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stitchwhichKnown World Herald's and Scribes Symposium is becoming more and more addictive. Mostly because I am easing into becoming a part of the community so each year I meet up with faces I miss during the rest of the year. It was so lovely to see my Brothers here right off the bat, and Istvan, Marie, and their baby (when she was sleeping it was obvious that she has her mother's face so clearly!), Shauna (this being the only time I see her) and this year there was eKat, and Eilis, who I usually only see at Pennsic. Yay! And there was Bruni, and Alys, and Lillia, & Emma along with Umaka, who just HAD to go to a Japanese persona so I can never remember his name (I looked it up for this). The folks from Avacal were fun to chat with. It was also so nice to finally put a face to "Yehuda" of the EastRealm, who praised my protégée Isabella (soon to be my successor as Golden Dolphin) and our Maddog, who I hadn't noticed all that much in Atlantia but will be paying more attention to now.
The next one will be in Toronto. If I have a herald's staff-type job, I will have to get a passport and make arrangements to attend it. If I don't, I think I might give it a skip. That's a lot of household budget to spend just for my personal enjoyment even if I'd be sniffly about missing it. Although Bossman said something about maybe driving to it as a mini-vacation for the two of us. It's only about a 12-hour trip.
The classes I attended were well presented. There was one disruptive person who (unfortunately for me) was in four of mine but it gave me a chance to be awed by Alys' handling of zir. She did it so well that I don't think ze was aware that ze'd been weighed, measured, and found wanting. Ze works in the same area as I had started working in at Pennsic and I found zir difficult enough there that I would go out of my way to ensure I wasn't at the desk in the same time slots as ze. Go figure that we'd meet again here and with duties alike enough to be in the same meetings and classes. I rather like the way Gabriel Laurel handled zir during the Roadshow, too.
I find Las Vegas to be boring. I'm sure that is because I'm in the hotel district and unable to get to the lovely desert areas around the city. Going out for dinner with my Brothers on Saturday was fun, if very crowded, and the crowd-watching was amusing for those seated facing the strip (we ate outside) but my view was of the outer wall, the wait staff's till, and a (silent) television... our conversation made up for that though and it was so very nice to relax. Speaking of 'nice' - "Nine Fine Irishmen" serves a very nice shepherd's pie and their band was quite talented.
My Eldest took me to where he and his sweetie work - a hookah lounge called "The Olive". I didn't find the fumes all that difficult, not like regular smoking areas (Oh the lobby of this hotel! STINKY!) and there was an R&B band playing who were talented and crossed genres enough to be more entertaining than I expected... they are all Samoan and young enough to be my sons but they ended their show with acapella renditions of old Sha-Na-Na tunes. They had no bass singer, though, so it seemed a wee bit off.
I did try gambling, finally, this morning when I woke up at 5am. I got bored with that, too, rather quickly and found I'd come out even when I cashed out. To tell the truth, I don't know if I was using the machine correctly and realized early on that I didn't care. As slot machine games go, I prefer the solitaire games on my computer instead. I didn't attempt the tables.
The hotel room is okay. It isn't designed to encourage a person to linger once they are out of their bed. In fact, it seems specifically designed to chase a person out of the room as soon as possible while still giving the illusion of comfort. The chairs are the sort which cut off circulation just behind the knee so one cannot stay in them for long. and rather than a desk, there is a slab of marble sticking out of the wall with a mirror mounted above it, with an 'atmosphere' type lamp mounted to the middle of that. Besides the single lamp between the two beds, that is all the lighting source there is. I much prefer hotels designed for business travelers! But I was able to secure a refrigerator (rental is on a first come/first served basis) and had fun with that - they put it on the floor, my little 24 inch tall fridge, so I had difficulty actually reaching the back of the fridge where the temperature control was. It seemed rather warm when I arrived so my son adjusted it to a colder setting before he left. The next morning I woke up to ice-cold bottles of soda, which then turned into true ice immediately after I opened each one. That was amusing. Even the rock-hard grapes were amusing. I could have used them as ice cubes had I alcohol in the room.
