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What if they threw an anime con and nobody came?

… well, that’s what it felt like on Friday. The Anime Avenue at GenCon So Cal seemed deserted. It was out of the way and the convention seemed underpopulated to begin with, so the rooms upstairs were very empty. At one point, there was one person in each of the four video rooms, at least one of which was a volunteer watching the room. Karaoke attendance was also sorta low.

Saturday was a bit better. We actually had nine people in the contest, and most of them were around for open mic before and after as well. Moving stuff around made Hank and I realize that bringing a cart to move this crap around would help a lot. I’m still sore in my arms and legs, although the legs are probably from staying on my feet most of the weekend.

Got back to my mom’s, we went and saw Goblet of Fire. It was good… a bit disjointed and rushed, but they lingered on the parts that mattered, and gave the actors a chance to do some dramatic acting.

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I have arrived in Orange County. Again.

So, anyone else have that irrational fear that a huge double-trailer truck is going to change lanes into the lane you’re in when you’re right in the middle, when it’s too late to slow down behind it and too early to speed in front of it and your only option is to drive off the road onto the shoulder and dirt at 70 miles an hour?

Well, that happened to me today.

Aside from that nightmare-inducing incident, the drive down was uneventful and fast.

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Where the heck have I been?

I haven’t updated in a while. I didn’t post a second half to my Indiana trip. I haven’t been doing a lot of things.

What I am doing is going down to Gencon SoCal tomorrow to help run karaoke for the anime track, then staying down in L.A. through Thanksgiving at my parent’s.

There’s other stuff, I suppose, but nothing worth noting.

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Okay, so first part: It happened again on the crosswalk back to my car. Argh!

Second, on the drive home, I got a call from my Grandmother. Apparently she thought it was my birthday, which isn’t until… well, today. The funny part is that it actually took the two of us a good minute to figure out which of us was mistaken. Between the two of us, we don’t really have set schedules, and I wasn’t looking at a calendar. It wasn’t until I knew it was Tuesday and she realized she’d gone out to dinner the night before (therefore making that Monday night) that we figured out it was, in fact, October 25. We are too alike. You may now start making fun of me for comparing myself to a 90 year-old woman.

Played a little bit more of Ultimate Spiderman. I bought that game when every store seems to be out of Shadow of the Colossus, but it turns out to be worth the price. Being written by Brian Michael Bendis shows, and makes it worthwhile to try and play through the missions.

People came over, then took Dom and me out to birthday dinner (as we’re both going to be playing Magic tomorrow). Came back and watched the end of the world series game, which was (gasp) still on.

Oh, and I’m am a hair’s breadth away from unlocking everything on Meteos now. I just need 150 more Zoo meteos, which is one good game, so I’m going to go do that right now and go to sleep.

Edit: Unlocked everything. Yay.

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People who I don’t like

Action that, when taken, immediately makes my opinion of you go down to “moron” or lower:

Pushing the crosswalk button or elevator button when I’m already standing there waiting for it.

Hello! I am not a moron and standing here without pushing the button. By pushing it, you are insulting my intelligence and disrespecting me, and therefore deserve no respect. Especially with elevator buttons where you can already see that it’s pushed.

I’m sure I’ve ranted about this already, but it happened not once, but twice today. At the same crosswalk.

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Oh, yeah. LiveJournal.

Oh, yeah.

I suppose I should say that I made it back from Indiana. I thought of a few things to blog about when I was away from the internet for almost *cue dramatic music* A WHOLE WEEK.

But right now, I’m at work, trying to tie up loose ends that don’t need tying, it seems.

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Well, here I am.

Was in Indianapolis last night and this morning, and I’m in Evansville right now. Crossed from Eastern Time to Central Time, but didn’t have to change my watch. Ah, Indiana.

Got to see both of my grandmothers so far. There’s a “free day” of sorts tomorrow, which I am probably going to spend in the hotel.

I haven’t taken any pictures yet, boo on me.

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Randomness via the school directory

So, the school directory is up and running, and I went and added mine. I then noticed there were three people with BOHS as their high school. The first was a bit too old for me to know, so I click on the second, . Noticing that he only went to BOHS for two years, then went to school in Faribault, MN for two years then Berkeley… OMG It’s Scott! Random comment in his journal and friended him.

Click on the last one, . Hey, she’s my brother’s age, I wonder if I know her, read the profile “I quit working at the Game Castle…” OMG it’s Shirley! Okay, so I don’t know her as well, so no friending there, but still, powerful random.

This lines up with another random encounter that I just realized I forgot to mention. Sitting in the cafeteria at Yahoo! I noticed someone walk by who I used to work with in the computer center at Berkeley. This puts the “get up from my seat, stopping the conversation with my coworker to randomly catch up with and say hello to a random person I know walking by in the cafeteria” count to four or five.

Small world.

In another note, since I’ve got this window open, I will be heading back to my native land of Indiana for a week, starting Wednesday. Because, last I checked, they still have internet in the midwest, I should still be around, but I will not be on FFXI, as my laptop is still a Mac and, sadly, does not run it.