So, tomorrow morning, quite early, my buddy Clint and I embark on our 11th trip down to GenCon together. It’s a long drive from Winnipeg to Indianapolis – usually about twenty hours – so we do it over two days, with an overnight stop at Rochelle, Illinois, because we like to bypass Chicago.
I’ve been putting together a list of stuff I want to look for at the convention:
- Terraclips from Worldworks
- Lurker at the Threshold expansion for Arkham Horror
- Also interested in the Investigator figures for AH, but at 48 figures and $4 a pop, maybe not this time
- The new Dragon Age stuff from Green Ronin
- Any new GUMSHOE stuff from Pelgrane Press, especially for Trail of Cthulhu
- Possible early copies of Leverage from MWP?
- Print copy of ICONS
- Remember Tomorrow and probably a couple of other things at the IPR booth
- More cool shirts from Sigh Co.
- Probably at least one neat thing from Cubicle 7 – we’re sharing booth space, and they do such very cool stuff
- Anything else that looks neat
I’m also going to be trying to blog a little more regularly down there, using the iPad in the evenings. In fact, if I manage to get my hands on an AT&T micro-sim and the prepaid Visa thing works, I may be Tweeting from the dealer’s room during the day. But I don’t want to promise that.
Today is full-on prep for the trip, with a chance of going to see Inception this afternoon if all the plans come together. I’m about 2/3 of the way packed, with the last of the laundry going in the dryer, waiting for the stores to open (it’s a long weekend in Manitoba) to pick up a few things. The fish-feeding instructions are done, the health insurance bought, the car all ready, the TripTik in the glove compartment. Still to do: pick up some drinks for the trip, make some sandwiches, burn some music CDs for the twenty-hour drive, and some last touches of housework – I hate coming home to housework and laundry waiting for me.
If you’re at the show, I’ll be doing booth-weasel duty for Pagan Publishing and Dagon Industries at booth #315. Come on by and say hello.
http://web.sodapopminiatures.com/home
Booth 826 🙂