Schedule confluence overload!

[chanaleh]

President's Day weekend is 2/14-2/16.
Boskone is that weekend (Friday to Sunday).
I've never been to Boskone.
I intend to make at least an appearance this year, presumably Saturday.
geraty suggested in particular that I come this year to meet and do business with some noreascon4 folks. No word yet on when during the weekend that will happen.

Da Vinci's Notebook are playing Club Passim that weekend.
DVN are ceasing "drastically reducing" touring, so may not be back again in the foreseeable future.
The three shows are Saturday 7pm and 10pm; Sunday 8pm.
Currently there appear to still be tickets for all shows, but this will not be true much longer.

Honorable Menschen have rehearsal Sunday night at 7, which would preclude my going Sunday.
yonah has suggested that HM go en masse to the Saturday 10pm show.

But if I want to show up to Boskone, especially for the express purpose of meeting up with people, there are likely to be dinner things happening during the early show and concerts or parties during the later one.

Saturday is also Valentine's Day. Let's not even talk about those implications, or I shall freak out and have to declare it officially outside my coping field.

Help??

At least I get that Monday off... Hey, maybe the HM rehearsal will get pushed off to Monday night since it's Presidents' Day (that's what we did for MLK Day weekend), freeing up Sunday.

Note: Once we pick a show, I am NOT coordinating dozens of tickets. I am ordering six at most, the rest of you can figure it out. :-)

Note the second: Next stop, Lunacon arrangements...


EDIT, 1/26/04: I've now ordered tix for the Saturday late show (10pm). Join me before they sell out!

Comments

[bluepapercup]

Posts like this make me glad that I don't have enough of a social life to worry about conflicting plans. I'm usually just glad if I have something to do Friday *and* Saturday. heh.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world, baby cakes. :-)

[jencallisto]

oh! *hits forehead against cubicle wall*
but Da Vinci's Notebook is so much better live than on their cd's, and i keep meaning to see them at Passim but failing...
and so they're coming to Boston the weekend of Boskone and then drastically reducing touring.

damn it. not okay. grr.

suggestion

[erik-j-meyer.livejournal.com]

actually Boskone is Friday the 13th till Sunday afternoon.

unfortunately for me I have something I have to do on that Saturday (Lodge related item). As a result I will not be able to be at Boskone to enjoy it. I do have a membership tho. Membership can not be rolled over to the next year, but it can be transferred to another this year with a nice letter. So, since you seem to have a desire to go, would you care for a free membership? you get Friday and Sunday as well this way.

go to the Saturday night (10pm) show after most of the programming for the day is done anyways

Sunday night should not be to bad exhaustion wise as you should not be working this con, just enjoying it.

not sure if this is of any use, but it is my suggestion.

Re: suggestion

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Aren't you sweet! (That's not a question. Don't answer it. :-)

If you really don't intend to show up to Boskone, and have no other more deserving takers of your membership, I'd be pleased to take the transfer.

Re: suggestion

[erik-j-meyer.livejournal.com]

well, my Lodge item (which I found out timing and date for last week) will occupy from 2pm-6pm-ish on Saturday. That would imply leaving the con by no later than noon and likely not getting back before 8pm. That does kind of break up the day for me. That and stressing about things gettign done would take out much of the potential fun and relaxing element.

I will check what information is needed for the transfer and send along an e-mail to you with copy of such.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Argh, I've been lame about getting DVN tickets... now that I've seen several people mention it in LJ, I better scramble and hope it doesn't sell out.

As it is, I'll be cutting out of the middle of the 29th SF Marathon to go see them.

[laurion]

I'm -a going with the DVN show myself. I saw them at Falconridge, and a week later at Passim, and I am looking forward to seeing them again.

[red-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of reviving the Love Sucks dinner party for bitter single folks. I do NOT like VD, and never have, except for the 2 years I was with my X. Bleah. We broke up right before VD last year, too.

I'd like to go to Boskone myself, but am not sure I have the bandwidth to cope. Still thinkin' it over.

As for DVN, they're another thing I associate with my X, and I'm not sufficiently enamored of them to want to go (never mind how much I don't want to run into X, I'm still a little hypersensitive to some reminders).

In short, I very much understand the appeal of all of these things...! and I'm a wimp about some of them.

Bad timing

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

The day after President's Day, flinx and I fly off to Hong Kong via Tokyo. I think that his plans are even further confused in that he is supposed to be at a convention in San Francisco during the weekend prior to the 16th.

Would you like any souvenirs?

[points.livejournal.com]

Wait, there's more than one Yonah in the world? Eeg. I thought I was the only one. ;)

any time is still open for me

[cthulhia]

please grab a ticket for me.

I will *hopefully* be back by then. :/

Re: any time is still open for me

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Will do, dearie. Consider it my Valentine to you. :-) Hang in there.

[noghri.livejournal.com]

Surely you can pack a little more into the weekend :) Only 3 things?? Seriously, it's better to be overscheduled than under I find. You'll figure it out :)

Btw, I saw a flyer at my office yesterday for a '90 VW Cabriolet Convertible being sold. It wasn't your dream color if I remember what you wanted correctly (pink, right?), but it made me think of you nonethless. Besides, you could always paint it :)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I'm so amused you remember that! Yeah, pink is hard to come by, so I'm willing to be realistic about my fantasies ;-) But do I have to learn to drive stick?

[noghri.livejournal.com]

It's scary what stays behind in the recesses of my mind, isn't it? :) If only I could pull most of the information hiding in there at will!

The car's an automatic... Not sure if that's a good thing or not. It actually looks like a fairly good deal, it's close to 100k miles, but for 14 years old, that's not bad, and a lot of the major systems apparently have recently been replaced. It's white on white, with red and black interior. I can scan you a copy of the flyer if you want :)

[gingicat]

Thanks for the notification about DVN. :) I just emailed friends who are coming in from Atlanta for Boskone, and we very may well end up T-ing from the con to go see them. Wanna travel with us?

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Cool! I settled on the Saturday late show (you?), but have no idea where I'll be prior to that. I'll try to check in with you if I'm coming from that vicinity.

[gingicat]

I think I'm going to lobby for the earlier show, actually, unless that conflicts with something we really want to do at Boskone.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I think there's a Noreascon 4 meeting that Monday. My plan was to take the cheap bus up Sunday in time for the Boscone Regency dance on Sunday afternoon, see if I can impose on mabfan and gnomi or jadasc for crash space, and go to the meeting on Monday.