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<P>If you want to spend any time on the floor looking at vendor booths and displays do it Thursday and Friday. Saturday the floor is a mob scene as the weekend draws a lot of people who couldn't take time off to attend, etc. Be sure to see Bud Plant's space--he always brings lots of interesting comic and graphic related books.</P>
<P>Instead of paying Convention center food prices take the shuttle to the Ralphs in the morning and pick up sandwiches from their deli. They'll wrap them and you can have them for lunch.</P>
<P>One strategy for panels is for friends to divide up and attend conflicting programs and later provide highlights to those who missed it.</P>
<P>Dana Gabbard</P>
<P>Groo fan since Groo #1 (Pacific)<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Pengyfelix@aol.com
<DIV></DIV>>To: groop@groo.com
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Groop] Gak! San Diego Scheduling
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:22:38 EDT
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Egads! It's 12 days until San Diego, I haven't seen a complete programming
<DIV></DIV>>guide, and I'm already in overload with all the stuff I want to see! Could
<DIV></DIV>>some of you San Diego veterans share your secrets on how to see everything in
<DIV></DIV>>just 4 1/2 days? I'm far from a convention newbie (this is probably my 6th
<DIV></DIV>>or 7th con), but from the sounds of things, you could probably fit all of
<DIV></DIV>>those cons in one speaker room at San Diego, and I'm just going nuts trying to
<DIV></DIV>>figure out how we'll ever see everything there that we want to see: panels,
<DIV></DIV>>vendors, The Groo Crew, whichever Groopiers as we can identify, Star
<DIV></DIV>>Wars...you get the idea. Usually at the smaller conventions, we run out of interesting
<DIV></DIV>>things to see way before the con ends and we end up cutting out early. But
<DIV></DIV>>here it seems like so much to see and not nearly enough time to see it, much
<DIV></DIV>>less use our usual con plan of going around a couple times to scope things
<DIV></DIV>>out, go back to the interesting booths, and do the major comic book buying on
<DIV></DIV>>Sunday.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>My primary problem right now is: What do you do when two panels that you
<DIV></DIV>>REALLY want to see are scheduled for the same time? I was just reading the
<DIV></DIV>>Stargate SG-1 news (my absolute favorite TV show of all time, with apologies to
<DIV></DIV>>Garfield and Friends) and--horrors!--the Stargate full cast panel discussion
<DIV></DIV>>is scheduled for Saturday at 11:30, which simply will not work because last I
<DIV></DIV>>checked Quick Draw was scheduled for Saturday at noon, and there is no way
<DIV></DIV>>I'm missing Quick Draw. I have less than 2 weeks to figure out how to be in
<DIV></DIV>>two places at once!
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I've never had this problem at any of the other conventions we've been to.
<DIV></DIV>>They've been a lot smaller, so the odds are they don't have two panels I want
<DIV></DIV>>to see on the same day, much less at the same time.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Help!
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Janet
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