Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:37:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Philcon report
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> wrote:

> This is funny.  I heard about the shared room from the other
> direction.  The reason I know it was your room was that he
> mentioned they had a guy sleeping in the closet.

It might not have been the same room.  Room sharing is quite common,
and sleeping in a closet is an obvious thing to do when the closets
are large and carpeted.  $182 is just *way* too much to pay for a few
hours shut-eye and a couple of hot showers.  Too much by at least a
factor of ten.

I forgot to mention that there was another convention in that hotel, a
public health convention.  Former WSFAn Perrianne Lurie was attending
*both* conventions.  She had been planning on missing Philcon and
attending the public health convention in New Orleans, but for some
strange reason it was relocated to Philadelphia.

This is convenient for her not just because it was in the same hotel
with Philcon, but because she's a Pennsylvania resident anyway.

I wonder if she gets a bulk discount for registering for *all* the
conventions in a hotel.  I also wonder which convention got the better
hotel rates, or whether the savings of each can be combined.

No email from you has been blocked; it was two other guys.  One
message has been re-sent.  The other reported the death of Robert
Sheckley.