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Post by erinslion on Jan 28, 2011 14:04:23 GMT -5
Arch Attack? Well that's why your feet hurt...
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Post by daworm on Jan 28, 2011 21:02:24 GMT -5
Oh, I understand all that. It's not about you, KC, you know I love you to death. I just don't love that place at that time. Were it in September, or May, sure, I'd go, but I doubt the Choo Choo is hurting for business in those months, so you wouldn't get the same good rates (not that you'd be likely to change dates anyway, that was just as a "for instance").
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Post by MSwafford on Jan 29, 2011 6:06:21 GMT -5
Mark, share your thoughts.. PM sent to Glenn. I await his reply. |
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Post by ScarlettP on Feb 3, 2011 8:57:48 GMT -5
Personally, I would very much like to volunteer my services to teach some costuming classes. However, the limitations of only doing "Make it and Take it" classes became far to constricting. There are very few viable skills which can be taught and preformed by the unskilled in less than one hour.
My specialties normally revolve around sewing and there is no way to provide 30 sewing machines and materials for a projected group who may or may not show up. For example, I COULD do very informative "How To" demonstrations on things like Corset making, if I could simply bring in ONE machine, multiple copies of a corset in various stages of construction. I cannot bring and give away 30 busks at an average cost of $15 each - (http://www.corsetmaking.com/supplies.html#busks) plus the fabrics. Not to mention that it takes ME, an advanced seamstress, an average of 8 hours labor to construct a proper corset. However, I know a lot of nifty little money saving tricks that I don't mind passing along.
The tricky part is that I need someone from Chattacon to TELL me and Jeff that we have or have not been scheduled more than a day or two before the convention. The last time Jeff was supposed to do a class on miniature painting, no one informed him of the class until after he failed to appear. We barely made it one of our other panels because we didn't know about it until a friend said "I'll be there." Then WE get branded as being Unreliable because we pulled a "No Show" on a job we didn't know we were supposed to do.
Just FYI - when we were guests at DragonCon, we had stickers on the backs of our badges listing every one of our 8-10 panels with the times and places. I don't expect stickers, but a piece of paper would be nice. Or a "Confirm Reply Requested" email a week prior would be even BETTER! That way, we don't show up looking like jack asses... instead of just being dumb asses who didn't know what the heck was expected of us.
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Please remember, I have at least put in an appearance at Chattacon every year since 1979. It is a part of my conventioning tradition for the majority of my life. I may jump on some ribbing about the registration lines and the venue... but I will always hold Chattacon near and dear to my heart. This year, the only reason I didn't attend was the simple fact that my husband had been out of work for 5 months. I flat out didn't have the money to pay for it. That's what has happened to a huge number of your normally paying guests. It cost a lot of money to run the convention. Some of us just don't have the funds to attend as many as we once did. As the economy as a whole picks up, maybe some of those who felt the pinch - like us - will return.
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 3, 2011 9:01:44 GMT -5
and don't we have this thread every year?
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 3, 2011 9:08:40 GMT -5
Keep having these threads and eventually you will pique my interest enough to attend one of these shindigs.
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Post by Walker, Texas Ranger on Feb 4, 2011 7:29:43 GMT -5
You would probably enjoy LibertyCon quite a bit, Justin.
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Post by MSwafford on Feb 4, 2011 8:36:14 GMT -5
and don't we have this thread every year? *sigh* Alas, yes. |
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Post by ScarlettP on Feb 4, 2011 8:38:27 GMT -5
LOL
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 4, 2011 8:42:43 GMT -5
Here, let me wrap it up for everyone.
Someone in the disgruntled camp goes to a meeting and expresses their thoughts on improvement.
Management discusses it and decides it can't be done.
Disgruntled member comes here to complain that they ask for ideas and ignore them.
Management comes in and explains reasons for ignoring them.
Everyone piles on with ideas to resolve obstacles to implementing plan.
Management disagrees with all said ideas, says so, and the disgruntled exclaim loudly they'll never go back while Management asks for more ideas to improve the con.
It all ends in a huffy blaze of glory.
