…and they don’t need updates via the interwebs.
I realize that I start every post by saying how super busy I am. This isn’t an excuse for not updating, more than a statement of my life. The new year has not only been full of books; but lot of stuff that likes to accompany the beginning of the year, such as taxes, conventions, finding a new apartment.
While taxes are done for me, it seems that doing taxes for a company incorporated in Maryland; but with owners living in California is a little complicated. At this point, I just want to get the K1’s so we can get everyone else’s taxes done. Having a business in California really is like your money has turned into water money and the government has a sponge. I suppose it’s like that everywhere else, it just seems like the government has a lot more little sponges here.
We celebrated Ian’s 26th birthday in January with a dinner at Quattro. It’s nice to eat at a place where everyone knows you. The food was pretty awesome and the dessert sampler that Chef sent out was very nice and tasty. Thanks to all my involved coworkers for making the night extra nice.
Did I mention conventions up there? I thought Mac Hall/Three Panel Soul wasn’t doing conventions anymore. Well we didn’t, last year. This year rang in the new convention year with Genericon in Troy. NY. Seems everyone had a fine time and the staff was amazingly communicative. Last weekend we attended Animation on Display in San Francisco. You have got to love conventions that allow you to sleep in your own bed every night. It was nice to hang out with a plethora of people there; but I think a grand total of five convention goers had any idea who we were. This lead to me cursing at The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for two days instead of paying attention to fans. Strangely enough we did do two panels. One involved Matt and Ian on stage while Dom and I sat in back and heckled them. The other involved Matt, Ian, Dom, and myself on stage while Dom and I heckled each other and the audience and Matt and Ian stared at us like we were insane….webcomics b(^_^)b. I was disappointed with the toy selection; but hopefully that will be rectified at Fanime and while I did not get to ask Rob Paulson if he was pondering what I was pondering, I did get to harass Vic Manohminha (not how it’s actually spelled) for an autograph.
Back to the matters at hand though. A few things still need taken care of before April. A wedding cake needs making for March first and April 19th. Some time before May first I better figure out where we’re going to live next……
Finding a new apartment is way too hard.
Here are a couple pics from Ian’s birthday.