Conventional Wisdom

This is a common thing in convention centers: they have to crank the AC up really high to keep the crowded areas comfortable, but it results in any low-traffic areas becoming ice boxes. It was weirdly strong at this con, though. You’d walk through the main con areas and everything would be sweaty and nasty, then you turn down just the right hallway and BOOM FREEZING.

And when you factor in the high odds that you’d recently been rained on before entering one of those cold zones… well, we’ll get to that.

Oh, and would you look at that costume? Now I have a totally natural and not-forced-at-all reason to include a link to Far Out There on this page!

(Historical Notes: It’s all the more mystifying when you consider how, for all the twists and turns, the Galleria is mostly one big giant open space.  All the various halls are really just nooks and crannies on the side of one giant room.  It’s one thing when there’s a closed door between the hot room and the cool room, it’s another when they’re only divided by a right turn in an otherwise open walkway or a doorway that’s wide open all day.)