Preparing for LAN Party Stories - Spring 2023

**Weekend Plans and Preparations**

The speaker is excited to spend their entire weekend at the land party, which they plan to attend with several friends. They mention that they have chosen this chair for its height and adjustability, which they think will be perfect for the event. The speaker also talks about how they are going to bring this chair from here on out, but only use their main chair when they arrive at their place.

**Attendance and Lineup**

Unfortunately, the attendance for this land party is not what it usually is. Nick, who has been a regular attendee, will be missing due to surgery on his knee. The speaker is disappointed about this, as Nick has been a table buddy for them in the more recent lands. However, they are happy that Jesse will be joining them, despite him being out of state and having his own things going on. Jesse has been an OG member of the land party series since 2016.

**Updates from Friends**

The speaker mentions that Sean was supposed to join them, but he hasn't heard back from him in a while. They are hoping that he will surprise them with his attendance. The only other confirmed attendees besides the speaker and Jesse are Casey, James, and Martin.

**Road Trip Details**

As the speaker is on their way to pick up Katie, they mention that it's going to take around 30 minutes to get there. They had previously Googled the location and estimated the travel time was roughly 29 minutes.

**The Family is Coming Together**

The speaker mentions that this is only the second time they've picked someone up for land, as usually they come alone. The other person they've ever picked up was Martin, who has more land time than waiting. They also mention that Aretha might not be able to make it due to illness.

