Oh hey, I exist, don't I? I keep forgetting that.

So I went to DenFur last weekend. It wasn't spectacular, but I guess it wasn't horrible either.

FRIDAY:
I brought some friends up to Denver with me. They paid for my parking that day, which was nice. I was able to get through registration quickly thanks to pre-registering at Sponsor level. Still, the delay resulted in me catching the very tail end of Opening Ceremonies. I had lunch after that and then went to the Introduction to Warrior Cats panel. I guess it was interesting, but I'm not sure if I'll get into that fandom much. Maybe I can find some of the books at the library. After that, I went to the Chocolate 101 panel. That started 15 minutes late because the staff was unable to connect the presenter's laptop to the projection system, and then they gave up on that. The panel was interesting, but probably would have been better with the presentation. I didn't really have anything planned for several hours, so I checked out the Dealer's Den and Artist's Alley for a while. I ended up buying a bunch of books from Fenris Publishing. I spent some time chatting with some friends before heading to the TaskmastFur panel. I caught most of it before having to go back to the car to help my friends get their luggage out of it. Ended up getting back to the TaskmastFur panel for the tail end. I decided to head home at that point to save money on dinner.

SATURDAY:
So I had pretty big plans for Saturday, but I ended up losing the whole day. I don't think I got more than 4 hours of sleep that night and I didn't want to risk driving up to Denver being exhausted and having a headache. I just stayed home and tried to rest. I had wanted to attend the Rare & Uncommon Fur Meet, the Bonbon Demo and Q&A, and The Good, The Bad, The RMFC Years panel, but it doesn't really matter now.

SUNDAY:
Got a bit of a late start. Ended up missing the Improv Workshop panel, but still arrived in time to help my friends transfer their luggage to my car to meet their checkout time. Had lunch after that and then caught the Star Fox: The Rise and Fall of a Furry Icon panel. It really just consisted of talking about the games and didn't touch much on what caused the series to fail. Still, it was interesting learning about the games I didn't play. I went back to the Dealer's Den and Artist's Alley and ended up buying some coffee from Sacred Beans and Dragon Roast Coffee, along with some bars of soap from Soap Pony, some prints, an art book, and some stickers. I went to the Chikies Trading Post panel for a bit, and while there were some interesting objects available, I ended up not trading for anything, since I didn't think I had brought anything worthwhile. I headed for the Closing Ceremonies, got a decent seat, and managed to catch the whole thing. I was able to catch some of the Furoke panel before my friends texted me that they were ready to go.

So that's it for this year's DenFur. There were some improvements, such as using the second floor of the tower instead of the basements (which were being renovated,) but I'm worried I'm becoming jaded. I feel my main problem is that they are continuing to partner with the Sheraton hotel, despite all of the stories about hotel staff treating convention goers badly. I had hoped that this would be the last year at the Sheraton, but they confirmed that next year will also be at the Sheraton. It feels like the hotel is maybe trying to force the convention to break contract, but I don't know for sure. I guess I can spend the year deciding whether or not I want to go back.