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Post by MSwafford on Feb 4, 2011 16:22:55 GMT -5
Disgruntled member comes here to complain that they ask for ideas and ignore them. Kinda. Member(s). I wasn't the only one who was complaining. I was just complaining the loudest and they only one who decided that going just wasn't worth it anymore. |
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 4, 2011 16:33:04 GMT -5
I reference of course past years. We've not yet run the full course for this conversation in 2011.
I simply shortened the process.
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Post by MSwafford on Feb 5, 2011 1:46:46 GMT -5
Gotcha. Apologies.  |
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Post by Police Moderator on Feb 5, 2011 8:34:10 GMT -5
WK just posted a synopsis of every staff meeting I have ever been in.
OK if I cut and paste it into the next meeting's agenda?
It would save us all a lot of time.
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 5, 2011 8:34:34 GMT -5
ROFL!
Go for it!
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Post by MSwafford on Feb 5, 2011 10:33:26 GMT -5
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Feb 5, 2011 11:12:08 GMT -5
That scene would be a great place for the sherriff's dept. to update and double check the sex offenders registry and child porn rings. just sayin
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 5, 2011 11:43:40 GMT -5
and you base that ASSumption on what, exactly?
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Post by mikeydokey on Feb 5, 2011 12:14:51 GMT -5
That scene would be a great place for the sherriff's dept. to update and double check the sex offenders registry and child porn rings. just sayin I had a ring once you could hold up to a light and see the Lord's Prayer in, but I've never seen one you could see child porn in. |
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Feb 5, 2011 12:43:24 GMT -5
grown people dressing up in kids costumes got to be some mental unstablity in that crowd what kind of adult does this. Act your age for christ sake..
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 5, 2011 13:58:06 GMT -5
I don't know, JS, it seems to me a healthy expression of the id and a moderation of the super-ego to me. That should equate to some very healthy psyches. Maybe if you stopped repressing your id so much and started moderating your super-ego you could get rid of some of those sexual identity hangups you have and enjoy life a little more.
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 5, 2011 16:43:04 GMT -5
Jay seems very repressed.
What's wrong Jay? Did mommy and daddy tell you dancing is queer and take away your Superman underoos because they were "satanic?"
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Post by joedog on Feb 5, 2011 18:23:46 GMT -5
no...... they just discouraged use of his imagination.
Did you know at Chattacon this year there was an author who was retired scientist from NASA's Shuttle program?
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Post by MSwafford on Feb 5, 2011 21:01:52 GMT -5
grown people dressing up in kids costumes got to be some mental unstablity in that crowd what kind of adult does this. Act your age for christ sake.. It's called unwinding from the drudgery of daily life and having fun so we don't get so wound up in our own, and others', bullshit that we lose control and end up killing someone. |
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Feb 6, 2011 23:55:40 GMT -5
I quit trick or treating at 12. Too each their own. Great justification though.
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Post by Justin Thyme on Feb 7, 2011 6:37:55 GMT -5
I quit trick or treating at 12. Just as I thought, suppression of the id an an overly developed superego at an early age. Tell me, what sort of relationship did you have with your parents at twelve? Especially your relationship with your father? Did you feel you were competing with him for attention from your mother? |
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Post by Scarlet&Gray on Feb 7, 2011 21:00:21 GMT -5
Not that it's your business but my parents were divorced by the age of 12. It's not any issue with me. I just don't play dress up games. I wonder what issues people have that do. were they molested as a child are they molestors now. They don't or won't grow up hmmmmm, heavy drug and alcohol use, battered masturbators...
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Post by Warkitty on Feb 7, 2011 21:29:41 GMT -5
You really do have a fixation on the idea that people having fun must mean child molestation. Are you SURE you don't have some issues surrounding your parents divorce?
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Post by Tsavodiner on Feb 7, 2011 22:04:12 GMT -5
grown people dressing up in kids costumes got to be some mental unstablity in that crowd what kind of adult does this. Act your age for christ sake.. It's called unwinding from the drudgery of daily life and having fun so we don't get so wound up in our own, and others', bullshit that we lose control and end up killing someone. SOLD! "I'll BE there...." |
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Post by Tsavodiner on Feb 7, 2011 22:05:17 GMT -5
...and I prefer mine lightly sauteed with olive oil....
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