* for some reason I decided I wanted to read Noah Van Sciver's comic about time-traveling to 1990s Seattle and see if I could figure out which day he visited the way some people did figuring out what day Ice Cube was rapping about in Today Was A Good Day. My hunch is June 24-25, 1993.
* finally: there are some early CCI hotel rooms opened up for those with a badge already. Those tend to be hotel room outside the downtown core, but I've stayed in plenty of those and had a good time. I will water taxi to that show before I die.