More VB4 stuff

The reason I go to conventions is the people. Saw pixiequeen10thk which was great because I know I haven't seen her since before the baby was born, and may not have before she was even pregnant. Met mad jockey girl, a goth furry and a few of the jedi chefs, Stabuck and a bunch of other starfury regulars as well. Hob-nobbed wirh Georges Jeanty (Buffy comic artist) in the hotel. Fantastic guy. But what was really nice was I went to the pub for dinner on my own. Saw a bunch of people who looked fannish. Asked to join them. Bunch of old school fans. Chatted a lot about conventions an fannishness in general.

Something else I like is the costume competition, because it's so much less serious than the Worldcon/Eastercon masquerade. Third place was Spike in daylight. Main gimmick was a blanket and a smoke can. Silly and cheap, and I doubt he was expecting to win or even place but people liked it. Winning group was "nightmare on Sesame Street"

I needed to get back to the airport at one point to pick up a hire car. Decided to try the futuristic pods, since they go straight to the hotel. T5's self driving cars that shuttle passengers to T5 from the long-term car parks. It is kinda cool that they arrive and the door slides open, and then can be stated just by pressing the start button but when it was actually moving, I was expecting is to glide smoothly. Instead it feels like small tyres on a fair rough concrete road. Still a pretty funky system.

Was particularly pleased when I discovered the hotel will do scrambled eggs on request. Much nicer than dried up fried and scrambled from the buffet.

Quite a nice weekend all things considered.