An archive of my old LiveJournal
We got back from San Diego last night. Grabbed El Pollo Loco for dinner at something like 9:30. Need more sleep. Meanwhile, between wifi in the hotel and wifi in the convention center(!), I’ve been blogging the experience in two places, neither of them LJ:
Of particular interest to people on this flist, I suspect, would be alenxa’s hall costume from Friday: The Paper.
In a few hours we’ll be on our way to San Diego. Katie’s at work, having gotten there early so she can leave at 3:00. I’m currently at home, while maintenance patches a hole in our bathroom ceiling. The timing is good, in that I was actually home to let them in, but bad, in that I have a bunch of errands to run before we go, and I’d hoped to take care of them this morning. I’ve more or less run out of stuff I can do before running out to the bank, the grocery store, the gas station, etc.
If you haven’t already gotten your tickets for Comic Con, order them online ASAP. They have actually sold out of 4-day memberships!
They still have 3-day memberships (Thursday, Friday and Sunday) and single-day memberships, but who knows how long those will last?
I’ve been checking weekly at the Ahmanson Theater website to find out when individual tickets go on sale for Avenue Q. (alenxa and I saw the abbreviated version in Las Vegas last year, and it was great.) They have season subscriptions open, but they’re in the form of shows A,B&C + your choice of shows D,E&F… and I’m only interested in shows A,D&E. (I forget which shows Katie wanted to see, but B&C weren’t on her list, either.)
Last night I decided to see what Ticketmaster said about when tickets would open. On searching for the show, I discovered that the tour stops in San Diego this month. All month. Downtown. Right next to a trolley stop, across the street from Horton Plaza, and within walking distance of the convention center.
So, bird in the hand and all that. After last year’s Wicked-at-OCPAC fiasco, I didn’t want to risk missing the show because the entire LA run sold out before I could get to it. I bought the tickets for San Diego, and we’re going to go Wednesday night after picking up our badges.
On a related note: They Might Be Giants tickets are on sale now for an LA concert on October 3, and they’re scheduled to be in Anaheim on October 5. Anyone interested?
Finished The Bard’s Tale this weekend. [Review moved to website.]
Also watched This Film is Not Yet Rated, which alternates between an expose of just how arbitrary the ratings are, and an attempt to determine just who actually sits on the ratings board, since their identities are kept secret. I think I lost faith in the ratings system in high school, when The Joy Luck Club (which we’d read for school) came out with an R rating.
Visited alenxa’s family on Sunday for her sister’s birthday.
Finally packed up the old camera to send it in for repair so we can have two cameras at Comic Con this year. We kept trading off who had the camera last year based on who was going to which panel, and kept running into “If I’d only had the camera!” moments. There’s only so much you can do with a fuzzy, fixed-focus, zoomless VGA-resolution cell phone camera.
Hmmm… a co-worker has informed me that he just made hotel reservations for next year’s Comic Con (this year’s having ended yesterday)… and that some of the nearby hotels are already sold out!
alenxa and I pre-registered for next year’s convention yesterday (avoiding deadline issues and saving $50 over the at-the-door price for a full membership). It might be worth planning further ahead…