*Collapses*
May. 31st, 2010 09:31 pmAm updating from a La Quinta near the San Jose airport. The only food choices were either Burger King--ick--or pizza. Guess what I had for dinner? My plane leaves at 9 am, which puts me back in TX about 2 pm, and back to work the next day.
It was a loooong convention, and according to Mr. Pegasus, sales were down. We were the entertainment for a lot of them. ("Look at the tshirts! I will read them out loud and laugh!")
I always enjoy anime shows. The kids are generally very sweet, and they spend so much time on their very cool costumes. I always mean to take pictures but I never do.
Got to see Richard Pini, briefly, and Raymond Greer (who worked on my back twice, thank goodness). Walked more in 5 days than I probably do in a two weeks, which brought home just how horribly out-of-shape I am. Thoroughly enjoyed the nice cool weather and I'm looking forward to more when I come back out for S & H's wedding in couple of weeks.
Gotta shower. See y'all tomorrow!
It was a loooong convention, and according to Mr. Pegasus, sales were down. We were the entertainment for a lot of them. ("Look at the tshirts! I will read them out loud and laugh!")
I always enjoy anime shows. The kids are generally very sweet, and they spend so much time on their very cool costumes. I always mean to take pictures but I never do.
Got to see Richard Pini, briefly, and Raymond Greer (who worked on my back twice, thank goodness). Walked more in 5 days than I probably do in a two weeks, which brought home just how horribly out-of-shape I am. Thoroughly enjoyed the nice cool weather and I'm looking forward to more when I come back out for S & H's wedding in couple of weeks.
Gotta shower. See y'all tomorrow!
I has returned!
Sep. 8th, 2009 11:32 am...bet you didn't even know I was gone, did you?
Anime Fest was a pleasant con to sell shirts at. Very few really weird/want to tell you their life story folks. Sales were decent, and the World's Best Niece is good company.
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alycorn came by a couple of times, and she's always wonderful, even if she forgot the waffle maker. ;-) Still and all, it was a nice change from the madhouse that is working at Dragon*Con.We made it out to Half Price Books' 20% off sale, and ate several amazing breakfasts at a wonderful place called Mama's Daughters' Diner--whose name I love because they got the apostrophes correct--and an extremely cute young man chatted up the Niece at the convention.
It's a funny thing about the Niece. She has many tattoos and piercings, yet every guy who has asked her out is clean-cut. I find this hilarious. However, her chatting up the nice young man going into the Navy had a nice benefit--he was waiting around after the show to help us load up the van. Score!
Well, I have today and tomorrow off. I tried to sleep in this morning, but they decided to start working on the roof of my apartment building today, instead of last week (as they had told us). Ah well.
I am flogging shirts to the masses at Animix, a really, really small anime convention in Killeen TX. Why is it so small? Why are there so few people there, and why do they not have any money? Probably anyone with money and time is at Otakon. Which is also this weekend. Great planning, guys!
Also, the hotel's air conditioning is either a) broken or b) turned off by resentful hotel staff. I have heard both reasons given. We are resorting to fans to keep people from melting in place. I'm taking my small one in tomorrow to help circulate air on my side of the Vendor's Room. We Are Not Amused. I finally cooled off--in my car, on the drive home.
Sales were...slow, to be polite. Did sell some plush, which was nice. I know most of the dealers.
alycornis a guest and has promised me waffles! tomorrow.I got some excellent Chinese food on the way home (chicken with garlic sauce and green beans with garlic), and I finally got completely hydrated a while ago.
Up tomorrow to do it all again, only better prepared this time!
At Anime Boston
May. 21st, 2009 10:42 pmGot up at 3:30, World's Best Niece took me to the airport. Discover I forgot my iPod earbuds. Was able to buy some from a vending machine in Dallas. Got into Boston. Set up booth. Had dinner and an amazing margarita sorbet at a great ice cream place, the name of which escapes me now. Going to bed to get up early and finish with the booth and be ready for the madding hordes at noon. Will try to take pictures.
IkkiCon, Day 3 (late)
Feb. 9th, 2009 02:15 pmSunday was nice. The vendors who were blaring music toned it down quite a bit, which kept me from yelling to be heard quite as much. Sales were pretty brisk, and only a few people pestered me about "Sunday deals".
I bought a solar-powered ninja that bobs his head at you. It's awesome. I have it in my cube next to my weird green solar-powered toy whose head rocks gently from side to side. I now need something solar-powered that goes up and down and my collection will be complete!
