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dolariLATE SATURDAY NIGHT
About midnight, Mike Moon pulled me aside and said he had something to give to me, and pulled out a birthday bag for me. It had a small PVC set of Big O figurines, two tron lightcycles (With Action figures!), a book on Ric Flair and a set of Widescreen Star Trek Movie Cards. :) I thanked him profusely (he gives me something every year, and I always feel bad I don't have anything for him). How he figured out the two Tron figures I'm missing (I still have my old Sark and Guardian action figures), I'll never know.
Shortly before bed, we began packing up to move to our downstairs room since the upstairs room would only be ours until noon. We began packing everything when we realized the package of candies Emily had gotten for me (I'm a sucker for Coffee Crisp and Canadian Kit Kats) was missing. With this and the missing tape recorder, we began thinking we may have been robbed, and filed a report on it. Maybe I overreaccted, but Emily spent money on that for me, when money is scarce for her, and I had had stuff dissapear MANY times from hotels (including a full on cleaning out in the late 90s). We went to bed frustrated.
SUNDAY, Trinoc Day Three
We woke up in the 6th floor room (all our stuff in the 4th floor with a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it) got dressed and had breakfast with Erin and her posse. We moved the last of our stuff downstairs and rejoined the con.
The morning was really laid back, I didn't have my first panel until 1, and we just hung out. I hadn't sold a damned thing the entire time. People were interested, but I wasn't manning the table, so no one bought anything. Housekeeping had also thrown out my shipping boxes so I had almost no way of bringing all this stuff back with me. So at this point, I wrote off the con, and offered everything but the posters for free. There were very few takers, unfortunately, and eventually most of our stuff was given away to to the other webcomics folks. I did sketches for a few people, asked for sketches from not enough people, and in general had a nice time just hanging out with other likeminded artisty types.
Towards the (what seemed to be) closing of the art room at 1 (A whole hour LONGER than scheduled), a CS fan (I'm thinking) stopped to talk for a little while and then took off. A few minutes later, I was drive-by fanned. :D This same person, just ran up to the table, said thank you, dropped off a little fairy cat and took off before I could thank her. I know you're reading this, so Thanks! :D
Eventually, the art room closed, and I made my way to the last webcomics panel, at 1PM, where we all talked about what we use to make webcomics. I was surprised to find out I'm the only one who really uses typsetting programs as everyone else uses Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro for everything. I always found it easier to do stuff in Quark or Pagemaker, but I think that comes from my typesetting background.
Some folks I REALLY missed were the ones who attended virtually EVERY panel in 2004 and 2005, and took copious notes. You can see them in Jade's 2005 con comics, and they were nowhere to be seen this year.
With the panel over at 3PM, we found the art room STILL open, and people packing up as it was finally closing out. The Erin Posse made a hasty exit after the last panel (their flight out was in the early afternoon), so there were quick goodbyes and they were gone.
There were traditions from the con that I wanted to keep up - one I would have liked to keep going was the Hibachi dinner, which we was an impromptu dinner in 2004 (Nathan and I wanted some dinner, and ended up dragging the entire convention along with us), and in 2005 Cat took us to dinner. This year it ended up not happening (it was much too far away) so one tradition got broken. The other being The Sunday Night Movie. In 2005, we went to go see Willy Wonka. This year, we were hoping for Superman Returns, but I'd also promised![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dmalenker we'd go to dinner with him. We just couldn't make it work out, though, so we went to dinner and I saw the movie Tuesday.
The poor shuttle driver went everywhere. Loren was also flying out that evening back to Phoenix, and once we saw the Thai place wasn't opened yet, we went to the airport instead, dropped Loren off, and headed back to the Thai place. It was a nice dinner with Greg Eatroff as well where most everyone reached geek levels that even _I_ don't go often. :D
The shuttle would have taken 40 minutes to get back to us after dinner, so we decided to walk back to the con, catch the end of the Dead Dog party, where we said our goodbyes to everyone, and retreated to the pool for a dip. Well, Emily retreated to the pool, I just watched the vision of loveliness :)
If that was one of the last images I'd see of her in a year, it was a wonderful way to end.
We went back to our rooms, cuddled up and slept.
MONDAY
Unlike last year, there was no rush. We had packed that evening, and were ready to hit the ground running. Emily made a last minute inspection, and found the candies tucked away in one of her bags, so one thing was found. We'd findout later that day that the hotel found our tape recorder.
We made it to the airport easily, there were no rushed goodbyes (heck, there was a goodbye, period!). I watched her dissapear into Terminal C, I walked to Terminal A and flew home.
Thus endeth the con. I'd like to thank John Ballew for actually asking me back after last years fiasco, Mike Moon for bringing life back to the old girl, and Jamie Robertson for being such a sweetie. :)
Next stop, Houston Comix and Zine Fest, November 3rd-5th.
