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Novacon day one
Nov. 14th, 2009 10:01 amVery early start to Friday because my sister, who was giving me a lift to the airport, had some crazy idea that I ought to be early for my flight.
Got to Nottingham without a hitch, and the bus was foolish enough to leave me outside Games Workshop and Forbidden Planet, where I spent a plesent half hour browsing. Ended up in HMV, emerging £116 of Dr Who DVDs later. For some reason they don't discount them anything like as much (if at all) in their Irish stores. My credit card successfully crashed one of their tills, leaving a message "enter something code" on the screen that wouldn't go away no matter what they did. I left them (after paying at another till) with the manager and two other staff huddled over it wondering what was wrong with it. I expect it's only a matter of time before someone devises a computer virus that can be transmitted through chip-and-pin cards.
Ended up at the con hotel around lunchtime, where Steve was definitely not panicking over last minute details. Helped with bagging programme books and moving stuff around, but there didn't seem to be an awful lot that needed doing.
Around tea-time I popped up to my friend Mike who lives a few minutes away and kindly offered me a bed for the night. We munched pizza while poring over his LEGO collection. He builds large and impressive cranes.
Shortly after, I arrive back for the opening ceremony, which was followed by Room 101 where the guest of honour tried to put her five least favourate things in the room and remove them from society. She failed with social networking sites, but managed to get rid of several other things, which I'm sure were annoying, but can't remember what they are because they no longer exist in this universe (outside the room).
Ended up back in the bar, although I did take a short break to visit the book launch. Later on Mike joined us and we had a couple of pints (he's not a SF fan). My intention was not to stay out too late as I'd had an early start, and I didn't stay out too late, though I think I was nodding off towards the end.
A good start to the convention. I'm looking forward to day two.
Got to Nottingham without a hitch, and the bus was foolish enough to leave me outside Games Workshop and Forbidden Planet, where I spent a plesent half hour browsing. Ended up in HMV, emerging £116 of Dr Who DVDs later. For some reason they don't discount them anything like as much (if at all) in their Irish stores. My credit card successfully crashed one of their tills, leaving a message "enter something code" on the screen that wouldn't go away no matter what they did. I left them (after paying at another till) with the manager and two other staff huddled over it wondering what was wrong with it. I expect it's only a matter of time before someone devises a computer virus that can be transmitted through chip-and-pin cards.
Ended up at the con hotel around lunchtime, where Steve was definitely not panicking over last minute details. Helped with bagging programme books and moving stuff around, but there didn't seem to be an awful lot that needed doing.
Around tea-time I popped up to my friend Mike who lives a few minutes away and kindly offered me a bed for the night. We munched pizza while poring over his LEGO collection. He builds large and impressive cranes.
Shortly after, I arrive back for the opening ceremony, which was followed by Room 101 where the guest of honour tried to put her five least favourate things in the room and remove them from society. She failed with social networking sites, but managed to get rid of several other things, which I'm sure were annoying, but can't remember what they are because they no longer exist in this universe (outside the room).
Ended up back in the bar, although I did take a short break to visit the book launch. Later on Mike joined us and we had a couple of pints (he's not a SF fan). My intention was not to stay out too late as I'd had an early start, and I didn't stay out too late, though I think I was nodding off towards the end.
A good start to the convention. I'm looking forward to day two.
