Dragon*Con Day Four and Epilogue
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lillian13Sunday started with minimal problems. I bought my books from Larry, restocked the booth, and poked Teh Boss about printing out my boarding pass for that night.
Sundays are weird for sales at Dragon*Con--either they are willing to drop big bucks to get all their last-minute shopping done, or they constantly ask you what "last-day deals" we are running. Sorry, folks, we do 50 shows a year, plus mail order--we have no need to get rid of everything before we close, especially at some ridiculous discount. (After a while we started telling people that we had a great deal--three shirts for the price of four! Most everyone LOLed at that.) Not so many kids asking our prices and going "That's so expensive!" this year, either. Thank goodness.
I could really have done without being open until 5pm. The convention pretty much clears out by 3, and we'd love to get out 2 hours earlier. Packing up was pretty painless. I like working with Alan, since we've both done this a zillion times and we know exactly what needs to be done. Everything was packed up and ready to load before I left, which made me feel better about leaving early.
I took the taxi to the airport rather than walk to the MARTA station and take the train. Yes, it cost me roughly 10x what the train would have, but my bloody feet hurt, and I had a 2.5 hour drive after my plane landed. The lovely taxi driver and I chatted about Dragon*Con, and he carried my heavy, wheeless bag all the way to the curbside check-in for me. No weather delays, and I made the drive in to Austin in good time. I'm so glad 290 is 4 lanes now! Got in a little after 2am, read some LJ to decompress, and slept like the dead until very late this morning.
So far, I have: started a load of laundry, called the appliance repair place about my dryer (which died on me last week), cleaned the cat box, watered the outdoor plants (really, Gustav, you could have veered just a leetle farther to the west, we need the rain), and paid the rent. Still need to go to the store.
I did pick up a couple of calendars: the SGA 2009 one, and one with this John Barrowman guy in it. Hmmmm. Who on my flist deserves a John Barrowman calendar? Or should I put it up on the upcoming Sweet Charity auction?
Oh, and Threadless is having an even bigger sale now.
The hotel rant will have to wait a day or two.
Sundays are weird for sales at Dragon*Con--either they are willing to drop big bucks to get all their last-minute shopping done, or they constantly ask you what "last-day deals" we are running. Sorry, folks, we do 50 shows a year, plus mail order--we have no need to get rid of everything before we close, especially at some ridiculous discount. (After a while we started telling people that we had a great deal--three shirts for the price of four! Most everyone LOLed at that.) Not so many kids asking our prices and going "That's so expensive!" this year, either. Thank goodness.
I could really have done without being open until 5pm. The convention pretty much clears out by 3, and we'd love to get out 2 hours earlier. Packing up was pretty painless. I like working with Alan, since we've both done this a zillion times and we know exactly what needs to be done. Everything was packed up and ready to load before I left, which made me feel better about leaving early.
I took the taxi to the airport rather than walk to the MARTA station and take the train. Yes, it cost me roughly 10x what the train would have, but my bloody feet hurt, and I had a 2.5 hour drive after my plane landed. The lovely taxi driver and I chatted about Dragon*Con, and he carried my heavy, wheeless bag all the way to the curbside check-in for me. No weather delays, and I made the drive in to Austin in good time. I'm so glad 290 is 4 lanes now! Got in a little after 2am, read some LJ to decompress, and slept like the dead until very late this morning.
So far, I have: started a load of laundry, called the appliance repair place about my dryer (which died on me last week), cleaned the cat box, watered the outdoor plants (really, Gustav, you could have veered just a leetle farther to the west, we need the rain), and paid the rent. Still need to go to the store.
I did pick up a couple of calendars: the SGA 2009 one, and one with this John Barrowman guy in it. Hmmmm. Who on my flist deserves a John Barrowman calendar? Or should I put it up on the upcoming Sweet Charity auction?
Oh, and Threadless is having an even bigger sale now.
The hotel rant will have to wait a day or two.
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Date: 2008-09-03 03:55 am (UTC)