Anthrocon 2005 Con Report

[giza]

It's a bit belated, but I thought I'd write about the con anyway.

What was cool:

• Seeing old friends in person again
  
  
• Meeting new friends in person for the first time
  
  
• The hotel. They were really good about working with us. I tip the hat on my bald head to Ashley Cox and "Big Dave" from Wyndham's Convention Services department. They were a pleasure to work with.
  
  
• The elevators. There were very few problems with them. On the day when we had the fursuiter games in the Rooftop Ballroom, the hotel even set up one of the elevators as an "express elevator" that went just between the lobby and ballroom, to make for efficient transportation of fursuiters. That was a most excellent idea and it worked out really well.
  
  
• The Dorsai Irregulars. This was their 4th year with Anthrocon, and this year was their best performance yet. Every year, we usually have a few people who cause problems of one sort or another. This year, they handled many of the problems in their own, without having to contact unclekage or Operations. It was SO nice coming into Con Ops in the morning and just being able to flip through the logbook and read about any incidents that happened and were handled.
  
  
• My capable and professional Operations staff. You guys did a great job in the Ops Office. I don't know what I'd do without you! Thank you mach, tchall, vt_komainu, evil_dwagon, and Decker.
  
  
• duncandahusky and takaza for doing such a great job running Artists Alley.
  
  
• Three words: "Magic Tom" Hughsted.
  
  
• An individual by the name of "RB" who bought pizza and donuts for the Ops Office on at least one occasion. You rock!
  
  
• kellicjtiger, for volunteering a number of hours in Ops and other departments. We have plans for you next year, yessssss. :-)
  
  
• kageghostwarrior.com. We had made a minor typo on our badges. The back of the bades were supposed to say kaZeghostwarrior.com. But since "Kaze" is one letter away from "Kage", that one got by our. Our fix was to register the typoed domain name and point it at Mr. Albee's website. Problem solved!
  
  
• The free Internet access for members of Wyndham by Request. I just plugged my laptop in and clicked the link to get access. It was really nice to be able to check email once a day instead of coming back home to a big deluge of email.
  

Things that sucked:

• Galaxo Smith Kline for jacking up the parking prices to $20/day. We hate you.
  
  
• People who came down to Con Ops and complained to me about the parking situation, as though it were my fault. Yeah, that'll make me happy!
  
  
• Our attendance figures. As unclekage outlined in his LJ, our onsite registrations suffered this year because of a number of external factors beyond our control. Oh well.
  
  
• I was under a lot of stress during the con for some reason. I was really short when dealing with a few people and probably offended some people. I'm really sorry if you were one of the people I snapped at. I found that actually stepping out of the Ops Office and wandering around the con helped lower my stress levels.
  

The weird:

• The buttons nius made up that said, "Giza Made Me Do It!". I had nothing to do with the creation of those. That was Nius's idea!
  

My pictures are online at:

• http://www.claws-and-paws.com/furry/conventions/ac2005/
  
  
• http://www.claws-and-paws.com/conventions/ac2005/ (Use this one instead if your employer filters URLs on the word "furry")
  

I for one, welcome our new Pittsburgh Overlords!

Comments

[nius.livejournal.com]

You made me do it. And Triggur started it.