Category: SDCC

The San Diego programming schedule is up! As usual, it’s chock full of wonderful things. Neil Gaiman! Warren Ellis! Gumby! Kung Fu! Yay!

The Beat has a post up about the San Diego hotel situation, along with links to a couple of interesting forum discussions.
I went ahead and made my flight reservation too. It wasn’t too painful, though the price for the flight actually went up, then back down again, while I was making the reservation. Weird.
I did a little bit of reseach on the Westin Horton Plaza, too, since I’ve never stayed there before. It’s got some very good reviews and some very bad ones, so I’m not too sure who to trust on that. I’m not too picky about hotel rooms, really, so if there’s a comfortable bed and the room doesn’t smell like cigarette smoke, I’m good, for the most part.

Some random good news today:

• I got new bed sheets today!
• I got the renewal letter for my apartment lease today, and the landlord isn’t raising the rent!
• I got a hotel room for San Diego! This might not sound like a big deal, but it’s gotten harder and harder to get a room for San Diego over the past few years. They opened up the hotel reservation system at noon (Eastern) today. I tried getting to their web site right then, but the site was getting hammered so much, there was really no chance of getting in. I went off to eat lunch and came back at 12:30 and tried again. It took awhile for pages to load, but they did come up, and I did eventually manage to make it through the system and came out on the other end with a valid hotel reservation. I’ll be in the Westin Horton Plaza this year, which is probably a pretty good hotel, and not too far from the convention center. I’ve never stayed there before, but it looks nice.

Record crowds at the con yesterday, and record heat in San Diego. I managed to get to a few good panels yesterday, but a number of panels I was interested in were impossible to get into.

A9 Maps has some pictures of San Diego, including a couple of my hotel. Browsing through some of their San Diego pictures, it looks like a lot of them were taken on a rainy day, which is pretty weird for San Diego. And looking at some of the pictures on 7th has reminded me that there’s a bit of an uphill climb involved in getting to A St.

Lots of Star Wars goodies at San Diego this year, as usual.

I heard back from the Comic-Con folks today about registration, and it turns out that they are just late in sending out the registration paperwork. They said they’re sending stuff out this week. That’s a bit of a relief, since I was starting to think I’d lost mine.
Meanwhile, I’ve been checking in with SignOnSanDiego.com every few days to keep an eye on the weather and local news. Let’s hope we don’t have a big quake while I’m out there!

Only about a month until Comic-Con. I realized today that I haven’t received my little registration confirmation card yet. I registered back in March, so I’m not sure if this is a problem or not. They may just be late in sending them out. I guess if it doesn’t show up, I can maybe talk my way in with a copy of my cancelled check and a photo ID. Or I can sneak in the back door. Or I can just spend the week at the San Diego Zoo instead. Either way, I’m looking forward to the vacation.
Every year, it seems like I really start to get enthusiastic about the Con around this time. It just seems like I start to go stir-crazy in mid-June and really start wanting to get out of New Jersey, and get away from my job for a few days. This year’s probably a bit worse than usual, for a few reasons, mostly work-related.
And, regardless of any bureaucratic worries, I always wind up having a good time in San Diego, so I probably shouldn’t worry about anything this year either.