Friday night movie

[johnridley]

Lexi is watching 1776. I was cleaning but made the mistake of walking by. I swear, that's like the most entertaining movie of all time. I don't think there's a single moment of it that I could walk by and not wind up watching it for a half hour. I finally had to get back to work but I was thinking, I hope they show this movie to every kid at some point in the schools. Lexi is out there laughing every 10 seconds.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

You're not at Confusion?

K.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, convention season is also tax electronic filing season, so it's almost guaranteed that if it happens between November and April, I won't be able to make it.

I normally only make Duckon and Berzerker anymore, and this year I'm not sure about Duckon.

Conventions are strictly social occasions for me, I have no interest in any of the programming, except for science content (hence Duckon) and possibly social programming.

And when I say "social occasion" I mean "sit in the GT suite and catch up with GT members." I've never really enjoyed just visiting other room parties. The conventions are essentially a chance for me to sit in the GT suite for a couple of days at the cost of $400 or so. I'm not really loaded enough to do that many times a year. Once or twice, OK.

This year I am actually hoping to go on at least one other significant family vacation other than Berzerker (which has been 100% of our travel and vacation for several years now), so I'm probably just going to save my money and save it for gas later in the year.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Also, I've never been very familiar with Detroit-area conventions. I've probably only ever been to 5 or 6 of them. Basically what it comes down to is, if I go to a Chicago area convention, I'm more likely to see Chicago people, Minneapolis people, St Louis people, and Detroit people. If I go to Detroit cons, many of the people to the west don't make it. So clearly if I'm only going to make one or two conventions a year, they should be Chicago cons.

I miss Minneapolis, but I don't like 12-hour drives with the family, at least not for 2 days of convention. 'Taint worth it.