WE’RE BACK!!
That is the overall feeling of this con for us. We hung out with new peeps (Deb! Andy! Brian! et. al.) and we reestablished bonds with old peeps. It was GOOD. For the first time in years, we feel like we’re back into the social world! We were fat and depressed for many years. Now we are NOT. And that, my friends, is an amazing feeling. I need to throw a party!!
Friday was our big night. We hung out with Debbie et. al., for most of the evening, then our cutie TayTay showed up and the shenanigans began! Tay and I took a ride while Nick took care of us. We were back and forth between Hyatt and Marriott a lot, but ended up mostly at the Marriott motor lobby smoking area. The weather was beautiful with a nice breeze, so it was nicer outside than inside. Nick and I finally got to the truck at 1:30am, then promptly got locked into the damn pay lot on P’tree Center. The stupid gates were not working!! No attendant!! No phone numbers listed to call for help!! Calling for help on the ticket machine didn’t work!! GAH!! So I figured I’d at least try to push up the gate by hand – and by some miracle, it worked!! We thought we’d have to disassemble it. I found that if I pushed up on the gate, it would raise for about 4-5 seconds – long enough for one car to zoom through. By this time there were two more cars trapped with us, so I did the gate for Nick and the other two cars to get us the FUCK out of there. I hope the other ppl in that lot figured it out, too. Yes, I wrote a scathing email to the Lanier people about their shitty deck. Hopefully I’ll get a refund, but I doubt it.
We skipped Saturday at con, but did take Ted out to dinner at Pig & Pearl at Atlantic Station. I like that place! As we were driving Ted back to con (I took Romeo out so Ted could meet him!), we witnessed a head on collision at an intersection. It was slow speed, no airbags or any of that, thankfully. Dumb girl turned left in front of oncoming traffic, then almost hit me. We were not amused. I called 911 to report and of course the idiot operator began grilling me about the accident: What kind of cars? What colours? How many people? I’m like, “What part of I AM DRIVING do you not understand?? I’m just REPORTING the accident so you can dispatch some cops!!” She kept on so I hung up. Of course she called back and I didn’t answer. It is SO annoying to be grilled for info by the 911 operator when you’ve already said you’re DRIVING AWAY. It’s like they want you to turn around and go interview everyone for them. Yeah, NO, how about you send a COP or two to do your damn job? UGH.
Sunday was a HUGE day for us as well. We had to walk everywhere to do things, then handle the panel for Billy Mitchell and Walter Day. I’m happy to say that the panel went extremely well! About 3/4 full, lots of questions, A/V ran fine. Got to meet Kevin the Video Gaming tracklord and it turns out we’ve a common friend from back in the Derrydown days! LOL SMALL FREAKING WORLD!! Then we took Billy, Walter and Brian out to dinner to White Oak Kitchen – another place I highly recommend. It’s right across from Hyatt. It ain’t cheap, but it’s reliably good. We dropped about $350 on entertaining guests this con, but dammit, it’s our last hurrah before unemployment, so I think it’s money well spent. No regurts. ;)
Yesterday was con wrap. Had to get the rooms handled and paid for, then cruise the vendors and small press areas. Said HI to our comics buddies and said goodbye to Ted. Then we came home, got in our baskets, ordered pizza and watched stand up and movies the rest of the evening. It was glorious!
I put this on FB earlier, but it really belongs here:
I am happy to report that my body did GREAT this weekend! I got a couple of mild blisters from the massive walking on Sunday (not a shock, the Doc Martens don’t fit well), but overall, I’m not sore and I didn’t really need to rest much all weekend. Guess all the exercise is working! I even did a LOT of stair climbing w/out muscle failure! The scale says I “lost” 4# and am back to 179, but a lot of that is likely dehydration (despite my best efforts). My weight had crept back up to 184, but I lost a jeans size (to 12), so I guess I’m finally building some muscle. Whew, thank gods, I was sick of being weak! I did walk a SHIT TON, tho, so hopefully I can stay in the 170s! My big goal is to hit 170 even – I’d really like to achieve that! I can see size 10 from here! W00t!!
Now shout outs to everyone who made our con amazing this year:
Taylor
Heather
Russell for the treats
Randyyyyyyy! We look forward to talking about that project! Call me!
Debbie and co.
Brian H
Andy
Allen and co.
Ted Naifeh
Billy Mitchell
Walter Day
Kevin the Con Tracklord
Ben from Derrydown!!
Steve the EMT who helped the drunken boy get home
Amanda Oh! Great to see you!
Anna great to pass you in the street!
Lewis, as always
Robert from Imperial! We’ll come see you soon!
Shell and co.
Suzann – sorry we missed Pet!
And to everyone we missed: we’ll keep trying! Any of y’all going to Momocon? We can see you there!!
We will be doing Momocon in May 2018, so plan to hook up there if you’re going! We’ll also be doing Southern Fried Gaming Expo in June 2018. Find us! Site, FB, Twitter, IG.