My home for San Japan 6
I have attended every single San Japan. I went to the first out of curiosity and found myself helping out with tables for First Storm Manga and original-gamer.com for the next four. As FSM is no more and I have resigned my post from original-gamer.com, I found myself with nothing to do at San Japan Sinister Six. I suppose I could have gone as an attendee and enjoyed myself, but instead I decided to help out the fine folks of RegIT with processing the 11,000+ attendees.
- You either have fun or work at a convention, and I worked at this one…a LOT
- That said, the people I worked with were very cool.
- It was neat to experience how much work goes on behind the scenes in registration.
- Think about it: about 20 people had to process over 11,000. That’s pretty nuts.
- There were a few glitches, but the overwhelming majority of people were very understanding. Nerds is good people.
- I was right about the customers being cooler at San Japan, there were only had a handful of genuine jerkasses to deal with.
- Goof-up #1-Not having good sneakers. I put gel insoles inside my casual shoes, which hepled, but my dogs were barking by the evenings.
- Holy cats, some of those cosplayers…Good Lord, I thought blood was going to shoot out of my nose!
- I’m old enough to have fathered a teenager, so I guess that makes me a dirty old man now.
- A friend guessed my age and was off by a decade, so I guess I’m not doing that bad.
- If you are going to give something to someone at a con , be sure you have it on you AT ALL TIMES. Sorry, friend of mine…can I mail you that t-shirt?
- Cardboard, if applied correctly, can be pretty awesome, as demonstrated by Tall Cardboard Robot Guy.
- I found myself shifting into my ‘announcer voice’ on occasion, that hasn’t happened in awhile.
- I don’t think I’ve ever done that at my regular job…which probably says something.
- Goof-up #2-Not taking Monday off from work. It would have been nice to do more stuff after the show, but I had to be at work on Monday and do laundry. Stupid responsibilities!
- I wore my Wreck-It Ralph cloth pin and got lots of compliments, which makes me feel bad that I don’t remember the name of the artist who MADE it. Sorry!
- The artists I know seemed to be happier this year and the layout appeared to be MUCH improved this time
- That is, the few times I was able to get away and see stuff…see #1
- Goof-up #3-Not by me, but for those who would ask me where things were…I AM SORRY BUT I HAVE BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME. AND I DON’T KNOW WHERE ANYTHING IS 😦
- I think the highlight of the whole thing was when my furiends showed up on Saturday to say hi. The fuzzies gave me the warm fuzzies.
- Which is more than I can say for the jerkass who texted me ‘Are you even here?” despite knowing very well where I was the whole time. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
- Goof-up #4-Not getting a picture of the gal dressed up as the Ancient Aliens guy…she even had a sign that said ‘ALIENS,’ too!
- I seem to be doing a lot of apologizing in this list. Sorry about that!
- Now that I can scratch ‘volunteered at a convention’ off my bucket list, I simply have no choice but to have fun at next year’s San Japan Samurai Seven…maybe!
Eduardo Soliz 
#22 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/kse3/9544955349/in/set-72157635136974819
That’s the one, awesome!