I realize I haven't been posting a lot lately, but I've been seriously busy...so sorry for that up front.

So this past weekend was ubercon, and now i've gotta do my report on that.

Well, first off, this is the first time I've ever gone to a convention while Passover was in effect, so that was interesting...and a tad difficult, which makes having stayed at Mandy's instead of the hotel much more appealing and a bigger relief.

Attendance:
Frankly, the place seemed dead. Ubercon used to be a much larger convention, this time it seemed especially tiny. I dunno what that means for their future, but well, there you are. I've heard they're moving to the Radisson in Parsipanny...we'll see what it looks like before I decide if I'll attend that one or not. I think it's getting a little much that the convention keeps moving all over the place, but I've never organized a convention so I don't know the logistics, so I'm not really in a good position to criticize I suppose.

SWAG:
I got some good swag this time around! I picked up D6 Adventure (I can taste Hotfoot's Jealousy from here), Star Wars Miniatures rulebook, and Stormbringer - The RPG. I also got some cool miniatures in my swag bag and a pop-out, build a dragon model kit (Think like Pirates of the Spanish Main type). Mandy managed to get more fuzzy Chuzzles and the game too.

Panels:
I only had to do 2 panels this convention, "Attending conventions and not going broke" and "Creating Games Everyone Can Play". Had a good time, I was on the panels with Tony Digeralamo (Complete Mafia, Super Frat), MJ Young (Multiverser), Chris O'Neill (Kobolds Ate My Baby), and Peter Schweighofer (D6 Star Wars, WEGS). I even had a few guys come up to me after the panels were over and thank me, even MJ had some fine words for me...that was encouraging.

I got to play a lot of Call of Duty, I've started having a WWII kick lately, dunno why, but I even was watching Saving Private Ryan before the convention (like, a week before or so). Bridge level kept kicking my ass.
Mandy had a good time, except for an over competitive freak who kept trying to beat her out of everything. That got kind of annoying.
Also played Rock Band with Mandy. I was actually able to play the game on MEDIUM and survive!! WOOT! I are happy! Maybe, somewhere deep inside I do have a sense of rhythm.

I also had this big fat gay guy (flamingly gay) who kept giving me shit at Apples to Apples, ASAP, and "The T-Shirt Game". Mandy insists the guy was hitting on me, I insist that it was really getting irritating to the point that everytime she asked if I wanted to play a game, or we were invited to a game, my first question was "is it that guy again?" I was then torn between playing a game along side Mandy, or staying away from the guy...as you can guess, spending time with Mandy won every time.

Mandy also got ticked off at some guy running Killer Bunnies who kept leaving the table, Henry Chi or something? Gonna find out if he's a playroom rep or if he's just some douche bag who kept acting like those playing his game were a nuisance or burden.

I did manage to run into some old friends from previous conventions. Dregg showed up with a new friend, she seemed very cool. Dregg, if you're reading this, *thumbs up* I approve! Ran into Ken as well, sorry I didn't get to spend too much time with ya, just was a very busy man this convention.