Happy USA Thanksgiving Day. I hope you guys (and gal) participating in the Secret Santa are remaining diligent. Take advantage of Black Friday deals if you like, because next week is the last chance you have before mailing the presents!
I would like a new washing machine, if my gift giver is reading. I'm pretty sure my current old hand-me-down isn't suppose to leak water during loads....
I don't look forward to buying on myself only because of the tedious research involved! It's like when I had to buy a vacuum...or the car. BLEARARGH.

Work is nuts with Black Friday stuff too. Lots of staff are looking up what's for sale online and we're all pooling together on multiple purchases. I found a lot of skeleton themed shirts cheap @ threadless.com I intend to wear at work!
I was hoping for more sound F/X gizmos, since my Mario one is dying again...

Probably won't be traveling for New Years in anticipation of a Vegas trip in Spring. Sorry, Alan. ;(
My co-worker who allowed me to come with for a European tour showed me a big book of travel plans and asked which route we should take. It's kinda' exciting to pick and choose foreign countries and cities to visit. Won't be happening until 2011, but it's at least plenty of time to set aside the $6000 required. :x

Lots of students hanging around tomorrow at work. I can't keep track of names, so one young lady is dubbed Brittney Spears and I beckon her by yelling out pop song lyrics. I am ruining her for other hospitals! Yay!

Happy Halloween!


Logos design at logomyway.com

My co-workers and I submitted our scene to be included:
http://www.starwarsuncut.com/#/

Everyone here should be doing the same! :D

If wiigii folks are interested in a secret santa this year, I'll happily organize it.
Just want to see if there's enough enthusiasm for it before posting it all over the mailing list and such.

Also, is there a plan for New Years? I find myself in a unique position of having a week off during that time....

I'm so caught up in the things happening in my life I forgot about Maggie and David's wedding. D:
It was probably a blast and if it was feasible for me to attend (I'd crash it! HA HA HA HAAAA!) I'm sure it'd have been the highlight of my year!

Busy stuff happened that day as I was invited to dinner at my boss's house, along with the previous boss who retired 2 years earlier. A sign of things to come? I sure hope not. Being the boss sucks.

Especially in the medical field.

A co-worker my age and her sister are planning a trip to Europe in 2011 and I invited myself along. If it works out, it'll be very exciting seeing as I've never left North America before.

Speaking of work yet again, everyone fell in love with Professor Layton puzzles, but I brought over Scribblenauts and people went $#@&-bonkers insane! We put in all our professions, gave us weapons and fought vampires and dinosaurs.

Also time to start looking into finding servers and hosting my own comics privately. I hate internet work almost as much as being a medical boss.

Screw the Transformers Donald Duck that turns into a Volkswagon!

I have to live off of my laptop for a while as some horrible bit of programming ravages my desktop. Ah well. Who needs to play Left 4 Dead and watch Swat Kats cartoons? ;(

I have yet to see GI Joe. Since I absolutely despised Revenge of Fallen (I can't bring myself to look at anything that reminds me of that film), I was hesitant to even care about the Joe movie. My ardent GI Joe fan friend did assure me it's watchable, and based on other people's comments I feel I would enjoy it. It's just too bad District 9 was released so soon after, since that's what I ended up spending my brief moment of non-work viewing.

Amazon.ca had a sale I was interested in, but I required just a few more dollars for the free shipping. I added the Allspark Almanac. It better be as good as you folks praise it to be!

It's too hot out. I'd fan myself on the porch if I had such items....


Showed this to almost every department at the hospital. Everyday we shout out "ALAN! AL! ALAN!" at least once. ;D

After my trip from BotCon, things have been nuts here. EVERYONE in my department is going on vacation, thus resulting in more work for us shlumps who are left behind. That kinda' drains my enthusiasm for, say, journal writing. Coming back from Comic-Con helped reguvinate me, however.

Alan, I forgot to say it before, but thank you so much for mailing me the camera stuff I left behind at BotCon. I forgot I even had the unopened package in my kitchen until the day before Comic-Con and was in a rush to pack everything. I apologize for the lateness of this acknowledgment of your selfless gesture. :X

Comic-Con was really enjoyable, because I didn't have an excuse to hang out in any tedious lineups. I saw Kevin Eastman at a booth and just walked right up for a book and sketch (Shredder and Krang!). The Brave and the Bold panel was easy to get into and I enjoyed an episode of Mayhem of the Music Meister. The rest of my time was spent looking at hidden gems in misc. booths, hanging out with great people and selling my new book from my new comic.
(http://www.accurseddragon.com/ if you feel so inclined to looksy)

It was also a pleasant surprise to see Steve O there. I may have offended him a bit when I hastily tried to leave him alone when I realized he was to be cashiering and I had books to sell myself. I can't tell!
I doubt the offense happened when I brought dragon dildos into the conversation, however. :p

Flickr hasn't been letting me upload many photos at a time, but I've been putting up my BotCon pics a month at a time. You can see a sampling of them now:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49305072@N00/sets/72157619788303276/
No time to put in comments yet. Later!

