July 26, 2007

  • - Wednesday recap - San Diego Comic-Con -

    I didn't leave for the Comic-Con until 3PM, because I stalled a little too much on some stuff I needed to take care off. Unfortunately because of that, I had to deal with a good amount of traffic that caused me to take longer to get to San Diego. A less than two hours drive ended up going a little over three hours. Upon entering downtown San Diego, I can already tell that the comic-con is already impacting the traffic on the streets, and it's just wednesday. Despite an additional delay, I still got to my hotel with no problem though. The first thing I needed to do was look for the parking lot, and I actually ended up going in circles because I just wasn't sure where it was. It apparently wasn't an indoor lot but one that was outside. I'm a little concerned of my car being exposed to just anybody off the streets, but what can I do ey? When I got to the hotel room, the first impression I got was that it was definitely made for one person staying there. I think my friends that were going to room with me are going to bail out, so I guess the size of the room doesn't matter too much.

    I got to the convention center a little pass 7PM, which means I missed a whole hour of "preview night" at the dealer's room. My first concern ofcourse was the fact that I didn't get a member registration barcode in the mail, and I wasn't sure if I was going to have to deal with some hassle there. Apparently, I wasn't the only one without the barcode, and all they needed to do was check my I.D., look me up on the computer, and that's it. I go down stairs to the dealer's room at that point and it was pretty crowded. I think last year's preview night was more crowded than this year, but it sure wasn't looking like it was empty or anything like that. Normally on preview night, I would systematically go up and down the aisles to get the full exposure of all the booths. I didn't do that this time around however, and immediately went to this one booth and started buying several books off my wishlist. I spent $200 just in that one hour at Comic-Con, but I'd rather get most of my shopping out of the way as opposed to carrying too many things around. I did meet up with an old friend briefly, and since he was there since the doors first opened, he was able to get a bunch of good SWAG (stuff we all get). Good for him, because some of those freebies were pretty darn cool.

    When I got back to the hotel, the first thing I did was turn on my computer to get online. However since I was at the highest floor, I couldn't, because the hotel primarily only let's you connect wireless. I tried using a free dial-up service number to call, but going back to the slowness that is a dial-up modem, I opted to just carry this laptop to the lobby, where I can get a good wireless signal. *sigh* It is a free internet service as provided by the hotel afterall, but it's still going to be a hassle having to lug my laptop downstairs just to go online. I may refrain from uploading any videos until I get back home (maybe even photos to some degree), since I won't have the luxury of time to do so in this condition.

    argh, I'm beat. I'm going to head back upstairs and relax a bit, then sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a big day. It's kinda funny though, but when I was at the convention center, half my brain felt like it's just a regular normal day, and the other half was all "waitaminute, I'm at comic-con!"