Kevin, your best bet is to use hotels.com and search around the San Diego Convention Center, but your budget is a bit low for what hotels in the height of tourist season down there charge. Good luck!
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Apr 27, 2008 11:48:45 am PDT #3706 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Shir - Apr 27, 2008 11:50:01 am PDT #3707 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Kevin - CouchSurf?
Not for everyone, but I love it.
Kevin - Apr 27, 2008 12:00:42 pm PDT #3708 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Kristin, cheers! We've got one in budget from hotels.com now. It's 6 miles away from the convention centre - I think we're gonna be taxing it a lot!
Lee - Apr 27, 2008 12:17:21 pm PDT #3709 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So you made it to the Festival at least Kat?
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2008 12:26:31 pm PDT #3710 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Y'know, I'm usually pretty cynical about advertising, but I have to tip my hat to the folks at the Discovery Channel: [link]
sarameg - Apr 27, 2008 12:47:51 pm PDT #3711 of 10001
2 of my grandparents had open caskets and have graves. The other two went to science and have no markers anywhere. Maybe somewhat unsurprisingly, seeing my (to be donated to science) dead grandfather as he was carried out on a gurney I found less disturbing than the open caskets. Maybe because he'd died in the house with us, and so it was an immediate confirmation, whereas the open caskets were enough after I'd accepted the deaths to be redundant.
I didn't get to bed until 4:30 am. Babysitting was fine, if late. We made brownies! Or rather, I supervised since the baby decided he needed feeding just as we started the process. I had visions of the 6 year old dropping the bowl (and there were a couple of near misses) but it went well. Kids passed out with half eaten brownies on the couches not too much later. Unfortunately, they took up all the couches, and I wasn't comfortable navigating the stairs carrying them, so I had no couch to crash on. I sat in the kitchen watching HGTV and Animal Planet. Man, some of those personalities would be well suited to children's tv...
Also confirmed it is best I not get cable.
Vacuumed, mopped, cleaned the bathroom and carpet cleaned once I hauled my ass out of bed.
Still a little out of it.
Pix - Apr 27, 2008 12:56:23 pm PDT #3712 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Matt, thanks for sharing that link. That is indeed a fantastic commercial. It makes me happy.
Tamara - Apr 27, 2008 1:01:05 pm PDT #3713 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Kevin, people cancel at the last minute so keep your eye on hotels closer. Of course, I think the closer hotels will be out of your budget, but you might get lucky.
Sheryl - Apr 27, 2008 1:12:29 pm PDT #3714 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay, Passover is done! I am sooo sick of matzo.
Congrats on the move, Allyson!
amych - Apr 27, 2008 1:13:26 pm PDT #3715 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
t hands crusty yummy bread to Sheryl