Day before the Con

Busy day today and tomorrow. Prep for dcon continues. Gotta get a cawfee makah - staying in the Hilton and can't be fighting that line at the coffee downstairs.
Still need boots for Batwoman - have to go to the transvestite store today ("Drag Factory" - ha!) to get them as they are the only place I can find that has size 10 knee high red boots. Work continues on the mask and the utility belt - Mr. Batwoman is busy painting, how's that for waiting until the last minute?
Mr. Batwoman is also painting a helmet for another con-goer and sewing her vest for what is looking like a pretty good Daft Punk costume.

The poops!

Can you STAND the cuteness??

The Mask

Today is costume day, in other words it shipped from the lady sewing it yesterday and will be here today. IM EXCITED!!
Now what - this working?

Untitled

Hey Posterous - lets TEST this thing so you will take that damn message off of my screen...super annoying!!

Testing!

Testing from a different source!!

Dell's Cute As Hell Little PC

I am racking my brain for a reason that I need one of these, I really want to need it..

Fixing my Paralysis by Analysis

1. Don’t overthink. Too much thinking often results in getting stuck, in going in circles. Some thinking is good — it’s good to have a clear picture of where you’re going or why you’re doing this — but don’t get stuck thinking. Just do.
2. Just start. All the planning in the world will get you nowhere. You need to take that first step, no matter how small or how shaky. My rule for motivating myself to run is: Just lace up your shoes and get out the door. The rest takes care of itself.
3. Forget perfection. Perfectionism is the enemy of action. Kill it, immediately. You can’t let perfect stop you from doing. You can turn a bad draft into a good one, but you can’t turn no draft into a good draft. So get going.
4. Don’t mistake motion for action. A common mistake. A fury of activity doesn’t mean you’re doing anything. When you find yourself moving too quickly, doing too many things at once, this is a good reminder to stop. Slow down. Focus.
5. Focus on the important actions. Clear the distractions. Pick the one most important thing you must do today, and focus on that. Exclusively. When you’re done with that, repeat the process.
6. Move slowly, consciously. Be deliberate. Action doesn’t need to be done fast. In fact, that often leads to mistakes, and while perfection isn’t at all necessary, neither is making a ridiculous amount of mistakes that could be avoided with a bit of consciousness.
7. Take small steps. Biting off more than you can chew will kill the action. Maybe because of choking, I dunno. But small steps always works. Little tiny blows that will eventually break down that mountain. And each step is a victory, that will compel you to further victories.
8. Negative thinking gets you nowhere. Seriously, stop doing that. Self doubt? The urge to quit? Telling yourself that it’s OK to be distracted and that you can always get to it later? Squash those thoughts. Well, OK, you can be distracted for a little bit, but you get the idea. Positive thinking, as corny as it sounds, really works. It’s self-talk, and what we tell ourselves has a funny habit of turning into reality.
9. Meetings aren’t action. This is a common mistake in management. They hold meetings to get things done. Meetings, unfortunately, almost always get in the way of actual doing. Stop holding those meetings!
10. Talking (usually) isn’t action. Well, unless the action you need to take is a presentation or speech or something. Or you’re a television broadcaster. But usually, talking is just talking. Communication is necessary, but don’t mistake it for actual action.
11. Planning isn’t action. Sure, you need to plan. Do it, so you’re clear about what you’re doing. Just do it quickly, and get to the actual action as quickly as you can.
12. Reading about it isn’t action. You’re reading an article about action. Ironic, I know. But let this be the last one. Now get to work!
13. Sometimes, inaction is better. This might be the most ironic thing on the list, but really, if you find yourself spinning your wheels, or you find you’re doing more harm than good, rethink whether the action is even necessary. Or better yet, do this from the beginning — is it necessary? Only do the action if it is.

DragonCon 2009 Recap

Dragoncon 2009 - not my most photo-worthy con. There is a reason I didn't mini-blog during this one. I barely left the basement where the gamers hide. I worked my shifts and then ate and slept, changed clothes a couple of times and during all other free time I gamed. Alot. I had a great time and met a ton of fun people and reconnected with a ton of friends.
Facebook, formerly "dead to me" has been resurrected as a result. I feel shame.

DragonCon Labor Day Weekend

Loyal Readers, I would like to renew my committment, for the umpteenth year in a row to blog my DragonCon experience. I vow to post the very snarkiest commentary, the wittiest observations about the lamest costumes and firsthand reviews of every gaming judge that has the good fortune to land me at his table.

Additionally, I vow to produce photos of aforementioned costumes, judges as well as photographic examples, nae, PROOF that geeks get their groove on during this four days. This will require me to not only carry a camera, but make sure that it has batteries as well as available memory, this is a longshot, but nevertheless..I VOW!!!

What I will NOT be doing at DragonCon this year, is twittering, tweeting, etc. Additionally, I will not be Facebooking. I formally declare both of those activities to be dead to me.

If you are attending DragonCon 2009 in Atlanta, Ga. and would like to interact with BuhlindaC face-to-face, I can be found at the gaming registration tables for several hours each day. Ask me about the BuhlindaC DragonCon scavenger hunt game!!

Does this guy know me?

I swear to gawd, this wasn't humor, it was science...the guy that wrote this should get a grant to further study this basic human behavior. Or at minimum, he should stop watching me..

Random things we think:

1. -I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

2. -More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

3. -Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

4. -I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented the lighter?

5. -Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

6. -That's enough, Nickelback.

7. -I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

8. -Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know" feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not to be friends with?

9. -Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix
10.the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

11.-There is a great need for sarcasm font.

12.-Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it.

13.-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

14.-How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

15.-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

16.I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

17.-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

18.A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.

19.Was learning cursive really necessary?

20.Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

21.I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

22.Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

23.My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Cuz we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.

24.Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

25.How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

26.I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

27.Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"

28.-What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?

29.While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.

30.MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

31.Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

32.I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

33.-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

34.I would like to officially coin the phrase 'catching the swine flu' to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: "Dave caught the swine flu last night."

35.-I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

36.Bad decisions make good stories

37.-Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!

38.Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?

39.-If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

40.-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....

41.-You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

42.-Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

43.-There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

44.-I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

45."Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

46.-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

47.-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

48.I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

49.-When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

50.-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

51.-Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...

52.As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.

53.-Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

54.-It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.

55.-I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

56.-Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.

57.-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...

58.-My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?

59.-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

60.-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

61.-I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

62.-I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

63.-The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

64.-I love how people 'peek' in the CHAT window to see who else is online...then go Off line 2 seconds later. What? I'm not cool enough to talk to???