Despite getting a rental car which was much smaller than expected, necessitating my leaving a lot of stuff behind, I made it to Reno and am now in the same hotel -- maybe even in the same room -- as I was when I wrote
this post. Also, I'm pretty sure the same guy was working the counter (I remember, because when I gave him my credit card information he said, "Awesome.").
No major problems once the obvious space issue was worked out. AcrosstheHall!Teacher and her friend and their dogs and
hecubot and his son helped out and I actually did leave the city, despite shaky protestations that it would never work, I have too much stuff, I've screwed up the whole thing, and I should just take my cat and go live in a cardboard box. I maybe should have gotten more sleep.
I did, however, get pictures of
e-juliana with AtH!Teacher at Sodini's, my cat with the two dogs (she's hissing), and Eric and Jay at the convenience store across the street (they gave me a tiny bottle of champagne!). I may post them pretty soon, assuming I can track down the upload cord in my mess of cables.