Category: General

One frequently expects to be cut off by a driver not using a turn signal. But not twice by the same one. And especially not by a _bus_ driver. They’re paid to be professional drivers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/22/national/22SCOT.html?ex=1395291600&en=b28c54ee4d2be863&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

Interesting to see the numerous sides on this issue. Government for, government against, individuals for, individuals against, church for, church against. All because in the need to be strong in our conservative culture in the 50’s these two little words were added.

Tired. So Tired. Good con. As usual with Intercon I feel like I lived two full weekends in the time of one. Which is good, but it means that 4 months from now I’ll only remember one weekends worth of what I did. But that’s ok. Everything went pretty smoothly all weekend long, which is exactly what I’d hoped for. I planned, replanned, over planned, and tried to attack any possible problem before I got to the con. The only thing that would have made it go better would have been if I could have cloned myself so I’d have at least one person there at all times. That’s mostly because I knw _exactly_ what we had, where it was, and how to process it. And it wasn’t just ops that was fantastic. Con site did so good a job this year that they almost blended into the background, which is kinda what yo want a con suite to do: be there, but not have any problems that make it apparent exactly how much work has to be done. The game I played were great, and the reviews of other games were mostly great. There weren’t many complaints, even about the lack of open slots on saturday night. Is there room for improvement? Clearely, on many levels, but as a whole, there were no train wrecks, no major stumbling blocks, and nothing that will have echoes to haunt anything. I went with a very full car, and came back with an almost full car. I now have a table full of flyers, binders, supplies, records, cups, shirts, surveys, raffle prizes, lost and found, leftover food, props, costumes, clothes, miscellaneous gadgets, and more to be sorted and processed in the next few weeks. *grin* I so love being a part of something that has such positive results for so many people.

Who would’ve expected a sold out show for a Canadian A Cappella group in the middle of Natick? But sold out it was. I’m a bit glad that no one took me up on the offer to see the show, I would have felt terrible. I hung around until about a half hour after show time, but despite there being 20 or so unclaimed tickets at the Will Call stand, they could not resell them. I bought a few CDs and came home. At least I’ve got Caddyshack queued up off TV. *grin*