I found out that the Awesome Security Guy is a Fed who specializes in catching pedophiles. He volunteers at anime shows because his kids like them, which makes him even more cool. (And he keeps a very close eye on the handful of skeevy older guys that always seem to be at these shows.)
Everything was going fine yesterday; I'd taken all the boxes down to the mail guys at the hotel and was hauling my stuff out to my car. Just as I was about to go into the parking garage, this huge gust of wind hits. (I'm thinking 35-40 mph.) Cart goes slewing away, bags fall--and my inventory sheets take off like Usain Bolt. I shrieked! I slammed the cart inside out of the wind and bolted* after the paper. I managed to rescue one of my 2 sheets--then I turned around, and from half a block away, saw a kid see my fallen Huge Mug, look around, then pick it up and walk off with it. (I hope I poison him with my DNA.)
Then I had to tell Mr. Pegasus that the inventory for the show was FUBAR, since I hadn't entered anything into the computer. (No free wireless at the hotel = no reason to bring laptop.) He's understandably upset, since now his lead time to order is cut by 2-3 days, since he'll have to count over half the stock when it gets there instead of having that information now. Go me!
So I headed home and did laundry and went to bed. Now I'm sore, I have a great bruise/scrape from dealing with my brother's truck and its' sprayed-on sandpaper lining, and I want to go home and sleep.
But the rest of the week has to be better, right?
* I don't bolt easily. Bad knees, round. Not a runner. I paid the price yesterday. Ow.
IkkiCon, Day 2
Feb. 7th, 2009 10:57 pmNice day overall; sales were decent but nothing to write home about. :-) The credit card machine network went wonky and slow for several hours; luckily most of my sales were cash.
One girl came by wearing a shirt that said "Sam 'n' Dean". I looked at her and said, "You are talking about Sam," I gestured way above my head, "and Dean," I gestured slightly lower, "right?" She told me, with a big grin, that I was only the third person who got the shirt that day. I was a little sad about that.
An adorable little Asian toddler came over to me yesterday and raised her arms in the universal "pick me up" gesture. I did, and she grinned and patted me for a minute before I handed her back to her bemused mom. She started that little whimpering noise when I did, and then every time she saw me that day she would reach for her. I think she was under the impression I'm a giant teddy bear or something. :-)
The head of security for this con is made of awesome. He's a cop, and really, really doesn't like shoplifters. When he caught one, he called the kid's parents and had them come in. Then he took the kid and his parents to the booths he stole from and made him apologize to the vendors. Then he threw him out of the convention. (You know, I really don't think that particular kid will ever steal again.) He also made sure I had his cell phone if I needed him or just to get someone to stand in the booth while I went to the bathroom. I wonder if he's married...?
Cool customer of the day: young (early college) man, who bought this shirt for his mom.
IkkiCon, Day 1
Feb. 6th, 2009 10:08 pmWell, after the clusterfuck that was yesterday, today was much easier.
Got to the hotel, got all my boxes (eventually). I was setting up and the New Dealer's Room Guy* came by and said he'd worked out a deal with the hotel to get us electricity for $40. Much glee was had by all!
The room finally opened at about 2:30...sales were kind of slow, but the amusement value of the crowd was very high:
One woman runs up to another one in front of my booth: "Quick! Give me my ID!" "Why?" "So I can buy some porn!"
A couple of guys in a booth across from me kept dancing to J-pop. (They were wearing those goofy knit hats with the cat eyes on them.)
The World's Best Niece is home sick with strep, so it's just me.
alycorn came by, which was nice.*The Old Dealer's Room Guy had a heart attack. And didn't tell anybody on the committee. I've heard of guys not talking about their health, but honestly!
Back in tomorrow. More sales, hopefully.
Ok, there's this anime convention I'm selling shirts at this weekend. In order to do this:
I had to have the shirts shipped to my job. (The new hotel charges $20 a box. 13 boxes. Do the math.)
Then I arranged to borrow my brother's truck to move them. (There are too many to fit in the wagon.)
Until noon today--the day before the show starts, mind you--we did not know when load-in for the dealer's room was. (Guess what? No load-in tonight. Load-in is tomorrow morning. Starting at 5am. Did I mention this hotel is in the heart of downtown? And that my brother's truck is a full-sized Silverado pickup, which he needs back to move heavy stuff Friday afternoon?)
