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Today is the only day before DisCon III that we had available for doing DC-area tourism. We decided to go to the Smithsonian Museum of American History mainly to see the Transportation Wing. We would have preferred to sleep in longer, but it seemed like a waste, especially with the weather so nice: clear but not cold, running roughly what it was in Fernley before we left.
( Train to the Train (and Boat, and Car, and Bus...) )
We spent four hours in just this one wing of the museum and realized that we didn't have enough energy for anything else. We enjoyed the train travel, but even with sleeping-car travel, we're more worn than we originally thought, so we had to head back to the hotel early.
( Return to the Shoreham )
One of Lisa's feet was paining her, and we limped back to the hotel, where she made lunch out of supplies that we've been accumulating on the trip. I bought a burrito from the Chipotle near the hotel. After that, Lisa stayed with the room while I first went to the front desk and asked them to both fix our house phone and replace the low battery on the room safe, and if possible to bring us some extra cups, coffee, and tea, as we don't need our room serviced. I then delivered the Winnipeg bid supplies that I transported from Montreal to Fernley to Los Angeles and then across the country by train to the Winnipeg suite for use by the 2023 bid this weekend. I have to admit that I'll be happy to not have to carry that stuff around with me anymore.
When I got back to the room, most of the issues had been resolved, although the hotel couldn't recreate the low-battery warning, so they didn't replace it. That makes me nervous; however, if the lock does fail, they can get it open by a manual override.
I had a bunch of messages to answer in the afternoon, including finding out more about helping Winnipeg validate site selection votes in advance of the convention. The bids and the administering convention have to confirm that every ballot cast in advance is from a registered member before at-convention voting can open, because memberships can't vote more than once. I have administered cases where one person voted, then transferred their membership, and the transferee innocently tried to vote the same membership because they didn't know it had been used.
I have been advised that we can expect on the order of 2,500 advance votes that we will have to validate tomorrow. That may take a while. And another challenge is that those ballots all have to be set so we we, the bidders can't see how the individuals voted. I'm not really looking forward to this. I had to deal with validating thousands of voters' records in an election in which Winnipeg was a party once before, thirty years ago in Chicago. I hope we can do the validation faster than the 12 hours it took us to validate 2,107 ballots back in 1991!
( Train to the Train (and Boat, and Car, and Bus...) )
We spent four hours in just this one wing of the museum and realized that we didn't have enough energy for anything else. We enjoyed the train travel, but even with sleeping-car travel, we're more worn than we originally thought, so we had to head back to the hotel early.
( Return to the Shoreham )
One of Lisa's feet was paining her, and we limped back to the hotel, where she made lunch out of supplies that we've been accumulating on the trip. I bought a burrito from the Chipotle near the hotel. After that, Lisa stayed with the room while I first went to the front desk and asked them to both fix our house phone and replace the low battery on the room safe, and if possible to bring us some extra cups, coffee, and tea, as we don't need our room serviced. I then delivered the Winnipeg bid supplies that I transported from Montreal to Fernley to Los Angeles and then across the country by train to the Winnipeg suite for use by the 2023 bid this weekend. I have to admit that I'll be happy to not have to carry that stuff around with me anymore.
When I got back to the room, most of the issues had been resolved, although the hotel couldn't recreate the low-battery warning, so they didn't replace it. That makes me nervous; however, if the lock does fail, they can get it open by a manual override.
I had a bunch of messages to answer in the afternoon, including finding out more about helping Winnipeg validate site selection votes in advance of the convention. The bids and the administering convention have to confirm that every ballot cast in advance is from a registered member before at-convention voting can open, because memberships can't vote more than once. I have administered cases where one person voted, then transferred their membership, and the transferee innocently tried to vote the same membership because they didn't know it had been used.
I have been advised that we can expect on the order of 2,500 advance votes that we will have to validate tomorrow. That may take a while. And another challenge is that those ballots all have to be set so we we, the bidders can't see how the individuals voted. I'm not really looking forward to this. I had to deal with validating thousands of voters' records in an election in which Winnipeg was a party once before, thirty years ago in Chicago. I hope we can do the validation faster than the 12 hours it took us to validate 2,107 ballots back in 1991!
