I'm discontented with homes that I've rented, so I have invented my own. Darling this place

Anime Expo photos are now online. Click on the picture of le_moose to see them.

Anime Expo. We had a room at the Long Beach Hyatt, room 238; it was the perfect location for a convention at the Long Beach Convention Center, because it's the closest to the front door (or the south door) of the convention center. Just past the front desk, around the corner from the elevator.

We were open from about 3 to 7 Friday, 11 to 6 Saturday, and 11 to 7 Sunday. More or less. We operated a hospitality room -- a daytime open party. We went through five loaves of bread, a jar and a half of peanut butter, and various other goodies. Lots of bottled water. (In comparison, at FanimeCon we operated for about an hour or two each night, three nights, and went through 24 loaves of bread. Lots more traffic on the concourse at FanimeCon, as opposed to tucked away in a hotel room you have to know to go look for.)

Friday night was the "Anime Conventions Mailing List Dinner." I met a number of people from other anime conventions, including two guys from Eirtakon in Ireland, and some from the El Paso Anime Convention which was the weekend immediately before Anime Expo. These crazies packed up their convention, got a day or two of sleep, then jumped back in the car and headed west to Long Beach!

( Saturday night I attempted to take and print instant portraits at the Masquerade Ball. )

Okay, I think there are definitely some lessons for us to learn here about communication. Me, Andre, Miko -- all of us.

In other news: Picture Recovery statistic stands at 45%. I'm still taking requests: which section of Hazel's Picture Gallery would you like to see restored next?

And I'm in the middle of sending in a ribbon order for ribbons to be ready in time for Worldcon. If you want ribbons for a convention in September or October, no rush to get them to me, just make sure you're on my ribbons e-mail list.