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koga and xeyda bought me a full-on "Adults 4 Day Plus Preview Night" membership to Comic-Con. I've been hanging onto it in the desperate hope that I could figure out a way to go, what with the money crunch and all. Now, just as I was beginning to look into either getting koga and xeyda a refund, or rolling the membership to next year, a fairy godmother (who shall go nameless for now) has offered a Southwest ticket for July that s/he can't use.All I need to do now is figure out accomodations. Anyone know anyone who could use a roomie? I wouldn't be able to throw much in, but I also take up very little room and I'm good for feeding myself.
The thing is, I need to know before Friday if possible, as that's the last (official) day for me to get a refund. I'll still be able to roll the ticket to next year or to switch it to someone else's name, but if my friends want cash back, the 19th is the last day I can do it.
Help?
- Mood:
calm
But I'll be there Saturday for sure. Woo!
- Mood: calm
Being a grownup sucks.
- Mood: cranky
I love my hobbies. ;-)
Oh yeah, and before I forget, I'll actually be staying at the con, thanks to
caramida offering me floor space. So at least I don't have to haul ass back and forth from the house, and I can now indulge in the partying a bit more than I was planning.I swear, if I don't have fun this weekend, there's no help for me anymore.
- Mood: tired
- Mood: sleepy
Logan's picture stream of the costumed folk from the "Llogyr" Game.
britgeekgrrl told me something about the picture below that I'm glad she didn't share at the time of the game...
Anyone ever watch HBO's "Rome?"
THIRTEEN!!
- Mood: tired
britgeekgrrl, as she's brain fried when she gets home from work and quite honestly did enough in just writing all of them in the first place), and I've got a couple of pages of handouts to write for one character (he's got a diary that's important to the plot, you see).No big deal. I can actually knock that stuff out in a couple of hours. If everything goes totally to hell, I can finish up the edits Friday morning before heading to the hotel, and print everything on site (I LOVE having a laptop and a portable printer).
And packing? Again, no big deal, as with the exception of
ratontheroad's LARP (for that one I'm being furnished with most of my costume items, courtesy of rani23), this is actually a costume-light con for me, so packing is going to be a breeze.So what's my problem? Well, I have no idea where Johanna and I will be sleeping Friday, Saturday, or Sunday nights. We can't afford a room, you see, so many people have offered to help us out.
deirdremoon and tronpublic have very generously offered to let us use their spare room, as they live only a couple of miles from the hotel, but we'd like to stay AT the con if entirely possible.If you're one of the people that offered us space, could you remind me here, so I can work out a schedule?
(Oh yeah, and in case it slipped your mind, it's juuuuust about T-26 hours to con. Ju know who I'm talking to, oh jess ju do...)
- Mood: awake
But
britgeekgrrl and I have a gaming convention that we're looking forward to, so maybe that'll lift our mood. And in that vein, have a flier...
- Mood: hot
britgeekgrrl pointed out to me that Saturday (she came in with me to see the Fox Studios panel on "The X-Files"); "Keep in mind that your average gamer is actually a pretty social person, as they get together once a week or a couple of times a month and game with others. How often do you think any of these people actually get out and interact with...well, anyone?" Pretty cogent point.So no more comic conventions for me, I think. The once was enough.
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Got ahold of an actual person at Kaiser...finally. Long story short, between the insurance hiccup earlier this month and Kaiser's switching over to a new computer system, I fell off their active database. Thus, the no contact for weeks. However, it's all straightened out now, and I'm seeing the surgeon next Wednesday, and I'm being fast-tracked for surgery late in March. Further updates there as they come in.
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In other fun medical news, I seem to have a cracked bottom left molar. Where that came from is anybody's guess (probably from grinding my teeth at WonderCon). So I'm on antibiotics right now to get the rather impressive swelling down, and I have an appointment next week to have it taken out. I'm just all about the surgery this month, I guess.
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Couple of you are still waiting on me for several things (game related, personal e-mails). I'm getting to them, I swear.
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And because it looks like fun, a ( meme )
- Mood: drained
As far as DunDraCon went, it was a good con for gaming (LARPs every day and night, excepting Saturday evening), but an even better one for partying and catching up with people I don't see nearly often enough. Didn't run anything this year (for reasons that are two long to explain, Chuckling Cthulhu won't be running an event at DDC ever again), which made things very relaxing.
However, because it's Chuckling Cthulhu's 10th anniversary this year, at KublaCon we'll be running a Ghostbusters LARP (written by
logan_w and borderlad), and at ConQuest SF, it appears we'll be running two events - the long awaited sequel to my previous Galactica LARP, and an as-yet untitled Cthulhu LARP that Johanna is writing..gif){kind=link}
Busy times, indeed.
