Alright, Day 2 of Aki-Con… Got there just in time to catch the “Special Guests Q&A”, which was great. I was laughing so hard. I might type up my notes from it separately (I’m really tired, so I’m planning on going to bed as soon as I finish this and take a shower), but for right now, know that it was awesome.
After the panel, I killed time for an hour and a half by going into the dealer’s room (btw, I’ve spent $70 in there, and all of it is for other people, who are paying me back… there’s just not much in there for me to be interested in), and then watching some Ouran Host Club subs (and I do mean subs… I could barely hear the audio until I moved up next to the DVD player). After that, I went to Vic Mignogna’s Q&A, and he played an AWESOME video. And that’s all I will say, as we were requested not to spoil it for people. I’ll just say that it’s a “fan-film” he made (well, he is a professional video editor, so you can’t exactly say “fan”), and that is of dubious legality, and he only shows it at cons, and he wants it to be special for cons. But it is awesome, and if you guys get a chance to see him at a con, go see his Q&A and hope he plays it.
After his panel got out at 1:30, I figured there was a semi-interesting panel at 2, but there was really nothing to do. The Dealer’s Hall I’d gone over too many times, I wasn’t interested in what was in the other panel room, nor the viewing rooms. And since I was pretty much on my own, with no one to hang out with, I left. I spent an hour walking around 7 blocks each way to the Jack-in-the-box to get food and back.
By the time I got back, I peeked in on that semi-interesting panel (it was the people who do those “abridged versions” of anime). The panel might’ve been interesting (it looked like there were about 4 or 5 of them there, and more on a conference call via laptop), but there was no sound system in the room, so all the sound was coming out of the laptop. Given that I was sitting next to the un-closable door (those nice torii gates around the doors? They were tied to the door workings, in a not-fire-code way, according to my friend, and made the doors unclosable), I couldn’t hear anything. And it didn’t help that people would walk by, peek in, not know what was going on, and start shouting out the door to friends of theirs. Where was someone to tell them to quiet down or leave, they were interrupting a panel? Oh, wait, Aki-Con isn’t running the panels room… Another panelist actually came in, during a video, went to the front and said that their panel would be running late. Umm, it’s only halfway through this panel? Later, they came by, and from the door called to ignore what they’d said earlier, the panel was in a different room (main events).
After that, I hung out with some friends for a bit, since I had nothing else to do. I also pulled out my piccolo and played in the lobby. I’m gonna have my flute out tomorrow (since there’s really nothing I’m interested in Sunday until Soul Candy’s performance), and see if I can get some people to make donations to “feed the poor Otaku” (I can try!). I did go to the “How to get into video games” panel, which, ironically, was run by a graduate of my own late college (college ran out of money and closed… poor Henry Cogswell). After that, there was nothing else to do, so I came home.
Wrap-up will be tomorrow, and hopefully I can get my roommate to offload my pics from my camera, so I can get some images up.
So here is the thing. I am broke, and as usually is the case with broke persons, I cannot afford to buy alot of the software that I need to maintain my Geekness. 
