Eye of the storm: t+3
Oct. 3rd, 2005 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaIt's so quiet when I take off my headphones. Everyone else has gone off in search of coffee, and I'm sitting at my desk poring through old logbooks while the database is down.
My contract is in limbo, extended until Friday of this week. Only one person can approve a new contract now, and he was on holidays when I would have been handing in my keys. So, today I'm trying to compile a list of all the things I've done since last December - hopefully demonstrating that I've done enough to satisfy the Powers That Be over my last two contracts. If I come back next week, I may be here part time. This actually suits me fine, as I'd have time to do all the commission painting that's built up at home... I've lost all ability to care about this contract any more. All outcomes have advantages hidden in them, whether they involve more money (full time), flexibility (part time), or freedom (being told to get lost). The only pure negative is uncertainty, and that should be resolved for better or worse at the end of the week.
UniCon went well. Really well in many regards, although there were rough edges that should have been smoothed over before the event - not to mention the Sunday morning panic when one set of security guards weren't going to give us access to the venue, despite us booking the whole building... Most of the games ran plenty of sessions, and we had more people playing games this time around - similar total numbers to last year, but more sessions played.
Plenty of first-time convention attendees, too - MURP and II members, plus carloads from all over the place. I think that's the best outcome from the weekend. Without a steady stream of new faces, the convention scene in Melbourne will wither and die. Meeting up with old friends and playing some great games is all well and good, but it's easy to forget that we need that influx of new people to keep the conventions running. The Warmachine players (the only ones I got to speak with) were having a great time, and we should see most of them at Arcanacon in January.
The Warmachine tournament ended up with 16 players, and the Steamroller (sanctioned) tournament rules seem to have survived their first real test in Victoria. I think we may have been the first in Oz, but I'm not sure if an event in Queensland pipped us at the post ;) I had to give away all six of the shiny medals... a sad moment, but it means I'll just have to enter an event run by someone else, so I can win some for myself.
I guess my main regret after the convention was that I didn't really catch up with anyone - I spent the whole weekend upstairs running Warmachine, or downstairs making sure that the rego desk had everything it needed. Other than the ConOrgs,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
z3nmaster, caerell & kitling, I didn't get much of a chance to talk to anyone... so I feel like I've lost a weekend.
Back to the grindstone...
My contract is in limbo, extended until Friday of this week. Only one person can approve a new contract now, and he was on holidays when I would have been handing in my keys. So, today I'm trying to compile a list of all the things I've done since last December - hopefully demonstrating that I've done enough to satisfy the Powers That Be over my last two contracts. If I come back next week, I may be here part time. This actually suits me fine, as I'd have time to do all the commission painting that's built up at home... I've lost all ability to care about this contract any more. All outcomes have advantages hidden in them, whether they involve more money (full time), flexibility (part time), or freedom (being told to get lost). The only pure negative is uncertainty, and that should be resolved for better or worse at the end of the week.
UniCon went well. Really well in many regards, although there were rough edges that should have been smoothed over before the event - not to mention the Sunday morning panic when one set of security guards weren't going to give us access to the venue, despite us booking the whole building... Most of the games ran plenty of sessions, and we had more people playing games this time around - similar total numbers to last year, but more sessions played.
Plenty of first-time convention attendees, too - MURP and II members, plus carloads from all over the place. I think that's the best outcome from the weekend. Without a steady stream of new faces, the convention scene in Melbourne will wither and die. Meeting up with old friends and playing some great games is all well and good, but it's easy to forget that we need that influx of new people to keep the conventions running. The Warmachine players (the only ones I got to speak with) were having a great time, and we should see most of them at Arcanacon in January.
The Warmachine tournament ended up with 16 players, and the Steamroller (sanctioned) tournament rules seem to have survived their first real test in Victoria. I think we may have been the first in Oz, but I'm not sure if an event in Queensland pipped us at the post ;) I had to give away all six of the shiny medals... a sad moment, but it means I'll just have to enter an event run by someone else, so I can win some for myself.
I guess my main regret after the convention was that I didn't really catch up with anyone - I spent the whole weekend upstairs running Warmachine, or downstairs making sure that the rego desk had everything it needed. Other than the ConOrgs,
z3nmaster, caerell & kitling, I didn't get much of a chance to talk to anyone... so I feel like I've lost a weekend.Back to the grindstone...
Gone are the rustic summers of my youth
Cruel winter cut their sacred throats
With polished scythes that reap worldwide
Pitch black skies and forest smoke
And the hosts that I saw there
Drones of carrion law
Drove the ghosts of my forbears
To rove and rally once more
Cruel winter cut their sacred throats
With polished scythes that reap worldwide
Pitch black skies and forest smoke
And the hosts that I saw there
Drones of carrion law
Drove the ghosts of my forbears
To rove and rally once more
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Date: 2005-10-03 12:45 pm (UTC)So, when would be appropriate to be introduced to your new (comparitively) place? Sometimes after October 20 for preference...
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Date: 2005-10-04 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-26 12:13 pm (UTC)Now all we need is someone to mind him...