About midnight, Mike Moon pulled me aside and said he had something to give to me, and pulled out a birthday bag for me. It had a small PVC set of Big O figurines, two tron lightcycles (With Action figures!), a book on Ric Flair and a set of Widescreen Star Trek Movie Cards. :) I thanked him profusely (he gives me something every year, and I always feel bad I don't have anything for him). How he figured out the two Tron figures I'm missing (I still have my old Sark and Guardian action figures), I'll never know.
Shortly before bed, we began packing up to move to our downstairs room since the upstairs room would only be ours until noon. We began packing everything when we realized the package of candies Emily had gotten for me (I'm a sucker for Coffee Crisp and Canadian Kit Kats) was missing. With this and the missing tape recorder, we began thinking we may have been robbed, and filed a report on it. Maybe I overreaccted, but Emily spent money on that for me, when money is scarce for her, and I had had stuff dissapear MANY times from hotels (including a full on cleaning out in the late 90s). We went to bed frustrated.
SUNDAY, Trinoc Day Three
We woke up in the 6th floor room (all our stuff in the 4th floor with a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it) got dressed and had breakfast with Erin and her posse. We moved the last of our stuff downstairs and rejoined the con.
The morning was really laid back, I didn't have my first panel until 1, and we just hung out. I hadn't sold a damned thing the entire time. People were interested, but I wasn't manning the table, so no one bought anything. Housekeeping had also thrown out my shipping boxes so I had almost no way of bringing all this stuff back with me. So at this point, I wrote off the con, and offered everything but the posters for free. There were very few takers, unfortunately, and eventually most of our stuff was given away to to the other webcomics folks. I did sketches for a few people, asked for sketches from not enough people, and in general had a nice time just hanging out with other likeminded artisty types.
Towards the (what seemed to be) closing of the art room at 1 (A whole hour LONGER than scheduled), a CS fan (I'm thinking) stopped to talk for a little while and then took off. A few minutes later, I was drive-by fanned. :D This same person, just ran up to the table, said thank you, dropped off a little fairy cat and took off before I could thank her. I know you're reading this, so Thanks! :D
Eventually, the art room closed, and I made my way to the last webcomics panel, at 1PM, where we all talked about what we use to make webcomics. I was surprised to find out I'm the only one who really uses typsetting programs as everyone else uses Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro for everything. I always found it easier to do stuff in Quark or Pagemaker, but I think that comes from my typesetting background.
Some folks I REALLY missed were the ones who attended virtually EVERY panel in 2004 and 2005, and took copious notes. You can see them in Jade's 2005 con comics, and they were nowhere to be seen this year.
With the panel over at 3PM, we found the art room STILL open, and people packing up as it was finally closing out. The Erin Posse made a hasty exit after the last panel (their flight out was in the early afternoon), so there were quick goodbyes and they were gone.
There were traditions from the con that I wanted to keep up - one I would have liked to keep going was the Hibachi dinner, which we was an impromptu dinner in 2004 (Nathan and I wanted some dinner, and ended up dragging the entire convention along with us), and in 2005 Cat took us to dinner. This year it ended up not happening (it was much too far away) so one tradition got broken. The other being The Sunday Night Movie. In 2005, we went to go see Willy Wonka. This year, we were hoping for Superman Returns, but I'd also promised
dmalenker we'd go to dinner with him. We just couldn't make it work out, though, so we went to dinner and I saw the movie Tuesday.The poor shuttle driver went everywhere. Loren was also flying out that evening back to Phoenix, and once we saw the Thai place wasn't opened yet, we went to the airport instead, dropped Loren off, and headed back to the Thai place. It was a nice dinner with Greg Eatroff as well where most everyone reached geek levels that even _I_ don't go often. :D
The shuttle would have taken 40 minutes to get back to us after dinner, so we decided to walk back to the con, catch the end of the Dead Dog party, where we said our goodbyes to everyone, and retreated to the pool for a dip. Well, Emily retreated to the pool, I just watched the vision of loveliness :)
If that was one of the last images I'd see of her in a year, it was a wonderful way to end.
We went back to our rooms, cuddled up and slept.
MONDAY
Unlike last year, there was no rush. We had packed that evening, and were ready to hit the ground running. Emily made a last minute inspection, and found the candies tucked away in one of her bags, so one thing was found. We'd findout later that day that the hotel found our tape recorder.
We made it to the airport easily, there were no rushed goodbyes (heck, there was a goodbye, period!). I watched her dissapear into Terminal C, I walked to Terminal A and flew home.
Thus endeth the con. I'd like to thank John Ballew for actually asking me back after last years fiasco, Mike Moon for bringing life back to the old girl, and Jamie Robertson for being such a sweetie. :)
Next stop, Houston Comix and Zine Fest, November 3rd-5th.