Oh, yeah, we also found out this morning, the hotel wants to charge $85 a day for electricity. (This is more than we are charged at Dragon*Con. For two large, separate setups.)
So. I called the hotel concierge and cried on her shoulder a bit. She allowed as how I could probably store my boxes with the bellman tonight.
The amazing mail room guys loaded the truck. (They are getting a cake on Monday!)
I then searched only 5 of 13 boxes to find the credit card machine and charger. Have to charge it up! (See electricity, charging out the ass, above.)
Drove across town in barely pre-rush-hour traffic. Made it to hotel. Bellmen accommodating; stuck my boxes in storage. I tipped well.
Left. Eyeballed parking lots. (I'm not paying $15/day to park.)
Returned truck. (Left the radio on NPR. I am evil.)
Getting up tomorrow, driving back across town in rush hour traffic, to set up. Room is open until 7.
(If you've waded through all of this, I give you...meat cake!)
I had to have the shirts shipped to my job. (The new hotel charges $20 a box. 13 boxes. Do the math.)
Then I arranged to borrow my brother's truck to move them. (There are too many to fit in the wagon.)
Until noon today--the day before the show starts, mind you--we did not know when load-in for the dealer's room was. (Guess what? No load-in tonight. Load-in is tomorrow morning. Starting at 5am. Did I mention this hotel is in the heart of downtown? And that my brother's truck is a full-sized Silverado pickup, which he needs back to move heavy stuff Friday afternoon?)
Oh, yeah, we also found out this morning, the hotel wants to charge $85 a day for electricity. (This is more than we are charged at Dragon*Con. For two large, separate setups.)
So. I called the hotel concierge and cried on her shoulder a bit. She allowed as how I could probably store my boxes with the bellman tonight.
The amazing mail room guys loaded the truck. (They are getting a cake on Monday!)
I then searched only 5 of 13 boxes to find the credit card machine and charger. Have to charge it up! (See electricity, charging out the ass, above.)
Drove across town in barely pre-rush-hour traffic. Made it to hotel. Bellmen accommodating; stuck my boxes in storage. I tipped well.
Left. Eyeballed parking lots. (I'm not paying $15/day to park.)
Returned truck. (Left the radio on NPR. I am evil.)
Getting up tomorrow, driving back across town in rush hour traffic, to set up. Room is open until 7.
(If you've waded through all of this, I give you...meat cake!)
(Kicks Universe)
Oct. 9th, 2008 02:56 pmWell, I finally got my notification from Blue Genie. Not going to be busy this Christmas, after all--I didn't get in.
Damn it.
I hold out no hope for Wheatsville--historically I'm not "cool enough" for them. Guess I'll see if the Georgetown show is still taking applications.
*sigh*
Damn it, I could have been taking an enameling class this semester! Or coppersmithing!
I have to be here for another hour and a half, and all I want to do is go home and wallow.
Damn it.
I hold out no hope for Wheatsville--historically I'm not "cool enough" for them. Guess I'll see if the Georgetown show is still taking applications.
*sigh*
Damn it, I could have been taking an enameling class this semester! Or coppersmithing!
I have to be here for another hour and a half, and all I want to do is go home and wallow.
Wacky and holding, as usual
Oct. 7th, 2008 05:40 pmSaw Brother the Doctor this afternoon. He thinks I have labyrinthitis, and I may be in the very early stages of an ear infection. Yay me.
Two pluses: I'm down 4 pounds from the last time I was in there, and my BP is holding at a nice low normal--what used to be normal for me before I was diagnosed.
I will be hearing from Blue Genie about whether or not I'm in their big Christmas show in a day or so. They were running behind.
It's a gorgeous day and I feel really crappy. *sigh*
I hate waiting.
Oct. 5th, 2008 10:08 am*glares at inbox*
I hate this. I'm waiting on confirmations from three Christmas shows. When I checked with one (Cherrywood) the day after I was supposed to hear from them, I was told "due to the larger than expected number of applications, we're sending out confirmations Monday or Tuesday". Blue Genie's website says "Artist notification: Friday October 3rd, 2008." I'm sweating bullets on this one. I've emailed them but probably won't hear anything until Monday. The third, Wheatsville, is kind of loosey-goosey about everything and I'm hoping to hear from them by the 15th.
I went to a gem/jewelry show yesterday and had a great time showing the World's Best Niece's friend around. She's just starting out making jewelry for sale, and I introduced her around to some vendors I know, and helped her out with stones, etc.
