Category: Gen Con 2015
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Day Two – So. Many. Show. Notes.
3am, my old nemesis; We meet again. But this time, the advantage is … Well, still yours. I slept until about 9:30, which seemed OK at the time, but here at the wrong side of 3am, seems like a mistake. The only thing I had to do today was the shownotes on Big Red Couch…
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Root Beer, Cellphones, Cavernous Halls & Alterna-VIG; Wrapping Up Day One
Once I got to my room, I had a lot of shower, because I really needed it. Felt much better afterwards, so I took a walk to the mall through a mostly-empty Convention Centre to see whether I could find a cellphone SIM card; Turns out I could, so I’ve got calls & texts for…
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And At 9:17, My Room Was Ready
OK, I’mma gonna warn you in advance; This’ll have a lot of frankly annoying praise of the JW Marriott Indianapolis. Email saying that my room was ready arrived at 9:17. Said room was, in fact ready, and because I was the first identified Gen Con person to check in, they gave me some of last…
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All About The Games. And, I Guess, The Benjamins.
But mostly the games. My suitcase is somewhat packed, though I’m increasingly unconvinced by the rolling technique as a way to make clothes take less space; Folding + Brute Force, I think, might be more effective. The case is nowhere near full, and has maybe 10kg of mass allocation left, so I’m good there; Just wondering…
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In Which I Pretend To Have A Plan
Around this time tomorrow, all going well, I’ll be at Britomart in Auckland, waiting for one of those Airport Express busses to take me to, …, Well, to the airport. I mean, it’s sort of built into the name, now that I think of it. I figured that, as a cunning way to make sure…
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It Begins With A Flurry Of Emails
…, most of which don’t affect me. The Gen Con community forums have been running hot for a few weeks now, and I’m wondering whether ticking ‘update me by email’ was a bad idea. 🙂 I bought my VIG Badge for Gen Con a while ago now, back on the 8th of January. There’s no…