Thank you to everybody who I got the chance to interact with at FWA this past weekend. It was a genuine pleasure to spend time talking with everybody, and it would seem that my voice is actually recovering now! It was loud and crowded enough that I found myself having to raise my voice and by mid Saturday I was getting concerned that I might be straining myself.

Man oh man was there a lot of people attending this year. I knew that FWA was one of the larger events on the annual calendar, but I didn't anticipate it leapfrogging into the busiest event around so quickly! I'm all in favor of increasing the audience attendance, but I seriously hope that the capacity can increase to keep up with it all. I kept hearing stories over the weekend of hours-long wait just to get into the Artist Alley and Dealers Den, along with my previous understanding of the huge numbers of people applying for the limited number of available tables for AA and DD. I don't know whether the lessons and observations from this can be applied comprehensively to next year's event, but I'm certain that the things that need to be addressed aren't lost on the decision makers at FWA. I had a great time and did the strongest sales I've ever had this year and I really hope that the money being made from attendee and dealer registration along with hotel room bookings and general level of peripheral money being spent in the Atlanta area can allow the convention to overcome the strained capacity that happened this year.

My next event is AnthrOhio in Columbus, OH which will be my first time attending. I'm looking forward to it and hope to see a bunch of people (new and old) there. In the meantime I've got a pile of work I need to do.