Goin' home for the weekend. Summer's almost over and soon no more mosquitoes and overgrown yard greenery to maintain. I'll be so happy....

I haven't been very enthused about posting my stuff lately. Work hasn't been kind to me!
I've just been so busy, that's all...

Here's some videos I quickly uploaded at least:

The music of the BotCon Dinner, LIVE


Careful! Obnoxious BotCon Guy is on the Prowl!

Rapido made it to the convention afterall...

If I could travel back in time, not only would I kill George Lucas with a shovel (inside joke), I'd also stop whichever one of us started the trend of asking voice actors to pretend their characters are ordering a meal from that accursed restaurant.

It was REALLY easy to get into the panels this year. Maybe it makes up for the line up for exclusive toys. Maybe...
The clientele still leave much to be desired.

Susp has a new friend!

An obnoxious striped shirt guy was unfortunately at the panels.


We were not impressed!


He showed up again at the Hasbro panel, though!


We weren't supposed to be recording during the panel....but I couldn't resist these. ;)

Back from BotCon. It was plenty fun and raised the bar on future conventions. Two friends visiting the ER, a forensics detective in our hotel room...
One change I didn't appreciate was the 6 HOUR WAIT IN LINE FOR EXCLUSIVES! D:


I can always rely on the one constant of imperfect packaging of said exclusives, however.

Son of a...!

I'll post periodic pics throughout the week. After that I'll dump everything on Flickr for you to see. :D

I'm all packed for Pasadena and was about to put my belongings in the car when I discover a flat tire! ASDASDF!!
I don't have time to fuss with this myself, so I called road side assistance...to my driveway.

Hurray!

edit - and it's fixed. Time to burn rubber!

I just rushed back home for a late evening of End Game Pt. 2.

If THAT is what's going to pass as a series finale.....it'd certainly be the worst one I've seen recently. ;\

Don't be like me and absent mindedly scratch a little bit of the inside of your nose at work, only to realize too late and think "F&#$! I'm going to get sick from this!"....which of course came true.

Fortunately my lil' cold will go away before BotCon next week, but let this be a warning to you nose pickers reading this now!

So I guess I'm guaranteed the dullest Transformers convention exclusives ever.
I'm thinking I'll just take the box into the dealer room and trade it in for MP Grimlock and some Henkei merch. Hopefully they'll take it!
In the future I shall never give Savage that much money ever again. I'll just pay for a hotel room...and that's it.

Speaking of dull, GI Joe resolute...yeah...it looks like GI Joe except minus everything fun. Blah blah blah killer laser satellite blah blah blah Storm Shadow/Snake Eyes ninja fight BLAH. All that's missing are the nanites.

Work's fine. House is fine. Cleaning back yard is fine. Everything's fine.
Nothing fantastic to report. Finishing up a new book for Comic-Con and then thinking of having my kitchen renovated. :p

and my dog is its herald. I'll just be mopping the floor with more frequency the days ahead, that's all. I gotta' buy heavy duty lawn seed while the snow is melting and the mud is still...muddy!

Yesterday was the day hotels opened up for Comic-Con and online issues prevented me from getting in soon enough. Fortunately I'll be sharing a room that was reserved for exhibitors. It'll be at a super fancy new Hilton hotel (that looks more resort than hotel), so I'll be sure to sufficiently embarrass myself with my hokum central Canadian ways.

I looked into BotCon flights and I should be arriving at LAX sometime around 9:40pm. By the time I arrive at the hotel (I don't even know which hotel!), it'll be time to crawl into bed with Alan.

So far I ain't too pleased with the BotCon exclusives. If I hate them in person, I'll gladly sell them at cost to whomever. Maybe trade it for swag at a dealer table. Hopefully it wouldn't be hard to get rid of...

I just spent an hour trying to find a hotel room online and got nuttin'. ;(

No hotel rooms for either arranged yet, however.

Saw the latest batch of Toy Fair pics and am confident I'll just be collecting the Animated toys. Thanks. ;D

http://www.worstcartoonsever.com/2009/02/03/flying-jesus-will-burn-you-alive/

I will also play this video at my next religion social mixer.