My ex-minion, babyzerochica, is in from AZ for a week as a BDay surprise for her dad and popped by the land of lunacy to say hi today. She has her own minions now! *sniff* They grow up so fast...
Ran into mel_mel_chan as I was leaving today and we plan on doing some more rendezvousing at the con this weekend.
That's right, animefest is this weekend, starting tomorrow (Friday). Yoshitoshi ABe, who wrote/designed Haibane Renmei (both manga and anime) is one of the special guests, along with Yasuyuki Ueda, who produced HR. I hope to make it to one of their panels - they are having one each day.
We decided to hop the train tonight to run down to the hotel to pick up our con passes because of the bad traffic being reported. We got there, immediately found the tunnel to the hotel, popped into the bottom section - right where we needed to be, got our badges and popped back up to hop on the next train. Took no more than 20 minutes from the train stop, to the hotel conference room for the passes then back up to the train stop with at least five minutes to spare. Sweet.
I will be riding down there alone tomorrow (leaving sometime around noon after running a bunch of errands) and meeting rat at the con after he gets off work. He will be bringing the two smaller guys and Shuichi will be riding with me all day in his new baby harness.
The con ends Monday afternoon so don't expect to hear too much from me for a while. I know I will feel like I have been run over repeatedly by a truck by the time I get home each evening but I will try to check in once a day, just to see how life is doing with everyone.
Thanks: --> to Lia, my sensei, who has inspired me to draw again. I
wouldn't be doing this without your support, Domo Arigato!
--> to Talon, for sending me her fabulous fics, inspiring me with her writing to draw my first
illustration for a story and actually liking what I drew.
--> to Dasia, for her words of encouragement when drawing her original chara.
--> to Joules, a wonderful epic fic writer, for liking my art enough to want to post them with Talon's
and her own stories.
--> to Lutra, the other half of the epic team, for being so supportive.
--> to Jacque' & Becca Raddittzu, we met on eBay as bidder and sellers and now we are face-to-face
friends. You showed us the real DBZ with your fansubs. It's all your fault the house is full of
doujinshi! *LOL*