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"Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
-Joe Hill
My brother texted the family group chat this quote before he went to work today. I'm not in a good place this morning, but we can't lose ourselves to despair. I know I have a lot of anger right now, but getting into whose fault that is won't help anyone.
Dwelling on the people I will never forgive won't help anyone.
I'm not that optimistic, but hope is a choice we can still make. It's a hard one to make this morning, but I'm still going to do my best. We are where we are, and focusing on yesterday won't change that. We can only move forward, and save as many as we can along the way.
There will be a tomorrow because we're going to make sure there's a tomorrow.
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At one point while volunteering, I was pressed on to take a GoH to a dinner event, held at a restaurant a mile offsite.
When I say “At one point”, I mean my first year attending the con, in a city I’d never been in before, in a small no-frills car with no air conditioning, without owning a GPS. Thankfully for all involved I wasn’t an axe murderer or an idiot, and we made it there and back just fine.
All our GoHs now have Limo service from the airport (not that expensive, really) which has a proven track record: It’s surprisingly affordable, makes quite an impression to start the convention, and is always on-time and prompt for pick-ups.
…and only once was the limo driver unable to find the gigantic downtown convention center, which is someone else’s story to tell.
My old con (and my new con) were/are held in a town an hour’s drive from the nearest airport, so limo service was never really an option.
It was always “who has a car that isn’t embarrassing to look at”
An hour away from airports is pretty ouch, yup. Ours is 20 minutes, which means that you may have to rely on ‘fan with a van’.
Still, Limo service is worth considering. One year, our Guest of Honor (Bill Holbrook) and his daughter arrived at the airport ready to be picked up. His daughter spotted the limo driver with a “Holbrook” sign, and said “Daddy, is that for us?”
Bill replied with “No sweetie, that’s for important people.”
And then the limo driver said “Mr. Holbrook, for Anthrocon?”
His daughter didn;t stop bouncing all trip. 😀
I have heard the unable to find convention center story. And must say from con staff point of view it is kind of funny
Actually, there WAS a local airport a few miles away, but we boycotted it due to the airlines treatment of our very first voice actor guest.
It was embarrassing to drive guests the 1.5 hours it took to get to the con site, but there were benefits as well. All my passengers were from the Dallas/Houston area and I pulled over on a lonely country interchange in western WI (with their permission) so they could see what stars looked like away from any city lights.
Actually, it was that AND we were able to beat the plane to the Twin Cities via car…