Fields Museum, which was full of fans. It's a museum of natural history and ethnography. So, there is a gallery on the history of human occupation of the Americas from the Clovis period 10,000 years ago up to the Incas and the Aztecs and the coming of the Spanish, which leads to a gallery on the North American tribes. There was a reconstruction of a Pawnee earth lodge in which there was sitting a woman who I presume was Pawnee, willing to talk about how a lodge would be constructed. She said there had been a lot of English people through lately - other fans, I presume - and she was a great fan of English sitcoms, especially Keeping Up Appearances.
Their star exhibit is Sue, the most complete specimen of a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil discovered. It had just been installed when I was last there in 2000, and actually I don't find it quite as impressive as some of the other dinosaur specimens they have on display. But they do show a 3D film on the discovery of the fossil, plus reconstructions of how a Tyrannosaurus might have lived. Sue apparently suffered from arthritis.
Between going into the film and coming out of the adjacent exhibit on dinosaurs and evolution, I appear to have dropped my glasses case, but not my glasses, fortunately. I must had taken my glasses out of the case to put them on to read the description of an exhibit and failed to put the case in my pocket. It had not been handed in before I left the museum an hour later.
There's an Italian restaurant just round the corner from the hotel called Giordano's. I'd thought about eating there during the con, but it seemed to be popular. Wasn't so popular last night and I went there and ordered a starter, a pizza and a beer. I didn't need the starter. It said on the menu that the small size was suitable for 1-2 people, but I struggled to eat just over half of it. I was offered a box to take the rest away, but I can't say I'd have wanted cold pizza for breakfast, and I didn't want it smelling out my hotel room for the rest of the week.
It was raining when I got up this morning, but it appears to have cleared up now. Thunderstorms are forecast for the day, apparently, but I'll chance going out in a minute.