**Remedies and Last-Minute Plans**

The speaker had forgotten to tell the camera about the attendance changes until now. They also mention that Martin got Aretha some medication for her cold, hoping that it will help her recover in time.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right it is the Thursday before land weekend right now it is uh actually a little earlier than I normally do this it's 8 30 p.m uh Thursday night before and the reason I'm starting this early is because I actually have a wow raid that I'm doing tonight I do late night Thursday raids I usually around from this time to midnight or one so um I didn't want to start recording after that because it'll be super late but uh yeah I'm just here chilling waiting for the raid to form and all that in terms of what I need to do tonight I need to finish this raid and then finish editing a video as well as pack uh to get down to the land this time around we are going to be landing at Jan's house Jan and Meg's house actually uh and they moved ever since uh we were last there they are now in Olympia Washington which is a little bit further south than they were before me and Jen for the last you know a few years we have lived the furthest away from each other out of our whole Land Group I live the farthest north he lives apart of the South so he originally we bought a house with Meg that's even further south than that from DuPont to Olympia so it's going to be quite a bit of a drive I'm really excited to see it though this is their first home together and this should be fun but um yeah I think people are starting to get online now so let me do this quick raid and I will be back on the camera hopefully this doesn't take that long because I have a lot to do tonight still to 30 seconds on Earth okay uh you know this is just gonna be a weapon uh do we not have Arden yeah but we used to be ready so I mean I can stay out but uh we can give it a go if you can love this Overlook what no shoulders boobs all right so raid's over we got the kill it is almost 1 30 a.m now uh so I need to get to editing this video and finishing it uh then after that I'll pack and uh yeah should have plenty of time this is when I'm in my element I'm like a super laser focused honed in and stuff and I'm gonna get it done be safe out there and I'll see you all down in the comments as well as in the next stream and our video bye all right that it is done now I'm gonna export it it's 4 46 uh so I need to leave here at around 7 A.M so I've got about two hours to shower pack my stuff pack the car and then head out here thank you all right time to start taking apart my setup foreign so this is pretty much everything I'm going to be bringing I will be bringing one table as well a foldable table but aside from that this is going to be pretty much it it's a lot more tame than in the previous land parties uh I've got is this extension cord which is even for me it's for the whole group uh but in terms of my stuff I've got a backpack gym bag this tote which has everything else I need in it and then my PC build right here on top in terms of the chair I think I'm going to change it up this time around and for the first time ever I'm not going to be bringing my own personal main chair that I use at home I usually bring this uh to every single land and it's just kind of big and annoying and I'm not sure if I need this entire chair so a lot of times when people go to land they don't bring their chairs like within our friend group a lot of people just use whatever chairs they have there like when they come over to my place not everybody brings their chairs they just use whatever it is here I just don't like bringing this it takes up so much space in the car so I'm not gonna bring this but I do have and there's many stool chair like if you look at the size comparison like look at it this is the full chair and then this is the little one so this one is a lot smaller a lot more Nimble and it has the back support but there's no armrests and I think I could uh I think I can use this entire weekend it does go fully up in terms of height uh in terms of adjustability so yeah I think I'm gonna I'm gonna try it with this chair and if this works maybe I'll just bring this to land from here on out and only use my main chair for when we land here at my place but this is pretty much it so I need to uh get the car loaded up oh my God foreign foreign I'm going to pick up Katie now I texted him let him know I'm on the way it is a little bit over an hour till I get there so the attendance for this plan is not going to be the usual that we've been having for the last you know kind of more recent ones the first big one is Nick is not gonna be there uh and this is gonna be the first land he's missed ever since this whole series started that's kind of a bummer uh he has to miss it because he's getting surgery actually no he already got the surgery done on his knee and he has to be off of it for like six weeks or something like that Nick's been my you know table buddy for a while now in the more recent land so I'm gonna need to find a new table buddy but also in terms of attendance we're gonna have Jesse here so Jesse moved out of Washington uh a couple of years ago actually so he hasn't been regularly attending the Lan parties just because he's out of state and he's got his own stuff going on uh but he is going to be in town and he's actually going to be there for this entire weekend Jesse is one of the OG LAN party you know members way back from before I even started the series and the first land party stories back in 2016 that was at Jesse's house and other than that I think uh we might have Sean joining us uh Sean's John's hard to to get a hold of he said he really wanted to go uh and it was only like a week or a week and a half ago that he said he was still coming uh but we haven't heard from him since so we'll see if he surprises us uh other than that I think everybody else is going to be the standard crew your destination is on the right hello sir hello hello so just put it there and we'll stuff it so that nothing can move did you answer the building blankets or just pillow uh I think it was just pillow but I'd always bring my blanket oh okay good exciting time and the Jen know that we are on the way I'm going to guess it's 30 minutes away but I think that's roughly how long when I Googled it 29 minutes all right almost perfect yeah this is only the second time ever that I've picked someone up for land yeah usually you come by yourself right yeah and the other person that I've ever picked up was Martin so I got the whole family now yeah one of the lands I think Aretha was working or she wasn't planning on coming until later so on my way down probably to Jesse's kind of near Steilacoom um yeah I just grabbed Martin on the way just so that he could have more land time instead of having to wait yeah because Aretha usually works into the evenings um that's why they usually come late hopefully she can make it this time I know I hope she's feeling better oh I forgot because so I was telling the the camera but the attendance because we got a pretty big change of kind of this time around missing Nick is a huge one and Jesse being here is pretty big because he hasn't been able to make it to all of them recently Sean might make it even though he has it I really hope he makes it a love song yeah Sean's always fun and then yeah potentially missing Aretha aretha's actually sick and she doesn't know if she can make it or not so we'll see Martin got her some fall last night so hopefully that's the remedy roll yes the ball is the Cure All we can pick up it's only three minutes away no yeah it's very close oh yeah Casey you are my desk buddy I am your desk buddy yes because so be it I mean Danny's got Jillian now so that's true you abandoned me he did me you Nick we gotta stick together we're in the trio yeah cause Jan's got Meg Marsh Garita James and uh Jesse usually sit together I don't know where we are yes yes yes oh man they are tucked away yeah they're like almost here in here it is perfect straight shot to the door nice oh yeah uh I gotta end the video well again open the garage we gotta hurry up okay uh thanks for watching this part water land party