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tenayaI'm back and I had lots of fun.
Let's see...Wednesday: Flew out of LAX to Minneapolis where they kept us an hour extra in the terminal and an hour extra in the plane just sitting there. Apparently there was thunderstorm trouble all over the Plains that caused a fair amount of havoc.
The hotel said to take a taxi since it was late and they would pay of it. The taxi cab driver was quite a character. Due to how the taxi company does things, he barely makes $4/hour and of course has no health care or retirement. His rant continued on to include that most countries have made illegal the sacraments and that god would smite them. Now, he seemed to indicate that the sacraments include pot and LSD. By then, I was so confused I just heartily agreed and wished we could get back to Bush Bashing.
I got in by midnight and my roomies drove in from New England an hour later. After all the hugs and unpacking, we showed our age and were in bed by 3am. *g*
Thursday: Lunch at Bob Evans then shopping for door decoration supplies, booze, water and other goodies at Meijers. Back to the hotel to work on the door and do a room crawl. We ate dinner at Hummingbirds and made sure to order the Magnificent 7 Torte for afters. And for the first time in about four years, they actually hadn't run out yet. Richard confidently said he'd ordered 14 cakes and wouldn't be running out this weekend (ha! We went back on Monday and they were out. The waitress said they ran out on Saturday!)
Friday: The only SG1 zines were Ashton Press and the DHDs. Mysti might have had some but I've decided she won't be getting any more of my money. I also bought a few Supernatural zines for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deej1957. I also collected some preorders from Cat's Meow for my friends (I actually brought an empty suitcase just for all that!)
I went to a lot of panels but I'm not going to get into particulars.
Saturday: I went to the Boston Legal party which was a lot of fun but I had to leave early to go to dinner with my friends. Apparently I missed a room full of people doing the Jerry Jump. *g* We went out to Sahara's, a Lebanese restaurant out near the university. VERY tasty.
Sunday: We skipped breakfast to get all the last minute things down before the con shut down. Strangely enough, I'm not sure what we did that afternoon. I know we went back to our room and watched some more of Series Two of Life on Mars. Very entertaining. I hope we get it on BBCA before too long.
Monday, we said goodbye to one friend, and then went to see Pirates. I thought it was uneven and must have looked at my watch at least six times during the first two hours! Not good. I doubt I'll be seeing that again. And then, after dinner, we went down to the pool/hot tub and splashed and relaxed until we were quite pruned.
Tuesday was long on goodbyes and traveling. No delays on the trip home, but Mom took the 5 instead of the 105 and was an hour late picking me up. But, as fate would have it, we got stuck in the backup from a five car pile up (and three other accidents) that occurred about...an hour before. Can't complain about the delay in that case!
We didn't go to either the vid show, or the art auction. We stayed in, enjoyed the companionship of our roomies and watched Life on Mars, Garrison Gorillas and some Methos eps of Highlander.
Our door was a Numb3rs themed display, with a lot of fannish characters intersperse with a bunch of mathematical formulas. We had a few math whizzes come by and stare and eventually announce they could follow some of it. I was more focused on pairing the geniuses against the hunks (photos of nearly naked characters) and making puns out of the picture pairings. It was way too involved, really, but it seemed to cause some giggling and chattering. They made up an award for us again, Best Use of a PhD, which pleased us no end.
Panels I went to included SGA, Supernatural, Boston Legal, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Heroes, House. I missed quite a few others because they were up against other panels or just too damn early. Supernatural was the 'it' fandom. There were two SG1 panels but one was too early and the other was just a platform for a certain pia fan to trash the show and Daniel some more. :::yawn:::
When I got home, Brindle stopped dead in his tracks and stared. I believe he felt I'd not come back from the same waterhole Reggie disappeared at. We put him out for a few hours yesterday to help him reset from being terribly cranky. After he came back in, he's been loving ever since. He went out for a few hours today but stayed right on the stoop, eventually hurrying back when some leaves blew past him a little too vigorously. He's healing well, most of the scabs are off. His missing claws seem to be okay (no infection), but one still bleeds because he uses it to scratch his ear. He asks to be picked up multiple times a day to be adored, which is no trouble at all. We've just been concentrating on making him happy and content.
But I still miss Reg so much. Our favorite vet that moved away years ago must have heard about Reggie and she sent us a lovely card with that poem about the rainbow bridge. She was the one that apparently would go get him and take him back into her office when he was hospitalized for ten days. When she first saw him, she diagnosised him as having Orange Cat Syndrome (which is big and friendly and purry.)
Let's see...Wednesday: Flew out of LAX to Minneapolis where they kept us an hour extra in the terminal and an hour extra in the plane just sitting there. Apparently there was thunderstorm trouble all over the Plains that caused a fair amount of havoc.
The hotel said to take a taxi since it was late and they would pay of it. The taxi cab driver was quite a character. Due to how the taxi company does things, he barely makes $4/hour and of course has no health care or retirement. His rant continued on to include that most countries have made illegal the sacraments and that god would smite them. Now, he seemed to indicate that the sacraments include pot and LSD. By then, I was so confused I just heartily agreed and wished we could get back to Bush Bashing.
I got in by midnight and my roomies drove in from New England an hour later. After all the hugs and unpacking, we showed our age and were in bed by 3am. *g*
Thursday: Lunch at Bob Evans then shopping for door decoration supplies, booze, water and other goodies at Meijers. Back to the hotel to work on the door and do a room crawl. We ate dinner at Hummingbirds and made sure to order the Magnificent 7 Torte for afters. And for the first time in about four years, they actually hadn't run out yet. Richard confidently said he'd ordered 14 cakes and wouldn't be running out this weekend (ha! We went back on Monday and they were out. The waitress said they ran out on Saturday!)
