Have some corn squeezens!

I’ve never been to an outdoor convention before, nor to Oklahoma, so Oklacon promised to be a different experience.  Indeed it was!

1. Parking on top of the hill made me appreciate having a Honda CR-V instead of a Dodge Neon all the more.
2. Standing in the slow registration line wasn’t all that bad after 7+ hours on the road.
3. I was a little worried about finding a decent radio station, then realized I should have been more worried about reception.
4. Apparently only loud people stay up late at night…argh
5. Chopping wood in the middle of the night?  SERIOUSLY?
6. I know darn well there’s no signal, but I keep checking my phone. I may have a problem.
7. About the only thing I could do with this phone was update this list.
8. As is the custom, Artist’s Alley was located in Mos Isley.
9. The hard ground kept me from sleeping at night, but at least I was warm. /shrug
10. There were no smut writers at the artist’s meetup, or at least none willing to own up to it.
11. The weather was pretty nice once the chill got out if the air…unfortunately it got a little too warm on Saturday.
12. Doesn’t seem to be much concern about ‘breaking the magic’ here…then again there isn’t a ‘headless lounge’ either.
13. I enjoyed the ‘Furry common sense’ panel, learned a lot of ‘good to know’ information.
14. Love the little ‘codes’ they put on the badges.
15. They had ‘predator’ and ‘prey’ designs for the baseball caps, clever.
16. Bears are omnnivores, so I could go either way…fark it, I bought one with a predator design.
17. Someone reportedly got cactus needles stuck in their hand, not sure if there was a mouse available to assist.
18. What would a ‘redneck’ fur like Mr. Drunky up there be called?
19. Bad Science was DEPRESSING, though Dr. Nuka kinda turned it around at the end
20. Favorite new phrase, heard during Bad Science: “Animal Malfunction”
21. Got my first badge commission done. I liked it, and I paid for another one.
22. I really need to establish a fursona, the second artist I purchased a commission from had all these questions and I was all “I DON’T KNOW!”
23. Some guy called me ‘Ed’ and totally confused me until I realized it was on the badge I had commissioned and was now wearing.
24. Nothing like thinking you lost your wallet to make for an exciting evening.
25. One benefit of being an early riser is there’s always hot water in the shower.
26. Big thanks to whomever left the giant bottle of body wash in the showers.  Not that I was out, but ‘fresh mango’ wasn’t quite the vibe I was going for…need to check the label next time.
27. I woke up on Saturday morning to find someone asleep on top of a hill…WTF?
28. Finally realized what I had forgotten to bring: A roll of toilet paper.  Granted, they had plenty, but still, I always feel better having a spare roll.
29. The bathrooms got progressively worse and worse as the weekend progressed, but I’ve used outhouses, so no biggie.
30. Second thing I forgot: an air mattress.  I sleep on my side and my hip bone was constantly touching the ground as I slept…ow!
31. The Mini Moon Pies were okay until the sun came out on Saturday,  oh well.
32. Trebuchets are cool.
33. Everything felt inverted: I eventually purchased a badge to identify myself as being straight.
34. The fursuit parade got moved FORWARD an hour? They know we’re OUTSIDE, right?
35. Never been to a con that had two fursuit parades, so that was cool.
36. Sat in on a International Anthropomorphic Research Project group chat and learned a little bit more about myself.
37. Someone made an interesting point: we use funny animals to entertain our children and expect them to forget about them once they grow up.
38. When I heard they were making stone soup, I got a mental image of people throwing Cheetos, Pocky and M&Ms into the pot.
39. Judging how much heat is coming out of a propane stove in the middle of the day is tricky.
40. When the wooden handle on your saucepan catches fire, there’s too much heat.