Good Times and Bad Food

[pyat]

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What follows is my tentative schedule for...

The Great 2008 Midwest Fandom Freakout and Rainbow Express!

Friday, November 21st
7:30 AM EST - Load the Haunted Police Car, depart The Mousehold.
9:30 AM EST- Arrive at U.S. border.
12:30 PM EST - Arrive in Battle Creek, Michigan, to inspect the Slan Shack and get lunch. The Slan Shack visit is just a check in for Youtube, and Battle Creek is a good place for a pit stop. Also - the home of Kellogs! And a shopping cart factory!
1:30 PM EST - Depart Battle Creek, Michigan.
3:00 PM CST - Arrive in Wheeling, Illinois for Midwest Furfest. (4:00 PM EST)
3:00 until 4:00 PM CST - Check in, registration
4:00 PM until 6:00 PM CST - Connecting with disparate freaks and weirdos.
6:00 PM until Bedtime CST - Good times and bad food.

Saturday, November 22nd
Morning - I'm usually up for 5:45 AM, so even 7:30 AM is "sleeping in". I fully intend to stay in bed as long as possible, however. For breakfast, I intend to do research on greasy spoons in the area. Failing that, I'll spring for the hotel buffet and cram myself silly.

Saturday is otherwise indeterminate. I have volunteered to assist with panels, and to run a game of Usagi Yojimbo, but nothing has been scheduled yet. Saturday evening will most certainly involve a group dinner with the Sanguine folks and assorted friends.

Through the day, I intend to record footage of the con for "Pyat's Fortress."

For the evening, I intend to bring some DVDs, and possibly host a mini-room party of themed movies on one or two nights. Titles include: Skullduggery, Knight Chills, and Mazes and Monsters! Yessir, when pyat wants to get his nerd on, he can really put his weight on it...

Sunday, November 23rd
Up whenever. Breakfast. Attend panels or run game as scheduled.

Sunday is the day I intend to take the jaunt up to Lake Geneva, as part of a Gygaxian pilgrimage. Possibly visit Mr. Gygax's grave (if I can find it), and the site of he early Gencons, and other "historic" places I may uncover. This will likely fill much of the afternoon, getting me (and any interested riders) back in time for supper.

Sunday night at a large convention is always a little melancholy. I expect to play a lot of board games on Sunday night.


Possibly with normanrafferty.

Monday, November 24th
7:00 AM - Checked out and out the door, darn you! As early as possible! We're burning daylight, you miserable slugabeds, you cantankerous slowcoaches! Blast your lazy hides!

Five hours after we leave, I'd like to stop in Detroit for lunch or supper or midnight snack (as appropriate) and visit with kianir and tigerwolfvix, before heading back on the highway. If time permits, I would not mind taking a detour through Ypsilanti, Michigan. They have a tower shaped like a wang, and Dallas Eggbert lived there.

MFF is in a new hotel this year. You can listen to a talking dog tell you about it!

Comments

[thebitterguy]

I know that Matt Forbeck was at EGG's funeral; you should ask him if he has any info on where the burial plot is.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Hopefully it's not too ghoulish.

[seritaph.livejournal.com]

What, no run by University of Wisconsin-Parkside, site of more Gencons than almost any other location?

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Ahh. A gold old fashioned, fur-trading rendezvous, is it? Hope you get some good pay for whatever beaver pelt you take along.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

That would bring me dangerously close to Waukegan, which would require a much more elaborate Bradburian pilgrimage.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Non! Je suis une habitant, je n'est pas une voyaguer!

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

You haulin' beaver down here, you're a buckskinner. None of that Frenchy stuff.

And I meant good not gold. Lack of sleep.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hauling a momentrabbit, anyway.

[seritaph.livejournal.com]

He's valuable?!?

Hmm....

[pyat.livejournal.com]

He's full of art.

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm going. I will be too busy on sunday running games of my own to trek up to Lake Geneva for an homage to Gygax. (no side quest for me on Sunday!)

I will, however, be conducting Cheese Quest on Thursday morning. The new hotel is about 20 minutes closer to the Mars Cheese Castle, so we don't have to worry as much about cutting close. I can almost taste that 10 year old cheddar already!

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Not Thursday Morning. Thursday morning I'll still be at work. I meant Friday Morning. Friday is the Day o' cheese.

After all, it's the day Uncle Kage has his show too. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

We'll see you there, sir! Though, not likely early enough for cheese. Get some curds, and I'll bring you Canadian Coke!

[dronon.livejournal.com]

Maybe I can run into you on Saturday in some manner! (On skates?) Although I don't know what I'll have to say, although I could speak in a fake French accent and say "Now... what shall we talk about?" in a creepy manner.

My ride home leaves on Sunday at a yet undetermined time, but I doubt as late as dead-dog hours. If there's an improv thing happening during the con, I might be attending that; otherwise I don't have any hard-set plans, although some friends of mine want to drag me to a restaurant that requires reservations, but I don't know when they're scheduling that outing. In any case, I hope I can shake hands with you at one point. :)

[archai.livejournal.com]

The only prior con at which our roads have met was AC last year, during which I stopped by your booth twice - once while you were busy, and again later, as you were departing for lunch.

I don't suppose I could lean on you to get lumped into a lunch or dinner grouping where I'm present in there somewhere at some point, could I? You seem a decent fellow, and I should like to spend a bit longer a time in your company and see whether the impression bears out. :}

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan. Sorta! :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think we might be able to manage something of the kind!

[renface.livejournal.com]

If you are going to be in WI without visiting me, I'll be terribly sad!!!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Whereabouts are ya at?

[renface.livejournal.com]

Madison, Wisconsin is about a 90 minute drive from Lake Geneva. I could easily visit you down there, depending on the time of day and such. My brother lives near there, too.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Well, heck, sure. If you're willing to get down to Lake Geneva on a Sunday, maybe you can help show us around?

We'll talk closer to the day. :)

[renface.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I don't work that day, either! Yes, keep in touch.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Well, I used to be. Nowadays I'm full of broken. But I appreciate the enthusiasm. n.n