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Duckon was funs
Jun. 16th, 2008 02:08 pmMostly I spent the weekend sitting around and talking with people.
(Pretty cool compared with Marcon for example, where my main complaint was that this year there was nowhere to just hang out with people.)
I was really riding hard on my wallet because of the upcoming mortgage, so I didn't buy anything in the dealer's room and I ate entirely out of the ConSuite and parties. I also picked up a couple of books from the freebie box.
One of these years I ought to actually do one of the BuildABlinkie sessions, since I seem to be the only person I know who has never weilded a soldering iron. However, I DID make it to the Singing Tesla Coils demo on Saturday night (link is to last year's show) which was fabulous and I felt adequately geeked.
I introduced several people to 'Turkish Star Wars' (for which they may eventually forgive me) and am currently downloading an .avi copy if anyone has so far managed to avoid this. How can you NOT love a movie that contains the subtitle "more gibberish about brains and blood", exploding rocks at the end of a hilariously bad training montage on the planet of miniskirted girls with too much lipstick, a quest for a mystic plywood sword (that looks like a hedgetrimmer) and a small green plastic brain, and springboard-feuled battles with the toilet-paper mummies and the red and black shag carpet monsters with felt claws! It also blatantly steals not only space battle sequences from 'Star Wars' (except they apparently forgot to put the anamorphic lens on so the Death Star is rather egg-shaped) but snippets of the soundtracks from "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Star Wars", "Flash Gordon", and some snippets of incidental music from 'Star Trek'.
I also went to the World Bird Sanctuary show which is always fun. My favorite is Mischief the white-necked raven. They had us close our eyes and see if we could hear the flight of the barn owl. I heard her - when she hit me in the head! Apparently she is a lazy flyer and has learned that people usually duck out of her way. Which I would have, if I hadn't had my EYES CLOSED like I was told to!
Sold a handful of CDs and managed to meet someone from Peoria who actually KNOWS where our show is this weekend! MiRF will supposedly get back to me this week.
My agent got back to me with the info on the #1 unit I was interested in. The roof and boiler are both less than 10 years old, last summer the roof was resealed and all the porches were replaced in April. So I'm not as worried about the reserves being on the low side - they are low because they have been spending them to keep the place up - which is what they are there for. I have a few little details to take care of but I will most likely be putting in an offer tomorrow. There is another offer out there but I don't know anything about it. Since I have to get 6% for closing costs from the seller as part of one of my grants, I plan to offer their asking price plus 3%, which will mean that in the end we'll end up splitting the closing costs. That plus as much earnest money as I can possibly manage and the fact that I'm not trying to lowball them (it's already a short sale) should give me a decent chance to get it. Just in case, I'm also looking at a couple more places tomorrow too, but I'm really hoping this goes through - it's a nice clean unit in good shape with hardwood floors and not too far from transit. I don't mind that it doesn't have central air, stailness steel appliances, or carpet - in fact I actively don't WANT any of those.
(Pretty cool compared with Marcon for example, where my main complaint was that this year there was nowhere to just hang out with people.)
I was really riding hard on my wallet because of the upcoming mortgage, so I didn't buy anything in the dealer's room and I ate entirely out of the ConSuite and parties. I also picked up a couple of books from the freebie box.
One of these years I ought to actually do one of the BuildABlinkie sessions, since I seem to be the only person I know who has never weilded a soldering iron. However, I DID make it to the Singing Tesla Coils demo on Saturday night (link is to last year's show) which was fabulous and I felt adequately geeked.
I introduced several people to 'Turkish Star Wars' (for which they may eventually forgive me) and am currently downloading an .avi copy if anyone has so far managed to avoid this. How can you NOT love a movie that contains the subtitle "more gibberish about brains and blood", exploding rocks at the end of a hilariously bad training montage on the planet of miniskirted girls with too much lipstick, a quest for a mystic plywood sword (that looks like a hedgetrimmer) and a small green plastic brain, and springboard-feuled battles with the toilet-paper mummies and the red and black shag carpet monsters with felt claws! It also blatantly steals not only space battle sequences from 'Star Wars' (except they apparently forgot to put the anamorphic lens on so the Death Star is rather egg-shaped) but snippets of the soundtracks from "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Star Wars", "Flash Gordon", and some snippets of incidental music from 'Star Trek'.
I also went to the World Bird Sanctuary show which is always fun. My favorite is Mischief the white-necked raven. They had us close our eyes and see if we could hear the flight of the barn owl. I heard her - when she hit me in the head! Apparently she is a lazy flyer and has learned that people usually duck out of her way. Which I would have, if I hadn't had my EYES CLOSED like I was told to!
Sold a handful of CDs and managed to meet someone from Peoria who actually KNOWS where our show is this weekend! MiRF will supposedly get back to me this week.
My agent got back to me with the info on the #1 unit I was interested in. The roof and boiler are both less than 10 years old, last summer the roof was resealed and all the porches were replaced in April. So I'm not as worried about the reserves being on the low side - they are low because they have been spending them to keep the place up - which is what they are there for. I have a few little details to take care of but I will most likely be putting in an offer tomorrow. There is another offer out there but I don't know anything about it. Since I have to get 6% for closing costs from the seller as part of one of my grants, I plan to offer their asking price plus 3%, which will mean that in the end we'll end up splitting the closing costs. That plus as much earnest money as I can possibly manage and the fact that I'm not trying to lowball them (it's already a short sale) should give me a decent chance to get it. Just in case, I'm also looking at a couple more places tomorrow too, but I'm really hoping this goes through - it's a nice clean unit in good shape with hardwood floors and not too far from transit. I don't mind that it doesn't have central air, stailness steel appliances, or carpet - in fact I actively don't WANT any of those.
