VisionCon: day one

So I went down to VisionCon at about 1:00 today. Got in, met some friends, and tried to call the Robotech person with whom I'd be meeting up. No dice. No answer on the phone number from which he called me last night.

( Adventures in conning )

I had thought about taking my computer and 5.1 surround sound system down to the con tomorrow so that we chould show animé in surround sound in the Robotech party room—but with the lack of attendance so far, I don't think it's worth the hassle to unhook everything and then rehook it back home again.

And that was my day. I still haven't managed to locate either Brad Sinor or Toni Weiskopf, the two featured guests I want to contact. Hopefully I'll be able to run into them tomorrow.

No Robotech party room for you!

Just got a message on my machine from the Robotech party room guy. After spending four hours driving down and back to to fetch his TV set…he left it on the bed, and it fell on the floor and broke. Ow. That sounds about like the sort of luck that is usually mine to have. So, no Robotech party room this time.

Oh well, at least I can lighten my backpack by removing the DVD sets I carried around all of yesterday.

Time to shave and hit the road.

If it's not one thing…

As I was cleaning my glasses just now, the right lens popped out of the frame. Looks like I'll be making a detour to the glasses shop before I hit VisionCon. Luckily it's not too far away, relatively speaking.

Though bicycling any distance in this weather will be annoying. Brrrr.

I hope these events mean that I've gotten my quota of bad luck for the day out of the way now, rather than being an omen for how the rest of the day will go.

My luck continues

( Got a flat on my bike; had no luck with Universalis. Did talk to Brad and Toni though. )

I was so positive that anyone who played Universalis would enjoy it so much they'd want to buy it that I bought a bunch of copies of the game at a wholesale rate to sell to them. I thought surely at an entire convention, someone would be curious enough to play it. But no dice. No luck at all at any of the three sessions. It's damned depressing. I know I should look on the bright side—I saved $30 or so in con admission fees and didn't have to do anything in return except sit around for a half hour or so—but somehow that doesn't cheer me up.

Anybody want to buy a brand new copy of Universalis? $20, including shipping. You won't find it cheaper anywhere on the net—the place that sells it for $18 charges $3 shipping. Email me.