Fanime

Once again, first things first. And forgive me if I jump around a bit, I’ve lost all sense of chronological order with this.

So, besides completely forgetting that I needed to take Friday off for this four day con, (which fortunately we were able to work around at work after a modicum of overtime on Thursday) things ran pretty smoothly. There were a few technical glitches, but I was actually able to fix most things as the weekend wore on. We spent more time waiting for Fanime tech staff to get the speakers and mics working than we did getting our stuff set up.

Friday and Saturday are a big blur, basically involving a lot of time in the karaoke room. I think Saturday was the first game show (ironically in the same room as karaoke), which was uneventful except for the christening of “Mop Head,” the adorable little 12 year old who wouldn’t ever leave the room. The second game show gave us the insanity that was the Big O cosplayers who completely dominated the board, guessing the anime character from only 1 or 2/16ths of the picture revealed. Sunday gave us the amusing story of Katie biting a random guy’s hand, which she tells fairly well over on her soapbox.

I managed to not ever partake in the complementary breakfast. That’s the problem with working until 4am, then working until 2am, then forgetting to set the alarm.

The Studio Proteus Back Issues folks were calling it quits due to reorganization, so they were having a closeout sale. I bought one of their 28-volume sets of Lone Wolf and Cub… which goes straight on to my reading list. (Currently very long right now.)

I was impressed with how dense the con actually was. Everything was awfully close together (except for Der Cosplay, which was across the street, but I didn’t go to anyway), but there was so much event space.