I'm not bothering to do a video for Furry Weekend Atlanta as I did last year. I absolutely love the format, but there were issues with my phone that ended up making my post-con report a pain in the ass to actually watch and understand. So I'm avoiding them.

Tuesday Night/Wednesday:

Got my bags double/triple-checked, it's not that hard. This is my fifth convention, my second FWA, and probably my 15th trip across the last 29 years. Add to that my military background and making sure my bag is squared away is second nature by now. Crashed out around midnight and put in about 6 hours worth of rack time. Got my ass woke up and double-checked the charge for the hardware I was bringing down. Just phone, tablet, kindle (which never got used), watch, and vape gear. Got my coffee on, I'm not going to a con without coffee. Around 7-8 everyone else in the house woke up (bethany & adarkpassenger) and got their stuff taken care of and left us all to wait for our ride up to Charlotte. After a cramped ride up, ended up finding we were at the Greyhound terminal about 90 minutes early. Now I'm used to traveling by Greyhound, though Beth and Sora aren't. So things were kinda bullshit for them, though admittedly they fucking crammed us in there like godsdamned sardines. Not to mention they got us out the terminal relatively late. We did however get down to Atlanta on time though, which was pretty surprizing. Though what was kinda lame is that syraeuniverse got stuck in traffic on the way out to Garnett station, so we all got to take the MARTA for the first time up to Civic Center Station (Big mistake on my part, to be shown later). Ended up walking a few blocks over to the Marriot and camped out in the lobby for a little while as I waited for Cyn to show up. She'd made plans for the two of us to crash elsewhere since Kasi wasn't going to be in until tomorrow. After a little fighting with my phone, Cyn drove up and the two of us booked ass for Roswell and a night hanging out with torishimaeve and seanblackthorne.

Thursday:

Woke up around 9ish, I think.. Mind's a little foggy from all the pollen that was in the air, kinda fucked me up a little bit for a few hours. Put in the usual morning prep before driving out to pick up drakerogers down at the airport.. Just to find the address I was given was for the International terminal, not the Domestic terminal. So after a little shuffling around and a pair of shuttle rides, we managed to get to the proper terminal and pick up Drake. Once we got back in Atlanta, we got out stuff with the room and sorted out. I wandered off with Drake to check out a local cigar shop that he was thinking of using as a venue/meeting place for next year's smoke meet. Ended up popping down to the Board Game Room when we got back, since that's where I tend to gravitate to. It's as if someone turned on the Nerd Signal and I'm absolutely fucking drawn to it. Ended up playing and losing my first game of something called 'Ghost Stories', lost more than the game. I put down one of my driptips as a proxy for a missing piece of the game, totally forgot to pick it up when I left the table. My fault, my lumps, but at least it was one I rarely ever used. I did hit up the smoke meet that Drake had tried to arrange, though it seemed to be a bit of a bust. Fluttered off to an Ingress panel that was being held, but only stayed for about half of it. It was a fucking frog sea, with just 3 Resistance agents in the room. Took off for something to eat, I can't really remember where. Around 1800 I went out to pick up my registration. Ended up spending 90 motherfucking minutes in line. If you ask me, this is fucking rediculous. I've been to 3 AnthroCons and been in and out of line inside of a half-hour. How a decade old con still manages to royally fuck up registration like this eludes me, completely. This is where things kinda end up turning into a blur.. Always happens with me at a con, since Thursday is little more than a warm-up for the rest of the weekend. I do know I was up until about 0300 with the smokers, vaping myself silly and nearly shouting to be heard. Great job Marriot for putting the smoking area with all the cars AND the big ass fucking fountain.

Friday:

Went trolling around after waking up around 9ish, once more I ended up wandering into the BGR and found sablegryphon and Stargazer. At some point I know I got into a game of Xenoshift with mech and we got our asses handed to us by bugs a few times. Wandered down into the Dealer's Den to give likeshine a table hug, though I did run into matthewebel and runtt (an old friend of mine) and promised I'd show up for their saturday show. All I really remember after this point was that I was out, once more with the smokers, until about 0600.. I was hanging out with dracoleerose and a few others. Even got to bullshit with jibba for a few minutes while the two of us went back to our rooms.

Saturday:

All I can kinda remember about saturday is some tabletop gaming. I know I played some FRAG, I ended up catching the first half of the Matt Ebel concert before being stolen for sushi. Even Matt and Runtt agreed this was for the greater good, sushi must never be denied. Got back in to the hotel and just hung out in either the BGR or smokers area more before I called it a slightly earlier night. I think I got to bed around 2-3, don't quote me on the exact time.

Sunday:

Ugh.... So tired, and the con's winding down. Got my gear packed up and stuffed it in Cyn's car before taking Drake out to the airport to head home. When we got back, I just trolled around the con a little bit longer in the BGR. Played a game of Super Motherlode with Mech, got my ass handed to me, but it was still a lot of fun. Beth and Sora chose to head down to the Greyhound early, so I grabbed my bag out of Cyn's car and went down to the terminal. Ran afoul of some fucking bus nazi because we chose to sit near our gate a half-hour before we were scheduled to board. I've never liked Garnett station, so I was so fucking glad to get out of that rathole. But at least it was better than last year.

For those that want, all of my convention photos are here: https://plus.google.com/events/gallery/cu3h69s3aqvrriiitv3vlc6rbds?authkey=CPfvkfOt1c6JQA