It was effing crazy -- I knew Mitzi was a handler for celebs at cons, and she's tight with Wil Wheaton, but this year, she was responsible for ALL hotel, air tranpo, everything to do with celeb guests, be they actors, creator guests, or cosplay guests, and managing their handlers.

More tidbits from the con:

I, um, didn't recognize Sean Gunn, and ended up hanging out at an ages-old KC jazz tradition, The Musician's Foundation, listening to and talking about jazz with him and 2 guys I'd met at the Marriott party. He was introduced as Sean, from LA, and I just kinda hung, and we were all just into the music and talking about it between sets. It was awesome set of musicians just jamming -- at 4:23, we were all like "We gotta be at the con tomorrrow, time to go."

Alll walked out together, and I was saying good night; they wanted to make sure if I needed to walked to my car. I asked them what they were there at the con for and Sean said "I'm an actor."

I was like, "Hey, cool; I'm a total geek girl -- what have been in?"

"I'm Sean Gunn, I was in Gilmore Girls and Guardians of the Galaxy"

And then I realized I'd been hanging out with James Gunn's bro, and the guy who was Kraglin in GotG, AND he told me he did the motion capture work for Rocket Raccoon, and Bradley Cooper did the voice.

I was all, "Wow, I am a bad nerd! It was fun tonight; and a pleasure to meet you. I hope you enjoyed the Foundation."

And he said he'd loved it, and he HAD been totally into it.

Today, I went to his line with Dan; he'd JUST come back from a break and there was no line yet. I went up and introduced Dan and told him what a pleasure last night had been, and I was glad he enjoyed KC. He was super nice, and he was like, do you want a picture?

I laughed and said we were completely broke, but thanks anyway, and he was all, "Seriously, don't worry about it." He had a totally cute one of him a cat that we wanted, but we decided to get a GotG pic of him as Kraglin. He asked if we wanted to him to sign it, and we sure like "Um...sure! Thanks, that's really nice of you!"

So he signed it "To Micah -- Captain's Gotta Teach Stuff" which is AMAZING, since he had no idea MY nickname is Captain!!!!

It was FUCKING. COOL. And Micah is going to be super-jazzed.

Oh, and the guy I talked to at the Marriott party that brought up going to the Foundation, and who I talked with quite a bit was Jai Nitz, whose the writer and co-creator of "The Dream Thief" and writer of "Grimm: The Warlock."

Good luck, Suzi!

You are winning this weekend, Strix!

Go you with the 17 miles, Consuela!

I am doing laundry and I have a pot on the stove that eventually will be red beans and rice.

Offer submitted. Actually pretty calm about it this time. Maybe cause I should know if it is accepted or not later tonight.

This place would need different furniture and it is kinda time for me to let go of a few pieces I've been holding onto forever. Like my china cabinet that has been wrapped in packing blankets in the garage for the last 7 years. Will see...no rush.

The townhouse we saw today was cute, but not right for us. The "third bedroom" was a postage-stamp sized room with no closets, and the stairs were incredibly steep and narrow (not just potentially dangerous for the kids but really uncomfortable to walk down!) And what I thought was a backyard turned out to be a parking space in the back. But still good to see what's on the market.

Jess, sound really like it is an early version of my hood. My third bedroom, you can get a twin into. In basically one space only. It has a tiny corner closet (that someday I'm going to just convert into a little cabinet: cabinet bottom, shelves top.)

Got everything done but a shipping run, which can wait.

Senior review is tomorrow, thank god, so I can stop having nightmares.

CJ has refused to participate in the house hunting process - so he basically gets whatever room K-Bug doesn't want (I, of course, get first pick). If the current offer goes under contract, his room will be ok-ish, but smaller than his room is now.

Driving out to look at the places today, K-Bug and I had talked about how I'm torn between wanting a townhome and a stand alone home. Pros and cons for each, especially since I'm looking at this being my home for a long time.

The place we offered on is a townhome, but the neighborhood feels much more like a single family residence neighborhood than the other townhome communities we have looked into.

I made that butternut flat bread Gris made last week, and it was easy and delicious!

I'm friends with too many of my coworkers on Facebook to be willing to share this Onion take on open-plan offices there, but it needed to be shared...

Does anyone know what Terry Pratchett's Award of Arms motto means? Noli Timere Messorem

I can't find a decent Latin to English translator

Red beans and rice was a success, even though I tried to make it healthier by adding more vegetables and less meat, and 2/3 wild rice to 1/3 white rice. Maaaybe used a little too much cayenne, but forewarned is forearmed.