| Aug. 18th, 2009 @ 04:25 pm Ha! Awesome! |
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Feeling:  accomplished
Strains of Music: Final Fantasy IV - Into the Darkness Celtic Moon
Two things for today:
1. I turned in an application for the Howard Johnson inn for the Killeen area. Not the most wonderful of jobs, but hey, a paycheck is a paycheck right now. I'll take it if they offer!
2. I got the chance to check out the facilities they have at this hotel - and I might now have helped to save the only anime convention the Killeen/Fort Hood/Cove/Heights area has ever known. They have four rooms the con' can use, unlike the three the Plaza had - and they're all in air-conditioned areas. So we can even give the Artists a room of their own. Not sure on the conference rooms, I'll have to give a call and see what they've got in the way of those...
But this is definitely a good thing, because the last hotel we used was... rather lacking in important things like air-conditioning, and a general feeling that we were welcome beyond "cha-ching!" The front desk guy I talked to was quite friendly and helpful, so that's yet another point in their favor.
Why's it so important we find a new one? Well, beyond the ants that invaded some of the rooms this year, there's also what the Head happened to say. "If we can't find a new place for next year, we'll just not have one in '10, and save up for '11." After discussing this with another, however, the bad tactic this would prove to be occurred to me, too. Heck, this year alone, we had about 300-400 more people than we did last year. Animix is definitely growing, so to skip a year like that? Uh, no, not a good thing. The con' is getting big enough we had Johnny Yong Bosch and his band, Eyeshine, show up for this year's event. No bloody way am I letting it get put off because we couldn't find a place.
"Then why not just look at local convention places and such?" Ah-ha, those options have already been explored. Killeen Convention Center - the waiting list is currently up to two years in advance. Ha, no. Bell County Expo Center - only has the one large room, most of the other facilities aren't in particularly air-conditioned areas, and they wanted something like $10,000 to use it. ...HA. Yeah right, peoples. =P Harker Heights Event Center - after reviewing their draconian policies, I don't bloody well think so. They have a rule that we must use their light and sound person, or pay a $1000 deposit that will only be refunded if there's no damage, and the second deal breaker: All vendors must give HHEC 20% of their profits. And this is all after we've already paid the place a few thousand to use it. I say thee, NAY!
So now I'm going to check with the HoJo about their conference-type rooms, since we'll need just a few for the manga library, game room, and video screening room. Still, it's pretty freaking awesome that I've already managed to find such a good facility. Here's hoping it stays good between now and next summer. |
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