*sigh* I just accidentally deleted what I wrote the first time, so if this one seems brief, it's because I'm rewriting it and didn't feel like retyping everything.
Actually, the only two cons I've gone to I got a decent amount of sleep. I've actually done both ways. Cons when it's just me or I'm with people who need to sleep, I tend to sleep more just because I get bored and don't want to bother with figuring out how to entertain myself. When I'm with my security people and others who work the cons, we're usually up at all hours trying to get ready for the next day or we're being vagrant and boozing/smoking it up. Then you make do with catnaps or just dozing and pass out when you get home.
That'll be awesome! It'll be so nice to talk to you in person. I never did end up calling you when I did that RL meme eons ago. I remember we kept trying to arrange times but then shit would come up on one end or the other. But it was actually probably for the best because my dumbass cell phone (which, incidentally, is the *only* phone I own) has been getting fairly crappy reception for awhile and I tend to get really irritable when that happens (I *hate* it when technology fails me so spectacularly) and I've been told I'm not always all that pleasant to talk to.
Some things just can *not* be traditional, whereas other things, no way in *hell* are they going to change. And the metric system is just so much *easier*. Originally, I had something really good about dumbass Americans and our need to be different which really just makes us seem conceited (we're too good to use your simple system) and involved something about Daylight Savings Time, but I really don't feel like retyping that, so *insert witty and interesting discussion about those things here*
Oh god, I was hoping that the weather where you live is one of those "hot but dry" places. Most days it actually doesn't feel that bad, but it's the days that do that really stick in yout mind as memorable. I'm not sure if it's just because I've been living with it all my life and so I'm used to it or what, but it's only some days and it's only when you're outside that it becomes an issue. So, I'd say don't take really long, strenuous walks those days. Hell, even days when it's a little more humid, we usually have enough of a breeze that it doesn't feel as bad as days when it's muggy and still.
I think if I do end up going, I'm going to have to stay less than a year, and skip the summer. Or else devote a lot of my paycheck to air conditioning. In all the good places for living and working, the A/C systems are all good. When looking for a place to live, you just have to be aware of conditions. Don't get anything that has direct sunlight coming through the windows most of the days and get downstairs if you can to keep A/C escaping through the roof down to a minimum.
If you do get to come to the con and depending on how early you were able to fly in, I'd encourage you to try and fly into Houston and I'd pick you up and that way I could really show you the places I'm talking about. It would certainly give you a better feel for how far apart these places really are. Granted, it would then involve the three hour-ish drive to Dallas, but I'm sure we'd manage to keep ourselves amused. ;)
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Actually, the only two cons I've gone to I got a decent amount of sleep.
I've actually done both ways. Cons when it's just me or I'm with people who need to sleep, I tend to sleep more just because I get bored and don't want to bother with figuring out how to entertain myself. When I'm with my security people and others who work the cons, we're usually up at all hours trying to get ready for the next day or we're being vagrant and boozing/smoking it up. Then you make do with catnaps or just dozing and pass out when you get home.
That'll be awesome! It'll be so nice to talk to you in person. I never did end up calling you when I did that RL meme eons ago.
I remember we kept trying to arrange times but then shit would come up on one end or the other. But it was actually probably for the best because my dumbass cell phone (which, incidentally, is the *only* phone I own) has been getting fairly crappy reception for awhile and I tend to get really irritable when that happens (I *hate* it when technology fails me so spectacularly) and I've been told I'm not always all that pleasant to talk to.
Some things just can *not* be traditional, whereas other things, no way in *hell* are they going to change. And the metric system is just so much *easier*.
Originally, I had something really good about dumbass Americans and our need to be different which really just makes us seem conceited (we're too good to use your simple system) and involved something about Daylight Savings Time, but I really don't feel like retyping that, so *insert witty and interesting discussion about those things here*
Oh god, I was hoping that the weather where you live is one of those "hot but dry" places.
Most days it actually doesn't feel that bad, but it's the days that do that really stick in yout mind as memorable. I'm not sure if it's just because I've been living with it all my life and so I'm used to it or what, but it's only some days and it's only when you're outside that it becomes an issue. So, I'd say don't take really long, strenuous walks those days. Hell, even days when it's a little more humid, we usually have enough of a breeze that it doesn't feel as bad as days when it's muggy and still.
I think if I do end up going, I'm going to have to stay less than a year, and skip the summer. Or else devote a lot of my paycheck to air conditioning.
In all the good places for living and working, the A/C systems are all good. When looking for a place to live, you just have to be aware of conditions. Don't get anything that has direct sunlight coming through the windows most of the days and get downstairs if you can to keep A/C escaping through the roof down to a minimum.
If you do get to come to the con and depending on how early you were able to fly in, I'd encourage you to try and fly into Houston and I'd pick you up and that way I could really show you the places I'm talking about. It would certainly give you a better feel for how far apart these places really are. Granted, it would then involve the three hour-ish drive to Dallas, but I'm sure we'd manage to keep ourselves amused. ;)