I've made 6 more of the spiral silver earrings, and I'm going to get more coin bracelets done today.
Dragon*Con Day Four and Epilogue
Sep. 2nd, 2008 02:35 pmSunday started with minimal problems. I bought my books from Larry, restocked the booth, and poked Teh Boss about printing out my boarding pass for that night.
Sundays are weird for sales at Dragon*Con--either they are willing to drop big bucks to get all their last-minute shopping done, or they constantly ask you what "last-day deals" we are running. Sorry, folks, we do 50 shows a year, plus mail order--we have no need to get rid of everything before we close, especially at some ridiculous discount. (After a while we started telling people that we had a great deal--three shirts for the price of four! Most everyone LOLed at that.) Not so many kids asking our prices and going "That's so expensive!" this year, either. Thank goodness.
I could really have done without being open until 5pm. The convention pretty much clears out by 3, and we'd love to get out 2 hours earlier. Packing up was pretty painless. I like working with Alan, since we've both done this a zillion times and we know exactly what needs to be done. Everything was packed up and ready to load before I left, which made me feel better about leaving early.
I took the taxi to the airport rather than walk to the MARTA station and take the train. Yes, it cost me roughly 10x what the train would have, but my bloody feet hurt, and I had a 2.5 hour drive after my plane landed. The lovely taxi driver and I chatted about Dragon*Con, and he carried my heavy, wheeless bag all the way to the curbside check-in for me. No weather delays, and I made the drive in to Austin in good time. I'm so glad 290 is 4 lanes now! Got in a little after 2am, read some LJ to decompress, and slept like the dead until very late this morning.
So far, I have: started a load of laundry, called the appliance repair place about my dryer (which died on me last week), cleaned the cat box, watered the outdoor plants (really, Gustav, you could have veered just a leetle farther to the west, we need the rain), and paid the rent. Still need to go to the store.
I did pick up a couple of calendars: the SGA 2009 one, and one with this John Barrowman guy in it. Hmmmm. Who on my flist deserves a John Barrowman calendar? Or should I put it up on the upcoming Sweet Charity auction?
Oh, and Threadless is having an even bigger sale now.
The hotel rant will have to wait a day or two.
Sundays are weird for sales at Dragon*Con--either they are willing to drop big bucks to get all their last-minute shopping done, or they constantly ask you what "last-day deals" we are running. Sorry, folks, we do 50 shows a year, plus mail order--we have no need to get rid of everything before we close, especially at some ridiculous discount. (After a while we started telling people that we had a great deal--three shirts for the price of four! Most everyone LOLed at that.) Not so many kids asking our prices and going "That's so expensive!" this year, either. Thank goodness.
I could really have done without being open until 5pm. The convention pretty much clears out by 3, and we'd love to get out 2 hours earlier. Packing up was pretty painless. I like working with Alan, since we've both done this a zillion times and we know exactly what needs to be done. Everything was packed up and ready to load before I left, which made me feel better about leaving early.
I took the taxi to the airport rather than walk to the MARTA station and take the train. Yes, it cost me roughly 10x what the train would have, but my bloody feet hurt, and I had a 2.5 hour drive after my plane landed. The lovely taxi driver and I chatted about Dragon*Con, and he carried my heavy, wheeless bag all the way to the curbside check-in for me. No weather delays, and I made the drive in to Austin in good time. I'm so glad 290 is 4 lanes now! Got in a little after 2am, read some LJ to decompress, and slept like the dead until very late this morning.
So far, I have: started a load of laundry, called the appliance repair place about my dryer (which died on me last week), cleaned the cat box, watered the outdoor plants (really, Gustav, you could have veered just a leetle farther to the west, we need the rain), and paid the rent. Still need to go to the store.
I did pick up a couple of calendars: the SGA 2009 one, and one with this John Barrowman guy in it. Hmmmm. Who on my flist deserves a John Barrowman calendar? Or should I put it up on the upcoming Sweet Charity auction?
Oh, and Threadless is having an even bigger sale now.
The hotel rant will have to wait a day or two.
Dragon*Con Days Two and Three
Aug. 31st, 2008 09:20 pmSorry I didn't post yesterday--very tired and the internet connection at the hotel was being annoying.
Saturday was another long day--in at 9am. Finished all the stuff we didn't have time for on Friday (backdrop, etc.). If we had had the Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible shirts we would have made a mint. (They were up in Seattle at PAX.)
