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Quick Comic-Con Report
Jul. 24th, 2011 08:46 pm(Due to some technical issue with my Wordpress site, this is originating in Livejournal instead of at www.ron-oakes.us)
Wednesday night went fairly smoothly. The main glitch was started by the fact that a soccer match had been scheduled for Qualcomm Stadium, so the trolley parking there wasn't available. This ment that Tara was going to have to park at Old Town. She called and suggested that she could stop at work and pick me up. This seemed reasonable - and saved me the fare for the Coaster downtown.
But, she got running a bit late, not helped by missing the correct freeway across, and then getting totally confused between my trying to tell her to take a freeway that was in a different direction than she thought. As a result, she gave me a bit more time to tinker in the lab with something. This left me vulnerable to be seen in the lab, which generated more work to finish, and delayed our departure (she sat for about 15 minutes waiting for me to leave).
So, we didn't get down to downtown as early as we'd have liked. But we got our badges quickly and got into the exhibit hall easily. We found the couple of places we wanted to hit up - the booth shared in part by Brad Guigar where I picked up and had him sketch the next Evil Inc. collection, Airship Entertainment where Tara picked up the missing books in her Girl Genius collection, and a couple of other places I hadn't thought about but Tara had, like the WB booth to get the special edition TV Guide.
We were also able to finally get in touch with our next-door neighbor and he agreed to feed the dog and let him out mid-day, allowing us to stay later.
( rest of weekend )
Wednesday night went fairly smoothly. The main glitch was started by the fact that a soccer match had been scheduled for Qualcomm Stadium, so the trolley parking there wasn't available. This ment that Tara was going to have to park at Old Town. She called and suggested that she could stop at work and pick me up. This seemed reasonable - and saved me the fare for the Coaster downtown.
But, she got running a bit late, not helped by missing the correct freeway across, and then getting totally confused between my trying to tell her to take a freeway that was in a different direction than she thought. As a result, she gave me a bit more time to tinker in the lab with something. This left me vulnerable to be seen in the lab, which generated more work to finish, and delayed our departure (she sat for about 15 minutes waiting for me to leave).
So, we didn't get down to downtown as early as we'd have liked. But we got our badges quickly and got into the exhibit hall easily. We found the couple of places we wanted to hit up - the booth shared in part by Brad Guigar where I picked up and had him sketch the next Evil Inc. collection, Airship Entertainment where Tara picked up the missing books in her Girl Genius collection, and a couple of other places I hadn't thought about but Tara had, like the WB booth to get the special edition TV Guide.
We were also able to finally get in touch with our next-door neighbor and he agreed to feed the dog and let him out mid-day, allowing us to stay later.
( rest of weekend )
