Category: Holiday 2015
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Day One – Long Lines, Big Crowds, A Visit Form The Swag Fairy, Cremefillians, No Inspectres, The Late Late Late Show, and Bee Coffee
Long Lines In previous years I joined the line for VIG Early Access to the Dealer/Exhibit Hall early, to try to get a decent place. This year, based on some faulty assumptions, I decided that I could just join the end of the line a bit before the 9am start, and not have to stand…
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Day Zero – So, I’ve hit the “headings with commentary” stage sooner than I expected to.
“Hey, Cool Shirt”, and Pallet trucks on carpet kind of suck Before I made it into the central bit of Gen Con at the ICC (which I think of everything East of the Crossroads Concourse), one of the proprietors of Off World Designs spotted my LonCon3 shirt, so we did the whole Good Luck For The…
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Day Three – Under The Remorseless Assault Of The Day-Star
I started today with some plans to go and do tourist things, but a walk to find the CVS demonstrated just what I was in for. I did do a lap of the State Capitol building, to see whether I could spot a sign for tours of the building (according to the website they do…
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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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Something I Forgot From The Los Angeles To Indianapolis Flight
This was a Delta Airlines flight, who, it seems, are trying to make their flight safety videos more interesting so that people will actually watch the damn things. They seem to have a bunch, so here’s the one I saw.
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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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Sitting Quietly In An Airport That Looks Like A Mall, Letting The Air-Con Sink In, All The Way Down To My Bones
Writing offline on my phone, due to laziness & the sheer amount of stuff piled atop Pangur Ban in my carry-on. I got myself a ticket on the $10 shuttlebus into Indianapolis, but didn’t pay enough attention to note that the service starts at 8am, so I had a couple of hours to kill. So…