Post Worldcon update

[ckd]

At YUL in the AC lounge; it was definitely a good call to get the lounge pass add-on for my flight. Wi-Fi, snacks, drinks, comfy chairs, power outlets, and OMG clean bathroom yay. I'm tired and worn out but I had a damn good con despite shut-down parties, overly long elevator lines, and the nearly endless walk to the panel rooms.

Back to work tomorrow. Urgh.

ETA: flight delayed ~1hr. Back in the lounge. Very glad I got the pass.

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Related to being in an airport and the panel room walk, it occurred to me around day two that I could've made a handsome profit by renting one of those tramcarts that airports use to move disabled folk between gates and running it on a circle in the long 500 level corridor. Charge 25 cents a trip and I would've cleaned up.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Some airports, like National, have people push you long distances in wheelchairs. And the carts only work on the inside of the x-ray barrier. Once you're out (or on the way in), like Minneapolis, you still get pushed in wheelchairs by people. I wish we could get carts from entry to exit.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Except that you have to go through security separate from the cart anyway.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and that would be fine with me. Even just to change carts -- one for inside security and one for outside, so they knew the inside one was clear -- would be fine. It just takes forever to get anywhere with the wheelchairs.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

You would have either made a fortune or caused bloodshed when you could only take one or two people at a time. Does anyone know how long that &*^% corridor is? After a couple of days, I started picking program items by how far away they were.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had fun! I'm trying to think of when is the next con I can consider going to that you will attend?

[ckd]

I don't have anything else on the calendar for this year, though I could be convinced to change that.

My current plan for next year is Arisia, Boskone, Vericon (the Harvard student con), Wiscon and/or Fourth Street (both if possible), Readercon (for which I Can Has Speshul Planz), Reconstruction (Raleigh NASFiC), and Worldcon if I can somehow come up with the time and money (but sadly probably not). Penguicon...I'm really not sure. I wasn't impressed with the hotel and this year's seemed a bit disorganized on the con's part as well, so I'd rather put the time and money into Wiscon.

You should come to Boston for either Arisia or Boskone.

[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

I like Boston....this is a possibility.

Also, since the ABA conference in DC is so late this year I am probably not going to Penguicon but might be able to instead go to WISCON! So I will have to see.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Penguicon is switching hotels (and chairs).

[ckd]

Hmm. Might be worth going to it, then; I'll keep it on the radar.

It's going to be third on the priority list among the Wiscon/Fourth Street/Penguicon trio, though; if I can only do one or two, it'll be the one I vote off the island. (If I can only make it to one, I don't know whether I'd pick Wiscon or Fourth Street...I don't want to have to make that tradeoff.)