Road Trip... concluded

Ok so it’s been a while since cup and I arrived from our little excursion. I guess I should do this now or I’ll just keep putting it off. I wish I had actual pictures to post though…however, I lost cups camera… sorry cup.

Speaking of Cup, I had to catch myself every time I tried to get his attention. For those who don’t know, but Cup is only one out of like a bagillion names. Aside from the other coworkers at the booth, there were also the friends we managed to visit on our little trip. Depending on who we were around I had to use the right name. He has a different name for every group of people he hangs with. Which one is his real name? The world may never know.

So yea, aside from Con/ing it up, our ulterior motive was a lil friend tour. We managed to pit stop at Dallas on our way to Anime Matsuri. We had entered Texas and Cup calls his friend up at like 4a.m. to see if we could drop by and say what’s up. (Oh yea, so great being our friends). At this moment we had managed to sell enough stuff at MTAC to make a little bed in the back of the van. So when we arrived at her place, she came to greet us. Asked where cup was, at which point I opened the back of the van…




So this little detour was spent meeting/hanging out with 4 of our friends (two couples). Another night of staying up late, drinking, and laughing… followed by a 4 hour drive the next day. T’was worth every minute.

As we hit Houston, Cup already had a destination set: Visit another friend! This time it was a bit more epic. So here’s the set up: Green told our friend “Hey Red and Cup are going to Visit you in Houston.” Don (let’s call him don to make things easier.) then replies “OMG I love those guys, I can’t wait. I’m going to cry tears of Joy.” To which Green replied “April Fool’s Sucka!” (And yes this is verbatim... kinda) With that in mind, when we roll up to his office and get one of his coworkers to grab him into the hall... he was pretty shocked... it was pretty awesome.

Don let us crash at his place that evening after he showed us a good time. Cup did some laundry the next day and once again we were off. The Con was only 30min from Don’s place, so that allowed a lot more chill time with him. We also managed to get him a Dealer’s Room badge to help worth the booth. Of course that was just an excuse to just keep hanging out. It was also nice to show him his first Anime Con.

Not really much to say about working Matsuri though. A couple of things, I saw Miyavi perform. Secondly, Jason David Frank (The Green Ranger and/or the Greatest Red Ranger) was supposed to show, but didn’t due to scheduling conflicts. I hope Angel Grove was under attack and not some other lame bullshit like the Con was too small for his giant ego.

Side note about MTAC: I saw Applegeeks. Totally forgot they were like the guests of honor there. I wanted to buy something of theirs, but they wouldn’t take my money. Said something along the lines of “we don’t accept your monopoly money,” as they scoffed and kicked dirt in my face. Seriously though, cool guys, check it:



I really should wrap this up as this has gotten a bit too long. This entire trip was amazing. In a nut shell, it was a road trip with a friend to hit up anime conventions and to visit more friends. What more could I ask for?

Red

Road Trip

So yea, funny story… I’m in Texas. About a week ago I was in Tennessee. Why? Because about a week ago Cup called me with a proposition: Do I want to drive merchandise for an anime dealer to two cons, MTAC and Anime Matsuri? Free room, admission to the con, free food, and I get paid... like I really needed to think about that one…so here I am with one Con down and getting ready to head off to the next one.

Before I rant about the experience, I would like to bring to everyone’s attention that I have dropped a lot of my responsibilities to the comic. Not by choice. I snagged my dad’s old laptop( by old I mean ancient) so I could work on the road. However, as soon as I booted the thing up… no photoshop. I started to freak out. The idea of missing an update popped in my head… but it’s pretty obvious that didn’t happen. I don’t know if anyone can tell, but Green has taken a chunk of the work load. So everyone, show your love and thank Green.


Applause

So here I am with Cup living out of hotels for the next two weeks. Working the Con has been a blast. I never realized how many people love to buy Ramune. It’s that drink that has that marble clinkin around inside when opened. The driving isn’t so bad… after about hour three on the road, the mind just goes on auto pilot. The worst part is that the van seats 2. There are three of us. I ended up sitting between the two seats on some combination safe. I’ll have more on this lil road trip of amazingness later, but for now I leave you with this:



~gotta love that new book smell

Red