back in the game.

[mandolin]

Okay. Said this before elsewhere, but I am not allowed near LiveJournal anymore in the midst of the Mood Swing Morning of Doom. I'm fine, I just tend to get worked up over really petty things.

Switching over to topics of NOT failing: Now that Southwest and BWI have settled things, I have finally booked a room and plane tickets for G2008. Also, since the G2008 forum is having severe issues I'll throw the offer out here - if anybody needs a roommate, contact me and brooklynx. We've got space for a third.

Still need to:

1) Figure out what to do about carry-ons. Most importantly, how to get Carmine there safely. Not sure if mailing him is the best option, but even if they let me carry him on I can only imagine if they make me stow him under the seat/overhead and he goes crunch courtesy of somebody's feet/luggage.

2) Find out if the hotel rooms have safes. This will impact any decision to take the laptop with me. Didn't take it to G2007 because there was none and I learned years ago that you can't always trust housekeeping. (Okay, the culprit in the Econo Lodge incident was not the brightest crayon in the box and this is no Econo Lodge, but still.) They DO and apparently are big enough to store a laptop. Now I... need to figure out if I can bring the laptop. I want to because I think it's the only way I'm going to finish a con report for the first time since 2003.

3) Find out about food/etc in the immediate area. Preferably stuff within safe walking distance so I don't wind up dragging Greg Wiseman six blocks to find a pharmacy in New York again. (Yeah, that was '03 but I still look back on that and feel bad about it. Nobody else knew where it was.)

4) Figure out the rest of the to-do list because this is way too short.

5) Get lunch because hey, it's noon. Well, that was easy.