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Uglycon turned out to be a fun event. But with all things positive comes some Ugly. Here it is in short, family comes early. 23 hours early. It's cold. I believe it gets down to the 40s. We don't think anyone will come any time soon, much less 23 hours early, which is nuts. David Horvath generously gives up his hotel to the first and only family there at the time. This is still an at risk move....
Uglycon turned out to be a fun event. But with all things positive comes some Ugly. Here it is in short, family comes early. 23 hours early. It’s cold. I believe it gets down to the 40s. We don’t think anyone will come any time soon, much less 23 hours early, which is nuts. David Horvath generously gives up his hotel to the first and only family there at the time. This is still an at risk move. What does this mean for the line? It’s at your own risk right? They post that they are first on a message board which most likely then brings out a lot of others who decide to line up at night. The family leaves and then comes back in the morning expecting their spot back. I wasn’t there so I don’t know what really happened. Did the family sleep in their car which was parked in front of the shop? Did they all go to the hotel to crash out? I’m not sure, but it led to a ruckus. Sorry about that, we solved it the best way possible. It’s now done, and the costume contest was ridiculously great. The event altogether was great. We learned a lot from last year which was much more crowded, and there’s more to learn from this years event. Uglycon is a cool event for sure. I’m very proud of it. Not to be outdone, the GR2 show is amazing. Maybe the best of the year. GRNY. Adrian Tomine, the author of perhaps the graphic novel of the year! See the pics.
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Ricoh GRs... yeah, they're still fun to play with. He's shooting something at Denny's on the way back. It was fun to ride with Mr Horvath, the 5 is boring, you can easily drown out into drone music or religious talk radio. But we talked the entire way. It was a great way to end Uglycon. Cows, the road, stops, seeing weird land anomalies, and peaceful looking animals. Grand Slam breakfast still...
Ricoh GRs… yeah, they’re still fun to play with. He’s shooting something at Denny’s on the way back. It was fun to ride with Mr Horvath, the 5 is boring, you can easily drown out into drone music or religious talk radio. But we talked the entire way. It was a great way to end Uglycon. Cows, the road, stops, seeing weird land anomalies, and peaceful looking animals. Grand Slam breakfast still works. I once saw a photo of this. In pen it brilliantly said, PUSH BUTTON, GET BACON. That’s magical. The ride offered up the snow on the 5. It’s been ages since I’ve seen snow. Over the weekend, it came down. The roads were clean, the air was cool, and the sun shined nice in the grapevine. I usually hate driving on the grapevine. It’s the worst part of the trip. The skies are perfect. This actually looks nice. People were pulling over to build snowpeople and to frolic. Even David had to take a gander at the snow covered mountains.
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Coming back on the 5 now riding with mr Horvath, I wanted to tell you to see the Uglycon pics at the transmissions page! We'll be adding more pics soon. It's also on the giant robot flickr page.
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