Hobo Jungle

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, I just noticed that your current avatar is an astronaut spinning in space , no problem but just why/how is it raining in space?????

It's a meteor shower!

[J. S. Bach]

It's a meteor shower!

Good answer/comeback! I hope the he (she?) does not get hurt.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's a meteor shower!

Good answer/comeback! I hope the he (she?) does not get hurt.

We'll find out eventually,

[rogruth]

$115.00 just to get in the door?????

Ridiculous..........

Maybe you had to be a member? Was it a convention? Were events included we weren't told about?
There was a long period each day when the show closed but maybe the convention went on.
There was an NMRA convention nearby one year and I attended the part that was open to the public.
Non members were told to leave at certain times each day.
I agree that was a very high admission cost but we may not have been told all.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

$115.00 just to get in the door?????

Ridiculous..........

Maybe you had to be a member? Was it a convention? Were events included we weren't told about?
There was a long period each day when the show closed but maybe the convention went on.
There was an NMRA convention nearby one year and I attended the part that was open to the public.
Non members were told to leave at certain times each day.
I agree that was a very high admission cost but we may not have been told all.

Registration costs for model RR conventions has gotten a bit out of control. But I will concede that they are nothing in comparison to my professional society convention costs........

[robert.]

Insurance companies driving up the prices.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Insurance companies driving up the prices.

Actually, the insurance companies are the easiest part of the equation; the hotels and the convention centers tend to be operating in fantasy land doing things like charging $200-500 for an urn of coffee. The determination to gouge the life out of a convention of any kind operates at the high end of insane.

[healey36]

Every con I had planned to attend this summer has been bagged. Now I'm getting notices that some of the fall cons are being considered for cancellation. This, together with the general crash of folks' travel intentions, is going to be an epic bloodbath for the entire hospitality industry. It's hard to imagine that it will recover within the next ten years.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Every con I had planned to attend this summer has been bagged. Now I'm getting notices that some of the fall cons are being considered for cancellation. This, together with the general crash of folks' travel intentions, is going to be an epic bloodbath for the entire hospitality industry. It's hard to imagine that it will recover within the next ten years.

One of my professional conferences in 2021 has already been moved to 2022. I suspect quite a few of these are going to just move to virtual on-line systems.

[healey36]

I'm surprised we're not hearing Trump bemoaning the collapse of the hospitality business, one in which he has indulged himself with mixed success. I'm guessing when this all gets peeled back in five or six years, we'll find that Mnuchin funneled relief funds to the Trump organization to prop them up.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm surprised we're not hearing Trump bemoaning the collapse of the hospitality business, one in which he has indulged himself with mixed success.

Ummm.........we have been -- all the rants about opening up and that people need to be at work are exactly reflective of the fact that he's l;osing money on empty hotels, resorts, and other hospitality businesses

I'm guessing when this all gets peeled back in five or six years, we'll find that Mnuchin funneled relief funds to the Trump organization to prop them up.

Would not doubt it for a moment.

[webenda]

Whatever happened to Frank Abagnale?

He works for the FBI. He has worked many undercover assignments, he is very good at it.

Currently he works on corporate breaches (like TJMax's data breach: At 45.6M card numbers, it's the biggest ever ...)

:=> https://youtu.be/vsMydMDi3rI

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Whatever happened to Frank Abagnale?

Were you intending a new thread?

And, who?

[webenda]

Whatever happened to Frank Abagnale?

Were you intending a new thread?

And, who?

No new thread, just hobo talk about the guy who hitched rides all over the planet. The master hobo, that is who.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

ok, it was just that you altered the thread title in your posts.....