I was just thinking today that I haven't ever wrote a journal on FA, and I should probably change that and put in something about this last weekend. Califur was last weekend and I had a pretty good time as usual. It was great seeing old friends and meeting new ones. I also got to have a little fun at a couple con events. I had a full hotel room with jasufox blueotter and opturk . It was especially great to see the otters again all the way from Oklahoma. It was Blue who did convince me to come to my first CF back in 2006 when the convnetion was in a little Holiday Inn.

It's definitely gotten much bigger since then but I have a feeling the convention may be starting to get some growing pains as it is right now. I think a real improvement this year was the absence of the Weenie Roast people since they had their event a couple weeks before the con. There is still an issue with the hotel and its location. I've done many road trips across the country so have stayed in a lot of hotels and this one really has to be the worst in terms of location of food. Just about every hotel I have been to in the US from little local Bates Motels to the huge towers in a metropolitan areas, I can leave on foot and find a decent place for food within a couple minutes. For example, on late Friday night I was with the gang and we were really hungry. We were getting tired, closing in on midnight and we can't even stumble on foot a block to a GD Waffle House. Nope, we all have to get a convoy going and find the closest place that is open at the hour. Unfortunately that is a problem that the con can't really fix if they keep using the Marriot.

I did have a good time at the poker tournament run by bigfootcat again. Last year I was runner up, but this year I didn't fare as well. But hey I am not beating myself up over it. It's always a lot of fun, and the tables I played at ran much more smoothly than last year (no meth heads at the table). Tabbicus is also a pretty funny guy, keeping the game light hearted for everyone even as he does all the work and math.

Also a cerain fancy fox, mister aurora-fox kept me busy on Saturday as his camera man which was fun. We got some pretty good footage of elevator con and the parade which he edited together and put up on youtube: http://youtu.be/fA5qEEqOeKk

The con's pretty short, it starts getting up to speed Friday afternoon and is pretty fizzled out by Sunday morning. It's definitely not the long epic week Oklacon is, but it's still a good little relaxing con. My next endeavor is going to be my first Further Confusion in January. A long con like Oklacon, but with about over three times the population of Califur. Thinking of it gets me all excited, like going to my very first convention all over again!