Convention Options

I could either:

(a) Leave at 6am on Friday, be there by 6pm Friday Night, sleep in a hotel room and be refreshed/ready for Conventioning Saturday morning or

(b) Leave at 10:30pm Friday night, try to sleep on the plain, arrive in Columbus at 10am missing the first several hours of the convention to travel time and check-in at the hotel.

Plan "A" is the one I would much rather go with (even though it would cost me an extra night of Hotel Room) but it has one major flaw - I'd need somebody to watch Molly from about 4am till 3pm when Crystal gets home from work. I don't think I can find such a person in October :( The only way to make it work would be to bribe one of my many Nieces (such a pretty, intelligent group) to stay the night on Thursday night and skip school on Friday.

Plan "B" is the one I really don't want to do. In order to get ANY sleep on the plane I'd have to upgrade to First Class, and that would cost an extra $400. Plus it would be *Airplane Sleep*, which doesn't really count. I'd be groggy and sleepy and jetlagged and having to rely on Convention Adrenaline (Conventialin?) to get me through Day 1. Who knows what I might do in that weakened state? I might even pay FULL GUIDE PRICE FOR A COMIC BOOK *SHUDDER*!!!

Smells like a Rick Roll

Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" mashed with Rick Astley. Lord help us all.

It's not a Rick Roll if I warn you that Rick Astley is in it ahead of time. Please to be clicking and enjoying!

The Reasons

So far my biggest reason for wanting to go t The Mid-Ohio Comic Con is Fred Hembeck. He's notoriously afeared of flying so any non-New York convention he's at is a rare occasion indeed. He's on The List of Comics Pros I Will Most Likely Never Get To Meet... and here is my chance to meet him!

(Fred Hembeck, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, Stan Lee, Mark Evanier, Frank Miller and Kevin Smith... if you were wondering...)

And if things go as they have in the past, I'll also have the opportunity to meet Mark Evanier at this convention! Mark is usually at this convention! Two birds, one stone!

If I have the opportunity o meet Mark Evanier, I don't know if I could actually do it.

Nevermind...

Lunchtime conversation with Crystal has forced me to see that the whole convention trip would be just plain irresponsible. Let it be noted that 98% of these facts are *mine*, and mine alone. I came up with all of these while Crystal was looking for a cheaper flight:

• We need our Continental Air Credits so we can go visit her family next year.
  
• I've spent the last year trying to get rid of all the crap I've accumulated over the years; flying to Ohio so that i can just buy some more crap is kind of counter-productive.
  
• We live paycheck-to-paycheck; I can't really justify spending two months worth of groceries on one night of sleeping in a hotel.
  
• There are A LOT of things more important than a convention right now... neither of our vehicles has a radio in it, our refrigerator is busted, need to finish painting and putting up moulding... even if I could pull off this trip with zero out-of-pocket expense, it's still just not worth it.
  
• A trip like this would SERIOUSLY cut in to any future plans to go to Disneyland. We're kind of planning to go for Molly's Birthday at the end of January if she seems old enough by then.
  
• It would be downright selfish of me to expect to go to TWO different two-day comic book conventions a year.

So I think I'll just stick with the good old Emerald City Comic Con!