Day: June 22, 2003

So, Chico finally woke up, and we tried getting Judy and ecafracs to lunch, but we kept on going to places that were closed. It seems that most of the restaurants aren’t open for lunch on the weekends around here… weird.

Afterwards, I went back to Fanime, but just ended up hanging out in the dealer’s room for a while, then wandering around aimlessly looking for people, but everything had closed.

I got home and just crashed, watched tv (even though the digital cable isn’t working quite right: no on-screen menus or premium channels and the pictures is very grainy… almost as if it’s analog cable, but with the stupid 3 second delay to change channels) made some popcorn and browsed the web. Eventually, Leon came home, then bigdumbthing showed up because gyoza wouldn’t let him drive home tired, or something like that. Then Leon’s brother showed up again (since he’s in town for a bit longer).

I resolved to take lots of pictures this weekend because I wasn’t doing anything else, but I didn’t end up taking that many. Here’s what I did take. Well, a screened version of them, at least.

Right now, I’m in bed, very tired, and I know that I’m not going to be able to fall asleep, because I can hear them moving and talking upstairs…

Two things that I remembered as I was trying to fall asleep.

First of all was the incredibly annoying kids who were sitting next to me in the movie. It didn’t start off bad, except for the constant moving around, talking to each other. It got really bad when one of the kids (probably about 3) decided he wanted to sit on grandma’s lap (who was sitting directly next to me) and start asking questions. Constantly. “Who’s in there? Is that his mom? What’s that thing? Who is that?”

HAMSTER SMASH PUNY CHILDREN!

Also, when we were eating at P’zza Chicago, when we all paid, Chico paid with his credit card. The guy came back and said “I’m sorry sir, but this card has been declined,” which got an “ooooooooh!” from the rest of us. He sat there dumbfounded as he reached for another card, when the waiter said “nah, man, I was just kidding,” and we all laughed it up, including Chico.

Ah, laughing at Chico’s expense… it never gets old. 🙂

Now, if he’d just wake up so we can go to lunch and I can get back to the con for the closing bits…

So, I went to Fanime after work yesterday, and ended up staying for a while. convinced me to enter the karaoke contest, and I ended up in 5th (out of 30) earning myself a free DVD. Woo! I also played a bit of DDR in the arcade.

I also had the weirdest deja vu moment, and a really cool epiphany moment later Friday night when I realized why. I saw a girl who looked familiar, but I couldn’t figure out forever where I had seen her. When I found it it was E from nekobox, and I when found out she was a friend of Greg Dean, and it finally dawned on me: I had watched the movie Greg made out of the webcam shots of a party he had, and she had been in that, and for some reason, I remembered her face. As I said, it was weird.

Saturday, I wandered back over to the con at a leisurely hour, and wandered around a bit, helped Scott set up and heckle the game show, and heckled (less intensely) the web comics panel. Then I went offsite to watch Hulk and eat pizza, then back to the con, where I just sort of hung out with people and wandered back home, where Chico and Rannie are spending the night because it’s so close to the con site.

I’ve seen almost everyone I know at the con, except Tomoko (who’s always off in some secret hotel meeting, or something like that), and a few others.