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The scourge of United and future cons
10 years ago
General
Should I rephrase this? Nah, nevermind. It's gonna get misinterpreted anyway.
Once again I feel bad for the scrollwheel fatigue encountered by people visiting my userpage, so I'll write a shorter journal real quick to alleviate the strain. I hung around for quite a bit in Denver after RMFC. It's a little awkward being there for so long by myself since my hosts there have jobs, but a chance to relax is always useful. It's definitely a good environment for getting work done. I know RMFC was the fastest I've ever gotten a con report done, before the trip was finished even. So yeah, it was a good time overall. I got to hang out some more with 
loomy and 
maxwelldaemon during game night, so that was plenty of fun. Clyde Hyena also dropped by later on, so I got a good chance to connect with some of the Denver furries. It was nice.
Travel is a pain in the ass as usual though. So glad my destination made it worth the aggravation. The part that gets to me the most was that I did a lot of searching, moved the dates around, paid a little more, and chose United all so that my flights wouldn't land at "aww fuck" o'clock in the morning and inconvenience the people picking me up. Well as it turns out, that's apparently the only time it's physically possible to land a plane. The one-hour flight to Washington Dulles was the only one they managed to not fuck up. Getting to Denver was supposed to happen at 9:05 and ended up at nearly 1 AM. Same shit on the way home. I was initially impressed with how they managed to only book one person in my seat, and then was profoundly unsurprised when I got news of a 40 minute delay. Perhaps I'd been judging them by the wrong standard, then. Maybe United simply operates 40 minutes into the future. That's what gets to me a lot. Not that there was a delay, it's that I spend two and a half hours being told again and again that it'll be just another few minutes. I was really worried that I'd miss my connection, particularly after I hit more delays after we landed. Fortunately though my connecting flight was also severely delayed, so I managed to get on it. Naturally then it was delayed further, again and again. It makes it a huge pain in the ass to try and communicate it to the person picking you up when you're going to be there. I had foolishly thought that pulling away from the gate was the critical point, but we managed to jam in more than an hour of waiting just taxiing about on the runway. I sent out an update text during takeoff, FAA regulations be damned! it was the only way to put out accurate intel after spending the entire evening being lied to about everything that was going to happen. Since I had nothing better to do, I tracked all the numbers on this so that I could help myself be justified about all the outrage I felt. The final count?
Time spent in the air: 9.5 hours
Time spent on delays: 7.5 hours
I was thinking it would be more just because of how absurd all this was, but it wasn't quite that bad, apparently. In any case, I'm glad all that's over. I got home just in time to move out again and start my next semester of college. I leave Saturday morning, so I'd better quit whining and get my shit together pretty quick. Back to work then, I suppose.
Regardless, one of the things that I mulled over while waiting in the long and circuitous line to register at RMFC was my rather severe con-blindness. That's what put me there, as my focus on AC had lead me to miss the pre-registration deadline for RMFC. I'm not sure if anyone else has run into this, but con-blindness is what I call my inability to think about or plan for any furry conventions beyond the one that occurs first chronologically with respect to the present time. It's actually rather crippling, as cons require quite a great deal of advanced planning very far in advance, particularly if they're stupid far away and you have to fly to them. So, better news then. I'm going to start making plans to have fun in the future, today!
So yeah, I managed to jam Furpocalypse in on a weekend last year. That was a good time, so I don't see any reason why I wouldn't give that another go. Also
archai seems enthused to see me again, so I'll take another swing at FC over winter break, hopefully this time giving him the time he needs to properly show of all that Silicon Valley has to offer. Something that also has cropped up to tantalize me has been the prospect of Anthro New England, also in January. It's on the weekend immediately following FC. Two cons in adjacent weeks is an... adventurous prospect, as I've found out recently, particularly when there's a notable amount of travel involved. At the moment though it looks to be physically possible, so why not give it a shot?
So then, onward, to adventure!
loomy and 
maxwelldaemon during game night, so that was plenty of fun. Clyde Hyena also dropped by later on, so I got a good chance to connect with some of the Denver furries. It was nice. Travel is a pain in the ass as usual though. So glad my destination made it worth the aggravation. The part that gets to me the most was that I did a lot of searching, moved the dates around, paid a little more, and chose United all so that my flights wouldn't land at "aww fuck" o'clock in the morning and inconvenience the people picking me up. Well as it turns out, that's apparently the only time it's physically possible to land a plane. The one-hour flight to Washington Dulles was the only one they managed to not fuck up. Getting to Denver was supposed to happen at 9:05 and ended up at nearly 1 AM. Same shit on the way home. I was initially impressed with how they managed to only book one person in my seat, and then was profoundly unsurprised when I got news of a 40 minute delay. Perhaps I'd been judging them by the wrong standard, then. Maybe United simply operates 40 minutes into the future. That's what gets to me a lot. Not that there was a delay, it's that I spend two and a half hours being told again and again that it'll be just another few minutes. I was really worried that I'd miss my connection, particularly after I hit more delays after we landed. Fortunately though my connecting flight was also severely delayed, so I managed to get on it. Naturally then it was delayed further, again and again. It makes it a huge pain in the ass to try and communicate it to the person picking you up when you're going to be there. I had foolishly thought that pulling away from the gate was the critical point, but we managed to jam in more than an hour of waiting just taxiing about on the runway. I sent out an update text during takeoff, FAA regulations be damned! it was the only way to put out accurate intel after spending the entire evening being lied to about everything that was going to happen. Since I had nothing better to do, I tracked all the numbers on this so that I could help myself be justified about all the outrage I felt. The final count?
Time spent in the air: 9.5 hours
Time spent on delays: 7.5 hours
I was thinking it would be more just because of how absurd all this was, but it wasn't quite that bad, apparently. In any case, I'm glad all that's over. I got home just in time to move out again and start my next semester of college. I leave Saturday morning, so I'd better quit whining and get my shit together pretty quick. Back to work then, I suppose.
Regardless, one of the things that I mulled over while waiting in the long and circuitous line to register at RMFC was my rather severe con-blindness. That's what put me there, as my focus on AC had lead me to miss the pre-registration deadline for RMFC. I'm not sure if anyone else has run into this, but con-blindness is what I call my inability to think about or plan for any furry conventions beyond the one that occurs first chronologically with respect to the present time. It's actually rather crippling, as cons require quite a great deal of advanced planning very far in advance, particularly if they're stupid far away and you have to fly to them. So, better news then. I'm going to start making plans to have fun in the future, today!
So yeah, I managed to jam Furpocalypse in on a weekend last year. That was a good time, so I don't see any reason why I wouldn't give that another go. Also
archai seems enthused to see me again, so I'll take another swing at FC over winter break, hopefully this time giving him the time he needs to properly show of all that Silicon Valley has to offer. Something that also has cropped up to tantalize me has been the prospect of Anthro New England, also in January. It's on the weekend immediately following FC. Two cons in adjacent weeks is an... adventurous prospect, as I've found out recently, particularly when there's a notable amount of travel involved. At the moment though it looks to be physically possible, so why not give it a shot?So then, onward, to adventure!
oh well