Basics

• Plane tix – check
• Hotel – check, thx Alexd
• Admission – check
• Concert tix – check
• Concert Tix – somewhat check
• Ride from LAX to hotel – will figure it out once I land
• Ride from hotel to LAX – should be np.

Content

• Hocchan item – Manabi Straight, Love Destiny, ToraDora, Pickup Voice, Love hina wwww,
  
• KitaEri item – ToraDora, Working!!
• Yuu Asakura item – BGC 2040 Box Love hina wwww
• Masakazu Morita item – Interlude DVD
• Katsuyuki Konishi item – Some Gurren Lagann thing (dvd?)
• Nabeshin item – again? have to farm dealer room for him. Or maybe Narima Daicon Bros.
• Toshihiro Kawamoto item – again? I mean, uh. Xam’d goods? Bebop? Dunnos.
• Eden of the East crew – Probably an Eden of the East poster (from dealers? I dunnos). Possibly skip. Minipato.
• Mell – What did I get signed last Otakon lol totally forgot, USB wrists
• Mamegu – her cd, Tanabata Sonic booklet, mac+ movie booklet
• May’n – Streets or Styles, or Tanabata Sonic booklet, mac+ movie booklet

Deliveries

• Alex’s ninety bucks
• Alex’s Mouse volume 1

Social

• Begin talking to Tim – check
• Hook up with west coast bloggers – Saturday evening
• Press crap – tbd
• Mock up the tentative schedule – in progress
• Contact with Bob – got phone number, need to set time

To bring

• Money – when the time comes
• Lights – on hand, battery changed
• “Contents” – still listing them
• Stuff to survive – when the time comes
• All the cables – if I don’t forget

Others

• Budget this thing – done
• Raise some funds – in progress?

This is just a continuation of this post’s last segment.

• Good Witch of the West was on my way down. I like the anime version, even if it’s more like the manga version than the novels. Will continue. Only got 4 eps in.
• Bolt is awesome. It bears repeating. I might be paying more for internet but w/e.
• Jabel is very good to be with, being a good complement to my too-shy shy-boy attitude
• hotels. It’s all about the Newbury Guest House. This also is worth documenting again.
  
• Summer Shack and this other restaurant that sells a lot of beer–both pretty good. Would do business again. They are also right next to each other, near the con center.
• I spent about 3 times more in eats than in dealer’s room goods. At least.
• Charity auction is awesome if you got a small group of people team up to bid on crap that you later split for stuff.
• Hi Steve! Thank you for hanging out with me and my goofy friends.
• An-Ni-Plex. /flip boxes
• dm showed me Simoun reference sketches that were photocopied. It is…very moe? And his cel collection. And some of the other junk he got off yahoo japan auction.
• I saw a Sega 1/6 Ruri Hoshino doll in original box, unopened, for $110. LOLLLLLLLLLLLL.
• I some of the people Jabel befriended over the weekend (people we lined up with) actually read my blog over at omonomono. A Kenny and a Kevin. And maybe some others. They look like youthful Asian specimen that reminded me of my own youthful days. Except they look like they put money and time into looking elite! Ok, I’m not that old but they’re not even half way into the 20s. And my icon is the cat from Azumanga Daioh, Maya…not a weasel. LOL. I don’t know why I felt the need to correct this point. They found my blog via animenano.
• Yeah, I am old. I felt it. But that might also just be that I’m more out of shape today than I ever was. Ever.
• [Probably more to come]

Part two: The Attack of Alexes:

Alex D. – the elder, runs an anime store out of his house. Goes the distance using my value matrices. I get what he gets at.

Alex M. – the actual otaku, runs an anime figure store out of his house. Lives like one of my kind. A brother in more ways than one.

Alex K. – the striker, promising youngster with Momotato’s touch. Takes it seriously but also very yukkuri. Also friends with Alex S.

Alex L. – the pontiff, also an up-and-comer. Does the things I wish I could do.

1. Sleep

2. Talk about Seki Tomokazu’s scheduled appearance @ Animazement on a blog post

3. Set one post live–already wrote it just need top pic.

4. Finish transcribing an interview, and post it

5. Finish writing a post about multi-prong anime marketing and fictional character remixes

6. Do taxes

7. Karaoke @ NYC?

8. Clean my desk

9. Clean the rest of my bedroom

10. Upgrade wordpress

11. Post a lot of Nakiami pictures.

I do, however, have the opportunity to bug Gabe and Tycho. Ugh.

Choices, choices…

• Hang out with people.
• See special guests.

This year I’ve already hit my 3-con limit (AZ, Otakon, NYAF) so I think that is all for me. Yet I might drop by AUSA just to say hi to a few people. Not really excited about spending money on that.

As a con, AUSA is a fairly typical of the newer crop of cons where it’s mostly the dealer room, con frenzy and cosplay walkways that are the draws. I don’t really care about that (anymore), if ever did. There are a couple interesting things to AUSA, nonetheless:

• Swap meet–you can bring stuff and barter with other fans, but no cash exchanges allowed. It’s a neat idea if you just have easily-fungible items like R1 DVDs and manga. I know I have stuff to unload, but I think I prefer exchanging them for money instead.
• Versailles–jrock. Not that I like jrock but I’m always interested in checking out bands that have some repute.
• Panels–haven’t seen their panel schedule anywhere, can’t say.

2. Most of my AZ stuff is online now, off youtube and omonomono.

3. Kotono Mitsuishi took pictures of her trip to the US and you can see me in one of them?? For most of us, it was all about this, anyways.

Check back on my youtube playlist for updated videos, and not just from me.