Gonzai Gallery

Congress of Gamers, that is. I finally gave up and bought an advance, full weekend pass to it...then decided I couldn't afford to stay over until Sunday, and I'm so tired and hurting that frankly I don't know that going tomorrow is a good idea. But I paid for the whole thing. And I haven't gamed in a few weeks. I guess I'll have to see how I feel tomorrow morning. Definitely not staying until Sunday, though. Need the sleep and the football.

Oh, and the efforts on CJ's crate. She has figured out how to access things from the sides of the crate and went after my clothes :P so for the second time in as many months, I had Home Depot employees working with me on how to keep her in the damn crate. I've now spent almost as much reinforcing the crate as I did on the crate in the first place. (I did try to find contact info for the crate manufacturer, so I could tell them, oh, by the way, my dog got out of your escape-proof crate, but apparently they don't exist, at least not on the web.) Upon completion of this post, I'm going to try to reinforce at least one side of the crate tonight, so she doesn't do too much damage tomorrow if I'm gone, and I'll reinforce the other side and clean up the mess she's made inside of it on Sunday.

This dog is aging me, I swear.

Seriously, what is the attraction of a game that takes 12 hours to play? There were a couple games in progress when I arrived at Game Days at 10am...they were still playing the same damn games at 8pm with no sign of end. And there were dozens of games played that took 4 to 8 hours. Really, what is the attraction? I don't get it.

How about a whole lot of games?

Yep, gaming convention time. Euroquest starts tomorrow at noon, although I probably won't get there until mid-afternoon due to PT. And that's where I'll be, except for sleeping, until Sunday afternoon. So I'm not dead, just gaming.

That's where I am all weekend. A four day nonstop unstructured gaming con. Finally made it there last night after a painfully slow week at work, getting ready to head out this morning. Last year, I knew only a few people there. Last night, I knew about half the people in the room. What a difference a year makes...

Specifically, the last weekend?

Every year, Maryland's biggest dog show is at the Fairgrounds that weekend.
Every year, Frederick, Bowie & Delmarva are all home that weekend.
There are usually 3 conventions I'd like to go to that weekend (2 this year).
Plaza's 'Celebration of Color' (aka free art stuff!) is always that weekend.
And Jeff's birthday is that weekend.

So, no baseball that weekend, and once I finally work out the balance between art, games & dogs, the whole cart may be upset by a birthday event. Spiffy.