stories you know what to expect uh next time oh James are you walking out okay bye see you guys in the next video thanks for watching foreignall right it is the Thursday before land weekend right now it is uh actually a little earlier than I normally do this it's 8 30 p.m uh Thursday night before and the reason I'm starting this early is because I actually have a wow raid that I'm doing tonight I do late night Thursday raids I usually around from this time to midnight or one so um I didn't want to start recording after that because it'll be super late but uh yeah I'm just here chilling waiting for the raid to form and all that in terms of what I need to do tonight I need to finish this raid and then finish editing a video as well as pack uh to get down to the land this time around we are going to be landing at Jan's house Jan and Meg's house actually uh and they moved ever since uh we were last there they are now in Olympia Washington which is a little bit further south than they were before me and Jen for the last you know a few years we have lived the furthest away from each other out of our whole Land Group I live the farthest north he lives apart of the South so he originally we bought a house with Meg that's even further south than that from DuPont to Olympia so it's going to be quite a bit of a drive I'm really excited to see it though this is their first home together and this should be fun but um yeah I think people are starting to get online now so let me do this quick raid and I will be back on the camera hopefully this doesn't take that long because I have a lot to do tonight still to 30 seconds on Earth okay uh you know this is just gonna be a weapon uh do we not have Arden yeah but we used to be ready so I mean I can stay out but uh we can give it a go if you can love this Overlook what no shoulders boobs all right so raid's over we got the kill it is almost 1 30 a.m now uh so I need to get to editing this video and finishing it uh then after that I'll pack and uh yeah should have plenty of time this is when I'm in my element I'm like a super laser focused honed in and stuff and I'm gonna get it done be safe out there and I'll see you all down in the comments as well as in the next stream and our video bye all right that it is done now I'm gonna export it it's 4 46 uh so I need to leave here at around 7 A.M so I've got about two hours to shower pack my stuff pack the car and then head out here thank you all right time to start taking apart my setup foreign so this is pretty much everything I'm going to be bringing I will be bringing one table as well a foldable table but aside from that this is going to be pretty much it it's a lot more tame than in the previous land parties uh I've got is this extension cord which is even for me it's for the whole group uh but in terms of my stuff I've got a backpack gym bag this tote which has everything else I need in it and then my PC build right here on top in terms of the chair I think I'm going to change it up this time around and for the first time ever I'm not going to be bringing my own personal main chair that I use at home I usually bring this uh to every single land and it's just kind of big and annoying and I'm not sure if I need this entire chair so a lot of times when people go to land they don't bring their chairs like within our friend group a lot of people just use whatever chairs they have there like when they come over to my place not everybody brings their chairs they just use whatever it is here I just don't like bringing this it takes up so much space in the car so I'm not gonna bring this but I do have and there's many stool chair like if you look at the size comparison like look at it this is the full chair and then this is the little one so this one is a lot smaller a lot more Nimble and it has the back support but there's no armrests and I think I could uh I think I can use this entire weekend it does go fully up in terms of height uh in terms of adjustability so yeah I think I'm gonna I'm gonna try it with this chair and if this works maybe I'll just bring this to land from here on out and only use my main chair for when we land here at my place but this is pretty much it so I need to uh get the car loaded up oh my God foreign foreign I'm going to pick up Katie now I texted him let him know I'm on the way it is a little bit over an hour till I get there so the attendance for this plan is not going to be the usual that we've been having for the last you know kind of more recent ones the first big one is Nick is not gonna be there uh and this is gonna be the first land he's missed ever since this whole series started that's kind of a bummer uh he has to miss it because he's getting surgery actually no he already got the surgery done on his knee and he has to be off of it for like six weeks or something like that Nick's been my you know table buddy for a while now in the more recent land so I'm gonna need to find a new table buddy but also in terms of attendance we're gonna have Jesse here so Jesse moved out of Washington uh a couple of years ago actually so he hasn't been regularly attending the Lan parties just because he's out of state and he's got his own stuff going on uh but he is going to be in town and he's actually going to be there for this entire weekend Jesse is one of the OG LAN party you know members way back from before I even started the series and the first land party stories back in 2016 that was at Jesse's house and other than that I think uh we might have Sean joining us uh Sean's John's hard to to get a hold of he said he really wanted to go uh and it was only like a week or a week and a half ago that he said he was still coming uh but we haven't heard from him since so we'll see if he surprises us uh other than that I think everybody else is going to be the standard crew your destination is on the right hello sir hello hello so just put it there and we'll stuff it so that nothing can move did you answer the building blankets or just pillow uh I think it was just pillow but I'd always bring my blanket oh okay good exciting time and the Jen know that we are on the way I'm going to guess it's 30 minutes away but I think that's roughly how long when I Googled it 29 minutes all right almost perfect yeah this is only the second time ever that I've picked someone up for land yeah usually you come by yourself right yeah and the other person that I've ever picked up was Martin so I got the whole family now yeah one of the lands I think Aretha was working or she wasn't planning on coming until later so on my way down probably to Jesse's kind of near Steilacoom um yeah I just grabbed Martin on the way just so that he could have more land time instead of having to wait yeah because Aretha usually works into the evenings um that's why they usually come late hopefully she can make it this time I know I hope she's feeling better oh I forgot because so I was telling the the camera but the attendance because we got a pretty big change of kind of this time around missing Nick is a huge one and Jesse being here is pretty big because he hasn't been able to make it to all of them recently Sean might make it even though he has it I really hope he makes it a love song yeah Sean's always fun and then yeah potentially missing Aretha aretha's actually sick and she doesn't know if she can make it or not so we'll see Martin got her some fall last night so hopefully that's the remedy roll yes the ball is the Cure All we can pick up it's only three minutes away no yeah it's very close oh yeah Casey you are my desk buddy I am your desk buddy yes because so be it I mean Danny's got Jillian now so that's true you abandoned me he did me you Nick we gotta stick together we're in the trio yeah cause Jan's got Meg Marsh Garita James and uh Jesse usually sit together I don't know where we are yes yes yes oh man they are tucked away yeah they're like almost here in here it is perfect straight shot to the door nice oh yeah uh I gotta end the video well again open the garage we gotta hurry up okay uh thanks for watching this part water land party stories you know what to expect uh next time oh James are you walking out okay bye see you guys in the next video thanks for watching foreign\n"