Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

The final act of the night on the main stage at the M3 Festival took to the stage about 9:30 PM, and was still pounding away at 10:15. I think they may have wound up around 10:30 PM, but I'm not sure because I managed to get to sleep.

This morning, nearly everything was gone except the smaller stage and the painted trash cans from one of the contests, and also one pickup truck still parked in the railroad yard across the street. It was a pretty impressive clean-up, considering that they did it overnight.

( Trashcans and Earrings )

Later this week, Lisa and I will clean up the temporary barriers, but I think we'll leave the No Trespassing signs up.

I spent most of the rest of the day working on fannish activity, having two separate Zoom calls: one dealing with the WSFS Mark Protection Committee, and another with the Montreal Worldcon bid. Things are getting done, albeit probably not as fast as we might have liked. But there should be news about Westercon tomorrow, if things go the way Kayla has planned.

Tomorrow is the climax of the 2025 Music, Murals and Margaritas Festival in Fernley. As in past years, the big event, including performances, food trucks, etc. takes place on Center Street, which is the east boundary of the East Lot adjacent to Fernley House. That meant that Lisa and I had work to do today.

( Preparing for M3 )

We're not trying to be killjoys, but we also don't want to be sued by someone tripping and falling while walking to or from a festival where there will be plenty of alcohol flowing. It's not obvious that this lot is not just abandoned "free" land, and if we didn't do this, I'm certain that tomorrow morning we'd wake up and find it covered with cars parking close in to the festival. Now they'll end up parking in the Union Pacific rail yard across the street, and I'll let UP figure out how to deal with that.

We'll be more or less trapped in the house all day tomorrow, or at least only be able to venture out on foot, but it's okay. We didn't have any plans to go anywhere anyway.