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13 years ago
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No... that's not just the sound that you make when you've had too much to drink... it's also a convention ( http://www.biggestlittlefurcon.org ) in Reno apparently. And seeing as that's the closest damned thing I'm going to get to a local con around here. I've registered.
Yeah yeah I know... going to two cons this year. Y'all are going to start thinking I'm either not dead, or not retired or some combination of the two.
Fun facts leading up to the con.
#1 I'm working on a big project south of the airport at the moment that y'all wouldn't even be able to see the start of because we're still in prelim design on it.
#2 The con hotel used to be the MGM Grand Reno. Sometime back in the early 80s we stayed there. See mom and dad used to go to the air races in Reno every year and finally I was old enough that they didn't decided to dump us on the neighbors anymore. Dad being the idiot that he is, took us to Reno without a room reservation. Back then you didn't *do* that because there wasn't a room anywhere in town when the races were there. So of course we get there and can't find a room. I remember he tried every hotel in town until finally we worked our way out to the MGM Grand. It was really late and we were really tired but I remember mom making him get the room there and then bitching about the price of it. It was on the 23rd floor I think. I remember because at that age it scared the hell out of me being that high up in anything. In bringing up the subject with mom the other week she reminded me that the bed in the room was circular and had a mirror on the ceiling above it, which I do kind of remember now...
Anyway, there you go, funny circle of life and all that. I get to go to a furry con in a hotel that mildly raped my childhood. :)
Going to try to drive out there Thursday evening after work and probably head back Sunday since I'll be light on vacation time after my FWA adventure. If anyone is up for rooming let me know.
...I bet I still have a postcard from that stay at the hotel too, cause back then it was kind of the classiest hotel in Reno. Dad was always good for cheap souveneirs like that, which is why I have half of a Circus Circus menu and my brother has the other half... seriously.
Yeah yeah I know... going to two cons this year. Y'all are going to start thinking I'm either not dead, or not retired or some combination of the two.
Fun facts leading up to the con.
#1 I'm working on a big project south of the airport at the moment that y'all wouldn't even be able to see the start of because we're still in prelim design on it.
#2 The con hotel used to be the MGM Grand Reno. Sometime back in the early 80s we stayed there. See mom and dad used to go to the air races in Reno every year and finally I was old enough that they didn't decided to dump us on the neighbors anymore. Dad being the idiot that he is, took us to Reno without a room reservation. Back then you didn't *do* that because there wasn't a room anywhere in town when the races were there. So of course we get there and can't find a room. I remember he tried every hotel in town until finally we worked our way out to the MGM Grand. It was really late and we were really tired but I remember mom making him get the room there and then bitching about the price of it. It was on the 23rd floor I think. I remember because at that age it scared the hell out of me being that high up in anything. In bringing up the subject with mom the other week she reminded me that the bed in the room was circular and had a mirror on the ceiling above it, which I do kind of remember now...
Anyway, there you go, funny circle of life and all that. I get to go to a furry con in a hotel that mildly raped my childhood. :)
Going to try to drive out there Thursday evening after work and probably head back Sunday since I'll be light on vacation time after my FWA adventure. If anyone is up for rooming let me know.
...I bet I still have a postcard from that stay at the hotel too, cause back then it was kind of the classiest hotel in Reno. Dad was always good for cheap souveneirs like that, which is why I have half of a Circus Circus menu and my brother has the other half... seriously.
