My Minivan Ate My BayCon

[kevin_standlee]

My mechanic tells me that he thinks he'll be able to get my minivan running again (air-idle control valve or something like that; I was driving and couldn't write it down), but I can't get it back until late on Friday. This sort of scrambles up a bunch of my travel logistics, and on top of it all I have a bunch of extra auto expenses to pay including $41/day worth of rental car. So I've had to cancel my hotel reservation for BayCon in favor of staying just one more night (Friday) in the Roach Motel in Newark. I hope to be at BayCon for a while on Friday evening and Saturday morning, but I reckon I need to go home Saturday afternoon to try offset at least some of the extra expenses I've run up. This is particularly irritating with the long road trip to Spokane/Portland/Seaside coming up next week.

I guess I'm glad I wasn't actually booked into doing any specific things for anyone at BayCon this weekend. I apologize if anyone was counting on me for anything; I won't be around much, save parts of Friday evening and Saturday morning.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Your mentioning a road trip to Spokane next week suddenly made me nervous that the Worldcon had snuck up on me without my paying attention, and I haven't even voted on the Hugos yet.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

That weekend in Spokane is an "all hands" committee/staff meeting for the Sasquan committee. Lisa and I will drive up there (and she hopes to be able to do some test video in the actual room where the Business Meeting will be) leaving Wednesday evening. After the weekend of meetings, we'll drive first to Portland and spend one night there, then head on to Seaside for a week, then drive home via Northern California. I wrote about the travel plans a while ago.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Glad we spent some time together last night, as your actual Baycon time had been so shortened.
Hope the van is all better when you pick it up today.