So. Nick came over Friday night; we puttered around for a bit, then just crawled into bed because we needed to get up in the morning for the drive.
Which turned out to be pretty easy. We needed to be on the road at about 8:30 and we did that quite handily; I woke up around 6 and couldn’t get to sleep, so I chilled in the living room playing Dark Souls for a bit. Woke Nick up, we hit the showers, and got moving.
Around nine we decided we kinda wanted some breakfast. Or at least some caffeine. We pulled off into… some town on the way, hell if I know. We were aiming for Arby’s because Nick had a desire for that, but the place was closed. Didn’t open until 10. We decided to try the Dairy Queen we’d noticed on the way in and noted as a possible backup. It was closed too. We could’ve poked around more but we felt like there was an obvious trend going on here, and hit the road again.
Got to the con without any problems, I did my panel on Kickstartering. Which went pretty well; there was a diverse range of experience and project sizes talking about what they’ve done. I ran into Art Wyatt (writes stuff for 2000AD) , who was also there for a panel.
Nick and I had lunch at the Subway on campus, then I set up in the dealer’s room pretty much just as it was opening. Art dropped by and we chatted for a while, and then it was pretty much dead – not much of a crowd, and not much money flowing around. I packed up about a half hour early; I sold all of two prints the whole con. Gave away a few business cards and fliers, presumably some of those may become future fans.
We drove back to Seattle just in time to catch the tail end of rush hour traffic on the way in. We’d been thinking of hitting Phoenix Comics to say hi, what with it being Free Comic Day, but not with that traffic. And not with my phone out of juice from being used as navigation and music on the way up, and Twitter distraction all day – I really should have brought my extra battery and the charge cable. So instead we went back to my apartment, relaxed for about a half hour, then hopped back in the rental car and drove out to University Village to a newish restaurant there called Liam’s.
Which was delightful and romantic and tasty.
So overall it was a pretty nice day that had a con in the middle of it. Vikingcon was pretty much a wash, but it cost all of $50 to rent the car after their travel stipend. Dunno if I’ll go again next year if they invite me; I think it’s really too small for me to be dealing at. The drive up was gorgeous, and having the car in the evening was great.
Nick just took his leave about a half hour ago. He’ll be coming back this evening as we’re going to go see the Glitch Mob playing downtown. Should be fun. But right now I think I’m just gonna sink into the living room and see if I can bowmurder this one boss in Dark Souls for a while.