Dr. Gerard wrote:In a non-committal, pie in sky sorta way, what would it take for the two of you to get it together for this year? I'm thinking about Airbnb, which has housing for 30 bucks a night if you don't mind being a little ways from convention hotel.
Hmmm.... Off the top of my head style calculations aren't my strong suit, but here goes...
It takes me a hundred bucks or so to drive to Wisconsin and back, so assuming that Scriven's car has good mileage, we'd need several hundred to drive to RI and back. 600? 700?
I'm not too worried about finding a place to sleep. I'm sure someone would have room for me to set up my cot. The cost there would be dependant on a share of the space.
Food would be a couple hundred at least to accommodate the trip both ways and the stay for the con. I don't know what the con itself costs for tickets, but that would be in there too.
So a wild guess... $1200 to $1500 for each of us. And the time off available from work, which is not guaranteed since I had to burn all that I had left over last year on 32 hour weeks.