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I made it safely to Lansing in spite of all the construction. Michigan doesn't seem to believe in leaving one lane open during road construction. I hit two areas where the road was completely blocked and I got to go on a scenic tour of the countryside before hooking up with my route again. One of those road closures is between the con hotel and the hotel where I'm staying. Yayers. Fortunately I was able to find an alternate route
By the way, Chicago area peeps, was there anything on the news about a bus fire in the northbound lanes of the Tri-State this morning? I saw a burned out shell of a bus being hoisted onto a flatbed. There were emergency vehicles everywhere and traffic was backed up for miles.
Anyway, I stopped by the con hotel to see who was here. I've run into several people I know already. I also did a preliminary hall crawl. Not too many people are set up yet, but I found GriffinSong Press and bought a copy of Rooftop Confessions 4. Yes, the con doesn't start for another 14 hours and I've already bought a zine.
I also got to talking with the folks at Media Mugs. I wanted to buy a notebook from them since mine are all full, but the fandoms they had weren't ones I'm into. They said that if I had any images, they could make something for me. By some strange coincidence, I felt compelled to copy all the image files on my hard drive onto a flash drive this morning and bring them with me. I spent some time on my laptop picking out images, then I gave them the images I picked to see what would work best. I wound up buying 2 notebooks (they're only $5 each), one for each picture:
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Other than that, I've been good. Mostly because Agent With Style and Ashton Press aren't set up yet.
The con hotel is under very new management and is doing a pretty good job of hiding the current remodeling, except for the central courtyard. The central courtyard used to have fountains and plastic chairs for people to sit outside. Right now, there's bare dirt with the plumbing for the old fountains sticking out of the ground.
And now I really need to head over to my hotel and go to sleep. I'm pooped.
By the way, Chicago area peeps, was there anything on the news about a bus fire in the northbound lanes of the Tri-State this morning? I saw a burned out shell of a bus being hoisted onto a flatbed. There were emergency vehicles everywhere and traffic was backed up for miles.
Anyway, I stopped by the con hotel to see who was here. I've run into several people I know already. I also did a preliminary hall crawl. Not too many people are set up yet, but I found GriffinSong Press and bought a copy of Rooftop Confessions 4. Yes, the con doesn't start for another 14 hours and I've already bought a zine.
I also got to talking with the folks at Media Mugs. I wanted to buy a notebook from them since mine are all full, but the fandoms they had weren't ones I'm into. They said that if I had any images, they could make something for me. By some strange coincidence, I felt compelled to copy all the image files on my hard drive onto a flash drive this morning and bring them with me. I spent some time on my laptop picking out images, then I gave them the images I picked to see what would work best. I wound up buying 2 notebooks (they're only $5 each), one for each picture:
Other than that, I've been good. Mostly because Agent With Style and Ashton Press aren't set up yet.
The con hotel is under very new management and is doing a pretty good job of hiding the current remodeling, except for the central courtyard. The central courtyard used to have fountains and plastic chairs for people to sit outside. Right now, there's bare dirt with the plumbing for the old fountains sticking out of the ground.
And now I really need to head over to my hotel and go to sleep. I'm pooped.
