I called Wendy at the hotel, she has made a note on your reservation they will put a crib in your room at check in, if not before, at no charge.
Secondly, I talked to Anna who is the catering person in charge of the hospitality rooms. Since we have 17 rooms (wow!) reserved, they will be dropping the price to $25/day on the hospitality room. This should allow me to keep the costs down to $10/per person for the Kama Con "activity" fee.
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Thank you so much for your assistance-from-a-distance. Even without a Y chromosome, you da man.
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I actually talked to KACard about coming, but I wasn't bringing it up. She was thinking about coming for a while, but they are out in California where OSC's plays are being rehearsed. As a result, she sends her regrets.
Ya know, you're doing such a good job with this one, you'll probably get saddled with organizing other large Hatrack conventions.
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SHHHHHHH! *whisper* You don't tell her that now! You wait until the end, when she's basking in the glow of having pull the whole thing off so well. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Last week I was stressed out, due to some other stuff going on in my life as well as Kama Con. But actually this week I'm not. It is going to be a little crazed making sure everyone gets picked up on Friday but other than that I think everything is actually pretty tied up at the moment.
Btw this is by no means the biggest activity I've planned. Though there are more interesting and unusual little snags in this, by far the more difficult was planning and organizing the Hamburger Feeds for the Engineer's club at the college I went to on football Game Days. When you are selling anywhere from 600 to 1200 hamburgers per day, and it is an art in the estimation for the supplies, plus having to go to school and not flunk your classes as well, that is real stress.
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Just to let you know we are having a cooling trend, it should warm up by the end of the week into maybe the 80s but right now it is in the mid-60s. So definitely pack a sweater or sweatshirt.
quote:Thu Aug 12 Few Showers 67°/52° 30 % Fri Aug 13 Few Showers 72°/54° 30 % Sat Aug 14 Partly Cloudy 75°/58° 20 % Sun Aug 15 Isolated T-Storms 78°/60° 30 % Mon Aug 16 Partly Cloudy 79°/62° 20 %
sounds perfect! I'm sure Kama isn't used to really hot weather in her part of Europe, so this should be great.
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You room will be reserved under Happy Camper's name. I'd suggest e-mailing him and getting his last name since there are multiple Mike's and his last name is apparently something difficult. I think they'd look at you strange on check in if you said you were in a room with someone you didn't know the name of, but could you please have the room number... An alternative would be at the desk you could just ask directions to the Kama Con hospitality room, and then arrange room keys and dump your stuff with Happy Camper and Hobbes later.
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I can't believe it's actually this Friday. I'm in total shock. I mean, we've got everything prepared, and I took the day off of work and everything.
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See... that's why I love my ladies... they take care of everything!! Three cheers to the multitasking ladies!
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Hey everyone, on behalf of us amateur astronomers who are going to be clouded out of the Leonid meteor shower Thursday night (12th into 13th), I encourage you to take advantage of the weather and check it out, from midnight to dawn!
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It IS possible to see meteor showers in Chicago. Probably not in the downtown region, but I've watched them from my balcony in the suburbs. Obviously the show isn't as great as it would be out in the boonies, but it's still fun to see a few meteors streak by.
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Teleperion, Happy Camper-Mike is NOT Mike Sakasegawa who is indeed saxon 75. They both have difficult last names. (This came up on another thread or I'm having massive deja vu.)
Papa Moose is a Michael also, I don't know if he goes by Mike too, but I'm thinking they are getting called by their screennames this weekend, because name tags aren't even going to help in their case(s).
You could call me Blake. I've never gone by it before, but I've toyed with the idea. Right up to the point where I actually had a roommate named Blake sophomore year in college. But I'd probably respond to it, and there probably aren't any others. You could also call me Michael, Mikey, Miguel, or any other variation on Mike. I just use that one cause it's shortest. Or 'H', I went by that in High School since we had other Mikes in my little group.
By the way, I don't think I've ever seen my screen name and my actual name so many times in such rapid succession before.
Mike and Blake both have a hard "k" sound to them, it probably wouldn't be that difficult to transition. Though given that they both have the hard K it wouldn't make much of a difference at Kama Con either. You could say one and from across the room someone might hear the other anyway.
quote:*Why am I now having visions of everyone wearing a nametag with "Mike" on it?
reminds me of a Monty Python skit...
"Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce." "Is your name not Bruce?" "Uh, no, it's Michael." "That's going to cause a little confusion, then." "Mind if we call you Bruce?"
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Ok this seemed as good a place to post as any since I couldn't change the "Kama Con Events" thread title since I didn't start it.
Primal Curve is absolutely 100% right. You can rent dvd players and vcr players there, or pay for 3 hours of old nitendo games, but there isn't any major hookups, not even in the hospitality room. There are pay as you go arcade games and pool tables in the hotel's activity atrium.
So here are the options as I see them:
A) No video games DVDs OR vcr's, because you are all too computer geeky as it is and your mother would be yelling at you to enjoy the fresh air anyway.
B) You pool your money and you pay for the rental. I think a separate video available TV was $60/day and I'm still not sure about the VCRS and DVD players. I am not sanctioning this as an "official" Kama Con event because there is no way our $10/head surcharge will cover it.
C) Someone (and it ain't gonna be me) will have to actually BRING a TV and/or DVD player and VCR as well as a playstation. (I'm not bringing our TV because it is too tempermental and moving it disagrees with it.)
You guys figure it out. I'm inclined towards A personally. (hmm maybe I do have maternal instinct )
quote: Third Bruce: Blimey, it's hot in here, Bruce.
First Bruce: Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum!
Second Bruce: That's a strange expression, Bruce.
First Bruce: Well Bruce, I heard BannaOj use it. "It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty," she said and she smiled quietly to herself.
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I'm quite used to being called "Saxon" in real life, so feel free to call me that. Likewise "Sak" and "Sax" are no problem. If anyone calls out "Mike!" while I'm in the room, though, I will be one of the many people turning to look.
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You can if you like, but I think that's more syllables than I would be willing to say every time I addressed someone.
Actually, that very phenomenon is how "Three-Quarters Japanese Michael Sakasegawa" became "Jap75" and, ultimately, "Saxon75."
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