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[cblj_backup]

Well, the con is over and I am back home, and there is work tomorrow. Which means, in this case, I have to figure out how to get fifteen people to an offsite meeting location without the usual chartered bus transit, because the idiot who arranges transit decided that forty-odd people didn't need a bus. Fortunately less than half of those are my ducklings, but not much less than half.

So we need to acquire five to eight taxis while competing with twenty-five other people for them. Each taxi has to have at least one person aboard who has a corporate credit card with which to pay the fare, and carry at least one (hopefully two) others as well. We'll need the same coming back to the office, at which point I will need to collect all the taxi receipts and reconcile them in our accounting system.

I suspect the term "buddy up" will be in the email I send to my teams tomorrow. It would be laced with a sincere amount of profanity as well, except we're still not the kind of office where I can swear over the intranet with impunity.

I think I got away from the con pretty cheaply, to be honest. I bought the Epic Action Figure, a replacement Brigadier badge because the last one fell off my bag a year ago as the cherry on the sundae of the Worst Thursday Ever, two small art prints (this one print, it's a painting of a woman in panties printed with the Chicago flag on them and a tattoo of the subway map on her back, it's astounding) and a cheap Captain America trade paperback. Twenty bucks; not too bad.

Though my feet may never be the same. Allllll the walking.

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[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I've learned from many con appearances that you must get your feet into hot water each evening. Jacuzzi, bathtub -- in matters not, but soak you must!

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

If there is any chance that this will happen again, figure out how to rent a van-sized shuttle -- or at least see if you can find a livery company that will dispatch minivan-sized taxis. (I have had to get thirty-three people on a field trip with a rented bus that seated twenty-five, so I have a healthy dislike for transit arrangements.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Alas, shuttles are too costly -- they charge by the day, and a half-day van-shuttle-whatnot would run about $300 more than cabs would. But I have found a cab company that will send minivan cabs. :)

[hy-perion.livejournal.com]

Are there any maxi-taxi's in your area that you could call? We've got them here and groups of 8-10 people can charter one for group collections, if they're not required for people in wheelchairs/mobility equipment.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

We've got cabs that'll carry up to six. Anything larger and it's charter-by-day, which is too costly.

[sophie-spence.livejournal.com]

Too late for tomorrow's RFM, I know, but it's not time sensitive and I thought the idea was interesting and the pictures were lovely:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/bloom-28000-potted-flowers-installed-at-the-massachusetts-mental-health-center/

[sesmo.livejournal.com]

You can pre-order limos, and pre-pay them too. I'm sure there is a reputable local service that'll do it with an hour's notice. If you were out here, I could recommend one.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Alas, limos are not covered under our expenses...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lady_narcissa_/]

I got away from C2E2 pretty cheaply as well. I only ended up buying two t-shirts. And the first panel I went to on Friday night gave away books from all the authors so I got 6 free books which I might actually want to read so that was an added bonus. C2E2 has been steadily improving since it first started two years ago. A lot more vendors, more people attending, and better panels. My feet were dead as well from all that walking on concrete. I had to soak them and take Advil to recover.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

You're gonna lose some of the ducklings.

Not through any fault of YOU.

But because of Life.

And Chicago.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I did not lose any ducklings! I was most pleased.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

But your building has now been repossesed by the bank and you all have to work at the warehouse.

Sorting ball bearings.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

...I'm missing a pop culture reference, huh.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Not really, I was just imagining how Chicago would go after you next.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL, oh good!

The ball bearings were very specific, it confused me :D

[mcgonagalls-cat.livejournal.com]

"So we need to acquire five to eight taxis"

What about limos or 15-passenger vans?

You already coverd my ideas.... sorry.
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[bakaknight.livejournal.com]

A little late to the party (this is the email fiasco thing again, today I got a you-update from early April - LAST YEAR).

However:

"Do you have a Moving Buddy?"