This morning I have discovered that the Oscar-Meyer's "fully cooked bacon" available as a non-refrigerated item can make about three good sandwiches. It is very greasy, though, so bread is needed, which I didn't have in here so a washcloth stood in as a napkin. I really needed the protein-fix. I'm going to have to remember that for later trips. It was an easy protein fix, and bacon. You know - bacon.
The next one will be in Toronto. If I have a herald's staff-type job, I will have to get a passport and make arrangements to attend it. If I don't, I think I might give it a skip. That's a lot of household budget to spend just for my personal enjoyment even if I'd be sniffly about missing it. Although Bossman said something about maybe driving to it as a mini-vacation for the two of us. It's only about a 12-hour trip.
The classes I attended were well presented. There was one disruptive person who (unfortunately for me) was in four of mine but it gave me a chance to be awed by Alys' handling of zir. She did it so well that I don't think ze was aware that ze'd been weighed, measured, and found wanting. Ze works in the same area as I had started working in at Pennsic and I found zir difficult enough there that I would go out of my way to ensure I wasn't at the desk in the same time slots as ze. Go figure that we'd meet again here and with duties alike enough to be in the same meetings and classes. I rather like the way Gabriel Laurel handled zir during the Roadshow, too.
I find Las Vegas to be boring. I'm sure that is because I'm in the hotel district and unable to get to the lovely desert areas around the city. Going out for dinner with my Brothers on Saturday was fun, if very crowded, and the crowd-watching was amusing for those seated facing the strip (we ate outside) but my view was of the outer wall, the wait staff's till, and a (silent) television... our conversation made up for that though and it was so very nice to relax. Speaking of 'nice' - "Nine Fine Irishmen" serves a very nice shepherd's pie and their band was quite talented.
My Eldest took me to where he and his sweetie work - a hookah lounge called "The Olive". I didn't find the fumes all that difficult, not like regular smoking areas (Oh the lobby of this hotel! STINKY!) and there was an R&B band playing who were talented and crossed genres enough to be more entertaining than I expected... they are all Samoan and young enough to be my sons but they ended their show with acapella renditions of old Sha-Na-Na tunes. They had no bass singer, though, so it seemed a wee bit off.
I did try gambling, finally, this morning when I woke up at 5am. I got bored with that, too, rather quickly and found I'd come out even when I cashed out. To tell the truth, I don't know if I was using the machine correctly and realized early on that I didn't care. As slot machine games go, I prefer the solitaire games on my computer instead. I didn't attempt the tables.
The hotel room is okay. It isn't designed to encourage a person to linger once they are out of their bed. In fact, it seems specifically designed to chase a person out of the room as soon as possible while still giving the illusion of comfort. The chairs are the sort which cut off circulation just behind the knee so one cannot stay in them for long. and rather than a desk, there is a slab of marble sticking out of the wall with a mirror mounted above it, with an 'atmosphere' type lamp mounted to the middle of that. Besides the single lamp between the two beds, that is all the lighting source there is. I much prefer hotels designed for business travelers! But I was able to secure a refrigerator (rental is on a first come/first served basis) and had fun with that - they put it on the floor, my little 24 inch tall fridge, so I had difficulty actually reaching the back of the fridge where the temperature control was. It seemed rather warm when I arrived so my son adjusted it to a colder setting before he left. The next morning I woke up to ice-cold bottles of soda, which then turned into true ice immediately after I opened each one. That was amusing. Even the rock-hard grapes were amusing. I could have used them as ice cubes had I alcohol in the room.
This morning I have discovered that the Oscar-Meyer's "fully cooked bacon" available as a non-refrigerated item can make about three good sandwiches. It is very greasy, though, so bread is needed, which I didn't have in here so a washcloth stood in as a napkin. I really needed the protein-fix. I'm going to have to remember that for later trips. It was an easy protein fix, and bacon. You know - bacon.
