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kyburgProbably one of the best AX weekends in recent memory - no kidding. The Los Angeles Convention Center is a perfect fit for this event. With a couple of caveats, and man - those are HUGE.
They closed all of the food concessions every night at 6:00 PM. No, I am not kidding. You wanna eat dinner? Not going to do at the convention center, bub. Hop a shuttle to a hotel and eat in their restaurant - and suck it up, cost-wise. Anyone who had known ahead of time, could have made a killing with a ramen cart or some such. TRY getting pizza delivery there, BTW. I saw them delivering to the bus stop outside South Hall.
Across the street is not much to write home about. Certainly nothing to eat. Open after 6, and on a holiday weekend? Pfft.
I haven't pounded candy bars for dinner like that since college. Do not even wish to entertain the excuses of 'this is the first year for the venue' arguments. Not even. And the stories I heard about the vegetarian 'offerings' for staff chow? EPIC FAIL.
Guys, you don't tell someone who fed a Type I diabetic for 15 years that there's NO FOOD UNTIL THE NEXT DAY at the dinner hour. Ghad, this is basic. My head is still spinning.
And then there was the parking. That closed after dark - no, you can't get back in even if you DO wish to pay another $12. Went out for dinner...and then had to go home. THANKS.
I already mentioned the lack of intelligent design when it came to designing queues. HINT: do not cross the streams, thank you.
Next year - they'll be back to LACC - and I'll be bringing a microwave and a couple of cases of ramen.
The real dilemma now is if I have time to do more than complain - and if that's cryptic, good. It's meant to be.
Today? I'm about 60% - being away for four days really helped flush the RAM of everything I was doing last week before showing up there.
UM.
Not enough alcohol this weekend. Not by half. But I had a really good time and wished the days were 12 hours longer to allow for more sleep.
They closed all of the food concessions every night at 6:00 PM. No, I am not kidding. You wanna eat dinner? Not going to do at the convention center, bub. Hop a shuttle to a hotel and eat in their restaurant - and suck it up, cost-wise. Anyone who had known ahead of time, could have made a killing with a ramen cart or some such. TRY getting pizza delivery there, BTW. I saw them delivering to the bus stop outside South Hall.
Across the street is not much to write home about. Certainly nothing to eat. Open after 6, and on a holiday weekend? Pfft.
I haven't pounded candy bars for dinner like that since college. Do not even wish to entertain the excuses of 'this is the first year for the venue' arguments. Not even. And the stories I heard about the vegetarian 'offerings' for staff chow? EPIC FAIL.
Guys, you don't tell someone who fed a Type I diabetic for 15 years that there's NO FOOD UNTIL THE NEXT DAY at the dinner hour. Ghad, this is basic. My head is still spinning.
And then there was the parking. That closed after dark - no, you can't get back in even if you DO wish to pay another $12. Went out for dinner...and then had to go home. THANKS.
I already mentioned the lack of intelligent design when it came to designing queues. HINT: do not cross the streams, thank you.
Next year - they'll be back to LACC - and I'll be bringing a microwave and a couple of cases of ramen.
The real dilemma now is if I have time to do more than complain - and if that's cryptic, good. It's meant to be.
Today? I'm about 60% - being away for four days really helped flush the RAM of everything I was doing last week before showing up there.
UM.
Not enough alcohol this weekend. Not by half. But I had a really good time and wished the days were 12 hours longer to allow for more sleep.
