AC Friday report and irritation...
Jun. 17th, 2006 05:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
realsorienFirst, the irritation- I just found out that the basement back home flooded. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mirrdae posted it to his LJ. Hopefully it'll get sorted if he calls my folks. What I'm wondering is why he didn't call the hotel here...
Ugh.
Anyway...
Friday started off well, with my waking at 7:00 AM instead of the usual ungodly hours I tend to awaken at during con. After the usual cleanup I went online a bit and encounteredbluedeer, and decided to meet up with him for breakfast and such. I went down and waited while he was in line for registration (he wasn't preregistered), and while I was there I attmpted to collect up my Tea Party signs.
I found one. The one that was left at the Message Board.
I figured that they'd simply been cleaned up but hotel staff or collected by congoers as souvenirs, thus no big deal. Turns out that's not what happened. On Thursday, I went to the hotel manager on duty and told him of my desire to place signs around, showing him one so he could see that it was harmless both in content and to the hotel. He told me there was no problem, and to go ahead, so I placed them about the hotel in various locations.
As it turned out, that manager got overruled by a superior, and the signs were confiscated. They didn't even bother calling me about it. Now I don't have a problem with the signs being removed, only in how it was done- which was lame.
A hotel's first priority is to cater to its guests. All they needed to do was let me know and I would have removed the signs- What they did was, in my view, unprofessional. I've been told that the signs can be reclaimed at the front desk, but this only came about after I talked to the manager I'd dealt with on Thursday.
To the person who told me of the removal- thank you. I'm leaving your name out of this so you don't have problems.
In any event, this digression aside I ended up stuffing myself at breakfast withbluedeer and then headed over to the convention center. We both took some pictures of the river, a barge and a riverboat and a few other things- I really need to consider a photobucket site...
Thereafter we hit the dealer's room. I've got a pic coming in the 'Sorien' sketchbook fromsusandeer, one from feezlekhan in the 'open' book and one more that I set up much later from an artist named Stephanie King. Appropriately, that'll be a pic of my character Goblin. :)
We eventually got separated, and I ended up pulling 2 hours of volunteer work at the bag check for the Art Show; that went less well than I would have liked, as I started feeling ill after about an hour. I'm still not sure what caused it.
I later reconnected withbluedeer and we had dinner at Mahoneys, a little bar/resturant near here- why the hell it and most other places nearby close at 9 PM I don't get. They're right by a convention center, f'ghodssake!
And that was most of Friday, aside from all the people I ran into. Hi!
mirrdae posted it to his LJ. Hopefully it'll get sorted if he calls my folks. What I'm wondering is why he didn't call the hotel here...Ugh.
Anyway...
Friday started off well, with my waking at 7:00 AM instead of the usual ungodly hours I tend to awaken at during con. After the usual cleanup I went online a bit and encountered
bluedeer, and decided to meet up with him for breakfast and such. I went down and waited while he was in line for registration (he wasn't preregistered), and while I was there I attmpted to collect up my Tea Party signs.I found one. The one that was left at the Message Board.
I figured that they'd simply been cleaned up but hotel staff or collected by congoers as souvenirs, thus no big deal. Turns out that's not what happened. On Thursday, I went to the hotel manager on duty and told him of my desire to place signs around, showing him one so he could see that it was harmless both in content and to the hotel. He told me there was no problem, and to go ahead, so I placed them about the hotel in various locations.
As it turned out, that manager got overruled by a superior, and the signs were confiscated. They didn't even bother calling me about it. Now I don't have a problem with the signs being removed, only in how it was done- which was lame.
A hotel's first priority is to cater to its guests. All they needed to do was let me know and I would have removed the signs- What they did was, in my view, unprofessional. I've been told that the signs can be reclaimed at the front desk, but this only came about after I talked to the manager I'd dealt with on Thursday.
To the person who told me of the removal- thank you. I'm leaving your name out of this so you don't have problems.
In any event, this digression aside I ended up stuffing myself at breakfast with
bluedeer and then headed over to the convention center. We both took some pictures of the river, a barge and a riverboat and a few other things- I really need to consider a photobucket site...Thereafter we hit the dealer's room. I've got a pic coming in the 'Sorien' sketchbook from
susandeer, one from feezlekhan in the 'open' book and one more that I set up much later from an artist named Stephanie King. Appropriately, that'll be a pic of my character Goblin. :) We eventually got separated, and I ended up pulling 2 hours of volunteer work at the bag check for the Art Show; that went less well than I would have liked, as I started feeling ill after about an hour. I'm still not sure what caused it.
I later reconnected with
bluedeer and we had dinner at Mahoneys, a little bar/resturant near here- why the hell it and most other places nearby close at 9 PM I don't get. They're right by a convention center, f'ghodssake!And that was most of Friday, aside from all the people I ran into. Hi!