I barely stopped all day--I spelled Alan on the register for a while so I did get to sit down briefly. Wandered around the upstairs Exhibit Halls but saw very little that interested me. I guess I'm jaded--I didn't even buy any dice, since I'm not gaming right now. :-( Though I did get the SGA 2009 calendar and a John Barrowman calendar. Hmmm. Who do I know that deserves a John Barrowman calendar for Christmas?
My grey market video guy wasn't here, darn it. There are a couple of things I was willing to pay for...
Saw some really fun costumes, including The Flying Spaghetti Monster (I touched teh Noodly Appendage!), a 12-foot demon skeleton, and Darth Elvis. Darth Elvis had the armor and cape (studded with red rhinestones, natch), and the hair and the sneer. Very fun. Ran into an old housemate of mine I hadn't seen in 10 years, easy. I feel so sad; he has Parkinson's and doesn't look good. Metwolfshark 's husband and got to say hi to her on the phone, since he brought me a present she had picked up in Canada on vacation.
Celebrity Sightings: none, unless you count the original Batmobile. We closed at 7, got out about 8, and had really good Italian food out in Smyrna.
Sunday started with a comedy of errors. Not only did Alan's laptop (the register) die at minutes to 10am (aka opening), but two of the guys working the other booth were 45 minutes late since the car over heated. Alan's wife had to run to the hotel and fetch Scott's spare laptop, and the guys were able to switch cars, but still, an interesting start. Again, it was solidly busy, which will mean good things for my pay day. Got to run down to the Dealer's Hall downstairs and saw Ruth Thompson, who I hadn't seen in years, since I haven't been to GenCon in forever. She looked happier than I'd seen her in a while! Picked up some things for The World's Best Niece and a couple of pirate movie soundtracks I didn't have. Saw a White Queen, Kitty Pride, Movie!Rogue, and three versions of the Phoenix while I was out. Plus a very nice set of guys who had re-created the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. Very nice!
Celebrity Sightings: A guy dressed as Spike Plissken. I told him I heard he was dead. :-) We ate MEAT at Cafe Brazil.
I'm flying out tomorrow evening, so I'll post again on Tuesday.
PS My feet still hurt.
Saturday was another long day--in at 9am. Finished all the stuff we didn't have time for on Friday (backdrop, etc.). If we had had the Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible shirts we would have made a mint. (They were up in Seattle at PAX.)
I barely stopped all day--I spelled Alan on the register for a while so I did get to sit down briefly. Wandered around the upstairs Exhibit Halls but saw very little that interested me. I guess I'm jaded--I didn't even buy any dice, since I'm not gaming right now. :-( Though I did get the SGA 2009 calendar and a John Barrowman calendar. Hmmm. Who do I know that deserves a John Barrowman calendar for Christmas?
My grey market video guy wasn't here, darn it. There are a couple of things I was willing to pay for...
Saw some really fun costumes, including The Flying Spaghetti Monster (I touched teh Noodly Appendage!), a 12-foot demon skeleton, and Darth Elvis. Darth Elvis had the armor and cape (studded with red rhinestones, natch), and the hair and the sneer. Very fun. Ran into an old housemate of mine I hadn't seen in 10 years, easy. I feel so sad; he has Parkinson's and doesn't look good. Met
wolfshark 's husband and got to say hi to her on the phone, since he brought me a present she had picked up in Canada on vacation. Celebrity Sightings: none, unless you count the original Batmobile. We closed at 7, got out about 8, and had really good Italian food out in Smyrna.
Sunday started with a comedy of errors. Not only did Alan's laptop (the register) die at minutes to 10am (aka opening), but two of the guys working the other booth were 45 minutes late since the car over heated. Alan's wife had to run to the hotel and fetch Scott's spare laptop, and the guys were able to switch cars, but still, an interesting start. Again, it was solidly busy, which will mean good things for my pay day. Got to run down to the Dealer's Hall downstairs and saw Ruth Thompson, who I hadn't seen in years, since I haven't been to GenCon in forever. She looked happier than I'd seen her in a while! Picked up some things for The World's Best Niece and a couple of pirate movie soundtracks I didn't have. Saw a White Queen, Kitty Pride, Movie!Rogue, and three versions of the Phoenix while I was out. Plus a very nice set of guys who had re-created the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. Very nice!
