"I don't know why I'm on this panel"

That's considered just about the most unprofessional thing a convention panelist can say, so I'm going to have to bite my tongue and think of something else to say for a couple of the panels I'm on at Baycon.

That's Baycon: The Convention for Bay Area People Who Have to Stay at Home Instead of Going to Wiscon, Where They Would Be if Time, Money, and Patience with Air Travel were Infinite.

Or, Baycon: The Convention I'll Show Up for if They Actually Invite Me to Be on Programming.

And we're back to programming again. The preliminary schedule had me on three panels, one of which I found rather baffling. So I wrote back and diffidently suggested that, as it had seven panelists, I'd be willing to be dropped from it, and by the way, there was another panel with only three people that I'd like to be added to.

In the final schedule, they did neither. I'm still on what is still a seven-person panel, and I wasn't added to the other one. Instead, I was added to a totally different panel that I found my presence on almost as baffling as the other one.

So ( here's my schedule )