Dragon*Con meet-up

[RazorJAK]

Okay, so have we any definate meet-up plans?

The Buffalo contingent ( Digi, myself, Moo and one of Moo's partners'in'crime ) will be rolling into Atlanta on Friday ... either late morning or early afternoon.

I'll have my cell phone on me. If you want to get ahold of me; Either PM me here or IM me on AIM or Yahoo ( RazorJAK ) and I'll give you the digits.

[Mike Taylor]

(oops)

[Crazeyal]

Posted yer digits out in the open.. din't ya???

*points and laughs*

Well, I'm definately headed for the Pirate party. It's going to be a wee bit less fun without the booze, but I'm sure there will be.. compensations... ;)

Jennie wanted to have dinner one night after the floor closes. I believe she said 7 pm. Little late for dinner, but as it's the jenster I can wait a bit. Sat sounds good to me.

[RazorJAK]

second supper

[Crazeyal]

Oh, with the calories burned running around (especially in costume) I can TOTALLY eat a second dinner, but that means stopping TWICE. HFN!!! I'll starve for a few hours and get some gaming on.

[Seolta]

7pm's late? *blinkblink*

Schedule right now:
Thursday--arrive late, sleep on lilo's couch
Friday--up earlyish, get badge, go to meeting, try not to freak out, panel from 1-2, undetermined afterwards.
Saturday--only concrete plans right now involve lunch with boyperson and his friends around 1ish.
Sunday--Brethren Court Gathering, 11:30pm.

Saturday dinner sounds good to me:)

Aside from that, planning on doing drum circle at least one night(doesn't start till midnight), going to at least one panel aside from my own, spending time with the boyperson, and hanging out at the Shadowmoor booth, as per usual. Oh, and at some point am supposed to hang out with my NY counterpart. Whee...

TWO MORE DAYS!!!

[Crazeyal]

7pm is late FOR DINNER

[Seolta]

7pm is late FOR DINNER

not around here...I've gotten home from work around 8:30 and been told it's my night to think of/cook dinner...we ate around 10 that night.

[Crazeyal]

yeah well.. I've skipped meals three days in a row, but that's WORK.. not play..

[Big Otis Landfish]

not around here...I've gotten home from work around 8:30 and been told it's my night to think of/cook dinner...we ate around 10 that night.

10 pm or later isn't unusual for me. Some days I'm still eating at midnight.
7 pm is standard, unless I cook enough to last a few days.

Maybe yer getting old, Crazeyal... it'll be dinner at 3 pm and bed right after Wheel of Fortune soon. :lol:

[Crazeyal]

PUH LEASE....

I can game for 12 hours straight, hit the dance floor and STILL make a complete fool out of myself, all on a Jagger-bomb and pixie stix!!! I just don't HAVE to anymore.

[Compton]

Damn. I eat dinner at like 5:30 most nights.

[Crazeyal]

Hell...

You guys have no CLUE about my work schedule... I was SURE I'd pitched a bitch about it once or thrice...

My company responds 24/7 to it's clients. We are understaffed. So, once every three weeks *I'M* on call 24/7. Sometimes I work upwards of 16 hour days. If I stop to eat, I loose my focus and start getting tired. That means either a nap or an hour off digesting. I've done the whole "Eat-drive-use cellphone" bit, but when it's bad, I just don't have time/and or inclination to go eat. I've existed on coffee and attitude for days at a time. When it calms down I get to take hour lunches, show up when I feel like it (as long as the client doesn't need something) and leave early. But give me a little sugar and caffeine and I'm GOOD!

[Big Otis Landfish]

I can sympathize with the 16 hour days - sounds like fieldwork days (however, those usually involve a binge feed at camp at the end, or at least the prospects of a restaurant meal if the flyspeck town we're staying in hasn't totally shut down for the night). I make a point of always having food handy though, and throwing it down the eat hole whenever I get 30 seconds to do so. Lunch breaks don't happen.

I picked up wolflike eating habits from cooking.... on a slow night it's easy to grab a leisurely dinner mid-shift, but during a multi-hour slam on a busy night it's nonstop high intensity work and there might be 30 seconds to grab a drink of water if you're lucky (treating your servers well so that they might bring you a glass of soda is advised). Being starving and surrounded by food is not exactly fun - you are surrounded by hunger triggers. IF a short lull comes, you'd better cook something quick and INHALE it, because as soon as you leave the scavangers (serving staff; busgirls are the worst) will start pecking at the eyeballs and it'll be nothing more than bone and bloody scraps of fur when you get back. I can gun a pound of pasta in about 96 seconds flat.


Caffeine and sugar works for a surprisingly long time, as per Crazeyal - I don't drink much pop/soda but if you're working in the heat and marginally fed, an ice-cold Coke is about the best thing ever. One New Year's Eve at the restaurant, the boss brought in about a kilo of chocolate-covered coffee beans... I have no idea how many handfuls I ate, but I was SUPERCOOK! :d8o:

[Crazeyal]

Oh.. Wolflike behavior is something that dogs (ouch) me still!

I tend to eat fast, sometimes VORACIOUSLY so. People say to me "What?? You think they are gonna take it AWAY from you??"

Well.. THEY did..

One time, while I was in boot camp, it was just one of those days the DI gotabug in his butt about SOMETHING. I SWEAR the guy was just a sadist with a hat... He worked us so hard that I spent the first two minutes just LOOKING at my food. I was too tired to eat. Then the platoon leader got up, announcing that he "felt sick"... Well when the Recruit leader stands up, the PLATOON is supposed to stand up. Usually it's not enforced that strictly. The DI start screaming even louder than he normally did. I got ONE BITE of my dinner.

I never ate slow again...

Still have to stop myself. :rolleyes:

[Big Otis Landfish]

I've been through intensive reprogramming to learn me that chewing is actually necessary, not optional. I am now the slowest eater in my family under relaxed conditions.

Except pasta, esp. long pasta (spag, ling, fett, etc.). I tend to look down and wonder why there's only half left, I just started eating....


Also wolfguts from a frequency/portion perspective. If I don't eat in the morning, I can go for a long stretch without food, but if it's free and/or all-you-can eat, I GORGE. Korea nearly killed me on several occasions as it's normal and expected to put more food out than can plausibly be eaten, especially at restaurants. Doesn't jive well with being brought up to finish whatever is on the table... :rolleyes:

It DOES help placate a MIL who thinks you're too skinny, though, and this time I've been training to eat more/gain weight.

[meghasissues]

so... when and where are we meeting up?

i know i'm going to be there sunday and monday. if you guys want to do the whole picnic in the hotel thing i can make cupcakes or something.

[Crazeyal]

Monday sounds good. Do the whole "decompress" bit.

[greyloch]

7pm is late FOR DINNER

You're just getting old Al! :xbones:

7PM isn't that late for dinner. 7AM is late for dinner. You probably just want to eat your pudding (god, that sounds so wrong) and go to bed before 8:30PM :neener:

[Seolta]

Don't think I could do Monday, have to get the brother back for work and such.

[Crazeyal]

Feh.. I *SAID* I'd go.

[Crazeyal]

Headed ouuuuuuuuuuuut!!!

[Crazeyal]

In Atlanta!