grodog wrote: ↑September 22nd, 2019, 4:47 pm
Congrats on your new home in Austin!
Given the new location, you should definitely check out the North Texas RPG Con, too: it's in Dallas each June, and is a blast!:
https://ntrpgcon.com/
Allan.
<grumble, grumble> North Texas Con
<grumble, grumble> coincides with Daughter's birthday
<grumble, grumble>
One of these years...one of these years...
Back to PfCon though, so I did some thunkin' over this today and I am going to propose a change of time/date. Gary Con generally runs somewhere in March, early, mid, or late depending on when the GC folks can make arrangements with the lodge. 2020 will see it late March, which means if we plan PfCon in May, Memorial weekend, that's only two months apart. For me, personally, that might be an issue for a couple of reasons. One, when I'm gone, Jen has to make changes to her work schedule to be able to both drop off Emmi at school AND pick her up, when normally I do one and she does the other, which keeps our work schedule unhindered. Having her make schedule changes almost back to back might cause some flak and I'm already going to be traveling for 3-4 days, once a month or every other month, for one of my work projects. Tossing another round of just "gaming" into the mix so close to Gary Con will probably be met with animosity.
The other issue is time off, planning for PfCon on a holiday weekend is a good idea because that means less personal leave to take. For me, I tend to use leave somewhat regularly throughout the year for things such as Gary Con, holiday trips with the family, and now a family vacation, since Em is old enough now to enjoy going places. I also have to use it for days when I have to attend functions or things for Emmi's school or activities, I just may not have enough leave saved back up after Gary Con to immediately turn around and spend more for this trip.
My third issue, which isn't really an issue just a personal preference is that I think it would be enjoyable to have our small get together almost opposite of Gary Con as far as time of the year goes, so that we have something to look forward to many months after Gary Con is over and not just a month or two. I propose we move the time of PfCon to October, maybe Columbus Day weekend since that's a holiday we Feds have off, though I don't know if many private businesses take it. Either way, I still think a con in Oct would rock.
If James' (and maybe Jared's) workload is anything like mine there's a lot going on up until Sep 30th, then a nice slow period in Oct through early Nov as the govt kicks off a new fiscal year. Getting together right after all of that would be an excellent way to de-stress and would spread out our gaming throughout the year.
Anyhow, that's my thought on the whole thing, not sure if anyone else would agree or disagree.
