Convention caveats: one mild, one not so much

[the_archfiend]

First, the almost milquetoast complaint about one convention in February:

Memo to the fine people from Capricon's parties department: it's the MIB Pirate party. We gave up dressing up like them thar guys from the Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones movies eons ago. Next thing you know, people will start calling us the Inquisition and start putting up angry posters as if were Windycon '95 again. Ah, good times...

And now, the snarkier one for a con held around Mother's Day:

Not that I want to shout too loudly at  Anime Central's registration department, but would it be too much for you guys to finally get around to updating your online reg page?  I'm still being shown as owing you money that I don't, since (A) I sent you a check in late September that you guys cashed in mid-October, and (B) you're still showing me as owing $15 more despite that fact and an email I received last November that assured me that you'd be updating your records "soon". Oddly enough, the three emails I sent after that resulted in a vast roaring of crickets and tumbleweeds in response.

You guys are paying attention to this issue, right?

Here's hoping I'm only one of a handful of attendees with this problem, because standing in line for over 7 hours like I did last year because of the DoS attack on your computers hasn't stopped being irksome in my mind yet.