And just in case of whininess

[wildrider]

Silhouette is going through a "I don't like anything" phase again, after cheerfully consuming anything I'd give him for several weeks. *sigh* But boy, is he begging. Mow mow mow mow mow mow mow mow mow mow

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[evil_little_dog]

I don't want to go camping. I don't want French fries (had those for lunch). I do want political commercials to be over with but I know that won't happen.

But yes, I want a good con to go to. A nice, large con, with an art room and dealer's room and those two aren't the same thing and there's still an artist's alley and cool guests and....

[wildrider]

We haven't been camping since the drought started. Alas.

I haven't had French fries in ages.

Yes, one of those. Just wander around the dealer's room, hang out in a pleasant con suite, catch a movie...

[evil_little_dog]

Heh. I've never hung out in a con suite, even when I wound up being part of the con staff inadvertently at a Robin of Sherwood convention back in the '80's. (PEOPLE COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT TOGETHER PEG BOARD FOR THE ARTISTS. GEEZE. I had to take over before someone GOT HURT. And that led to me helping the artists set up and...)

I usually hang in the dealer's room, artist alley, and if I can fit in a couple of panels, I'm happy. I also love hall costume contests, because I hate sitting still for costume contests. Hate it.

[wildrider]

Well, this was in the day of good, comfortable con suites with good food and good company, not the pretzels-and-popcorn fare that it started to drift toward in our latter con-going days.

I remember fiddling with those pegboards. CopperCon never did return one of my pieces... (musing on that fact, remembering that NorWestcon never did, either)

[nutmeg3]

You can go be me at the big romance writers' conference next week if you want.

[wildrider]

I'd love to, if I could get there!

[ljs]

[hugs and French fries]

[wildrider]

Well, baked potato slices, anyway! (hugs!)

[cornerofmadness]

Kanda is doing that too. Suddenly chicken isn't good enough for him. Oh starve. granted he doesn't have Silohuette's issues (or is that cuervo)

Just shakes head at the 'lake'

hope the headache feels better.

i've been wanting to go to comicon since the 80's but...yeah. Try for a smaller con in phoenix?

[wildrider]

Cuervo was the sick one. Silhouette is just old and cranky and wants the EXACT RIGHT food, not this slop I'm trying to palm off on him (ProPlan Chicken Entree, which he liked just FINE the last time he had it).

Tempe Town Lake, hee hee hee.

I want to try for any con at all, but of late my wife doesn't seem all that interested, so money tends to go to other things.

[cornerofmadness]

ah ok

yeah, I can understand that though a lot of local cons are under 30$ at least around here

[fenchurche]

Yeah, the only way I found to be sure to get in to something you wanted to see was to arrive about five hours early, get a seat in the room and NEVER LEAVE. It's better if you have a friend with you who can hold your seat if you need to run to the bathroom, but then you run the risk of overzealous security people not letting you back in.

I must admit that I'm still finding myself wishing I was there this week... because, even though I know the chances of actually seeing anything I want to see or getting any of the cool swag I'd want to get are slim to none, at least if I was there I might actually manage it!

[wildrider]

Oh, I know it's a nightmare now. In my memory it's still a slightly crowded super-good-fun-time, but I KNOW it's not that anymore... I just haven't been in so very long. I could spend hours in the dealer's room.

I don't have any Vicodin handy, but there is some hydrocodone left from my surgery. But I have been taking a LOT of Advil (and always with Diet Coke).