{"id":494,"date":"2015-07-30T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:45:14","slug":"day-three-under-the-remorseless-assault-of-the-day-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Day Three – Under The Remorseless Assault Of The Day-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.
\nI 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 happen)<\/em>, but couldn’t spot one, and the heat & humidity were getting pretty bad, so I inhaled a litre of water & retreated back to the land of air-con.
\nNaturally, I wandered through the ICC, to see what had changed. Quite a lot more signage, and a number of the company-specific rooms were being set up<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wall Hanging at Gen Con 2015, possibly having to do with Ortus Regni. (which I have probably spelled wrong)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’m not really sure what this is about, but it looks Very Piratical<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coming from a bitterly cold Auckland winter into an impressively, oppressively hot Indiana summer, combined with jet-lag, is doing an excellent job of kicking my ass for me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Sometime in the afternoon Steven & Monica got in from Chicago (or maybe Chicago-ish?)<\/em>, so we met up in the lobby of their hotel, where they presented me with a bag of the stuff from last year’s VIG swag bag.<\/p>\n

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2014 VIG Swag-Bag Contents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frank turned up after work, and after a shuffling of cars out to the suburbs so that Steve & Moni weren’t paying $40 a day for hotel parking, we went to dinner at Bonefish in … some suburb. I have no idea where it is.
\n“Indianapolis somewhere” is my best guess.<\/p>\n

It was a good night, and involved birthday cake (Monica had a birthday)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There’s not really a lot more to be said about the evening; We were joined by Mac (who is the chap who got my VIG badge last year)<\/em>, and later Kevin (who is a friend of Frank’s)<\/em>.
\nI’m not 100% sure when the evening broke up, but I think I got back to the hotel a bit after 11pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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