Outlook for NDK is good, assuming my roommates' employment situation improves in any possible way. I'll ask my boss for some extra financial coverage prior to the event. I will need housing arrangements though; any help with that would be greatly appreciated. That basically means, "Find me an inexpensive, reasonably comfortable hotel in the area, please"

I'm in Canada right now so my cellphone is off. Sorry. I'll be back in the 'States sometime in the evening of 8/30. I depart BC at noon and arrive in Seattle around 4:30 (PST) so if you're in central, the earliest you should try to call me is somewhere in the whereabouts of 4pm.