Them boys from Oklahoma, and other TRF opening thoughts

The drive was fairly uneventful. I got caught on the Kansas turnpike during the lines of storms that were going through the Midwest, and far too close for comfort in a near-miss involving a red sedan and a semi during one of the low visibility portions of the storms. I drove 15 hours on Tuesday, because I foolishly assumed that I-45 south of Dallas would have services.

The weekend went well. Our new location has much higher traffic than our old one, and I have high hopes for hitting bonus at least a couple times during the show.

Mid-day on Friday a couple of local guys approached me to see if I knew of anyone who needed workers, so I snatched them up. Yay, for having a full crew!

Hrm... I just looked at attendance/income numbers for last year and the ratio doesn't seem to be improved, considering that the attendance for Saturday was higher than any of attendances I have recorded for 2006. Well, that will bear watching.

My Okie neighbors sell swords and shields, and they're pretty cool. Except that the 22-year old decided to try and hit on me on Sunday by saying, "Hey, want to ride on a ship swing with me? I don't want to ride with [friend], because that would be gay." He then spent the rest of the day continuing to verbalize that he is a homophobic asshole, and my newest obsession is reimagining our conversations that day, as my mild rebuke of "Being homophobic is the number one way to get on my bad side" was clearly not enough.

I'm on a better platform at Neuvo Chili, 12'x12' and two feet off the ground. Better yet, there are several friendly cats around, and one of them has already claimed my tent as his territory, and has joined me for breakfast three times now.

I hope to have my booth pretty much finished by tomorrow. I still need to figure out how to have a back room, and do a lot of reorganizing to recover from the slapdash way I set up on Friday.

SphereCamp overlaps with Dickens on the Strand. Grrr. Now I am forced to choose between toy geekdom and a different kind of historical faire.

spreading the word

originally posted by ashamanja_babu

Hey everyone in the Twin Cities area, interested in forming a costume guild?

Join the Twin Cities Costumers' Guild community tccostumers and help us out!

We're working on planning a founding meeting to talk about what we want to do and how to do it, so join the community to stay informed about our growing guild!