So other things that have been happening are Connecticon! (Yay!) And now Otakon! (Less yay). I'll do a post about Connecticon later, mostly because all my photos are on the phone I promptly broke the night I got back from Connecticon.
I can't comment yet on how Otakon is as a whole, but the first day was pretty rough. We actually arrived here on Thursday, to get our pre reg badges. It speaks volumes that you need to get your pre reg badge a day early to get into a con.
Before we get into why I will never let BAM Con become like Otakon, or where the frak is your communication?!? I will first impart on you why we decided on the way down that New Jersey is one giant death trap. First we had the boat accident. It came from the on coming lane and this is where it landed. 
Yep, traffic stopped dead because a boat took out a lane of cars and by the time we trickled close enough to see why we were stopped, they still hadn't figured out how to get the damn boat off the road. So that was major accident #1. Aside from some fender benders the trip was pretty good going for another almost hour, then we stopped dead in the road again. I'm not sure how it happened but there was a tractor trailer flipped on its side across the whole on coming lane as well as other crushed cars, trucks and box trucks. 
So by the time our drive was over, it had turned into an 11 hour marathon drive. Only to get into the city of Baltimore in time to witness a monsoon. We almost died at this point. I have never hydroplaned in my car before, ever. We almost took out two cars from doing so that day. And after a slight hotel snafu and a hectic scramble to find lodgings, we made it to Otakon on Friday. Yay.
Friday at the con was everything that made me stop wanting to come to Otakon. The doors not labeled as to can you go in or out of them, once you are in the building how do you get out. Don't ask a staff person, none of them have any idea how to do anything. There are a hundred doors to the convention center and each one has a staff person at it saying you can't use this door to,either enter or exit, depending on which you would like to do. And then there's the lines. Everything is a line. This con is 20 years old and it has NEVER figured out how to do lines. Most typically at this con, you wait in a line and still aren't guaranteed to see what you lined up for. And the cluster fuck that is trying to get an autograph, what a disappointment. They never post how they are going to do this stuff so no one ever a knows what's going on. And even though you aren't supposed to line up an hour before an event people do, and the staff do nothing about it.
Anyway, more on Otakon after I go to day two.
