gotta start somewhere
9:06 PM 5/10/06 · Last Thursday I was originally planning on swinging by Lee's Comics on the way home. Not only to see 
Brand but also to pick up some comics. It's kind of a
Warlock thing, he gets really antsy on certain titles when they're not available and while the local place I usually go near my work is great...their selection can be kinda flighty at times.
The problem falls under the fact that it had been raining non·stop for months longer than it's normally supposed to, got a theory about that, and the recent upsurge in the ambient temperature was messing with me. In good ways for the most part but not so much on that particular day. See, I fell asleep on Caltrain, which isn't unusual excepting that I needed to get off at a certain stop. Woke up just after people were getting off there and bolted out, scooping up my PDA, had been playing Korn I recall, peeling off my headphones and moving fast. Got outside and noticed I didn't have my PDA's case, rapid search of my pockets yielded nothing. Didn't see any other choice...jumped back on the train.
Turns out it was actually in my bag. What're the odds?
Called
Brand and told him I wasn't going to be able to make it and he sounded very broken up about it. He actually said he was shattered...I was so touched I might've gotten a little misty.
At the time I'd intended to talk with
Brand further about the fact he wasn't going to BayCon anymore, which he's since changed his mind about. He was originally supposed to be me in my room. but he kept forgetting. I'd told him from last year he had a space in my room guaranteed but he'd forgotten and kept each time I'd reminded him. Then he's suddenly not going anymore, which kinda worked out as it gave
Rachel guaranteed bedspace.
Also had promised her a space in my room from last year but she'd opted out a few months back. Whole bunch of personal stuff but had decided she wasn't going. It being her birthday the weekend of the convention I told her I'd buy her a membership as a gift. Might seem a bit much but I really had a good time with her there last year and definitely wanted that again. Besides, who else is going to hug all the guys in sci·fi body armor? She's coming with her guy in tow, haven't met him yet but he sounds pretty decent.
Then there's the matter of
CJ, who was supposed to be in my room last year, was for all of ½ a day, and then she hooked up with some guy and stayed with him for the weekend. Saw her sporadically through the weekend, some of her stuff was still in my room so she was around. When I closed up shop at the end of things I found a book she left in there. Got home, put it in a safe place, and planned to bring it up this coming event...
...excepting it was such a safe place that I haven't a clue where it is now.
Anyways, pretty decent balance:
Rachel and her guy get one bed, I can share the other with
CJ possibly, and roomspace for what stragglers I pick up during the weekend. I always do, last year I had
Al and
Kasper in there for a night which was as much for costume change deal as anything else. That and there was
Rachel and her boyfriend who had got locked out of their room right next door to me; I'd given her a foot massage earlier that day.
Then, just recently,
Brand decides he's going to go again. He didn't specifically say he wanted to crash in my room with this sudden change of mind but he's welcome to it. Just a matter of where to put him. He kinda shot down my first favorite suggestion (an obvious joke) but maybe if we cleared out some floorspace in the closet? I spent a convention in one once, perfect amount of room to layout a sleeping bag and you get your own sliding door.
Basically, my room's good to go. I almost miss the days where I got a room and didn't acquire roommates until after the convention started.
Brand but also to pick up some comics. It's kind of a
Warlock thing, he gets really antsy on certain titles when they're not available and while the local place I usually go near my work is great...their selection can be kinda flighty at times.
The problem falls under the fact that it had been raining non·stop for months longer than it's normally supposed to, got a theory about that, and the recent upsurge in the ambient temperature was messing with me. In good ways for the most part but not so much on that particular day. See, I fell asleep on Caltrain, which isn't unusual excepting that I needed to get off at a certain stop. Woke up just after people were getting off there and bolted out, scooping up my PDA, had been playing Korn I recall, peeling off my headphones and moving fast. Got outside and noticed I didn't have my PDA's case, rapid search of my pockets yielded nothing. Didn't see any other choice...jumped back on the train.
Turns out it was actually in my bag. What're the odds?
Called
Brand and told him I wasn't going to be able to make it and he sounded very broken up about it. He actually said he was shattered...I was so touched I might've gotten a little misty.
At the time I'd intended to talk with
Brand further about the fact he wasn't going to BayCon anymore, which he's since changed his mind about. He was originally supposed to be me in my room. but he kept forgetting. I'd told him from last year he had a space in my room guaranteed but he'd forgotten and kept each time I'd reminded him. Then he's suddenly not going anymore, which kinda worked out as it gave
Rachel guaranteed bedspace.
Also had promised her a space in my room from last year but she'd opted out a few months back. Whole bunch of personal stuff but had decided she wasn't going. It being her birthday the weekend of the convention I told her I'd buy her a membership as a gift. Might seem a bit much but I really had a good time with her there last year and definitely wanted that again. Besides, who else is going to hug all the guys in sci·fi body armor? She's coming with her guy in tow, haven't met him yet but he sounds pretty decent.
Then there's the matter of
CJ, who was supposed to be in my room last year, was for all of ½ a day, and then she hooked up with some guy and stayed with him for the weekend. Saw her sporadically through the weekend, some of her stuff was still in my room so she was around. When I closed up shop at the end of things I found a book she left in there. Got home, put it in a safe place, and planned to bring it up this coming event...
...excepting it was such a safe place that I haven't a clue where it is now.
Anyways, pretty decent balance:
Rachel and her guy get one bed, I can share the other with
CJ possibly, and roomspace for what stragglers I pick up during the weekend. I always do, last year I had
Al and
Kasper in there for a night which was as much for costume change deal as anything else. That and there was
Rachel and her boyfriend who had got locked out of their room right next door to me; I'd given her a foot massage earlier that day.
Then, just recently,
Brand decides he's going to go again. He didn't specifically say he wanted to crash in my room with this sudden change of mind but he's welcome to it. Just a matter of where to put him. He kinda shot down my first favorite suggestion (an obvious joke) but maybe if we cleared out some floorspace in the closet? I spent a convention in one once, perfect amount of room to layout a sleeping bag and you get your own sliding door.
Basically, my room's good to go. I almost miss the days where I got a room and didn't acquire roommates until after the convention started.