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Sunday at 9 a.m.: The slash vid discussion panel
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At 3 p.m. we had the Gen songvids panel. I had suggested this panel idea and Jan loved it--each panelist brought a favorite vid or two to show and talk about why we loved it.

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I was very pleased to be asked to provide another hour's worth of older vids for this year's REVELcon! Here's a list of the vids I showed, with comments, because I am so impressed by these vidders that I have to show them love! Since I was asked to focus on small fandoms, I wanted to find fun, high-energy vids that people would find entertaining even if they didn't know the fandom. I also threw in a few not-so-small fandoms like Star Trek, Sentinel, and Pros.

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Story title: Teamwork, Cabin, Snow
Author: Amedia
Rating: PG for innuendo
Characters: Wojo, Harris, Dietrich, Yemana, Barney
Ship: Harris/Dietrich
Disclaimer: No copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Harris and Dietrich grouse about a recent weekend vacation
Word Count: 178
Author's note: This is the exact story (unedited) that I submitted for the flash fic contest at the REVELcon 2018 pajama party last night.

The rules were that we had exactly seven minutes to write the story using the piece of paper provided, and we had to incorporate the words "teamwork," "cabin," and "snow." Each of us won a prize! My story won "Most Detailed."

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I took notes during this year's vid contest so I could write up a report. ( Here it is, while it's fresh in my mind! )

When you get into Lorelei's truck, you never quite know *where* in Houston you're going to end up. This time it was a place in the arts-warehouse district that she discovered through geocaching. It was full of giant heads of presidents. And giant Beatles. I was reasonably certain you wouldn't believe me without photos, so here they are!
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There were only sixteen songvids at REVELcon this year, but there were a lot of really good ones!
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I sent the laptop back with a description of what went wrong, and got an email saying that they couldn't reproduce the problem. From talking to people at the convention and online, I got the impression that something had been jostled loose in shipping, and that same something probably got jostled into place when I shipped it back! The policy on their webpage says that if there's nothing wrong with the laptop, the customer has to pay shipping and handling to get it back, but their email went on to say that they would replace the laptop, which I thought was pretty darned nice. I had been prepared to fight - I took photos of the laptop with the error message before I sent it back and planned to send them if there was a problem - but it turned out I didn't have to.

So I get the replacement laptop today and a thought struck me. "You know," said I to myself, said I, "I sent mine back with a full battery, which means I wouldn't necessarily have to plug it in just to see if it starts up." So I went ahead and turned it on before I dug out and set up the power cord. And what do you know, it started up. "Mine had very tinny sound, so I had turned the sound off," said I to myself, "it would be interesting if this one started silently." And what do you know, it started silently. Of course, those could have just been coincidences ...

When the desktop came up, there were two installation programs on it: an FTP program and a photo-manipulation program. (You may remember, I took, cropped, and uploaded digital photos while I was at the convention.) The clincher: the photos from REVELcon were in the "My Pictures" folder. And the browser history displayed all the sites I had visited when the laptop was working, dated two weeks ago.

THEY SENT ME BACK THE EXACT SAME LAPTOP!

But it's working. They obviously turned it on at some point because the time has been reset to Eastern time. So I'm going to wait a few days and see if it KEEPS working. If not, I think I'll ask for my money back rather than a replacement or a fix, because this is more than a teensy bit odd. But for the moment, I have a laptop again.