Category: Gen Con 2013

I set an alarm this morning, then woke up a solid hour & a half before it. ~sigh~ Still, breakfast with steel-cut Oatmeal was good, and then, on my way to the VIG lounge, this happened; We, by which I mean Tom & Stacy & I, ended up in the line for early VIG access…

I slept pretty well last night, woke up feeling good, and headed down to breakfast to find that a storm of gamers had blown in, littering the lobby, the restaurant, and most importantly the Starbucks, with throngs of people. Around this time I got a text from Tom & Stacy from Indiana, who’d just hit…

Last year, I wound up chatting late into Wednesday night with the Family Lewis, eventually wandering back to my hotel sometime after midnight, suddenly realising I was hungry, and ordering room service at 1:30am. That totally didn’t happen again, because today was a Tuesday. Other than that, and a different hotel, it’s bang-on. Surprisingly, they…

My book for the trip was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which was quite good, and which I have now finished. And started reading again, thanks to the Insomnias. Clearly I need a new book, so I picked up an on-sale copy of ‘Redshirts’ from the one bookstore I could find at the Circle Centre Mall,…

My book for the trip was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which was quite good, and which I have now finished. And started reading again, thanks to the Insomnias. Clearly I need a new book, so I picked up an on-sale copy of ‘Redshirts’ from the one bookstore I could find at the Circle Centre Mall,…

The exercise thing worked, it seems, as I got something like four hours of sleep; I’ll remember that, I hope, should the Dread Insomnia raise it’s ugly head again. As it almost certainly will. ~ sigh ~ Free Breakfast today, thanks to a confusing card which arrived on Sunday. I heard a scrabbling at the…

I was tired enough a handful of hours ago that I was nodding off while typing; Now I can’t sleep at all, and am reduced to sending blog updates to amuse myself. Somewhere below there is a security patrol car doing a slow sad lap of the car park across the road. Creepily, I have…

A combination of jetlag, bad sleep & some sort of cough made chunks of today a bit of a blur. As I type this, I keep zoning out, and the plan is to make it to 8pm or so before going to bed, to try to hurry along the adaption to a new time zone.…

Turns out I was way off in my guess as to when the case would be delivered; Got picked up from the airline at 8pm, assigned to a driver at 11pm, and delivered, by ‘Matt’, at 12:31 am. The hotel, mercifully, elected not to call and wake me, so I checked to online tracker while…

My best guess for the arrival of my suitcase is tomorrow morning sometime, given that it’s Sunday & the suitcase hasn’t yet been assigned to a driver. Having a change of clothes in my carry on was useful, though it’s only one day’s worth, so I’m hoping on an early delivery of clean stuff.