I made it down Friday despite the torrential rain making the 200 mile drive almost blind. I was running late too, thankfully my spots in the art show were saved. Later that night  dinrael finally got off work and we got to be together again for the weekend. (I can't wait till this job situation is settled so we can go back to living together full time.)

Saturday I spent lots of money on prints, books, CDs, and sketchbooks. The following artists were kind enough to grace my sketchbooks:
 louvelex and  kitsumi in the clean
and  grimal and  emorottie in the not so clean. I will get scans out to you artists once I get my scanner working.

 n gave me a free copy of the print of the commision I had him do last year for me. I thought that was quite nice.

Even Nicer was Emorottie doing my sketchbook without recompense. I need to do something for you now.

Spent a lot of time hanging out with  genecatlow,  jonas, Kevin J Dog, Rain and Orv.

Saturday night we helped set up the ArtSpots Art Jam and I ended up sitting next to  orange04. I even managed to draw something for Kevin. I haven't drawn traditional media in years.

Missed the final hour of the auction but surprisingly still managed to win a  java piece and a  kitsumi piece. Only two of my clean sculptures sold, for a total of $15 so I at least made my art show reservation fee back. I somehow missed  hardluckart's panel when bidding even though I had made a point to seek it out. Luckily he had a few that didn't sell which I managed to grab one after  rjtremor almost cleaned him out.

Briefly got to chat with  moodyferret and  agouti-rex,  bravo,  vinci_nicolaides and Arty,  codyvfrost,  kaiven,  pomander, and  bd .

Sunday we said our goodbyes to the con for a year and each other for a week. I was feeling the post con depression pretty badly on the ride home. It didn't help that I was almost washed off the road on the 505, thankfully it was much drier on I-5 for the rest of the way back.

Dinrael and I are pre registered for next year and we booked a room in the hotel so we won't have to deal with the parking mess and getting to and from the con again.

I enjoyed the con even though I still felt like I was too slow on conversations. I really need to relax and just talk to people more. I also resolve to next year bring some air dry clay so I can do some fun trades at the con.