Day Two, Brute?

Technically day one of the con, but day two of me being here, taking a little break from scripting (SECRET PROJECT) to do a quickie post. Food prices are off the chain, even by the standards of “You’re trapped at a con, suckers!” I’ll have to do a serious breakdown of my expenses vs. profits when the con is done to see if I at least break even.

Yesterday was, in a word, stressful. I spent a lot of time feeling isolated and lonely despite being in one of the largest furry cons in the world, and this was rounded off by drama in the dealer room, which I will post about after the con is done, but don’t want to discuss publicly in the meantime because I don’t want to cause even more drama.

For the record, and as I imagine most people reading this know, I am neither a fan of, nor ever a deliberate instigator of drama. I don’t react well to it and generally feel like life’s too short for such malarkey. So coming on the heels of a couple of Mega-Karens at the dayjob earlier in the week, the stuff in the dealer room was just like “Yeah, no.”

But! I got a good night’s sleep, and today’s a new day, so I’m gonna to straighten my spine, take a deep breath, and move on.

Here’s to making it a good day. :)

-TG

The Elevators Are Down, Cap’n!

Let me just start by saying that the Red Velvet from “Nothing Bundt Cakes” is exactly as amazing as you would expect it to be.

On the whole, today was much better than yesterday. <3

I spent the morning scripting (SECRET PROJECT) and made a lot of progress. I think I now have a vision for where it’s going to go, and I’m excited about it. :)

The dealer room was very slow at first, a combination of the fact that they were throttling the number of people who could come in at once (apparently the crowd was ginormous), and that we were aaaaaaaaaaawllll the way in the back and so by the time anyone got to us, they’d already spent their entire budget. >.>

But as things picked up I sold a few books, which is always nice, but I also got some commissions, which is even nicer (they’re pure profit for me, compared to the expenses split of selling books). I have some homework, which I intended to do tonight, but I think I might hit the hay and get up early to do instead. I’m pretty tired, and that’s not a winning strategy for making good art.

After the room closed, I had dinner with the Furplanet peeps, the obligatory Giordano’s deep dish, and Zia gave me the aforementioned bundt cake, which I am now slowly nursing as I type. NOM :d

The con has not been without its issues, however. Some jackass is going around with a thing called a “flipper,” which is a little gadget that spams out bluetooth pairing requests and crashes any device that actually agrees to synch with it. Given that many or even most dealers use Square readers (which are bluetooth), this is a problem. I have a feeling that if said person is found, they’ll be leaving in a squad car. Assuming that instead of an ambulance.

The other thing is the elevators in the Hyatt. One (out of four) was already down before the whole thing started; today, two more went down, leaving only one operational. As of my last trip upstairs they had gotten one of those working again, leaving a huge con full of furries with bulky suits, bulky gear, or just plain bulky selves living on two working cars. So… that’s a thing.

Also, one of my roomies had to go home sick, and another went with her because she was their ride. >.> This is the second MFF in a row where half the roomies bailed because of health. Said roomie insisted on paying for her full share of the stay anyhow, so there’s no financial hit there, but still, bummer.

Anyhoo, it’s 10:30 now and yeah, chances of getting any decent art done are low. So gnite world, and have an awesome tomorrow.

-TG