{"id":46650,"date":"2019-08-21T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46650"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:30:40","slug":"if-omens-were-a-thing-its-good-im-skipping-dragoncon-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46650","title":{"rendered":"If omens were a thing, it\u2019s good I\u2019m skipping Dragon*Con this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve written about it already, it\u2019s hard to keep track when everything is kept offline, but I\u2019m not going to Dragon*Con this year, and I\u2019m frankly at peace with that choice.\u00a0 At the same time, I don\u2019t see the need to make an announcement over social media or anything because I\u2019m really nobody, and nobody is going to care anyway.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t want to be perceived as a downer dunking on the con, because I don\u2019t dislike the convention one bit, it\u2019s just that I can\u2019t seem to find the magic recipe in order to actually have a good time anymore.\u00a0 So instead of risking impeding the anticipation and excitement for others, I\u2019ll just keep quietly to myself writing my thoughts on a brog that isn\u2019t even online.<\/span><\/p>\n

But back to the point, if omens really did exist, then I think it\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019m skipping out this year.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how many outside of Atlanta actually heard, but at the Sheraton AKA the hotel where goers usually have to go pick up their registrations, there was an outbreak of Legionnaires<\/a>\u2019 disease, which is basically pneumonia on steroids not too long ago, and the hotel has been under a lot of fire and criticism about their sanitation and safety.\u00a0 A lot of people were afflicted with the ailment, and there was one reported death attributed to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a lot of speculation on whether or not the hotel could get the green light before Dragon*Con or not, to which of course they would, because Labor Day weekend is such a cash meteor for the entire city, that the Sheraton is going to damn well make sure that they can take part in collecting from the money printer as well.\u00a0 But the fact of the matter is that they did do a rush job in order to get cleared, which they supposedly are, but skeptics like me can\u2019t help but wonder just what shortcuts were taken in order to get the green light, and honestly short cuts are what probably led to the hotel becoming a ground zero for Legionnaires\u2019 in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully, I\u2019ve never been a Sheraton guy, as most of my friends and I have always been Marriott people.\u00a0 But I definitely know people who are staying at the Sheraton, and of course they\u2019re going to be a packed house, and I certainly hope that nobody comes out of the weekend with any weird ailments or reason to believe that the Legionnaires\u2019 outbreak wasn\u2019t adequately taken care of, in pursuit of money.<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, one incident is just that, but two incidents now makes it a story; and just earlier in the week, the Hyatt Regency, one of the founding core hotels of the con, reported their own fatal news, when a man was found dead after falling 11 stories, basically into the lobby bar where everyone gets their rum buckets from.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, one can\u2019t help but wonder how a person would make this fall, and more importantly how could this fall have occurred without some sort of foul play being in the equation.\u00a0 Thankfully, nobody really had to wait that long to get the details, and it turns out that a man on the 11th<\/sup> floor exposed himself to a housekeeper<\/a>, and while attempting to escape security, the guy thought he was a parkour master, and attempted to leap from the 11th<\/sup> floor down to the 10th<\/sup> floor, where he would presumably book it down the stairs and escape cleanly, Italian Job\u2014style.\u00a0 But because he was no parkour master, he instead missed and crashed to his death in the lobby bar.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not even Dragon*Con yet, and people are already acting like idiots in the Hyatt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, there are no tears shed for some perverted shithead flashing hotel workers, but the fact remains that among two of the prominent four core hotels have the cloud of death and disease floating over them going into the biggest financial tourism boon weekend of the year for the city of Atlanta.\u00a0 Not that either is going to put anything remotely close to a dent in the festivities, I can\u2019t help but feel a little bit of relief that I\u2019m not going to be there.<\/span><\/p>\n

I obviously don\u2019t really buy into omens and the notion that these two things all but guarantee that some nasty shit is going to happen at the con, but I dunno, it\u2019s still kind of a metaphor or some sort of symbolism that things are, or are close to, getting out of hand.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t put it past the attendees of Dragon*Con to where someone(s) will dress up as a zombie or a corpse to symbolize one or both of these incidents, because it\u2019s one weekend of the year where decorum isn\u2019t necessarily expected of people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, I\u2019m still glad that I\u2019m not going, and not even the people locally or those whom I work with that are also nerds going, have given me any sort of temptation or feeling of FOMO, and any creeping thoughts that I should crash for a night.\u00a0 However, that doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t want everyone I know who is going, to not have a marvelous time, and I hope that they all have great weekends full of fun, laughter and classic stories, and see some great costumes.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think I may go test drive some cars, maybe build some furniture, or even try and go for a run.\u00a0 Either way, I\u2019m embracing the fact that I\u2019m not going to be sinking $1,500 on hotels, parking and booze, and although I will miss seeing my old pals at the Peachtree Center Willy\u2019s, it\u2019s not like I couldn\u2019t still go to Willy\u2019s ever day at another location.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve written about it already, it\u2019s hard to keep track when everything is kept offline, but I\u2019m not going to Dragon*Con this year, and I\u2019m frankly at peace with that choice.\u00a0 At the same time, I don\u2019t see the need to make an announcement over social media or anything because I\u2019m really nobody, … Continue reading If omens were a thing, it\u2019s good I\u2019m skipping Dragon*Con this year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,107,45,143,49],"class_list":["post-46650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-dragoncon","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46652,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46650\/revisions\/46652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}