We've got a good surplus at this point, Frank. It should be enough to stock the hospitality suite and cover any A/V needs we may have.
Good to hear. Have fun, everyone!
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
We've got a good surplus at this point, Frank. It should be enough to stock the hospitality suite and cover any A/V needs we may have.
Good to hear. Have fun, everyone!
If you're coming in to the airport there, you can take I-43 south to Beloit and then I-90 north to Madison.
I wouldn't recommend going to Beloit. Or anywhere else in Rock County, for that matter. Unless you're really, really into freaking out the natives.
But I grew up in Rock County, so I may not be objective here.
Heh. It looks like the roads are clearing up pretty well, Fred. I-94 out of Milwaukee looks like it should reopen today (I still took the day off) and the weather forecast is for sun all the way up to Friday. A 30% chance of rain on Friday, but that shouldn't have much effect.
Sail, I'll only say I got out as soon as I could. The Klan held a rally in Janesville (where I lived during high school years) back in the '80s because they thought it would be a good place to get new members. I had gone away to college by then, but I read about the rally in Newsweek.
More seriously, the Tallman House -- a genuine pre-Civil War home (and thus extremely old by Midwest standards), and a rumored stop on the Underground Railroad -- is in Janesville.
Fred Pete, don't we usually freak out the natives? (remembers DC ... New Orleans ... San Francisco)
Fred Pete, don't we usually freak out the natives? (remembers DC ... New Orleans ... San Francisco)
I don't think we freaked out New Orleans or San Francisco.
At best those locales gave us a thumbs-up for "nice effort".
So I was just talking to my co-worker who is from the Madison area and her parents live out near House on the Rocks and when she spoke to them yesterday, they said the flooding was pretty bad out that way and it might be very difficult to get to.
Not saying we should scrap the trip yet, just a warning that it might need to be if time is proving to be too tight.
Yeah, I think we may need to play it by ear on that one. But I'm glad 94 looks to be in order.
The roads are slowly opening back up. It looks like eastbound I-90/94 is open again, so Daniel and Andi won't have any problem getting here. From what I've seen on the DOT website, the roads we'd need to get to the HotR are clear, it's only some of the side roads out there that are having problems.
MM, I remember people in New Orleans - one woman in particular - standing and staring at ND. And during prom, we got a fair amount of attention.