Friday: The only SG1 zines were Ashton Press and the DHDs. Mysti might have had some but I've decided she won't be getting any more of my money. I also bought a few Supernatural zines for
deej1957. I also collected some preorders from Cat's Meow for my friends (I actually brought an empty suitcase just for all that!) I went to a lot of panels but I'm not going to get into particulars.
Saturday: I went to the Boston Legal party which was a lot of fun but I had to leave early to go to dinner with my friends. Apparently I missed a room full of people doing the Jerry Jump. *g* We went out to Sahara's, a Lebanese restaurant out near the university. VERY tasty.
Sunday: We skipped breakfast to get all the last minute things down before the con shut down. Strangely enough, I'm not sure what we did that afternoon. I know we went back to our room and watched some more of Series Two of Life on Mars. Very entertaining. I hope we get it on BBCA before too long.
Monday, we said goodbye to one friend, and then went to see Pirates. I thought it was uneven and must have looked at my watch at least six times during the first two hours! Not good. I doubt I'll be seeing that again. And then, after dinner, we went down to the pool/hot tub and splashed and relaxed until we were quite pruned.
Tuesday was long on goodbyes and traveling. No delays on the trip home, but Mom took the 5 instead of the 105 and was an hour late picking me up. But, as fate would have it, we got stuck in the backup from a five car pile up (and three other accidents) that occurred about...an hour before. Can't complain about the delay in that case!
We didn't go to either the vid show, or the art auction. We stayed in, enjoyed the companionship of our roomies and watched Life on Mars, Garrison Gorillas and some Methos eps of Highlander.
Our door was a Numb3rs themed display, with a lot of fannish characters intersperse with a bunch of mathematical formulas. We had a few math whizzes come by and stare and eventually announce they could follow some of it. I was more focused on pairing the geniuses against the hunks (photos of nearly naked characters) and making puns out of the picture pairings. It was way too involved, really, but it seemed to cause some giggling and chattering. They made up an award for us again, Best Use of a PhD, which pleased us no end.
Panels I went to included SGA, Supernatural, Boston Legal, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Heroes, House. I missed quite a few others because they were up against other panels or just too damn early. Supernatural was the 'it' fandom. There were two SG1 panels but one was too early and the other was just a platform for a certain pia fan to trash the show and Daniel some more. :::yawn:::
When I got home, Brindle stopped dead in his tracks and stared. I believe he felt I'd not come back from the same waterhole Reggie disappeared at. We put him out for a few hours yesterday to help him reset from being terribly cranky. After he came back in, he's been loving ever since. He went out for a few hours today but stayed right on the stoop, eventually hurrying back when some leaves blew past him a little too vigorously. He's healing well, most of the scabs are off. His missing claws seem to be okay (no infection), but one still bleeds because he uses it to scratch his ear. He asks to be picked up multiple times a day to be adored, which is no trouble at all. We've just been concentrating on making him happy and content.
But I still miss Reg so much. Our favorite vet that moved away years ago must have heard about Reggie and she sent us a lovely card with that poem about the rainbow bridge. She was the one that apparently would go get him and take him back into her office when he was hospitalized for ten days. When she first saw him, she diagnosised him as having Orange Cat Syndrome (which is big and friendly and purry.)
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Date: 2007-06-01 05:46 am (UTC)There were two SG1 panels but one was too early and the other was just a platform for a certain pia fan to trash the show and Daniel some more. :::yawn:::
Ah yes, she was in too many of the Supernatural panels, endlessly foisting her bitter, sad interpretations on everyone. She isn't trashing one of the brothers (yet), but for any scene we discussed she had the most depressing reason for why it happened. Geez!
But otherwise it was a pretty good convention. I had wanted to not buy nearly as many zines this year, and I succeeded. I still bought too many, but far fewer than the last couple years. It doesn't help the pocketbook to be in a bunch of fandoms, but I'm enjoying all the reading material at the moment.
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Date: 2007-06-02 12:44 am (UTC)One of my roomies taped the show, freeze framed when there was equations on the screen and copied them down. Apparently, they do make sense.
This is not the first time they've made up a catagory just for us. We are unique. *g*
I'm sure at some point, Sam will give Dean too much flack and not follow some orders, then she will start to bitch about Sam. Depressing reasoning, eh? Why am I not surprised.
Yes, I've lots to read, too. Yay!
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Date: 2007-06-01 04:18 pm (UTC)Not everyone, just the people who'd won something in the raffle, if they wanted to claim their prize. ;)
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Date: 2007-06-02 12:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-02 11:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-02 07:05 pm (UTC)So glad that Brindle is coming alone. Snicky is getting positively cuddly - for her, that is. And I know about the 'missing'. Just a couple of nights ago, I started to tear up when I had a sudden Wheelz-thought. {HUG}
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Date: 2007-06-02 07:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-02 10:36 pm (UTC)Wheelz. {{{hugs}}}
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Date: 2007-06-02 07:34 pm (UTC)I went to see 'Pirates' this week too, and I thought it could have dome with a good half hour cut out. No wonder I was hungry when it finished.I was reading Entertainment magazine while at my hairdressers, and the reviewer liked the part with the Jack Sparrow clones etc., the very part that I didn't like! It was as if the powers that be decided that you can't have too much Jack, as he's so funny...but you know what, you can...
As for Keith Richards, I don't know how much was makeup and how much was him, but scarey!
I'd like to hear more about the panels you went to; was there any political strife for instance! (g)
I'm at work today, enjoying the quiet before all the parents come trolling in. (LOL)
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Date: 2007-06-02 10:42 pm (UTC)Keith Richards was...odd. It's odd to bring the main character's father on just for a cameo. He should have been more significant.
I hope the parents weren't too weird.