Work then home, work then home.
Been a pretty boring week so far. A couple of high points:
– I was able to get time off in November for MFF OK’d. So I’m off on November 18, 19, and 22. The first two for preparation and actually running the silly thing, the last for recovery. Man, if I had to come back to work the after con, I think I’d die (I know you tried that, Aureth – it couldn’t have been much fun!). The downside is that I don’t get paid for those days. Coupled with the fact that I don’t get paid for the Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving, those are going to be some mighty lean weeks.
– 181 postcards later, I’m finally caught up on pre-registration notification cards. Did you know it costs $0.70 to send a postcard to the UK? I do now. (jarrodhenry, your postcard was in among them)
– I had written off to the Wake County Board of Elections in North Carolina back at the beginning of October to request an absentee ballot. Last night I finally got a response…a Request for Absentee Ballot Form. That was due yesterday. Well, that was useful. To be fair, the envelope was postmarked October 16, so the fault lies with the Post Office, not the Board of Elections. I take small comfort in knowing that my vote would be a drop in the bucket in what is overwhelming a Republican state, but it would have been nice anyway.
– I’m still trying to find a better location for Registration on Thursday night of the con. We registered 281 people on Thursday night of last year, and judging from the increase in room nights this year, we’ll easily hit 500 people Thursday night this year. I think that while registering 500 people in four hours in the downstairs hallway would be possible it might not be particularly pleasant, so I’m working with our hotel liaison (the esteemed linnaeus) to investigate other locations in the hotel. One possibility would be to share the downstairs ballroom (which after Thursday night becomes the Gaming Room and Dealers Room) with the Thursday Night Ice Cream Social, but that might get a little tight. We’ll see what alternatives we can work up.
– Still have a bunch of stuff to order from various vendors. Thank heavens that mirkowuff is gratifyingly quick on the reimbursements, or my credit card would be a smoldering wreck right now!
– I’ll be turning off our old cell phones tonight (the 919 numbers). If you need our new telephone numbers and haven’t gotten them yet, send me an e-mail and I’ll bounce ’em to you.
And now to get a little work done in the minutes before lunch…
Dude! You already have internet access? That took me months! 😉
Heh. It came with the set. And to be fair, I have used the net access for work stuff a couple of times. It’s good to track down product specs and stuff like that.
I *still* don’t have internet access. 😛
(she says while reading LJ through a pilfered login/password. 😉 It really sucks when my supplier is out of the office witha sick child, though…)
Thanks for jogging my memory
I owe MFF a sponsor-level membership. I’ll take care of that this weekend.
Re: Thanks for jogging my memory
Woohoo! You’ll be glad you did. We just confirmed the menu for the Sponsor’s Brunch (starting at 11 AM on Saturday), and it looks mighty tasty this year. French toast and eggs and bacon, plus a roast beef carving station and an omelet station as well. I’ll probably postthe full menu later.
Re: Thanks for jogging my memory
You mean if Cutter let’s me off leash to eat, right? 😉
I’m looking forward to a fun little vacation in a few weeks.
Fax Ballot
I think you should be able to get a ballot to fax in. (Heck, if a american friend of mine in England can get one, you should be able to also.) But, by all means, don’t let this go. North Carolina isn’t quite as locked up as many people think. Any chance you’ll be in town this weekend? If so, early voting will be open on both Saturday and Sunday of this weekend.
Whatever you do, don’t just blindly give up your vote.
Re: Fax Ballot
Unfortunately, I have no plans to be in North Carolina any time soon. I will check the Board of Elections website and see if there are any other alternatives, though.
Re: Fax Ballot
maybe there’s some way to cast a provisional ballot?
I think Plonq mentioned this, but we’re planning on getting to the hotel on Thursday night. We’re leaving Wednesday after work (aiming to get out of here around 5:30pm or so) and get as far as we can that night, and drive the rest of it Thursday. *IF* the weather is good, we should be there Thursday afternoon and can help out with registration, setting up stuff, whatever.
If the weather is crappy, though, we might not get in until late Thursday or (gasp) Friday morningish. (And if there are road closures, all bets are off.) But whenever we get in, we’re willing to help anywhere we’re needed for the first day of the con.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for good weather. 🙂