View From the Bushes

Well I finally made the last of my arrangements for GenCon (car rental reservation for those of you who are curious). DireKobold is going to have a booth this year, so if you're going to be at GenCon stop by. If someone actually mentions that, "'View from the Bushes' is the deepest thing since Thoreau wrote 'Walden'"I might give them something special. Then again I might not the chances of someone who reads VFB also being gainfully employed to the point where they can afford GenCon is best expressed as the square root of negative one.

The first year I went to GenCon I decided to go at the last minute, and I was also indigent. The combination of the two led me to stay at a campground my first year. Yes you heard me correctly my first year I stayed in a tent. With the exception of people who sleep in their cars I'm not very sympathetic to people who complain about housing problems. (Dorms with no air conditioning? Why when I was a boy is slept on the ground under a 6 foot snow drift and I had to burn my Player's Handbook to stay warm.)

The problem came the morning we were supposed to leave. Our flight left at something like 5:30 a.m., so rather than stay the last night at the campground we just decided to pull an all nighter and save ourselves the cost of an extra night at the campground (see the indigent entry above). We made it out of Milwaukee okay and we were sitting in the terminal in Cincinnati. They were calling seat numbers and they were just about to call ours when suddenly I woke up and the terminal was completely empty. There wasn't a person in sight except a lone airline employee. Somehow the plane was still at the gate, they let us on board. The moral being don't leave your mayonnaise out in the sun.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross