Merf...

[the_gneech]

Groggy and head-hurty this morning ... last night's attempt to draw was marred by hantamouse banging some random part of his body against the table and shifting it a foot and a half to the left while I had my pen on the bristol (*sigh*), and I woke up with a headache. Think I'll swallow a dozen Advil, pump my brain up on bottled frappuccino, skip the Bowflex this morning (but I will do it either tonight or tomorrow a.m.), and get cranking on the book. I only have this weekend and next before Dragon*Con, and I've got to be finished well before then.

On another note, ramalion posted that the Adams' Mark Hotel in Philly is up for sale for only $35M; he recommends the furry community start a fund to buy it and fix the elevators. I say, why stop there? I think we should also move it the heck out of Philadelphia, and double its size. Then it might be good for holding a furry convention in!

-The Gneech

Comments

[hantamouse.livejournal.com]

*Squeaks, hides under keyboard, cries quietly*

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad, I've done far worse things to that picture myself this morning, trying to fix it. I finally gave up on the idea of working with the original and have moved the whole thing to Photoshop so I can have "undo."

Life carries on! Please pardon my grouchiness.

-The Gneech ("NO, you stupid pen, the line is over HERE!")

but..

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

where would you move it to?....(grin)...

You've not seen the San Jose Doubletree yet....MLD

Re: but..

[makovette.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed an adult beverage or three with the crew at the Double Tree, it was a block from my next-to-last .bomb.

I haven't actually stayed there or seen the conference rooms, are they blargy or ???

CYa!
Mako

Re: but..

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

I did my own mini-tour of the Doubletree before FC last year...big improvement on the San Mateo Marriott in my opinion...plus the free parking was a nice touch!...MLD

Re: but..

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the DT get's two Llama hooves up then :)

The front "public" areas seem pretty nice, and the staff seemed pretty cool too, but having never been there for anything more complicated than a TGIF get togethers, I didn't know any of the real deal.

Tnx!
Mako

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

The crappy, EXPENSIVE hotel, with its crappy, CRABBY staff is one of the main reasons I've given up on Anthrocon. The place was probably quite nice in its day---but its "day" was probably about 25 years ago. That's about how old the matresses, room carpets and elevator control systems are (if not older) and I simply refuse to subject myself to such an overpriced insult again.

The hotel will probably be bought out by a family of (insert the disliked ethnic group of your choice) and turned into a Motel 5.5--- They won't spend any money actually FIXING things; they'll simply shovel the dirt (there's plenty to go around!) into the corners, immigrate a hundred or so of their "cousins" in to serve as staff---and RAISE the rates.

And like now, almost none of them will speak ENGLISH---

re: AC Alternative...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

I found the Holiday Inn to be a nice alternative and just a short walk to the con. Their service was more than adequate to my many arcane requests (hey, can I steal two extension cords? will you bring up the heavy packages I shipped here? will you make sure this package LEAVES here?)...laundry was okay too...the free local phone calls was ALSO a nice touch since I had to live on a dialup that weekend for business...

MLD