Dragon*Con Day 1

After getting up at 4am on Thursday to catch my flight (Delta, ugh, I'll be so glad when Southwest starts service to Atlanta next year), I spent all day folding shirts and getting the smaller of the two booths ready. Kind of collapsed last night, even though the room we were in was, well, let's just say not up to par and leave it at that?

Forced to eat McDonald's for breakfast (ugh again), back in the booth by 9 am and spent the next 4 hours getting things set up. Room opens. First sale, and the &*^&%^ change drawer won't open, but I'm able to jigger it open and I just keep it that way. Then the *#!@ credit card machine starts getting very wonky. Would work fine for a while, then it wouldn't. Finally we just put it on Store and Forward to hold all the transactions until we sent them in later. I had some incredibly patient customers!

It was very very busy all day long.  I barely had a chance to get up and go pee a couple of times. But I'd rather that than the alternative!

Saw both dremiel  and wolfshark ! (Heck, I see dremiel  all the time, but this is Dragon*Con!). wolfshark  and her husband and I went to dinner after I closed down the booth and we had a great time. We ate at the Vortex and the burgers were wonderful. So were the sweet potato fries, which you could dip in marshmallow creme... She very kindly took me back to the hotel, where I discovered that *my* room at the hotel was very nice. All I can figure is that the guys are staying in my room's evil twin. :-)

Well, off to bed. Day Two tomorrow!