Okay, I get it

[bolson]

I'm missing a lot of the con by going home and not staying at the con hotel. Missing late night parties. Missing morning events before I can get up and get there.

Maybe next year. In these dark economic times, paying for a hotel room 4 miles from home still seems hard to justify.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As someone else who always goes home (even if that means staggering bleary towards the garage at 4 AM), yeah, it does suck a lot. Hotel room prices aren't as bad if you split them with 2 or 3 other people in the traditional manner... just check ahead of time for snorers.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

That's okay. I'm missing the con altogether.

[hippie1025.livejournal.com]

I finally discovered a couple of years ago that you miss much less of the con if you are willing to pay for the cab ride home instead of ducking out to catch the T. Yeah, I still miss morning panels that I want to get to, but I can stay for as much of the late night performances and parties as I want.

But I *might* choose to get a room one of these years.

[orelalaith.livejournal.com]

wow, yeah, that's a hard descision to justify. Did you take public transportation? I know in NYC it gets pretty... unreliable... at night.

(FYI, this is grace... you let me borrow your cell so i can call at&t about your cell! :)

[soong.livejournal.com]

Hi Grace! Yes, I remember you from that and other things throughout the weekend.
The one bit of public transit I needed, the red line subway, gets a little infrequent at night and stops entirely from 12:30 to 5-ish. It was really the midnight stop that I was most worried about missing, so I left the con hotel by 11:30 each night.
Maybe the solution is to go to some far away con where I can't help but stay at the con hotel.
Alternatively I need to become sufficiently wealthy so that the $xxx doesn't seem like a big deal and yes of course I would spend that for the convenience and improved experience. (This may have actually already happened and it just hasn't sunk in yet, may have also been offset by recently spending $bignum on my condo and general economic malaise.) Uhm, </ramble> Hi!

[orelalaith.livejournal.com]

Is it a bad thing the first thing i noticed was a lack of a tag? :-D

Don't read too much into how much you make versus the average American household... According to census; I'm making well above an average American household income. Unfortunately, I live in NY (not even in the freaking city), and the cost of living is freaking insane. I swear, even up there I took a look at housing prices (for shits and crying), and I'm like "ARGH!!!"

yah... our busses doesn't stop... officially... however... the 1/2 hour wait for the Q12 has this tendency of becoming 1.5 hours...

this is especially true when it's cold... this is not apocryphal... I actually kept a log of my wait times when it's warm & when it's cold!