The avoidance of anonymity

knittingknots just linked me to this and told me there are people on ch2's forums saying that the ending of Inuyasha has been CONFIRMED and it sounds like a SERIES, but nothing official has been said yet.

OMFGOMFGOMFG.

I just freaked out my dog by bouncing around squeeing. Then she got all excited and was jumping around with me like "I dunno what you're excited about but I am, too!"

But... HOGOD. I haven't been this excited in, like, ever.

Waiting for my mom to finish a phone call before we take off, so in the meantime I know I still need to talk about Tokyo in Tulsa.

...wow.

I know it's not kosher to give your personal opinions about a con and badmouth it, so I'm not going to do that. I know putting on a con is a horrendous job. Instead, I'm just going to state facts of The Way Things Were.

1) The AA was in the same room as the Dealers, and we were thus required to keep the same hours as the dealers. Which meant closing by 7 in the freakin p.m. We weren't allowed to open until 2pm on Friday. Two o'clock in the afternoon.

2) The AA/DR was in the convention center with one gaming room. Everything else in the entire con was across the street in the hotel.

3) The convention center was in the middle of being renovated. Granted this was completely out of TnT's control, but still. There was dust EVERYWHERE, but thankfully it was at least bearable by the time the con started.

4) Because of the renovations, the front doors of the convention center were un-usable due to their being no stairs leading to them. This meant that the only way to access the convention center was via the skyway. This has got to be one of the most retarded skyways I have ever seen. Again, not TnT's fault. In order to access this skyway, you had to:

• Go to the second floor of the hotel


• Go out to the parking garage


• Take the hot, slow parking garage elevators down to the third floor


• Go around a corner to the skybridge which was long and not air conditioned. It was over 100 degrees all weekend.

5) There was absolutely no signage telling con goers where we were or how to get to us. I had one customer stop in front of my table and call her friends on her cell to tell them she had found the artists. According to TnT, signage went up on Saturday afternoon. I... never saw any, but that could just be me being blind which is a very real possibility.

We were basically hidden from everything and everyone. A lot of the dealers started packing up at 2:00 on Sunday even though the con was open until 5:00. It was that slow. I started packing up at 2:30 because most of my visitors for the last hour had been other artists in the alley that were wandering around due to boredom. I did a little of that myself earlier in the day. I've never been able to do that during a con.

Packing up early ended up being a good thing for us since we had to drive 300+ miles back home and it was well after 10:00pm by the time we got home. We also hit a monster coyote on I-35 just past Gainesville on our way home. It took out the bottom part of my dad's bumper, tore out part of the wheel well, knocked out a sensor, knocked the passenger side of the bumper loose, and put a big hole in the windshield wiper tank. The car is now in the shop. Did I mention the car is only 4 months old? X|

I'm not going to be going back next year because my bottom line just can't justify it. I barely broke even and judging from what other artists said when I was wandering around, I was lucky to have done so. My neighbor lost quite a bit of money and I don't understand it because her work was beautiful.

Live and learn, I suppose. At least AFest is in September.

DUDE IS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE THAT THEY'RE STARTING INUYASHA ANIMATION BACK UP?!

:DDDDDDDDDDD

Hey I'm late to the party because I was stuck in Tulsa. Don't hate. More on that debacle coming later.

I almost forgot to post my mandatory "I'm not going to be here" post before I go to bed.

Leaving out tomorrow morning for Tulsa. If anybody's going to be at Tokyo in Tulsa, come and say hi. :)

Since knittingknots wanted to know what's going on while I'm there, I'll be tweeting about it if my phone gets good enough reception in the convention center. I think Loud Twitter broke or something, so here's my twitter account. I'll be back sometime Sunday night.

Play nice while I'm gone. :)

The NTSB released a PDF fact sheet about the monorail crash... it says there are indications that the driver of purple had stopped the train and attempted to throw it in reverse right before pink hit him. That means he saw it coming and there wasn't anything he could do because they were about 40 feet up in the air in the middle of the track. That is so sad. :(

This is probably going to pop up in other places on my flist but because I'm the WDW junkie that I am, I want to say something about it:



MousePlanet blog post about the incident.

Link to guest-shot video immediately after the collision.

This upsets me SO much. I know exactly where that is, and it was usually the Epcot monorails that we'd ask to ride in the front of. In WDW (never been to DL) you can ride in the front of the monorail with the captain if you ask. The nose is lined with seats for this. We usually asked to ride in the front of the Epcot monorails because it's the longest trip, about 5 minutes. It's a good thing there were no families in the front of purple (since it appears pink was heading for the garage for the night and was out of guest service for the day) or else this could have been even worse.

When we spoke with one of the captains before on one of our rides he told us that every monorail is equipped with radar that detects how close the train is to other monorails on the track. It's why monorails stop in the middle of the tracks sometimes; it senses it's too close to another car. Apparently when monorails are in reverse for track switching at the end of the day, all of their safeguards are disabled.

I feel so bad for the driver's family... he was only 21.

Oooooooh holy shiznit.

Palin to resign as Alaska governor
MSNBC.com

So, who wants to take bets on what shit is about to hit the fan that made her think the only choice is to not only resign but completely leave politics?

ETA: Now that I'm researching this a little more I was getting some conflicting information about the leaving politics. But still, bzuh?

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• 20:03 And my printer just went belly-up and completely died. Epson says replacing ink pads is expensive and often not worth it. #
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Well my printer just went belly-up and died until I get the ink pads replaced. Good thing I can squeak by with what I've got for Tokyo in Tulsa. I printed my last critical thing right before it died.

It turns out according to Epson since I got the "end of service life" message on the ink pads, I qualify for a loyalty discount if I purchase another printer. I realllly didn't need another expense like that, but since my birthday is coming up and my parents are super awesome they're going to split the cost of a new one with me with the loyalty discount and a $100 mail-in rebate Epson has going right now on the new equivalent printer.

If it's not grossly expensive to replace the ink pads, I'm thinking my plan of action will probably be to get the old printer repaired and then sell it along with 12 unopened ink cartridges that won't work on the new printer. I'll probably offer it up on here, DA, and the Ringling forums. The printer itself will probably be at least 50% less than what I paid for it along with over $100-worth of ink.

I just can't win lately, I swear to God.

But my parents kick ass.

WTF Billy Mays died now, too?! What the hell is going on in celebrity-land? Everybody's dying! I watched Pitchmen every week and loved it. He was young, too!

So, who's going to be next?

1. David Carradine
2. Ed McMahon
3. Farrah Fawcett

1. Michael Jackson
2. Billy Mays
3. ???

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• 17:26 Michael Jackson just died. o_o #
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Miachel Jackson just died. o_o

Condolences to his family...

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