Joshua ElliottNew Post!
September 7th 2008 12:59
Wow, it's been a while since I did a new post, huh? Well, prepare to be dissapointed, as I haven't really taken many photos lately... but boy do I have a lot of things to ramble on and on about till your ears fall off!
Hmm, so from New York I caught the Amtrak down to Baltimore. There I stayed with some good friends of mine for about a week or so - we went into Washington D.C. and saw all the usual monuments and a few unusual ones, and made all those sublime done to death jokes one can't help but make when at said monuments (like giggling at the Washington Monument).
From there I caught a ride with them to Indianapolis, Indiana (I know, I know, but it's better than New York, New York), to attend the convention that brings geeks from all around... GenCon! Theres probably very few of my regular readers who've actually ever heard of GenCon, but it's more or less an annual convention that celebrates gaming, from tabletop miniatures to roleplaying games and board games and card games and all kinds of stuff.
It was a ton of fun, I did some card games and game design comps (lost horribly in everything but hey, who cares?) and a group of us went in role playing competition. We rode a giant chicken up a volcano. 'nuff said. The convention is pretty damned expensive though, it's almost eighty dollars just to get in for the four days and that basically just entitles you to spend more money for the events or at the booths... I scored some good loot though, so I'm happy.
Anyway, from Indianapolis I got up at four AM in the morning (well actually I was still awake but it's still to dang early, y'hear?) and hoofed it down to the amtrak station and bam, before you know it I was in Salt Lake City. Well, actually it took more than two days consecutive train travelling but yeah.
I was only in Salt Lake City for two days, where I caught up with some good friends of mine. Anyway, their TV had broken, so we decided to go to the thrift store and get a cheap one for a temporary replacement. The only problem was that the car had broken down too so we had to get a train down after a brief walk. So we buy this TV and lug it maybe a block before we give up, so the girl goes and gets one of those wheely TV stands, and so here us wheeling a TV on a rack, back to the train station, then on a train, then from that train station back to an apartment block. So we're a block from the apartment and then the TV stand just TOTALLY collapses in on itself, and I think we laughed for a bout fifteen minutes straight before lugging the TV and the TOTALED stand back to the apartment. Oh, good times.
From Salt Lake City I went to Berkely, in the San Franscisco area, and was able to have a good time hanging out with some other friends. Then It was training up to Salem, Oregon, where I have been hanging for yet MORE friends for the past week or two, and they are - hopefully - getting married in a few weeks! Oh, the joys of life.
Yesterday I booked all my accomodation for Alaska, so looking forward to that... hahahahahha! Bye bye!
Hmm, so from New York I caught the Amtrak down to Baltimore. There I stayed with some good friends of mine for about a week or so - we went into Washington D.C. and saw all the usual monuments and a few unusual ones, and made all those sublime done to death jokes one can't help but make when at said monuments (like giggling at the Washington Monument).
From there I caught a ride with them to Indianapolis, Indiana (I know, I know, but it's better than New York, New York), to attend the convention that brings geeks from all around... GenCon! Theres probably very few of my regular readers who've actually ever heard of GenCon, but it's more or less an annual convention that celebrates gaming, from tabletop miniatures to roleplaying games and board games and card games and all kinds of stuff.
It was a ton of fun, I did some card games and game design comps (lost horribly in everything but hey, who cares?) and a group of us went in role playing competition. We rode a giant chicken up a volcano. 'nuff said. The convention is pretty damned expensive though, it's almost eighty dollars just to get in for the four days and that basically just entitles you to spend more money for the events or at the booths... I scored some good loot though, so I'm happy.
Anyway, from Indianapolis I got up at four AM in the morning (well actually I was still awake but it's still to dang early, y'hear?) and hoofed it down to the amtrak station and bam, before you know it I was in Salt Lake City. Well, actually it took more than two days consecutive train travelling but yeah.
I was only in Salt Lake City for two days, where I caught up with some good friends of mine. Anyway, their TV had broken, so we decided to go to the thrift store and get a cheap one for a temporary replacement. The only problem was that the car had broken down too so we had to get a train down after a brief walk. So we buy this TV and lug it maybe a block before we give up, so the girl goes and gets one of those wheely TV stands, and so here us wheeling a TV on a rack, back to the train station, then on a train, then from that train station back to an apartment block. So we're a block from the apartment and then the TV stand just TOTALLY collapses in on itself, and I think we laughed for a bout fifteen minutes straight before lugging the TV and the TOTALED stand back to the apartment. Oh, good times.
From Salt Lake City I went to Berkely, in the San Franscisco area, and was able to have a good time hanging out with some other friends. Then It was training up to Salem, Oregon, where I have been hanging for yet MORE friends for the past week or two, and they are - hopefully - getting married in a few weeks! Oh, the joys of life.
Yesterday I booked all my accomodation for Alaska, so looking forward to that... hahahahahha! Bye bye!
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