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Only I would go to Dunkin’ Donuts with a laptop loaded with 3000 Karaoke songs and sit there taking requests for people to sing along!

It’s all over. Another year of I-Con! I had a lot of fun this year. Though I do have to say that ICON is progressively getting worse and worse. They seem to be swerving away from Science Fiction and Fandom that built the convention 24 years ago, and seem to br introducing more and more Anime. My prediction is by ICON 30, it will be more of an Anime-CON than anything else….

Also, My voice is still fucked up. lol…

With all this you’d think the time sucked, but the few panels and events of interest that I did attend were fun and the people there are always cool. I still managed to have a good time. It was great running into all my old friends who I dont get to see that often anymore.

Now I wait for I-Con 25!

It’s almost 5AM! I have to be up at 9AM! I JUST got home from Day 2 of ICON. This was a first for me. I headed out to the official Hotel of the Con after the con-events themselves. The funny thing is I went to hang out with Laura and couldn’t get in touch with her at all. Hung with everyone else in the bar, just hangin’ out. Carmine taught me some beats on the Dumbek as Vince played the guitar. Wish I could sing along, but my voice is shot. Dunno why either, I woke up kinda congested and towards the end of the day, I could barely talk. Of course that didn’t stop me from blabbing on as usual 🙂

Anyways, It’s starting to come back. I’ve made it a point not to speak as much as possible for the past few hours. I dont think ANYBODY has seen me THIS quiet in a while!

Tonight was the first night of ICON, The northeast’s largest convention of Science Fiction, Fact and Fantasy! I worked all week (and even made a run to Home Depot at 12 Midnight last night) to finish the Helmet of my Spaceball costume… It was well worth it. Even with some of the defects in the helmet (I couldn’t get it as smooth/glossy as I wanted) it was a hit. I must have taken a picture with just about everyone there, including one kid who thought I was a character from Hitchhiker’s Guide (Not everyone there is an 80’s sci-fi spoof fan).

It was such a hit I am going to bring the costume with me to the Costume Ball tomorrow night if I can get to it in time, or if my friend’s party doesn’t run alongside it.

During the day tomorrow, I think I’m just going to play photographer and get pictures of everyone in their costumes and the different events going on. It will be a lot of fun (as usual!)

I started work at the new place today (Same Company, Same Job, New Location) and things went about as smooth as 100 grit snadpaper 🙂 I spent most of my shift waiting for our IT department to get the Internet connection up and running. Yes, I spent over 3 hours doing absolutely nothing (Because I couldn’t). The computers they have me on are running Windows NT 4 (not fun considering I came from a call center full of P4’s running XP)… It’s pretty cool though. I do (I hope) have my own cubicle (at least until they send more people over). I’ll find out tomorrow if all my stuff is left as is or is all moved around 😉 The chairs there kick ass… They look like cheap office chairs, but every piece of them can adjust, tilt or slide into just the right position!