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So I just got home from traveling out to Maryland to visit my sister and her family for the Easter weekend. We got in the truck and drove the almost exactly one thousand miles to her home in Rockville, MD. It's the second time we've done this, and we genuinely spend twice as much time traveling as we do actually spending time with family.
I genuinely love a good road trip, and the journey, which crosses through Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, is deeply satisfying. Almost exactly in the middle, of course, is Pokagon State Park in Indiana.
Searching through my blog, somehow I've never mentioned Pokagon by name here, though it has come up. We first went there almost ten years ago for our fifth wedding anniversary, and we fell in love with the place. Indiana has a historic inn system in its state parks, and Pokagon sits on a beautiful lake. I know Crysta doesn't enjoy the traveling as much as I do, so I think visiting Pokagon is the only reason she hasn't demanded we switch to flying out to Maryland when we make the trip.
I love the journey though, I really do. And I love seeing my family so much. It's easy to feel isolated from them when we're often so far away. It's been an amazing six days. Besides my sister, her husband, and my two niblings, my parents, my brother and his long time girlfriend were also there. We won't be together again until this summer, and that won't come fast enough.
That said, it feels so amazing to be sitting in my own chair in my own home again right now. One of the best parts of a long trip like this is feeling yourself relax when your travels are over. Of course, we don't get to relax for long with a con this weekend -- but I'm going to take it where I can get it.
The world never stops.
This Saturday, April 26th, I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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Well it appears the war has just begun. Time to knock Jim down peg.
Nah, nobody could have seen this coming. Hope one of them screenshotted the Facebook group Jim was running before he takes it down.
This is kind of odd, really. If Jim’s this incompetent at game-playing, he wouldn’t have been in the position he was. Something’s not right here. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hardly rooting for Jim in this thing – but I’d expect a more insidious and harder to counter effort. This is like Superman showing up to fight Lex Luthor, and finding out all he’s got no plan, a BB pistol, and 2 guys with blackjacks or something. You’d have to wonder what he was setting you up for, given his part history. I’d be wondering here too.
Gah. Past history, not part. Reminder to me – no typing when your hands (and apparently brain) are freezing.
It could be a matter of Jim just underestimating the Internet. When he talks about keeping Garner in check when he was getting on Lynn’s case (after she first joined), he talked about distracting Garner with other tasks and breaking up any cliches. That’s all real-world, in-person matters. And all Unagi-con meetings and primary communication seems to be occurring in-person too.
It makes sense to me that you could be a master manipulator in-person, but not so much in online if you underestimate the masses and how easy it is to document/screenshot things. There’s a reason the phrase “the Internet never forgets” is around. Jim might not be taking into account simple things like this. I think this might be especially so since he didn’t know how to disguise himself as an admin on the Bork Con Sucks Facebook page.
*matter of Jim not understanding the Internet.
Oh my goodness, I am not awake. I had it right the first time. @___@
Jim is good at manipulating but he’s not thinking at the moment. He’s completely over-the-top livid and his anger is clouding his judgement. He’s grabbing at anything that looks like a weapon to use against Lynn.
Next play will be for Bork Con to mention the Bork Con Sucks FB group, which Jim will have to delete. he should have already done so before releasing the e-mail.
As an aside, it is poor form at best for Jim to have NOT redacted the contact e-mails for the Bork con staffers. That info should be considered private.
No, he’d be able to claim the un-redacted stuff is fabrication by Lynn after the fact: time-stamps can be altered.
You’d be scandalized to know just how much the average low level staffer does not know and does not want to know the dirty laundry; many have a keeping my head down and doing my job approach to getting the job done.
Now in all truth the story is going whatever way Trae wants it to go and has story-boarded it out already
I think at this point, since Jim’s the one who made it public, the unreacted version of the letter needs to go up on Bork Con’s social media and they need to screen cap the “Bork Con Sucks” Facebook page before it is deleted.
I think there’s something else that’s being overlooked. Overconfidence. Jim’s not used to ‘playing the game’ with capable people. He’s surrounded himself with people he knows and can manipulate on staff. And he’s used to being successful at it. He’s also used to playing from a position of strength, as Con chair. Now he’s playing against a team of people who are better at the game than he is (individually, and as a group).
Just because Jim managed to play the game for a long time against a group of people doesn’t mean that he’s skilled at the game, it just means that he’s better than those he’s playing against.