Took the weekend off and headed down to Katsucon (anime convention for the non-dorks out there). Maura was nice enough to let everyone coming down stay at her place. For those unaware, she works about 10 minutes away from where I will be working. As such she had me come down early so I could check out the area. We spent friday afternoon aimlessly driving around. We visited two of the malls and drove around some of the towns I may be living in. Maryland is odd - there are no real cities, its all one big set of highways and some houses bumping up next to them. That and the drivers suck. They make Jersey drivers look good.
Everyone else started getting to Maura’s around 7 or so. After some quick food and waiting for Katie and Maura to get in their costumes, we headed down to Arlington to Katsucon so we could get registered and check out the place. Of course we got lost on the way. Multiple times. HOV lanes suck. We warndered around the place looking at the few cosplayers that were there that late and then went to the Hentai panel at midnight. It was funny, but nothing special. Got back and Mike finally showed up, the punk.
Saturday was much more eventful although started badly. I managed to leave my camera battery charging in the wall at Maura’s place when we left. She was nice enough to let me use her camera for the day. This is the reason that half the pics in the gallery look like they were taken with my old Olympus. Sorry.
Anywho we tried to make it in time for the AMV showing, but the line was way to long. Instead of getting a crap seat we volunteered (and by that I mean we were abducted by someone without warning) to help with security for the convention for two hours to pass the time. Katsucon was in a much smaller space than Otakon so the hallways got very crowded. We got to yell at people to keep things moving. It was a bit boring simply because I got stuck with some 14 year old who was incapable of conversation. Got to see a lot of the costumes this way though.
Next came my wandering of the Artist’s Gallery. Anna was there with a table selling artwork; Mike bought some things from her. I ended up getting three Teen Titan works and a shirt from other artists. Then the award presentation for the AMVs began. I wouldn’t say they were quite as good as the ones from Otakon last year, but two or three of them were pretty cool. Following the awards we waited in line again for two hours for the main event - the Cosplay Masquerade. The skits were very entertaining and well worth the wait. Now very tired, we returned home to a night of video games and lack of sleep.
Sunday morning the video games resumed bright and early. The sideshow was Katie’s new computer being built. Mmmm AMD 64bit machine. I stuck around till 4ish.
Life. Hrm. it gets worse before it gets better, right?
Enter Worse.
Two days ago car desides its time to stop being nice to me. Would have to drop some money (read: good amount) to get it running safe again. So back to Isaac and I sharing a car, although now its me without the car.
Worse exits. Better, which has been just out of our hero’s reach for some time now, slowly enters stage left.
Instead of wasting money in a lost cause that was to be replaced soon anyway, Aunt Susan is coming down this weekend and we are gonna go look at an RSX. Wasn’t planning on getting one this soon, but it may work out. We’ll see.
Along with the possible new car goodness I got my cat back, woo! Decker is now living with me, sitting on my lap all the time as I type. Very good to have him back.
Also got two couches and a chair offered to me from Maura’s mom. This saves me money, I am happy. Now all I need is a bed and a table and I’m set on furniture. This continue to look like they may work out for once.
Continuing with the things that are good, going to Katsucon in two weeks. Anime cons are always good. Anyone going that I don’t already know of lemmi know so we can meet up.
