I'm going to be at GenCon!
Aug. 3rd, 2006 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterI just found out: I'm going to be able to make it to GenCon this year!
I didn't think I was going to be able to make it. It was always a theoretical financial possibility, given that my brother lives in Indianapolis so I could avoid hotel fees, but I wasn't sure whether I should really be paying $200 or so in transportation costs plus con fees given how frequently my financial situation swings. But yesterday a friend who works for a company that's going to be presenting there offered me a free pass, and I discovered that if I left Thursday night and returned Monday afternoon, I could get a round-trip bus ticket for $90. Then I just had to get that Friday and Monday off from my boss, which I did…and boom.
I should be pulling into Indy on big grey doggie at about 8:30 on the morning of Friday the 12th. My plan is to walk directly from the bus station to the convention center, which is less than half a mile away, spend the day there until my bro comes to get me. I'll be in town through Monday afternoon, when the big grey doggie takes me back.
I'm going to be carrying my cellphone with me, so I should be contactable that way. I'm chary of giving the number out in public spaces, so if you're going to be there, get with me with an alternate contact method and I'll get it to you. I've gone ahead and paid for a couple months of LiveJournal paid service so I can be texted via their text msg interface, too, and my phone also has AIM and Yahoo on it, though I can't guarantee I'll be signed onto them all the time…
This is gonna be a blast!
I didn't think I was going to be able to make it. It was always a theoretical financial possibility, given that my brother lives in Indianapolis so I could avoid hotel fees, but I wasn't sure whether I should really be paying $200 or so in transportation costs plus con fees given how frequently my financial situation swings. But yesterday a friend who works for a company that's going to be presenting there offered me a free pass, and I discovered that if I left Thursday night and returned Monday afternoon, I could get a round-trip bus ticket for $90. Then I just had to get that Friday and Monday off from my boss, which I did…and boom.
I should be pulling into Indy on big grey doggie at about 8:30 on the morning of Friday the 12th. My plan is to walk directly from the bus station to the convention center, which is less than half a mile away, spend the day there until my bro comes to get me. I'll be in town through Monday afternoon, when the big grey doggie takes me back.
I'm going to be carrying my cellphone with me, so I should be contactable that way. I'm chary of giving the number out in public spaces, so if you're going to be there, get with me with an alternate contact method and I'll get it to you. I've gone ahead and paid for a couple months of LiveJournal paid service so I can be texted via their text msg interface, too, and my phone also has AIM and Yahoo on it, though I can't guarantee I'll be signed onto them all the time…
This is gonna be a blast!
