Con Report and other things
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omorkaSaw the first pink evening primroses along the roadsides on Thursday; now they're all over the place. The oaks are having sex with everything around them. The wisteria are just starting to open.
Spring Break started Friday. Need to do some spring cleaning over the break; the kitchen, in particular, needs a little work.
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Went to Con-Jour III this weekend. Went to two games, neither of which made (well, apparently one of them did, but over an hour after I'd given up waiting and left). Attended several panels, none of them spectacular, although I did get a few ideas from some of them, especially the costuming panel, which was very well attended. I did enjoy Jody Lynn Nye's, the guest of honor's, contributions to the panels. (Wonder if the organizers would take my suggestions for a couple of panels for next year?)
I spent a big chunk of Saturday in the cartoon!Venkman uniform, although I forgot my elbow pads. The local Ghostbusters troupe, the Houston Area Ghostbusters, were out in force, and I spent a while hanging around their table in Artists' Alley. They do self-insert/OC costuming rather than being one of the original four, but they all said a cartoon continuity costume would be welcome in their group, so I might need to work on a second outfit. They also tipped me off to an eBay auctioneer who does custom name patches.
Of course, if I'm going to do that, I need to actually come up with at least a trap prop, and possibly a meter - the pack's probably a ways off yet. (Most of them had the commercial movie-prop meter, which is cool but not accurate for what I want to do.)
The Spouse had to work during the day Saturday; he ended up bringing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshirebast down after they closed the shop, which I wasn't expecting, but I enjoyed showing him around the con. Unfortunately, since it's a university con at a school that shuts down early, there wasn't a whole lot going on after 9 pm. We swung back by this morning, although Spouse and I were late - there was some sort of walk-a-thon going on down Allen Parkway, so we had to go way out of our way to get onto I-45.
Still a very small con, although certainly not as small as the first year. I was a little disappointed in the dealer's room, although I did pick up three things (all of them jewelry). It's probably just as well that the Mythos troupe didn't try and put a game on - we might well not have made. OTOH, I ran into the gaming coordinator for Apollocon, and she's interested in having us there - and might be able to pull enough strings to fix our volunteer issue. She's at least going to ask.
Spring Break started Friday. Need to do some spring cleaning over the break; the kitchen, in particular, needs a little work.
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Went to Con-Jour III this weekend. Went to two games, neither of which made (well, apparently one of them did, but over an hour after I'd given up waiting and left). Attended several panels, none of them spectacular, although I did get a few ideas from some of them, especially the costuming panel, which was very well attended. I did enjoy Jody Lynn Nye's, the guest of honor's, contributions to the panels. (Wonder if the organizers would take my suggestions for a couple of panels for next year?)
I spent a big chunk of Saturday in the cartoon!Venkman uniform, although I forgot my elbow pads. The local Ghostbusters troupe, the Houston Area Ghostbusters, were out in force, and I spent a while hanging around their table in Artists' Alley. They do self-insert/OC costuming rather than being one of the original four, but they all said a cartoon continuity costume would be welcome in their group, so I might need to work on a second outfit. They also tipped me off to an eBay auctioneer who does custom name patches.
Of course, if I'm going to do that, I need to actually come up with at least a trap prop, and possibly a meter - the pack's probably a ways off yet. (Most of them had the commercial movie-prop meter, which is cool but not accurate for what I want to do.)
The Spouse had to work during the day Saturday; he ended up bringing
cheshirebast down after they closed the shop, which I wasn't expecting, but I enjoyed showing him around the con. Unfortunately, since it's a university con at a school that shuts down early, there wasn't a whole lot going on after 9 pm. We swung back by this morning, although Spouse and I were late - there was some sort of walk-a-thon going on down Allen Parkway, so we had to go way out of our way to get onto I-45.Still a very small con, although certainly not as small as the first year. I was a little disappointed in the dealer's room, although I did pick up three things (all of them jewelry). It's probably just as well that the Mythos troupe didn't try and put a game on - we might well not have made. OTOH, I ran into the gaming coordinator for Apollocon, and she's interested in having us there - and might be able to pull enough strings to fix our volunteer issue. She's at least going to ask.
