Friday
Work, Class, Class, More Class, IST 220 HW in lab, Gas / Eat out at McD, Go homeAway!
Driving Driving Driving Driving Driving Driving Driving Driving
Ota Called me on my Cell when I was passing through Largo
The sun set as I was just geting to Washington DC
Woo I am here! Storm Reagan Airport!
Or not Waaa? Where am I? (I blew past Crystal City and couldn't get off of Rt. 1 and turn around for like 20 miles >.>)
There it is!
I then circled for like 20 minutes trying to figure out where the "alternative parking" signs were actually pointing.
Isn't that nice they even marked where I parked! Weird coincidence, I parked right under it ._.
Ohhhh Canada!
Finally I relaized that the reason I could not send Ota a text message was that I had his phone number wrong, so I looked on the caller ID and corrected it. x.x
We ran into Moony and went to go pick up my badge. We were on the 16th floor this was pretty high even with my camera's zoom
Opps Hotel Personal only area!
Zak (Ota), Chad, and Joe (I think it was chad and Joe ... ?) brought some stuff. We played Mario Kart DD, SuperSmash Brothers (^.^), and this cool Pacman game all night. I wandered around the top area and the artist alley before going to bed.
One bed, five guys. I shared tyhe bed with Zak the first night.
Zzzzzz
Saturday
The elevators were evil. There was like a 5 minute wait each time. However when everone is passed out at 6 AM they are empty!
I was poked to beat event #51 in Super Smash Brothers as I owned everone the night before, but I couldn't do it. ._.
We are really bad at cons on Saturday, we watched the first Superman Movie. Only one movie unlike Otakon, but still >.<
Webcomic Pannel
I then headed to the Webcomic Panel and waited outside for them to let us in. Fred then showed up and stood next to me. I was going to introduce myself but the fans decended upon him. (It was scary.)
Shinmeko spotted me in my Nekobox Ninja Nats T-shirt and introduced herself and her boyfriend. We chatted a bit about the forums and IRC and stuff. She asked about Ota, but he was still sleeping.
Strangly enough she did disapear and then reappear ever 3 minutes.
We went in and sat down together, and dave asked me to hold a spot for This jamie person
So I sat in the front row between Shinmeko, Jamie, and that Jes sat in front of me :D
One || Fred (MegaTokyo), Katie Bair (Ninja High School), Hawk (applegeeks), Davemon (Paradox Lost), Chris (Fragile Gravity), Matt's Legs (MacHall)
Two || Chris, matt, vaz [hidden] (underpower), Ian (also MacHall), Ananth (also applegeeks)
Three || Rob Balder (Partially Clips), Mookie (Dominic Deegan), Tim Buckley (CTRL+ALT+DEL)
The pannel was pretty interesting. The highlight was when some random dude came in, gave fred a coke and ran off. It went to Matt and although it was suggested that he e-bay it cause it was given to the holy cow, but he drank it
Dave left his bag at the pannel, so I went to the art gallery and returned it.
I think I went and just wandered around for a bit. I watched some AMVs.
Ota was still asleep.
Iron Artist
Gasp who is the mysterious challanger? who dares! Oh it is Fred
Pocky had a sparkly shirt on
The theme was ... Easter
Katie's "You want me to hide all those eggs? I don't know if they will all fit, but I will sure try!" o.o
and the Urusei Yatsura Jesus hold's dead (zombie?) Jesus o.o
First Dave's bag, then this ... which I returned to security
I popped into the dealers room, but it closed like right after I went in.
Nap I think.
Beat event 51 when Ota and co. came back.
Gaming
I went to the MT Overflow panel, featuring Pocky, Fred, and .. Dom's head
Shower, pack, and Zzzzzz
Sunday
AND ON THE THIRD DAY THERE WAS LIGHT! and no snow
Wandering around the dealers room
The MT line was not that long
I talked to fred a bit and got Sarah to sign book 1 and Fred to do book2
Ahhh must cross road to get to food!
No snow ... but Huh? oh Nos! Uh-oh
This is what happened. I was in the dealer's room at the time. They locked down the elevators and escilators, but I escaped through the parking garage.
I waited for Closing Cermonies, said bye to moony, then left
Storm airport again. bye by VA Wait .. gas = good Mmmm Roy Roger's
Not geting lost is good. 250 Miles to get there, 165 Miles to get back >.>
Stuff
MT V2Do
spring DX Arc | +1 | +2 | +3
and Ciel | +1 | +1
Lessons Learned
BadgesCustom badge that looks more professional than the real badge lead to people thinking you are staff.
(Dealers room is up one floor, right next to the elevators. The yes this is the webcomic panel. The back of the Cosplay line is waaay over there >.>)
Ninja Natsuki T-Shirt is awsome I wore it Friday and Saturday. I was stoped with "DudE! NekoBox!" "Nice ninja?" "Where did you get that?" "What is it from?" and such.
I kept pimping out nekobox.org :D
And In the dealers room. /me walks past FunMation Booth.
Dude: "HEY"
Arc Brain 1.20: "Male behid and out of sight says hey, not talking to me. ignore. beep
Dude: "Hey you!"
Arc Brain 1.20: "Ohh blinky lights and shiney things! Beep"
Dude: "Hey Nekobox T-Shirt Dude."
/me turns around and walks back.
Dude: "Dude"
Me: "Yes?"
Nat's Brother: "I'm Nat's brother!"
Me: "huh .. Ooooh"
Me: "Hello!"
We talked breifly, and he took my picture (Darn! So close to escaping from all pictures of me!)
He seemed to think Young would be delighted that someone knew about nekobox
Even though I got that shirt after talking to Nat's on IRC and emailing Young -.-;;
Packing
Still overpacked cloths
Need to bring more real food or be willing to spend $$. Rice cakes do not count.
