{"id":794,"date":"2008-03-31T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/03\/31\/the-weekend-officially-begins\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T10:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T10:39:00","slug":"the-weekend-officially-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/03\/31\/the-weekend-officially-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The weekend officially begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I drove back to Blacksburg in a much happier car. On the way, jsciv<\/a> called and set up a meet, wherein I found that for $10 more a night I could have had a suite twice the size (not that I would have used it for much). We hit Christiansburg’s new Panera with Lucy, and talked a lot of game industry shop. Joe seems to be doing quite well for himself these days, which is great; we made hyper-flimsy plans for a Disney run out there sometime in the hazy future. (Flying. Not driving.)<\/p>\n

Made it to the con, and picked up my Staff badge. I think I’m permanent TCon staff now… not that I mind, it’s a pleasure every year, but it amuses me nevertheless. I did not recognize tltrent<\/a> at first, gomen, gomen<\/i>! But I traded a lot of greetings with lots of great folk in those first minutes. I remember yubbie<\/a> looking quite distracted, for reasons I would later discover…<\/p>\n

I spent most of Friday re-learning my way around McBryde Hall on the Virginia Tech campus, location of many VTSFFC and USS McKay<\/i> events. I socialized quite a bit, catching up with long-time fandom friends. In a lot of ways, Technicon for me is like getting to be 25 again, and getting to spend time with all these fun, intelligent people without being a broke, know-it-all slacker fanboy. I don’t miss that aspect of myself much!<\/p>\n

Dwight’s Friday night dance was short and unfortunately-scheduled, turning more into an excuse to play exotic cuts really loud in a University auditorium while the iTunes Visualizer hypnotized the small crowd. nius<\/a>‘s quote, “We’re rocking McBryde 100, bitches!” ended up on buttons for him and Dwight and me.<\/p>\n

Shut down con and move to the Microtel conference room, where I snagged ursulav<\/a>, Meche, and Bert for Saturday night’s panels, and finally caught up to shrewlet<\/a>. First, colleenk<\/a> and I got some long-awaited personal chat time – let’s not make it so long before the next one! – and then Cindy and I got a little conversation in before she had to take a guest home for the evening.<\/p>\n

An excellent Technicon Friday! Saturday would be a bit rougher…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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