Celebrity Sightings: A guy dressed as Spike Plissken. I told him I heard he was dead. :-) We ate MEAT at Cafe Brazil.
I'm flying out tomorrow evening, so I'll post again on Tuesday.
PS My feet still hurt.
Dragon*Con Day One
Aug. 29th, 2008 08:50 pmMy feet hurt.
Got up too early, was at the convention by 8am. Finished setting up "my" booth, complete with giant microbes. Wore this shirt, and had 3 folks take my picture in it. Was on my feet pretty much all the time until 7pm, working on the outside of the booth, folding shirts, answering questions, and finding goggles and hats and shirts and shirt sizes for folks.
I saw some truly excellent costumes: a really great Captain Vimes, a 9-year-old Stormtrooper in very good armor, a large group of Colonial Marines and an Alien, a very nice Spiderman and a Green Lantern, and many more. Funniest costume moment: we were leaving the hotel and there was a Darth Vader walking towards us--it took a second, but we realized the person inside the armor was singing the Imperial March--he was his own musical accompaniment!
And while they did a very nice job in refurbishing the Marriott, the lovely new bathrooms don't seem to have any A/C, they are very very warm.
Celebrity signing: Well, none, unless you count the nice little bat that was flying around in our Exhibit Hall. Poor little guy finally took refuge in the huge chandeliers. Not sure of the species, but it looked significantly larger than the Mexican Freetail bats we get in Austin. The hotel crew had fetched a pool net and they were going to catch it tonight and let it out. (eyes them suspiciously) They'd better.
My feet still hurt.
Got up too early, was at the convention by 8am. Finished setting up "my" booth, complete with giant microbes. Wore this shirt, and had 3 folks take my picture in it. Was on my feet pretty much all the time until 7pm, working on the outside of the booth, folding shirts, answering questions, and finding goggles and hats and shirts and shirt sizes for folks.
I saw some truly excellent costumes: a really great Captain Vimes, a 9-year-old Stormtrooper in very good armor, a large group of Colonial Marines and an Alien, a very nice Spiderman and a Green Lantern, and many more. Funniest costume moment: we were leaving the hotel and there was a Darth Vader walking towards us--it took a second, but we realized the person inside the armor was singing the Imperial March--he was his own musical accompaniment!
And while they did a very nice job in refurbishing the Marriott, the lovely new bathrooms don't seem to have any A/C, they are very very warm.
Celebrity signing: Well, none, unless you count the nice little bat that was flying around in our Exhibit Hall. Poor little guy finally took refuge in the huge chandeliers. Not sure of the species, but it looked significantly larger than the Mexican Freetail bats we get in Austin. The hotel crew had fetched a pool net and they were going to catch it tonight and let it out. (eyes them suspiciously) They'd better.
My feet still hurt.
I'm at Dragon*Con....
Aug. 28th, 2008 11:07 pmArrived this afternoon after getting up at 5 and driving to Houston to fly out from there. Was much later than I wanted to be--I arrived at the gate as they were boarding the plane (I keep forgetting how HUGE IAH is, and how many bloody shopping malls you have to pass through inside it).
Got to the Marriott Marquis and immediately went to work. Folded, unpacked, moved and sorted shirts for two booths until 9:30. Then we all went to dinner, where I spied a costumed set of Ronon/Keller/Sheppard, very young. The restaurant has a karaoke bar downstairs, and I spotted the Ronon and Sheppard perusing the available songs, but food was waaaay more important, so I never found out what, if anything, they sang.
For those of you possibly coming to see me in my servitude: I am in the smaller Vendor Hall upstairs, on the right as you come down the escalator. We're right inside a set of doors, selling shirts and mad scientist goggles and labcoats and hats.
Random Celebrity Sighting: Walter Koenig, wandering around the hotel lobby, looking a bit tired.
Back up at 7am, to get back to work at 8. Room opens at 1. Wheeeeeee.....
Got to the Marriott Marquis and immediately went to work. Folded, unpacked, moved and sorted shirts for two booths until 9:30. Then we all went to dinner, where I spied a costumed set of Ronon/Keller/Sheppard, very young. The restaurant has a karaoke bar downstairs, and I spotted the Ronon and Sheppard perusing the available songs, but food was waaaay more important, so I never found out what, if anything, they sang.
For those of you possibly coming to see me in my servitude: I am in the smaller Vendor Hall upstairs, on the right as you come down the escalator. We're right inside a set of doors, selling shirts and mad scientist goggles and labcoats and hats.
