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FWA 2010: Day 1
15 years ago
In the Kampie Karavan: 
(me)
In our room:
(me, again) 
Day 1: Thursday
We wanted to leave bright and early to make it there by 5p. As it is typically with a con, that kinda didn't happen. Kampie woke up 90mins late, and from there we kept lagging behind. The road trip wasn't too bad, Stank slept most of the way. I got to be DJ (yay!) and I found the VH1 Top 100 Songs of the 90s. Oh yea, we were rockin' it out. After a few hours I spotted a sign for a KFC buffet, hells ya. After nomming on chicken and mashed potatoes, we hit the road again. We made it halfway through the 90s until we got done with listening to it, and then I put on an audiobook. It was an Agatha Christie novella, dramatized by a BBC Radio cast. That was entertaining, we listening to some more 90s music but finally made it to Atlanta. And honestly it was a good thing we did, because we missed rush hour traffic completely when we were rolling into town around 7:30p. We had heard from twitter that the registration line was long but it wasn't that bad when I got there.
The theme was carnaval so somehow that meant lots and lots of BALLOONS! So I totally grabbed one while waiting to register. Of course, it was a BLUE one. I'd already seen a few central Florida furs too, which helped me settle in, seeing familiar faces. We got the poster and a guide and beads! I asked for a blue strand, got a rainbow one too. I was already hitting a con high, dunno why but I felt festive tugging my gay ass balloon around. Kampie had finished the tedious business of checking in, so when she saw me and the balloon she teased me for having an inflation fetish. I rolled my eyes and said some flippant risqué joke. So then we got the stuff moved in, somehow Stank had all his shit mov ed and was already setting up camp in the artist alley before we knew it. Kampie wanted downtime, she did all the driving, so I walked around. Stumbled into someone I followed on twitter, Drenthe. Totally babbled about my shiny new beads and my balloon like an idiot. I walked away feeling like I made a bad impression, because I'm in a silly mood, and I tweeted that. Well I wandered around saying my hellos to my Orlando furiends.
After the social mingling, I headed to the Board Game Room to see
and get some gaming in. They were starting a game of Shadow Hunters, so I joined them. I got to meet 
and 
, as well as a human named Thursday. I think there was another player there, Nana got everyone's FurAffinity afterwards, she'd know. That was a blast, I love anything that involves mindgames and subtle trickery to win. Fun times. I won 2 out of 3 games I think.
After that it's a blur of walking around talking to people, hung out with Stank and Kampie in the artist alley a bit. Played some Rock Band, before I knew it it was 2a and everything was closing. So I headed back to the room to settle down., , and were already down, so I crawled in. Right at the moment when I was slipping into dreamworld, there was a loud entrance. Room was dark, but it was obviously and his friend . Well and I got roused awake, and we ended up blabbing in the middle of the night punch-drunk, eventually waking up , who was mildly irritated, but when we started ragging on WoW, he joined in and we busted up giggling. After it all settled down to a dull murmur I headed out to get fresh air. Hoping to come back tired to a quiet room. Spent some time with and texted Sailsior a bit, then finally trudged back to bed.
(me)In our room:
(me, again) 
Day 1: Thursday
We wanted to leave bright and early to make it there by 5p. As it is typically with a con, that kinda didn't happen. Kampie woke up 90mins late, and from there we kept lagging behind. The road trip wasn't too bad, Stank slept most of the way. I got to be DJ (yay!) and I found the VH1 Top 100 Songs of the 90s. Oh yea, we were rockin' it out. After a few hours I spotted a sign for a KFC buffet, hells ya. After nomming on chicken and mashed potatoes, we hit the road again. We made it halfway through the 90s until we got done with listening to it, and then I put on an audiobook. It was an Agatha Christie novella, dramatized by a BBC Radio cast. That was entertaining, we listening to some more 90s music but finally made it to Atlanta. And honestly it was a good thing we did, because we missed rush hour traffic completely when we were rolling into town around 7:30p. We had heard from twitter that the registration line was long but it wasn't that bad when I got there.
The theme was carnaval so somehow that meant lots and lots of BALLOONS! So I totally grabbed one while waiting to register. Of course, it was a BLUE one. I'd already seen a few central Florida furs too, which helped me settle in, seeing familiar faces. We got the poster and a guide and beads! I asked for a blue strand, got a rainbow one too. I was already hitting a con high, dunno why but I felt festive tugging my gay ass balloon around. Kampie had finished the tedious business of checking in, so when she saw me and the balloon she teased me for having an inflation fetish. I rolled my eyes and said some flippant risqué joke. So then we got the stuff moved in, somehow Stank had all his shit mov ed and was already setting up camp in the artist alley before we knew it. Kampie wanted downtime, she did all the driving, so I walked around. Stumbled into someone I followed on twitter, Drenthe. Totally babbled about my shiny new beads and my balloon like an idiot. I walked away feeling like I made a bad impression, because I'm in a silly mood, and I tweeted that. Well I wandered around saying my hellos to my Orlando furiends.
After the social mingling, I headed to the Board Game Room to see
and get some gaming in. They were starting a game of Shadow Hunters, so I joined them. I got to meet 
and 
, as well as a human named Thursday. I think there was another player there, Nana got everyone's FurAffinity afterwards, she'd know. That was a blast, I love anything that involves mindgames and subtle trickery to win. Fun times. I won 2 out of 3 games I think.After that it's a blur of walking around talking to people, hung out with Stank and Kampie in the artist alley a bit. Played some Rock Band, before I knew it it was 2a and everything was closing. So I headed back to the room to settle down.
, , and were already down, so I crawled in. Right at the moment when I was slipping into dreamworld, there was a loud entrance. Room was dark, but it was obviously and his friend . Well and I got roused awake, and we ended up blabbing in the middle of the night punch-drunk, eventually waking up , who was mildly irritated, but when we started ragging on WoW, he joined in and we busted up giggling. After it all settled down to a dull murmur I headed out to get fresh air. Hoping to come back tired to a quiet room. Spent some time with and texted Sailsior a bit, then finally trudged back to bed.