Just a brief croaky shout-out to let everybody know that I'm back from AC and had a great time and that I'm going to bed now, whoof. I'll post reports soon, hopefully tomorrow ... very good con, very well run, lots of good stuff to talk about.

SJ will run some AC stuff this week, and then the story will get rolling again next week. More details later, I'm starting to fall a;lkjadsfj at the dsakflkjborod.a a s

-The Gneechasdkl ladslk

Good morning, world! Today I'm off as a con-recovery day, and the first order of business is to head over to Starbucks for a blueberry muffin and a grande skim no-whip white mocha with scripting notebooks in hand to get at least two weeks each banged out for Suburban Jungle and NeverNever. More if possible, but that just depends on how the juices flow.

The con was vitally necessary and way overdue; I don't have quite the same super-high post-con bounce that I did after FC, but I'm definitely doing better than the slow draaaag I was in before the con.

Having sketchbook entries and the like to post to the SJ site this week is a big help, if only so I can spend the week building up a buffer again.

One thing I'm going to start doing, I think, is being more aggressive about using downtime at my job to work on scripts. As it is, when there's just no work to be found, I end up surfing the web or playing solitaire, because that at least has me interacting with my computer and "looking busy." But it just throws my all-too-valuable time down the drain -- I need to reclaim that! It's starting to really grate at me to realize how many hours I've spent staring at Freecell because I didn't want to be seen drawing at my desk.

I need to get a job like hantamouse, where I get paid to "man your duty station."

But I'm not at my job today! So I get to go do some of my real work. :) CYA!

-The Gneech

I took my Clié and keyboard with the intent of writing the Con Report as it went, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. This time, the plan worked on Thursday and then got shot to hell once the actual con started happening. But we'll do what we can with what we've got!

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On to part two...

-The Gneech

Part the First

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On to part three...

-The Gneech

Part the Second

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On to Part the Fourth...

-The Gneech

Part the Third

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STUFF THAT MADE AN IMPRESSION...

* Ice sculpture in The Zoo at the Furry Mixer -- that was cool!

* Somebody in the hotel lobby complaining that furry art was getting "too straight!"

* More fursuits than last year, or at least it seemed like it, and of higher overall quality.

* Hearing Jim Henson stories from Guy Gilchrist.

* Spiked Punch finally got the original art for his cameo, way back in 2000!

* Being approached to do print projects! ^.^

* A lot of ASB-bashing. 0.o

* J. Willard (soappuppy)'s very silly sequel to the Drezzer/Falstaff pic...

* Kerry wants to go to Conifur, and wanted to make sure I knew that in no uncertain terms ;)

* Furry HeroClix! Nifty. :)

SHOUT-OUT TO ALL THOSE FOLKS I SAW BUT HAVEN'T MENTIONED YET!

*waves to Commander Kitsune, fastclaw, joeygatorman, invisiblewolf, jbadger, kagur, kinkyturtle, klepsydra, kurst, lance_foxx, nicodemusrat, panthras, pholph, redkam, rigelkitty, rjtremor, Skytech, tevon, tonyringtail, xydexx ... lots of others...

SHOUT-OUT TO SOMEBODY I WANTED TO SEE BUT DIDN'T!

Hey, tygermoonfoxx, where were you hiding yourself the whole time???

Ah well, that's it except for the fallout ... time to start prepping for D*C and MFF!

For another view of some of the events mentioned in this report, see also Vince's con report!

-The Gneech