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A belated Arisia write-up
Jan. 30th, 2019 05:19 pmI can't believe Arisia was more than a week ago. In the interim I've done some household maintenance, done a lot of transition things (about which I'll write more soon, I promise) been sick AF for about two days, and wow, it's been a week.
Past me wrote "eight inches of snow followed by rain followed by a hard freeze won't be AAAANY problem, right?" Past me is mostly an idiot but boy was Past Me right about that. Monday I came home before the rest of the family to find 6" of fine light powder covered by a 2" thick sheet of frozen snow that had no problem holding my weight. Getting up the driveway to get to the shovels wasn't amusing, nor was the 90 minutes of hacking it took to clear enough space that I could get my car into the driveway. I would've done more but I did something nasty to my left forearm and I declared myself done before I caused a serious tendinitis flare.
The temp and wind walking from the BPP to retrieve the car from under the Commons was so bad I literally cried from the pain of it hitting my face and then had to clear tears from my glasses so I could see to drive. So _that_ was fun. I have no idea how any of the Arisia Logistics on Ice crew managed it; they are tougher humans than I.
Arisia was about 25% smaller in attendance this year, but mostly didn't feel like it. It had all the things I've come to expect from the convention and we managed to fit many things more or less well into the new hotel space. That can be improved with experience. I'm also discovering I missed seeing a large number of people even though the Con never felt overcrowded to me or like I was missing out.
( blow by blow, chronological )
Past me wrote "eight inches of snow followed by rain followed by a hard freeze won't be AAAANY problem, right?" Past me is mostly an idiot but boy was Past Me right about that. Monday I came home before the rest of the family to find 6" of fine light powder covered by a 2" thick sheet of frozen snow that had no problem holding my weight. Getting up the driveway to get to the shovels wasn't amusing, nor was the 90 minutes of hacking it took to clear enough space that I could get my car into the driveway. I would've done more but I did something nasty to my left forearm and I declared myself done before I caused a serious tendinitis flare.
The temp and wind walking from the BPP to retrieve the car from under the Commons was so bad I literally cried from the pain of it hitting my face and then had to clear tears from my glasses so I could see to drive. So _that_ was fun. I have no idea how any of the Arisia Logistics on Ice crew managed it; they are tougher humans than I.
Arisia was about 25% smaller in attendance this year, but mostly didn't feel like it. It had all the things I've come to expect from the convention and we managed to fit many things more or less well into the new hotel space. That can be improved with experience. I'm also discovering I missed seeing a large number of people even though the Con never felt overcrowded to me or like I was missing out.
( blow by blow, chronological )
