Free PDF's for the Gencon Deprived
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Bills, bills and more bills.
Medical bills and preparing for an upcoming operation, broken glasses requiring replacement and working in an industry that's on the edge of imploding. Oh woe is me.
But worse of all is that 2 of my friends ae already at Gen-Con and they are taunting me with their tales of all the gaming goodness.
I hates them with a passion!!!!
Medical bills and preparing for an upcoming operation, broken glasses requiring replacement and working in an industry that's on the edge of imploding. Oh woe is me.
But worse of all is that 2 of my friends ae already at Gen-Con and they are taunting me with their tales of all the gaming goodness.
I hates them with a passion!!!!
Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
Turanil said:Thanks for the generous offer!
Until I win the lottery, I will NEVER have the time nor money to cross the ocean to go to GenCon (plus buy tickets, rent hotel room, and what not).
Hey Turanil-- did you ever get the gift I sent you?
griff_goodbeard
First Post
Well, my tale of woe goes like this:
Early '04 I found out that I had a 30cm tumor growing in my lower spine. After four surgeries and four months in the hospital where they removed my L5, S5 verabrates and my sacrum, they released me but I had to move back in with my folks b/c I had partial paralysis in both legs. I'm still doing rehab daily and in Feb was able to start driving again, move back into my own place again and go back to work. At this point going grocery shopping on my own is a fairly daunting task, so right now making the long trip to Gen Con is out of the question. My goal is to be recovered enough to make next years con though.
Oh, and no way I could find a dog sitter...
lol
Early '04 I found out that I had a 30cm tumor growing in my lower spine. After four surgeries and four months in the hospital where they removed my L5, S5 verabrates and my sacrum, they released me but I had to move back in with my folks b/c I had partial paralysis in both legs. I'm still doing rehab daily and in Feb was able to start driving again, move back into my own place again and go back to work. At this point going grocery shopping on my own is a fairly daunting task, so right now making the long trip to Gen Con is out of the question. My goal is to be recovered enough to make next years con though.
Oh, and no way I could find a dog sitter...
lol
KB9JMQ
First Post
Really cool Arwink.
Well my tale of woe is not too terrible. I had tickets to GenCon and a hotel room connected to the convention but my wife's work schedule changed a month ago and we are not able to come this year.
I am sad to miss working the EN Booth and missing the Ennies themselves.
Hopefully next year scheduling wont be an issue.
Well my tale of woe is not too terrible. I had tickets to GenCon and a hotel room connected to the convention but my wife's work schedule changed a month ago and we are not able to come this year.
I am sad to miss working the EN Booth and missing the Ennies themselves.
Hopefully next year scheduling wont be an issue.
Tinner
First Post
I'm not at Gen Con because all my spare time and spare money have gone to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles in an attempt to have my driving privileges reinstated.
Why don't I currently have driving privileges?
Becuase someone at the Ohio BMV dropped the ball three years ago, and mishandled some paperwork for a routine traffic violation.
My license was suspended for the last three years, and I was NEVER notified!
Why don't I currently have driving privileges?
Becuase someone at the Ohio BMV dropped the ball three years ago, and mishandled some paperwork for a routine traffic violation.
My license was suspended for the last three years, and I was NEVER notified!
HeapThaumaturgist
First Post
Well, until earlier this month we lived about 2 hrs away from Indy. We were all ready to go to GenCon again (went last year, and once a few years before that) when my wife realized she'd need to be at her new graduate institution THIS WEEK for some thingamajig they required she attend, instead of NEXT WEEK when her classes start. So we had to change our move out and move in dates and leave GenCon in our rearview mirror to move back to 'Bama.I was really pretty bummed. So's my wife, who really enjoyed the vendor hall. We attend mostly for the vendors' hall and special events, not so much for the physical gaming. The only time I've actually gamed at a convention was once in Canada.
That was fun. Ed Greenwood was GMing. He's a crazy guy.
--fje
I live in the Chicago-Land area. I started going to GenCon around 1984 (the last 2 years it was in some college). We slept in a tent at camp grounds close by. Washed our hair in water from a ground pump so cold it made your head hurt to stick it in. Watched my friends play in an event called Best Damn Minitures Event Ever that was amazing and I vowed to play it the next year but the guy running it never showed up again.
We would go up on Wed and stay though Sunday taking Monday off work as well to recoop.
Got married (to a non-gamer) and still made it. Had a kid... two... three! Still made, though it is getting hard now.
Last couple of years it was in Milwakee I only drove up on Sat with my oldest daughter (who is 9 now) and took in the sights. She loved going though the exibitors hall.
Now that it moved to Indy its just too far to make a day trip like that (about 4 hours each way) and I don't have the $$ to stay the night or the heart to take a solo vaction like that and leave her along with 3 kids.
Plus my co-worker (and good friend) who covers for me when I'm gone, as I do for him, IS at GenCon. Both of us leaving at the same time would be difficult.
On an intersting note: our company summer outing is in Milwakee this weekend and we are staying at the downtown Hyatt... the place we stayed the first year of GenCon in Milwakee. Which was about the last time you could get a room there if you were not a vendor as far as we could tell. Going there duing the week of gencon is going to be... painfull.
My tale of woe.
rv
We would go up on Wed and stay though Sunday taking Monday off work as well to recoop.
Got married (to a non-gamer) and still made it. Had a kid... two... three! Still made, though it is getting hard now.
Last couple of years it was in Milwakee I only drove up on Sat with my oldest daughter (who is 9 now) and took in the sights. She loved going though the exibitors hall.
Now that it moved to Indy its just too far to make a day trip like that (about 4 hours each way) and I don't have the $$ to stay the night or the heart to take a solo vaction like that and leave her along with 3 kids.
Plus my co-worker (and good friend) who covers for me when I'm gone, as I do for him, IS at GenCon. Both of us leaving at the same time would be difficult.
On an intersting note: our company summer outing is in Milwakee this weekend and we are staying at the downtown Hyatt... the place we stayed the first year of GenCon in Milwakee. Which was about the last time you could get a room there if you were not a vendor as far as we could tell. Going there duing the week of gencon is going to be... painfull.
My tale of woe.
rv
I'm another one of those poor overseas fellows who isn't likely to go to GenCon ever, unless he wins the lottery or gets a real good-paying job. Airfare alone from Sweden would cost something like $1000 for the roundtrip, to which the costs of the con itself, lodgings, food, and all the stuff I'd want to buy would be added.