- Mood: tired
( Chemo/Radiation Therapy )
( It's Not *All* Bad )
( So When Is The Surgery? )
There you go. That's my life in a snapshot right now. Aside from work, I mean.
Even with all this that's going on for me physically, I'm still dragging my tired (and sore) butt to KublaCon and BayCon this weekend. Why? Because with as wiped out as I feel every day, I haven't had much social time with my friends. And I'm fed up with sitting around, watching television or goofing on my computer (although I'm all caught up on The West Wing and Heroes now, which isn't a bad thing). I want to go out and have some fun, and if I have to heavily medicate myself in order to make this work, then that's a burden I'm willing to carry. So if you're going to be at either con, keep an eye out for me and maybe I'll let you buy me a small drink. I'm a giving guy like that ;-)
And if you're at BayCon on Friday night, look around - you might see a certain general of our acquaintance stomping about, flashing his Eye Lasers of Death (TM)...word has it he's going to make *someone* do some serious kneeling...
- Music:Marti Jones - Inside These Arms
- Going to work is much more fun when the entire upper management of your office (including your boss) are off on vacation for the week.
- Remember kids - when a well-known teenaged actor drops his kit for a stage play, it merely creates "controversy." If his female co-star ever did the same thing, t3h Internets would melt.
- Never agree to run your monthly 7th Sea game when you don't have a plot in mind. This creates stress. [1]
- Never agree to run a live-action role playing event at a local gaming convention that's less than three months off when you don't have a plot in mind. This creates even MORE stress.[2]
- Don't be surprised when, after missing a week of working out, you suddenly feel like crap when you get back on your regular schedule. Also, don't be surprised when no-one shows any sympathy for your whining.
- Some people are fucktards and do not deserve to live, let alone hold jobs in customer service.
... - And finally, Zod still says KNEEL!
[1] Actually I do have an idea, it's just not all that fleshed out yet.
[2] Ditto.
- Mood: awake
- Music:Elliott Smith - Son of Sam
As a young man of a heady nineteen days old, I have no real memory of Star Trek's debut on NBC, but according to my mom she timed my feedings so that I'd give her some relative peace while she watched her show.
Thus, for three years, my mother helped me form an unhealthy relationship between Mr. Spock and food. Those of you that have seen me lately may interpret that as you will.
At ConQuest this last weekend, many people came up to me and castigated me for not telling anyone how the work situation turned out. To you people I say this:
PHTHBBT!
However, there is an epilogue to the story – Even though I made the decision to go with the company I'm working at now, I continued the interview process with Company B anyway, 'cause I was curious to see what the offer would be if they made one. After a couple of meetings I stopped hearing from them, and I assumed that they'd gone with another candidate and just neglected to call me back (sadly, this isn't an isolated incident amongst companies that are hiring these days).
So I'm at the new job. Things are pretty good here. I'm busy, but not swamped. Most of the new co-workers are pretty decent people, with the notable exception of the office receptionist/office assistant (I'll call her "J"). She's been here a few years, and has that "I'm The Office Goddess And You Better Learn That Now" attitude. She's also somewhat of a bitch to just about everybody – especially when she realizes that you've been brought in to essentially be her boss in a couple of years time (my supervisor ("P") is retiring maybe at the end of 2008, and I'm supposed to take over for her when the time comes). However, she's alienated everybody in the firm, including the owner and CEO ("S"), and has no one on her side (after one particularly nasty (and public) snit fit, both P and S took me aside and told me that they wanted to make sure that I wasn't thinking of leaving because of J's attitude, and that if it came down to choosing between us, I was going to win hands down). So I can live with that annoyance.
Anyway, I'm settling in around here when Company B calls out of the blue, just before I head off to ConQuest, informing me that they wanted to give me an offer. Talk about timing. So I gave them a call back, and confirmed that they couldn't pay me near what I'm making here, and the benefits certainly didn't match up. So I thanked them but declined the offer.
It's not the most creative of jobs, but at least I'm not looking at an incipient ulcer working here, and for me that's definitely a plus.
Like I might have mentioned, I went with
britgeekgrrl to ConQuest last weekend, and had a better time than I was expecting. Obviously, we had a blast catching up with all of the compadres we don't get to see often enough. I'm still not thrilled with the hotel (the staff just have no sense of urgency when doing anything), but the con itself (from a LARP'ing standpoint) was alright. If the con staff can hammer out the problems from this last year (mostly regarding the tabletop GM's and what constitutes enough volunteered time to warrant a badge), then maybe we'll go next year.- Location:116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:Allen Dobb - Road Song For A Sailor
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