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14 years ago
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First off, my sewing project I was working on since mid november wasn't quite done in time, could have rushed it, but it was getting to the point where it was stressing me and it wasn't work getting all stressed out before leaving, it should be done, or close to by the end of the month though.
Let's see, where to start, first off, greyhound, YOU ANNOY ME! Seriously, this is the route I took, http://tinyurl.com/drabitmap also, thank goodness for tinyurl 'has a length of 1765 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 28 characters' 12404 KM/7707 miles, at least. 3 days, 7 hours going down, 4 and a half going back, PLUS I left early in the last day so I could make my final connection, but thanks to greyhound, I arrived at the exact same time I would have anyway!
I apologize if I leave anything or anyone out, wanted to keep better track of things during the con but the rough trip back drained my mental battery. Timing are probably a bit off too.
Anyway, left the house 2pm on Sunday the 8th, bus trip started around 11 that night and arrived in San Jose around 6 or 7 am on the 12th, relaxed and wandered around a bit until I got the pony signal and went up to and met with the very awesome
runt's and 
darkdraconis', hung out with them for a few hours, had a very yummy and massive breakfast burrito. Got a very cute pink collar from Runt as well, Arf!
Parted ways a few hours later before running into and meeting up with
Prancival, my roommate for the event. Ran into 
Kahncub, 
pantsuneko and 
stormdragonblue sometime after unpacking and met 
Cyrin and 
in passing the very long lineride. Met 
beccabunny in the line ride (which made up for the fact that I had apparently pre-registered...) and almost ran into 
andrewneo while in the line ride too, and I... honestly can't remember anything else about that day, so on to day 2.
Day 2 - The great Airafox hunt
Aira was at the con most of the day on Friday, and it seems that we kept playing tag without actually meeting each other, possibly as much as being within 25 feet of each other on at least 3 separate occasions, then missing him by about 5 minutes at the end of the day. It's possible that we did meet early that morning but due to mishearing, didn't realize it.
First event of the day was the Marvel vs Capcom 3 tournament where I hung out with Kahncub and Pantsu where I played with them for a little before losing in the first round, 1:2 (which given that it was my first time playing it, I was happy about) Aira was here too apparently, maybe he should have been wearing red stripes.
Spend a bit of the day getting a cell phone for usage while there and getting my badges resized and relaminated. (Suffice it to say I was on my feet a lot this con, my feet are still blistery.) Met
zephyrr and 
kirimi before catching the end of the video game trivia tournament, done in mario party style before missing Aira for the final time later that night. Was going to attend the hypnosis panel as well, but wasn't feeling up to it.
Day 3 - The search for fire(lord)
I've just noticed, of the 10-15 things I've got underlined in my event schedule, I actually went to 2 of them.
Fairly late on the night before, I found out my old friend
korkem was attending this year (which I didn't think he was) from furrydrake but that'll come later. Ran into 
flarecat and hung out with her a fair amount of the day, had lunch, watched Igor before seeing her off later that evening. With Fuzzy's help, I was able to get in touch with Korkem later that night, chatted with him for a while before walking around some more and calling it a night.
Day 4
Probably the more quiet days of the trip, ran into Korkem again and had lunch with him and a few others, chatted with Flare again for a bit, ran into Runt and Koku, met CoyoteSeattle and
catmonkshiro aside from that, it was overall pretty uneventful. Ran into 
lepkitty too!
Day 5 - The final day - 24 hours remain
Got up, packed, ran into Shiro again while running Prancy's stuff out to his car and he helped me to the bus station.
Overall, it was a worthwhile experience, but I think before I attempt anything like this again, I'm going to make sure I've got someone I can hang out with for most of the con, made that mistake AC'10 as well. Met a lot of new people and people I've chatted with online for ages, got to see at least 14 states and got encouragement to never use greyhound again!
Let's see, where to start, first off, greyhound, YOU ANNOY ME! Seriously, this is the route I took, http://tinyurl.com/drabitmap also, thank goodness for tinyurl 'has a length of 1765 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 28 characters' 12404 KM/7707 miles, at least. 3 days, 7 hours going down, 4 and a half going back, PLUS I left early in the last day so I could make my final connection, but thanks to greyhound, I arrived at the exact same time I would have anyway!
I apologize if I leave anything or anyone out, wanted to keep better track of things during the con but the rough trip back drained my mental battery. Timing are probably a bit off too.
Anyway, left the house 2pm on Sunday the 8th, bus trip started around 11 that night and arrived in San Jose around 6 or 7 am on the 12th, relaxed and wandered around a bit until I got the pony signal and went up to and met with the very awesome
runt's and 
darkdraconis', hung out with them for a few hours, had a very yummy and massive breakfast burrito. Got a very cute pink collar from Runt as well, Arf!Parted ways a few hours later before running into and meeting up with
Prancival, my roommate for the event. Ran into 
Kahncub, 
pantsuneko and 
stormdragonblue sometime after unpacking and met 
Cyrin and 
in passing the very long lineride. Met 
beccabunny in the line ride (which made up for the fact that I had apparently pre-registered...) and almost ran into 
andrewneo while in the line ride too, and I... honestly can't remember anything else about that day, so on to day 2.Day 2 - The great Airafox hunt
Aira was at the con most of the day on Friday, and it seems that we kept playing tag without actually meeting each other, possibly as much as being within 25 feet of each other on at least 3 separate occasions, then missing him by about 5 minutes at the end of the day. It's possible that we did meet early that morning but due to mishearing, didn't realize it.
First event of the day was the Marvel vs Capcom 3 tournament where I hung out with Kahncub and Pantsu where I played with them for a little before losing in the first round, 1:2 (which given that it was my first time playing it, I was happy about) Aira was here too apparently, maybe he should have been wearing red stripes.
Spend a bit of the day getting a cell phone for usage while there and getting my badges resized and relaminated. (Suffice it to say I was on my feet a lot this con, my feet are still blistery.) Met
zephyrr and 
kirimi before catching the end of the video game trivia tournament, done in mario party style before missing Aira for the final time later that night. Was going to attend the hypnosis panel as well, but wasn't feeling up to it.Day 3 - The search for fire(lord)
I've just noticed, of the 10-15 things I've got underlined in my event schedule, I actually went to 2 of them.
Fairly late on the night before, I found out my old friend
korkem was attending this year (which I didn't think he was) from furrydrake but that'll come later. Ran into 
flarecat and hung out with her a fair amount of the day, had lunch, watched Igor before seeing her off later that evening. With Fuzzy's help, I was able to get in touch with Korkem later that night, chatted with him for a while before walking around some more and calling it a night.Day 4
Probably the more quiet days of the trip, ran into Korkem again and had lunch with him and a few others, chatted with Flare again for a bit, ran into Runt and Koku, met CoyoteSeattle and
catmonkshiro aside from that, it was overall pretty uneventful. Ran into 
lepkitty too!Day 5 - The final day - 24 hours remain
Got up, packed, ran into Shiro again while running Prancy's stuff out to his car and he helped me to the bus station.
Overall, it was a worthwhile experience, but I think before I attempt anything like this again, I'm going to make sure I've got someone I can hang out with for most of the con, made that mistake AC'10 as well. Met a lot of new people and people I've chatted with online for ages, got to see at least 14 states and got encouragement to never use greyhound again!
