CONNNNN!!!!!!!

So here it is my report on this years fan expo convention. I figured I'd break it into 2 parts--the bad stuff and the good stuff. Believe it or not,this year the bad stuff outweighs the good. So usually i compare fan expo to Christmas. It's a place to go hang out with fellow geeks and get great deals on comics and see cool costumes and celebrities. This year i would compare it to Christmas i found out that Santa clause wasn't real.

We packed into a van with Rob and Nickle and Rob's kids and Russell. We had pre purchased tickets for the first time ever in hopes to avoid at least one line up. We figured we'd have a bit of a wait getting in with everyone else in the pre ticket line up. What we didn't count on was the gigantic line up around the building. The line up to buy tickets was short and they were being let in right away. Us poor bastards who actually bought tickets in advance had to wait almost 2 hours in line. It was like we were being punished for buying tickets in advance. It really sucked.

We finally got into the building and then had to stand in line to exchange our advance tickets for another ticket. So we got in and all went our separate ways. We had scheduled an interview with Liana k but we decided to skip it since it was so busy and crazy in there. Kath and i did a bit of shopping and then texted Rob. Come to find out Nickle had gone back to the van to quickly get something and then had to wait in another massively long line because no one was being let back into the building. Apparently the building was filled to capacity--yet continued to sell tickets. So no one--including vendors--was allowed back inside. It took Nickle another 2 hours and 45 minutes to get back in the building.

It should be mentioned the con was held in a smaller section of the convention hall. So it was wall to wall people. No one was happy to be there. Myself included. It was the worst con experience that i ever had. After our awesome experience at wizard world last March i was really disappointed. I should have known when we were declined press passes that it was gonna suck bad. It was so crowded that i didn't even want to search through bins for old comics. I love doing that by the way. Fan expo needs to get its act together next year or we might skip it. We've been going 10 years and this was the most disorganized we have ever seen it. So that's my rant. Tune in tomorrow for a recap of a couple of cool things that happened.

Yes! Back to work!

so my first day back after a week sucked balls and not in a good way. I spent the day missing Kath and Diana.I had a great weekend with them both. Nothing but cranky assholes. One guy just kept repeating over and over again "go to hell." So that was nice.

On the plus side we finally did find out that Diana will be in school all day this year. I can walk her in the morning and Kath can pick her up at night. Sleeping in was fun while it lasted.
Thats about all the rambling i can muster for now. I know i have a big fan expo write up to do. I'll get to it in a few days. Hope everyone is ok tonight. Thats a wrap

My kid is the coolest

So not to long ago i bout a box set that co-ntained most of the tv series Wiseguy. Wiseguy was a show i loved in the late 80's early 90's about a cop played by Ken Wahl who went undercover to infiltrate the mob and other organizations. Not a lot of people remember this show. Anyhow long story short--i had last week off so i watched a bunch of episodes while Diana played on the computer. We're all hanging out the other night and she starts humming. I immediately recognize that she is humming the theme from Wiseguy. I was very impressed. Also in the car the other day she was belting out "free falling by Tom Petty. My kid continues to impress me on a daily basis!

Day Off #2

Yesterday and i went to Kath's work with Rob and Anthony. Why you may ask? It was minacs appreciation day. They had a bunch of those bouncy houses for kids to jump around in. One was shaped like Wal-E the robot. Diana loved it in there. They had hamburgers and hotdogs and chips and sno cones to. We got to hang out with Kath and Nickle on their break. It was pretty fun. I drank a lot of pop. It so beat getting yelled at by customers at my work. Speaking of which i don't remember my work having an empluee appreciation day. Just saying.

No customers = happy Jay

Praise the God! I am off the rest of the week. Yesterday was my only day at work. It started off good. All my customers in the morning were actually nice. Then i made the mistake of saying to my friend Trudy "i'm having an awesome day so far!" Yep i had jynxed myself. For the next 4 hours or so all my calls were horrible people who had nothing better to do then call and swear and ask for supervisors. I'm surprised Hitler himself didnt call from beyond the grave. It was rough. I even had a crazy old lady keep me on the phone through my lunch break. I was really starving and cranky and i think i got a little mouthy by minute 45 of the call.

So yeah my day blew goats. I booked the rest of the week off so i should be headache free. Gonna catch up on my wise guy box set and of course saturday is the con, We emailed tv's Liana K yesterday and she is totally cool with doing an interview for the show. So we won't be completely shut out this time. Anyhow gonna go eat some breakfast and wait for Diana to wake up. Have a great day

Jay

Tron Time

Friday night The Stewart family joined forces with Rob and Nicole and family to go see a screening of the 1982 film Tron. Pulp Comics in Niagara Falls was putting on a free screening in front of Niagara falls city hall. I hadnt seen the movie since i was 12 and Kath had never seen it. Seeing how there is a sequel coming to theatres this Christmas we thought we would go and see the original.

We all packed into the van and stopped to get a few pizzas. We picked them up from a splace on Hartzell road. For some reason there were dozens of under age kids hanging out in front of the shop. We got to see the gay version of Jonah Hill. It was entertaining.
We got to the Falls shortly before 10 and set up our lawn chairs. THey also sold pop corn and snacks there. It was a cool set up.

The movie itself was kind of dated. It was still cool seeing it though. Made me miss going to the arcade. I am looking forward to seeing Tron 2. We all had a big laugh. Bruce Boxleitner wore gigantic glasses. It turned out to be an extreemly chilly night. It was a fun time though and hope they have some more free screenings. I'd buy that for a dollar. OOo they should play Robo cop!

The comedy stylings of Diana Rose Stewart

Diana is a funny kid. We were sitting in macdonalds and i asked her if she'd seen the Stuart Little movies. They're being plated on the movie network next month. I explained it was a bout a mouse that gets adopted by human parents and that there's also a talking cat in it. So the kid then says

"then the talking cat eats stuart Little. The end."

followed by

"then the dad comes in and steps on Stuart Little. The end."

The kid makes me laugh.