Yeah, so I -was- in Baltimore, but some circumstances I won't go into caused me to end up back at my house. I remembered just now that I probably could have called some people who were already in Baltimore to see if I could crash, but it's probably better that I didn't try to burden anyone with all five of us.

So, if you're wondering what happened to the updates, that Monday (the 19th) was when I started working. It didn't leave time for much else, and I'm sure Zarx wants to kill me by now.

Picking up Curtis and Laura from the airport was an interesting adventure. Their flight arrived at 3:55pm on Wednesday, so I planned around picking up Josh and getting there at 3:30 to wait for them.

First, I leave slightly later than planned. But shortly after I left, I realized I had turned the alarm system on with its motion sensors and everything, but I had left an oscillating fan running immediately underneath it. So I had to double back and change the alarm settings so that the fan wouldn't cause the police to raid my house or something. (This is what prompted the random PhonePost on Wednesday.)

This set me back about 10 minutes in the time to double back and get back into the house. But it wasn't the only setback... I realized, this time quite a bit further along, that I had failed to take the flight information with me. This realization came with a very loud "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!", conveniently let out the moment I was passing by a church. So, for a second time, I doubled back to my house, this time costing me some 15-20 minutes. I was now on schedule to get to Josh's house at about the time the flight was going to arrive.

Naturally, I ran into 4 or 5 speed traps, so I couldn't even speed to regain lost time.

This obviously caused a change of plans, and for Curtis and Laura to wait at the airport for about an hour before I actually arrived to pick them up.

I swear, airports are cursed. Something always goes horribly wrong in my airport runs no matter how well I plan for it. Some of us still remember the Air France fuckup from a couple years ago. If I didn't have Josh with me in the car, I would have probably gone completely nuts before reaching the airport.

Other than that, a couple extra people (Cav and Nexus, aka Jeff number 3 or Jeff from WPI) are here for two nights, which I so didn't plan for either. Thus, so far absolutely NOTHING has gone anywhere near as planned.

At least, the trip to Baltimore got me my pre-regged badge, so I don't need to wait in the line to get it tomorrow morning. In fact, I can take my time going to the convention now. Too bad the badge designs suck (as usual), and I ended up with the Gravion design.

So now, I should probably get as much sleep as possible, considering we're leaving in like 5 and a half hours now. Just doing some last minute preparations, like doing all the cell phone and camera charging that I meant to do in the hotel room that we don't have. >.>