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Jun. 29th, 2022 11:55 pmExpect less information from me, not more, for the next few days. I'm already feeling overwhelmed and we don't get the keys to the Tonopah Convention Center until tomorrow morning.
Lisa put on the wrong shoes when we left home yesterday: they were an older pair she'd never worn before that were just slightly the wrong size. She initially thought the discomfort was due to them needing to stretch out. But then she realized her mistake; however, she had not bought other shoes. After a morning of trying to soldier through, she conclude that she really couldn't handle this, and hit upon an idea: Several of our friends were coming through Reno today on their way to Tonopah. We called SAS Shoes in Reno, purchased over the phone a pair of the style Lisa wears (in the correct size), and authorized all of those people to collect them. (We did speak with or leave messages with all of them first.) In the meantime, Lisa needed shoes that didn't cause her to limp.
Less that a block south of the Belvada Hotel is A-Bar-L Western Wear. They sell shoes. Lisa picked out a pair that fit, albeit they were not a style she liked that much, but these were Emergency Shoes. They fit, and we bought them. I was also able to pick up a replacement charger cable for my iPhone, the cable for which I'd left at home.
Earlier, Lisa had bought a swimsuit that caught her eye at the Vanwood Variety Store. Even earlier, we went to Central Nevada Hardware (the first of two trips today) where we got several things we had discovered that we needed. I guess we're doing our part to inject money into Tonopah's economy.
This morning, we ran into the sales manager for the combined Mizpah/Belvada properties. She had no objection to us starting to put up signs (with blue tape) directing people to the various program rooms in the hotels and the adjacent casino (the ballroom over the Mizpah Club is one of our program spaces). Lisa and I put up signs in the afternoon. By this we determined some things we still needed to print (just some small things), so we got the printer out of its box and took care of those things.
This evening, we found that Lisa's friend Scott had gotten the messages we left him (although I didn't get a call back from him) and collected her shoes. When I learned that, I called Kevin Roche to tell him that he didn't need to go looking for those shoes when they leave Reno tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow we get the keys to the Tonopah Convention Center, unload everything that is still in the U-Haul trailer, move a bunch of stuff that is in our hotel room to either the TCC or the lobby of the Belvada Hotel (where Registration opens tomorrow afternoon), go get the pre-ordered groceries from Raley's for the convention and bring them back to the TCC, and move everything into the place it should be. It will be much busier than today. I am unsure I'll have any time to write about it.
Lisa put on the wrong shoes when we left home yesterday: they were an older pair she'd never worn before that were just slightly the wrong size. She initially thought the discomfort was due to them needing to stretch out. But then she realized her mistake; however, she had not bought other shoes. After a morning of trying to soldier through, she conclude that she really couldn't handle this, and hit upon an idea: Several of our friends were coming through Reno today on their way to Tonopah. We called SAS Shoes in Reno, purchased over the phone a pair of the style Lisa wears (in the correct size), and authorized all of those people to collect them. (We did speak with or leave messages with all of them first.) In the meantime, Lisa needed shoes that didn't cause her to limp.
Less that a block south of the Belvada Hotel is A-Bar-L Western Wear. They sell shoes. Lisa picked out a pair that fit, albeit they were not a style she liked that much, but these were Emergency Shoes. They fit, and we bought them. I was also able to pick up a replacement charger cable for my iPhone, the cable for which I'd left at home.
Earlier, Lisa had bought a swimsuit that caught her eye at the Vanwood Variety Store. Even earlier, we went to Central Nevada Hardware (the first of two trips today) where we got several things we had discovered that we needed. I guess we're doing our part to inject money into Tonopah's economy.
This morning, we ran into the sales manager for the combined Mizpah/Belvada properties. She had no objection to us starting to put up signs (with blue tape) directing people to the various program rooms in the hotels and the adjacent casino (the ballroom over the Mizpah Club is one of our program spaces). Lisa and I put up signs in the afternoon. By this we determined some things we still needed to print (just some small things), so we got the printer out of its box and took care of those things.
This evening, we found that Lisa's friend Scott had gotten the messages we left him (although I didn't get a call back from him) and collected her shoes. When I learned that, I called Kevin Roche to tell him that he didn't need to go looking for those shoes when they leave Reno tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow we get the keys to the Tonopah Convention Center, unload everything that is still in the U-Haul trailer, move a bunch of stuff that is in our hotel room to either the TCC or the lobby of the Belvada Hotel (where Registration opens tomorrow afternoon), go get the pre-ordered groceries from Raley's for the convention and bring them back to the TCC, and move everything into the place it should be. It will be much busier than today. I am unsure I'll have any time to write about it.
