Saturday Evening Toast
InFusion #3
Saturday Party List
Room	Name	time
1712	Café Penguicon 	8 pm
1711	GT/DI	? pm
1615	Conclave	8 pm
1614	Midwestcon	9 pm
1610	Amber Fox Pre-Over-	9 pm
	The-Hill-Party
1505 	Subgenius	9 pm
1524 	Ad Astra	9 pm
1404	Farscape Viewing	8 pm
1403	Great Lakes Gaylaxians	9 pm

Overheard: “Consciousness is overrated.”

Friday Party Report (from the Party Czar)
Despite the snow and many late arrivals, ConFusion parties were still hopping on Friday night.  And they were a great bunch of parties – both food and conversations values were high at pretty much every party the secret party judges visited.  Starting at the top and working our way down:

Mad BearO’s, Room 1718 – Scotch, chocolate, and really cool toys.  Who could ask for anything more?  We award Mad BearO’s the Best Toys and Best Booze awards for Friday night.  We enjoyed the single malt scotches (just the smell of the scotch in the room was delightful, and I don’t even drink the stuff!)  And the array of puzzles and toys on offer sucked many a fan in for an extended stay.  The gopher puzzle was especially cool.

Café Penguicon, Room 1712 – Penguicon provided several of the fannish staples, like chocolate, salty crunchies, and of course – CAFFEINE – a necessary substance for both fans and Linux geeks alike.  And a rousing “Apples to Apples” game went into the wee hours of the morning.  But the award for Café Penguicon was a no-brainer, and we’re happy to award them with Best Costume of the night.  Who was that Penguin?  We’re all dying to know.

GT/DI, Room 1711 – A previous ConFusion room party winner, the General Technics and Dorsaii Irregular joint party continues to be a place to be.  In the food category, last night featured a fabulous tray of Greek pastries, interesting wines, and Turkish coffee.  But as usual, it was the conversation that made GT stand out, so we award GT/DI with Best Conversation.  Overheard snippets: “Have you ever seen a snowbank catch on fire?” (It’s a GT party – do we even have to tell you the answer?) and “It’s even better if you take your shirt off.”

Fluxx Party, Room 170? – The award says it all: Best Attempt to Get Mentioned in the Newsletter by Opening Up Your Door and Declaring Yourself a Party

Minneapolis in ‘73/Minicon, Room 1614 – They were giving away Pickle Hats – need we say more?  Well, yes.  Because they also had 5 different kinds of olives, two kinds of hot meatballs, and a whole array of other munchables and drinkables to satisfy almost any desire.  And for that, we have no choice but to award them Best Food (although the presence of an open can of Spam did result in negative points!).

Farscape Viewing Party, Room 1404 – Watch Farscape – it’s a good show.  Last night’s party gets awarded Best Use of a TV Show as an Excuse to Hold a Party.

And now, what you’ve all been waiting for…  Best Friday Party.  The best party of the convention will win a free suite (or suite equivalent) at next year’s convention, and winning best Friday party is one step on the way to the ultimate prize.  And the award goes to… Minneapolis in ‘73/Minicon!  Not only did they have great food and great ambience and pickle hats, but they also were still serving up the goods until the wee, wee hours of the morning (and then left the remainders in the ConSuite!)  Long live All Night Fandom! 

Programming Notes

Masquerade
To clarify the information in the program and pocket program, the Masquerade will begin Saturday at 8pm.  (The length of each section of the event is unknown.)  Competitors should show up at Muster at 7pm in Dennison I.  Salon H doors open to the audience at 7:30.  See you there!

Gaming Panel (LARP)
(Start Saturday, 9pm, in the Concierge Lounge.)

Name: alt.books.sourcecode
Description: A decade ago, a first time Sci-Fi author wrote a best selling and brilliant novel. Years later, fans discovered a code hidden in the text of the novel...A code that had predicted many of the technological and scientific discoveries of the last 10 years. The author went into hiding shortly after the book was published, and no one knows the real story behind it. Rumor has it that the mysterious author will be showing his face again soon... 

Become one of his elite fan club members searching this very Con for the author. Discover the real story behind his first book, perhaps get a glimpse of the much rumored sequel, and uncover the secret conspiracies bent on stealing or stopping this author's future works.

Discover the Mediterranean Room!
Come for the Dance, come back for the Gaming!
The Mediterranean room is on the East end of the hotel; if you are at the hotel front desk, walk past the elevators and take a right, past the car rental desk, and it will be on your right.  Gaming programming is in this room during the day on Sunday, but you are also welcome to bring your own fun!  The room is open to everyone as of 4 am when the dance ends.  We’ll see you there!

Sunday Programming Changes

KidFusion programming changes:
10 am: Sunday morning cartoons cancelled.  Open Gaming instead.
1pm: Steven Lee Climer reading of his fantasy series Pieces of the World.

11am (Dennison III): Mars Society Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Mars Society, an organization of scientists with interest in the happenings on and around Mars.
Coffee with Ron Westrum, originally scheduled for Sunday at 12 noon, has been canceled.

2pm Oobleck.  What is it?

Overheard: “Oh, I want a Harley so bad, my nipples hurt!”

Wonderful Hotel Staff
In nice hotels like the Marriott, hotel staff are not allowed to solicit tips. However, they are also paid less than they are worth, because the hotel management expects that their guests will recognize great service, and tip accordingly.

What does this mean for you? Please tip your housekeeper, and anyone else who does you a service. If you forget, the hotel staff will be happy to help you track down who was working when, etc. A good guideline is to leave $3 per day, per person, for your housekeeper. For something extraordinary, such as carrying many boxes for you, the tip would reflect how much more you appreciate this.

Overheard: “Chuck gives good hug!”

Other Information
Update on Michelle “Malka” Barney:
Michelle has been admitted to Beaumont Hospital (248-898-4226, room 4226), where she had eye surgery last night.  She will probably be discharged on Monday.  No further information on her prognosis is available at this time.

Radio of Interest
(Editor’s note: Most of the information was submitted too late to be relevant to this issue.  Here’s the Sunday information:)
WCSX 94.7: 7am-12n Over Easy
Radio Free Fandom is on channel 44.

The submissions box for InFusion is located at Ops.  The official deadline for inclusion into the final (Sunday 10am) issue is Saturday 11:59pm.

InFusion has been brought to you by editor Paul Estin, by various submitters of information, and by the ghosts of past ConFusions

Issue #3, Saturday evening, year 2004