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Quick Update

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links, Music

Apolo­gies to all my faith­ful read­ers, I’ve been busy work­ing on some new fea­tures for the ICON 30 web­site (with some mas­sive help from Aizuchi. For extra pain, we’re into our next beta cycle at work; so I’m con­sid­er­ably busier there. And if that wasn’t enough, I’ve had a bit of a cold that just isn’t going away. Ye olde Advil Cold & Sinus beats it down for a while, but it seems to keep com­ing back. If it doesn’t go away by this time next week, I’ll prob­a­bly be mak­ing an appoint­ment with the doc­tor to get checked out. *sigh*

I did get one break since my last real post and that was last weekend’s Ani­meIowa. I was rather dis­ap­pointed with this year’s con. The pro­gram­ming track was only sparsely filled and I didn’t see any­thing in it that inter­ested me¹. So I mostly hung out with peo­ple I knew at the con and tried to help out the con pho­tog­ra­pher². Mostly, I just helped tear-down/setup his gear in dif­fer­ent rooms. *shrug* It was no big deal and I got to see pretty much all of the cos­tumes. As usual, some were fab­u­lous and some were.… not. Of course some of the best were in the Mas­quer­ade, and the Mas­quer­ade was the main rea­son we went this year. A friend of ours was in charge of it and over­all it appeared to go fairly well. How­ever there were a few prob­lems; most of which I did not hear about until after the con was over. The main thing that I noticed was the cos­tumers wouldn’t shut up. It may seem a bit harsh, but they all know they’re sup­posed to keep quiet while in the green room and we had to con­stantly go around ask­ing them to be quiet through­out the whole Mas­quer­ade. *sigh* If you know the rules in advance, have them re-explained to you when you show up shortly before the Mas­quer­ade then why do you have to con­tin­u­ally break them? *grrr*

As for the rest of the con, the dealer’s room was smaller this year and unless you wanted Naruto or Full Metal Alchemist mer­chan­dise; you were pretty much out of luck. Since they didn’t have as many deal­ers; the con-com put the Artists’ Alley inside the dealer’s room. This was a bright idea and I ended up buy­ing some mag­nets from the guy who does the FAUB web­comic. I was not famil­iar with the web­comic prior to this year’s Ani­meIowa but I really liked the art­work in the mag­nets and have since read through their entire archive of web­comics and added it to my Por­tal page.

I didn’t have much desire to go into any of the video rooms, but I did find one play­ing Bub­blegum Cri­sis which was kind of nice. Though I didn’t get to stay around long as that was just before I had to help Wookie move his gear from the hall cos­play judg­ing room to the green room for the Masquerade.

All in all, it was a dis­ap­point­ing week­end. *shrug* Oh well, can’t win ‘em all.

In more cur­rent news, I’ve finally got­ten caught up in list­ing to all the pod­casts I’ve down­loaded. It’s nice to lis­ten to them and actu­ally hear other people’s thoughts on cur­rent events while the events are still cur­rent. Along those lines, the jazz mashup from the episode# 240 of the Daily Source Code was extremely cool. Any­way, that’s all I’ve got time to write for now.

¹ I should say noth­ing on Sat­ur­day or Sun­day as I wasn’t there Fri­day.
² Wookie comes to the con and takes pic­tures of all the Hall Cos­play entries & after the con puts them on a site where peo­ple can order prints if they want them. Also, Wookie’s a fun guy to hang around the con with.

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