that was nice....

[jennlk]

I did wind up going to Capricon. I _did_ spend the weekend looking for the 'least bad' chair, but as the GT room was on the business suite floor, there were a lot of very nice upper management conference chairs in the room, so my back is no more cranky than it was when I left. Perhaps a bit less, as I didn't spend a few hours every day moving things in the workroom....

I did keep up my tradition of not going to programming, but as it's been a decade since I've gone to any, this should not be a surprise.

It was a very small con, for fairly obvious reasons. There has often been a large 'out-of-region' contingent for the con, and many of those people decided they didn't feel comfortable flying, and who in their right minds wants to drive into the upper Midwest in the winter? (some people with memberships were snowed in!) In addition, the convention has been out in the northern suburbs of Chicago for decades, and it was the first con in a (huge) downtown hotel. Lotsa Chicago peeps decided they didn't want to come downtown for a convention, so we missed them. (J was talking to his walking group from work, and said 'we're driving to Chicago to hang out with people who live 20 miles from us' and he was not entirely wrong.)

The cats were frantic when we got home. It's been *YEARS* since they've been left all alone. Usually when J and I went somewhere together, at least one kid stayed home for Reasons. And we forgot to put out an extra bowl of food when we left.... But they survived, and have (for the most part) stopped giving us the evil eye.

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[billroper]

We *might* have decided to come down to the con if the "In and Out" privileges had hit the parking in time for us to make early plans. As it was, we were going to have to take K to rehearsal on Saturday morning, so we would have gotten in late after Friday rehearsal, had to pay to take the car out Saturday morning, either stay out and miss a bunch of con on Saturday or drive back and pay to repark the car, take the car out again to retrieve K, pay to repark the car again.

I had also considered day-tripping down on the El on Saturday, but I would have had to come without my guitar, because carrying that on (and to and from) the El simply isn't a happening thing these days.

Ah, well.

[jennlk]

Oh, I get it.

I've skipped a number of cons because one child or another (or I) had places to be that weekend. And yeah, even at $15/park, it'd be expensive to make all those kid fetching runs. But some of them were "I'm not going into the city in February. period."

[minnehaha]

Yeah, I heard about Cap.

K.

[jennlk]

It was fine. It was a small con in a huge hotel in a pandemic, but it's been years since I've seen many of these people....

[minnehaha]

I have tried your phone number once or twice. "Call cannot be completed as dialed."

K.

[jennlk]

hrm. OH! you probably have the old Area Code. We've been here long enough that the AC has changed -- they were running out of Detroit-ish phone numbers, and wodged in another Area Code.

Try the number you have with 734 as the area code, not 313.