The plan hit some snags when there were no signs of life in Steve & Moni’s room, and it was only when the hotel desk called up that they were shown to still be alive, if very unwell & trying to sleep it off in Steve’s case.
\nThere’s a chance he got the same thing Stacy did yesterday, which we don’t yet have a fun name for; I’m leaning towards G. Coli, but that’s not as immediately obvious as “H1Nerd1” or “The South Asian Nerd Flu” which hit a convention a few years ago.<\/p>\n
Undeterred, Frank & I asked the concierge for a breakfast recommendation, and ended up at Cafe Patachou.<\/p>\n They had, among other things, big-ass omelettes of a nice, if hard to finish on account of size,\u00a0nature, and a coffee dispensary inside with both a mug tower (an example of the contents is seen above)<\/em> and takeaway options for that last cup.<\/p>\n I do find it interesting to see how different places, and sometimes different servers, deal with the endless coffee refill situation. <\/p>\n Back at the Westin, Steve had recovered, or Moni had re-animated him using dark necromantic arts and the contents of the complementary soaps & shampoos in the bathroom (and if that was the case, well done Moni – Very convincing)<\/em>, so we ambled through the mostly-empty ICC to visit Bee Coffee one last time. Walking back through the ICC, where move-in move-out was in full swing, we got to chatting about Big Red Couch business\u00a0cards & badge ribbons, and Moni had some suggestions concerning the making of very custom cards which I’ll need to follow up on once I’m back in NZ.<\/p>\n Back at the Westin Frank divided up all of the swag he’d been given into keep & give away, with some of the latter going to Steve & Moni, and some just … Actually, I have no clue where it was going.![\"Cafe](\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_3534-e1438807898222.jpg\")
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\nSome orbit with a coffee pot, some, like Patachou, have a station & let you do it yourself, and some, like the JW most of the time,\u00a0put an insulated coffee pot on your table, and let you figure the rest out yourself.
\nWhile on that topic; Drink refills of soft drinks was a little surprising, but most welcome. Fry refills at Johnny Rockets was a baffling concept to me.<\/em><\/p>\nAnd You, You Were Acting Like It Was The End Of The Con<\/h3>\n
\nWe nattered with the staff, found out a lot about\u00a0Who’s Yer Con<\/a>, got a branded D6 for some reason possibly<\/em> related to them not having given them all away, and us being there, and generally did the ‘winding-down & saying goodbye’ thing.<\/p>\n
\nThis did remind me of what I’d seen in a rubbish bin at the JW that morning.<\/p>\n<\/a>