This year’s RPGaDay is really exposing my lack of dork. I’ve only been to two conventions in my life. One was back in the ’80s in Philadelphia where I met some cool folks and had to leave early due to food poisoning. The other was a sci-fi and comic convention in Albuquerque about five years ago, and I went to that one to support a friend that was having a time of it and just wanted to go have fun.

I think my favorite purchase was the P90 airsoft gun I found for him to go with his Stargate (Atlantis, if i recall) costume. It wasn’t for me — I wanted him to have a good time and the $100 or so was worth it. I think I bought myself an Eaglemoss Akira-class starship model (one of the wee ones…) The convention was also good for the fee pics he got to take with various actors because i was making a joke of him posing with all these cosplayers — I would take a picture of the person, but only his elbow, arm, small bit would be in frame. (Yes, there was also a proper one with him in the shot.) It was so well received that the actor from Voyager (Garret Wang?), the bad guy/kid from Karate Kid, and a bunch of other guests took pics with him for free to be in on the joke. (They got tipped well — they’re not working for free.)

Sadly, we’re not friends anymore.

I guess someone needs to convince me to go to a convention.