I'm home

[elderwitty]

Thank fuck.

Con reports when I regain consciousness.

Comments

[squidgiepdx]

I MISS YOU!!!!!!! ::sigh::

And I keep using the phrase, "next year's con". You'd think we were gonna attend or something! :)

[esteefee]

welcome home!

sleeeeep. sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

I miss you guys!!!! *sniffs*

home and mesmerism

[elderwitty]

Thanks. :)

Oh, man - if only. I have to go to work now. You know, work. Where they greeted me not with questions on my trip but, rather, the revelation that I may be out of work in five weeks. Welcome back!

Details tonight after work. I couldn't last night, since I came home sickened by aftershave and cleaning products.

con 2011

[elderwitty]

Same here!

Yeah, I find that highly unlikely. It's not like we had fun or something. (I was tempted to go to the website and view the closest seats...then realized that they probably haven't updated it yet. :grin:)

con 2011

[elderwitty]

No sniffing! There's no sniffing in con-going! (Or baseball.) Use your hanky! :D

Re: con 2011

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

Fine no sniffing.

I just wish we'd gotten to have a squee party at the Non-Con hotel ;) ;) ;)

I'm going to have to go grab my photo ops and get them posted here real quick and do a con report later. *sighs*

Re: con 2011

[elderwitty]

Next year there will be a better plan in place. (Of course, I said the same thing last year. But this time I mean it!)

Re: con 2011

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

Next year there will be a better plan in place.

Well I'm really really good at being OCD and planning so I'm sure I can help with that. ;) (Btw- piccys are up over at my journal. Just the photo ops but more later ;))

[grammarwoman]

I hear you - I left at midnight, got home at a quarter to 3 (I57 had a nightmarish bit of single lane driving), and collapsed. I think I'm finally back up to human today.

You know, if you're in St. Louis, we could theoretically get together occasionally for fangirling. Just sayin'. *Grin*

Lovely hanging with you as always!

Re: con 2011

[elderwitty]

Walter's already looking into renting a meeting room at the Marriott. I'm trying to talk him into getting one at a restaurant instead. Cheaper, and a broader choice of foods. We'll have to talk it over when we get closer to the date.

I'll go check out your pix in the am. I have to go to bed now!

just drive

[elderwitty]

I left at just about midnight, and got home at 5:05am. 60mph is the highest average I've ever achieved. I had some single lanes, too, but they were more matter of fact. I couldn't speed too much, though, 'cause the cop cars are invisible until it's too late. :grin:

You make a very good point. Two hours isn't that far at all - or we could meet in the middle. (Hmmm, what's in the middle? Doesn't matter - we'll only be looking at the boys.) We need to do that!

Same here! I can't wait 'til next time. And now - bed!

Re: con 2011

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

Walter's already looking into renting a meeting room at the Marriott.

I know someone who rented a room at that marriott and they said it was like super expensive and to get any extra gear? Was ridiculously over-priced. (Then again she wasn't super special jujubees like Walter ;))

We'll have to talk it over when we get closer to the date.

Totally. But like I said I'd be happy to help plan. :)

Re: con 2011

[elderwitty]

That's why I'm urging him to look into a restaurant meeting room, or something like that. It's not like we need it to be fancy. Hell, we could just take over one whole side of Giordano's. We already almost did once, and this time we'll let them know more than three minutes in advance. :evil pirate laugh: (Hmmm, I hadn't considered the SuperPoints. In-ter-es-ting.)

Cool! We need all the help we can get. And then some!

Re: con 2011

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

Hell, we could just take over one whole side of Giordano's.

Yeah...I think we kind of scared them a bit. I noticed it cleared out pretty quick once the gang got there ;)

We already almost did once, and this time we'll let them know more than three minutes in advance.

They were not so....happy with us about that. (Seriously before you guys got there, they gave us a BUNCH of crap. Hence why we were sitting in the corner when you got there.)

Oh and sorry I bailed early by the way. I was just exhausted and frustrated (after the whole picture thing...very very frustrated) and needed to pack and whatnot.

Re: con 2011

[elderwitty]

Or we could have been having to much fun to notice them. :grin: I was always surprised by how empty it was. It's not like the food is bad.

I can understand that. We probably took a lot longer to get over there than was originally planned. (I only say that because everything took longer than originally planned. :snort: )

It's cool. I did wonder if that was what the issue was. I didn't think it looked too bad, but I know it was bugging you. What did they finally tell you? I couldn't see any changes when I went to your post. (Sorry for not commenting - it was a hit and run visit.)

Wait 'til you see my photo #2 with Joe and David. I think the guy almost let it go through, judging by how long it took him to say we needed another retake.

Re: con 2011

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

We probably took a lot longer to get over there than was originally planned.

Yes. Yes you did. But it was okay (for us. Not for them apparently. They kept giving us dirty looks. It was...fun)

I did wonder if that was what the issue was. I didn't think it looked too bad, but I know it was bugging you. What did they finally tell you?

Oh they never did say what the 'issue' with the David DeLuise picture was. I was referring to their mishandling of my complaint on the SG-1 Duo photo. I wasn't happy that my eyes were half closed (thus making me look stoned) and so they said "We'll just have the photographer reshoot you and photoshop your eyes in. Please wait." So *I* figured they'd just grab me at the end of the JR Bourne line and do it then. No. I sat there for an HOUR AND A HALF (patiently. and quietly. And you know totally polite) and at that time Jen and crew came downstairs. I said I'd see how long it was going to be (because dinner plans were slightly more firm) and I walked into the photo room (that was now completely torn apart EXCEPT the printers) and they were all "CAN WE HELP YOU?!" and I was all "Uh...I'm the one who needs the photo fixed..." "WELL WE CAN'T DO IT RIGHT NOW! We're VERY BUSY printing photos." "I understand that...but uh..my friends and I were talking about going to dinner. And I know if I leave I won't want to come back" "Well its going to be AT LEAST 30 to 45 minutes. Come back then." (It was at roughly that moment my head exploded, I walked out and just walked away. Because I knew I'd yell. I mean it would have taken roughly... 2.4 seconds to take the photo but I had to wait another half hour + on TOP of the hour and a half I'd already waited? I don't think so.)

Re: con 2011

[elderwitty]

Hey, that was totally only partially my fault!

I did mean the issue with the duo photo. I can't believe they jacked you around like that. Although, now I think about it - why wouldn't they? They got what they wanted, which was your money. Assholes. The guy had to retake mine three times due to glare on my glasses. Wouldn't it have been quicker to just tell me to tilt my head up or down? (And wait 'til you see the second photo. He took a really long time to decide that it needed redoing, and it should have been clear in the first nanosecond.)

Posting Saturday after I finish my emails.