Random Celebrity Sighting: Walter Koenig, wandering around the hotel lobby, looking a bit tired.
Back up at 7am, to get back to work at 8. Room opens at 1. Wheeeeeee.....
How's things with you?
Jul. 29th, 2008 08:33 amWe're really short-handed here at work. We have one guy out for another week (wife had first baby), our support person on 2 weeks vacation (moving), and then one person got sick last Wednesday and still isn't back, plus V, my boss, was out sick on Monday and may not be here today. Luckily our workload isn't too insane, but I'm just waiting....
State of the butt:
Worked out at the gym 3x last week. It totally would have been more, but last Monday the blood bank called and asked me to come in and donate for surgery for a 7-year-old. Sure, I say. (I still have the protein in my blood that lets me donate for kids.) So there went Tuesday. Then Thursday I had the Very Last Birthday Celebration--my friend G and I went to a baseball game. (How much do I love local minor league baseball? You can spend $24 on tickets in the middle of the week and sit right behind the batter, near the scouts and the person who uses the radar gun to show how fast the pitches are. I got an enormous all-beef hot dog and iced tea and was content. Plus, we won, 16-1. Go Express!)
I was kind of a slug this weekend--it's been damned hot here--but I got some jewelry made. I'll post pics soon (along with my last 3 glass pieces!). The hand is stil a bit stiff and the strength isn't quite there yet, but it's coming along. Saw Dark Knight.
Will be at ArmadilloCon August 15-17, selling my jewlery and some of Pegasus Publishing's shirts. If you are coming to the convention and want a particular shirt, email Mr. Pegasus and let him know so I can have it for you!
Going to see the new X-Files movie tomorrow with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dremiel and J. It may suck, but we'll have a good time.
State of the butt:
Worked out at the gym 3x last week. It totally would have been more, but last Monday the blood bank called and asked me to come in and donate for surgery for a 7-year-old. Sure, I say. (I still have the protein in my blood that lets me donate for kids.) So there went Tuesday. Then Thursday I had the Very Last Birthday Celebration--my friend G and I went to a baseball game. (How much do I love local minor league baseball? You can spend $24 on tickets in the middle of the week and sit right behind the batter, near the scouts and the person who uses the radar gun to show how fast the pitches are. I got an enormous all-beef hot dog and iced tea and was content. Plus, we won, 16-1. Go Express!)
I was kind of a slug this weekend--it's been damned hot here--but I got some jewelry made. I'll post pics soon (along with my last 3 glass pieces!). The hand is stil a bit stiff and the strength isn't quite there yet, but it's coming along. Saw Dark Knight.
Will be at ArmadilloCon August 15-17, selling my jewlery and some of Pegasus Publishing's shirts. If you are coming to the convention and want a particular shirt, email Mr. Pegasus and let him know so I can have it for you!
Going to see the new X-Files movie tomorrow with
dremiel and J. It may suck, but we'll have a good time.How I Spent my Memorial Day Weekend
May. 28th, 2008 02:01 pmI flew out to California last Thursday morning to sell t-shirts at Fanime, an anime convention in San Jose. The World's Best Niece took me to the airport, and even though there were at least 4 very small children on board, there were no screamers. I watched 3 episodes of Torchwood on my iPod and was content.
How was your weekend?
How was your weekend?
Update on Bob Asprin
May. 27th, 2008 05:50 pmI found a very nice article about Bob, and I quote from it here:
"Bob, when this was discussed, requested there not be a formal funeral. A gathering at Fahy's Pub on Dauphine in the Quarter has been organized, which fits Bob's often-expressed desire that he be remembered by a series of great pub crawls. He also stated that should he die, any donations (should go) to the New Orleans Library for the purchase of science fiction books. Alternately Bob was a great cat lover concerned about the animals of New Orleans and donations to no kill animal shelters would also be a fitting memorial."
There you go.
I'm back from Fanime. Anime cons aren't my thing, but I find them fun to sell at. The kids are generally nice and polite, and some of them put a lot of work into their costumes. There were some very hot boys there (which made me feel like an old pervy woman, though I'm sure Bob would say "And what's wrong with that?"), and I bought way too much Pocky and fruit gummies. Mmmm. Fruit gummies. I'll write more about my adventures tomorrow, including missing a chair when I sat down and dumping orange juice all over myself (and my phone) on the plane. Good times!
