The elevators here aren't doing well.
Thanks to the odd layout of the conference centre & hotel, the Doing Stuff sections of the con are split over six levels, divided into two buildings, and the same elevators which feed the hotel also feed the conference centre.
We've had people wait 15 minutes for an elevator to get off their floor, and trying to ( Read more... )

This morning went pretty much the same as yesterday; Registration, where I packed con packs & lugged boxen.
So many boxen.

The bags they're using are, for some reason, from a Halloween store, so the vast numbers of pre-prepared con packs look like an explosion in a trick-or-treat factory.
Did three hours, which I think, when combined with the double- ( Read more... )

I think doing eight hours at registration was a bad idea. We got a lot done, but I was really feeling it the next morning.
Skipped the gym visit on the assumption that I'd be lugging boxes in the morning, which turned out to be partly wrong. A system had developed early that morning of pre-packing the con packs, so rather than schlepping a never- ( Read more... )

I'm told that the day before the con is day -1, and that day 0 is the time tomorrow between midnight & when the opening ceremony happens.

Today was a quiet start; I actually used the hotel gym & did exercise things.
Well, some time on an elliptical trainer thingy, so that probably counts.
Breakfast was a late affair, right at the end of the period in ( Read more... )

So sunburn kind of sucks.
I took the precaution of wearing a long-sleeved shirt, to limit further exposure, then hopped the cable car up to Fisherman's Wharf, as it's a short walk from there. Also, cable cars are cool.
Ended up getting a free trip, as the conductor didn't have change, and didn't make his way back to me before the end of the line.
The ( Read more... )

So sunburn kind of sucks.
I took the precaution of wearing a long-sleeved shirt, to limit further exposure, then hopped the cable car up to Fisherman's Wharf, as it's a short walk from there. Also, cable cars are cool.
Ended up getting a free trip, as the conductor didn't have change, and didn't make his way back to me before the end of the line.
The ( Read more... )

It took a while, but I finally encountered some ill-informed, entitled and just plain rude people.
This was on the cable car, where I'd nabbed one of those outward-facing seats, and after a few people had climbed on into the (presumably deliberately-created) empty space left when they didn't fill the thing to capacity at the start of it's run. Said ( Read more... )

I'd hoped to get away from GenCon without a case of con crud; Sadly, it would appear to have waited until after the train trip to strike, and I now have a bit of a sinus thing happening, and a bit of a scratchy throat, and a shade of a fever at times.
Classic Con Crud, as I understand it.

Today was to be Operation Utilikilt, which is going down as a ( Read more... )

Getting off the bus at the Ferry Building, down by the bay, my next course of action was to try to find my hotel, which was somewhere inland, near Union Square.
Signs I'd seen in airports, particularly Chicago, had made me a little iffy about taxis, but I figured that trying to walk it would either get me lost or make me look like a tourist.
Then I ( Read more... )

Despite the signage, I've not actually had to show ID to get on the train; The Quik-Trak kiosk scanned my booking confirmation & printed me out a couple of boarding passes, and a nice if beset by people with questions lady pointed me at the Metropolitan Lounge, which people with sleeper tickets get access to, probably due to Awesomeness.
Once IN ( Read more... )