  Election Day I spent election day traveling to Columbus for the fall GAMA Board meeting. Arrived at the airport in time to bump into Rick Loomis from Flying Buffalo, freshly (or *ahem* maybe not so "freshly") in from two weeks in Europe for the urlLink Essen and urlLink Eindhoven game shows. The fall meeting is the only meeting that doesn't take place adjacent or concurrent with other game shows (e.g., the GAMA Trade Show and Origins) and it's traditionally two solid days of work for the organization.
This year, held in Columbus (home to the Origins Convention) the people of Experience Columbus "hosted" the Board meeting, meaning along with the GAMA finance director, they arranged for hotel rooms, printing and binding the agenda and staff reports, providing meals, meetings with our liaisons at the venues and so on. It also meant that the contact guy from Experience Columbus was picking each of the board members up at the airport, no matter what time of the day or night we were coming in. I had the unlucky draw of a room at the Red Roof Inn, one of the convention hotels. As compared to the other hotels, the Red Roof is the sort of minimal hotel that doesn't even provide you with a complimentary bottle of shampoo.
Rick joined me for dinner, as we were both starved on our flights, and then I hooked up with a few other board members to go over some of the material for the morning meeting. Sadly, being on West Coast Time was cruel to me. I was unable to fall asleep before 3:30am, even with the aid of a couple of after-dinner drinks.
The meeting started in a hotel meeting room up the block at 8:00am (aka 5:00am by my body clock). Ouch. 
