snack's Journal: Smells like... *sniff sniff* Success!

Wow... Lots of stuff happening recently. The main thing that just happened was QUAKECON. Lordy this was a fun event. 5 Days of LAN-party shenanigans. A few of my friends from colorado ended up driving/flying out. I definately wanted to spend some time with them so I volunteered to pick up the ones that flew in at the airport. On wednesday Erwin flew in to the D/FW airport. So I went and picked him up. We drove back to my place and i packed up all my gear. Erwin just kind of sat down and took a 5 min nap. Off to quakecon we went!

Upon arriving, this hotel was just starting to see what quakecon was. People were already lining up to get their computers in (they would still have to wait another 7 hours). Erwin went and found EJ (the former executive director), and they had some beers, i just kind of tagged along untill i convinced someone to give me a badge (bwahhaha). I went into the BYOC to help crimp some cables and then LM and I were getting kind of hungry. GM wanted a microwave, so i volunteered to go to my house to pick up an extra one for their room. LM and I go and get the microwave and a cooler for our beers, and head back to the 'con. Not much had happened, the line to get into the byoc was longer.

2nd day, Bliz and Mystikal are flying into the airport. So i drive out there again to pick them up. It was so cool seeing all these guys again, i hadnt seen them for a long time. They check into their hotel, and I start to hold their spot to get into the byoc. We had radios to keep in touch with each other. It was VERY annoying, 'cause with 2,000 ppl there, a lot of signal confusion ensued, We finally chose channel 6^25. No one else seemed to crosstalk onto us (yay). Finally everyone gets their computers into the BYOC, and the lanning commences.

All in all this event was immensely fun. I'm quite glad i got to spend some time with my friends that i talk with every day on IRC.

-Tim
*The villain is 6-feet underground*