Hey there, Ho there, its me the Yanni, the ladies choice. Oh the drama, busy busy busy. Despite the fact I have plenty of days off from work, I still feel like I havn't stopped doing things since I got back from Otakon. And now of course its 4 days before school starts. Which makes it funny because I will more update more when I am up to my eyeballs at school, than i have during the summer. So lets talk. :-)

Otakon 2003 was quite fun. The five of us left my house at about 12:45 and thus began the 6 hour drive to Baltimore. We only stopped once for gas and bathroom. Matt drove the entire way, he was quite goofy and tired by the end of the trip, being the only one who was awake the entire time will do that. I myself only got like 30mins of sleep. The hotel wouldn't let us check in early so we had to wait till 3pm. Obviuosly we went to the con early, and started our wait in line.Me and Jim didn't pre-register for various reasons, Ferro, Matt, and Jay didn't have that problem. Our line was about 30min to an hour longer. Before the con opened the line was just on the side of the building, Jim slept on the sidewalk for a while, heh. We got inand pretty much just walked around taking in the sights, lots of nifty costumes.

For the rest of that day we pretty much just waited for the Dealer's Room to open, which was better than last years i think. Bought plenty of t-shirts. Megatokyo was there at their booth which definetly had the longest line in all of the dealer's room. We went to the webcomic panel at night, which was hillarious. It consisted of Fred Gallagher (Megatokyo), Pontus Masden (Little Gamers), Ian J. (RPG World), Matt Boyd, and Ian McConville (Both of Mac Hall). I t was fun to see, Matt asked them what the thought of Sprite Comics which obviously is what we do on the Mighty Matrix, Mac Hall told us that even the man who does 8-Bit Theater doesn't like webcomics, which was funny, they also said that for Sprite comics it has to rely on good writting *strikes pose* :-D. I have to say Ian J. was definetly the funniest guy there and that says a lot. Masden is from Sweden, he's a funny guy, but as of late his comic has become too topical, against Bush and stuff. It was just really stupid at some points where he essentially says "Americans are stupid" and everybody claps and stuff. Me and Matt just look at each other and shake our heads. From there we went to Mystery Anime Theater 3000, which as always was funny, at one point there was a little Strong Bad Moment where he and the Cheat were on screen for a sec during "commercials" the whole place went NUTS really emphasized how popular Homestar Runner is. Once that was over the last thing we did was goto Artist's Alley where we noticed Megatokyo was there signing stuff still. I had my Megatokyo book so i was all set. Jim Hanley was like smacked in the face, he didn't want to lose this chance since the line was short Jim said hold my place in line and he preceded to run all the way back to the hotel room over 9 blocks away mind you. The line pretty much got short my stuff got signed and we told Sarah (Seraphim) about our friends plight trying to get back here, so they stayed a bit longer cause the room was getting ready to close. We all thought, if Jim didn't get back in time he's gonna cry, and we were all gonna feel really bad, but thankfully Jim got back very tired mind you, got his stuff signed. All was good and we went took the long trek back to the hotel room.

End Day 1

This kind of ended up being an Otakon wrap-up, I can live with that, more later. Oh and I am working on getting the Otakon pictures up just gimmie some time cause it takes a while, plus...I have to find this time also :-P