{"id":127,"date":"2013-08-25T05:41:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2014-08-08T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T09:18:12","slug":"wrapping-up-gen-con-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping Up Gen Con 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back in NZ for at least a full day now, and am awake at 5:30am due to acts of storm, which includes a whole lot of rain &#038; some thunderclaps loud enough to rattle the house. <em>(One of them was strong enough that the floor shook)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Part of today&#8217;s plans need to be <em>The Unpacking Of The Things<\/em>, so that my suitcase is no longer cluttering up the lounge, and the rest of my clothing from the trip makes it to the laundry hamper.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out I hilariously over-estimated my spending money for the trip, as I have half the cash &#038; a third of the debit card balance remaining.<br \/>\n~ shrug ~<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not like it goes stale or anything, so provided I keep it all safe, and use the debit card occasionally so as not to trigger the <em>not used within twelve months<\/em> charges, it&#8217;ll still be there for Gen Con 2015.<\/p>\n<p>On the money front I <strong>do<\/strong> need to check with my bank on Monday, to make sure that those JW Marriott charges get reversed. I get that it can take some time, and I don&#8217;t think that the hotel would <em>try<\/em> to get paid twice, but this situation happened because they didn&#8217;t explain things properly, and didn&#8217;t know the full consequences of their own systems, so it bears keeping an eye on.<br \/>\nWorst case, I have around a month to challenge the charge, and I have the bill from them to prove I paid in full.<br \/>\n~~~ ~~~ ~~~<br \/>\nOK, so the JW reversed the charges without a problem, but there are two <strong>other<\/strong> charges of a non-specific nature on there, which look distinctly like they&#8217;re applied by the credit card company.<br \/>\n<em>~ sigh ~<\/em><br \/>\nWell, that&#8217;s a thing to do on Monday, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back in NZ for at least a full day now, and am awake at 5:30am due to acts of storm, which includes a whole lot of rain &#038; some thunderclaps loud enough to rattle the house. (One of them was strong enough that the floor shook) Part of today&#8217;s plans need to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gencon2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-23","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}