Back yesterday from Boston and Boskone 47: 12 hours and 10 minutes on the road, including 90 minutes crossing the border at Lewiston, with many other Ontarians at the end of Family Day. Note 1: next year, do not arrive at border at 5:15 p.m. Note 2: instead, cross at Rainbow Bridge.

Almost all of SFContario 1′s guests were at Boskone.

If during SFContario 1 you see Michael Swanwick with a thick notebook, ask him nicely and he will let you hold it and look through it. The academic institution that eventually acquires The Michael Swanwick Papers is in for a treat: much more interesting than a stack of compact disks or a thumb drive of files.

If you like semi-precious stones and polished fossils, you have a comment hook, in addition to writers, about which you can talk to Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Mary Ellen described Teresa’s necklaces as “stunning.”

And if you find yourself in a bar with Patrick Nielsen Hayden, you can offer to buy him a Guinness.

Geri Sullivan as one of the guests of SFContario 1 might be easier to find in one place for more than a few minutes, because she will be a guest. Or maybe not. During Boskone, to my knowledge, and I am sure this list is incomplete, on Friday she was involved in decorating the Zombie Casino and was in charge of the Reno in 2011 Worldcon party; Saturday she was a member of the crew during rehearsal of, and the subsequent performance of, the world premiere of Roger Zelazny’s three act play, Godson.