My Guide to the San Diego Comic Con

 Con Housing is open , not that it will do you much good at this point.  Anything closer than a mile is gone.  And even now, four and a half hours later, TPHousing's server is still flaky as hell.

Yeah, that was a lot of fun .  Still, I was able to get a room for the Con.  It's not the room I wanted, but it is the room that many people would kill for.  After about 50 minutes of clicking, I got a room at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina.  Yes, right next to the Con.  I "lost" four rooms due to the poor state of the servers, though.  Click, wait, 

 Of course, as if the significant price increase the hotels hit us with wasn't enough,  the hotel tax rate went up from 10.5% to 12.5% on January first of this year.

  To be honest, this is about the same trouble I had last year, where once I got all the way to the "Clicked to confirm" button, only to have the server crash on me.  It really shouldn't be a surprise for Travel Planners to have such a response by now.