Well, my stress level has settled. Now it's going through the states of grief, whatever those are. We lost the seats we had for the past four years, despite having moved up to Olympian. Someone must have been up a couple donation level ahead of us because our cherished seats in 227 were gone the first or second day. We got nearly equivalent seats in 228, which actually saves us some money. But still, as my wife said, p!ssed off people are less inclined to give more money voluntarily.
One thing that we will miss is the friendships we have made over the past years, people we only see a half dozen times per year, but still... It's something that's perhaps not considered in this whole seat reshuffling kerfuffle.
One thing I'd thought about as a compromise would have been to grandfather everyone who's had season tickets in particularly seats, and then start the system they have now. That would have rewarded the faithful. Yes, I know the system they set up does reward the long-time seat holders with points, but apparently not enough to make the difference. Shoulda given more, I suppose.
