[My ComiCon experience..sort of.]

So my dad dropped me off at Old Town and I took the Trolley to the Convention Center. I got to where the book signing for Hannibal was(in front of the Tin Fish). There was already a line but not as bad as I thought(it was at 11 and I got there just after 9 a.m.)

(BTW the trolley was PACKED. I must say for someone who does not like being in a place with a lot of people-with no room to move-I did quite well!)

Whilst I was in line I talked to other fans, and that made the time go a lot faster. There was an area-a sort of holding area-where the stars were and we could see Hugh Dancy, Richard Armitage and Bryan Fuller.

The line moved really slowly for a while, but then right as we were going to get  to the front of the line,they capped it(meaning no more people) but then they decided to come along the line and sign a few peoples' books, and I got mine signed by Hugh Dancy and Bryan Fuller. I think they may have been having to leave to catch flights and the like,which is why they only had an hour for the signing, but I didn't care..I was a little agitated when we were at the front of the line, but then relieved when I realised that they would sign a few peoples' books(because I was like right behind the cap).

Hugh is so good looking in real life-so is Richard Armitage, who was also there but who had to leave(sooner than Bryan and Hugh did.)

So it was a good day.I enjoyed it :)

[The gadget I can't live without]

Surprisingly,it's my Keurig coffee maker. I love it/couldn't live without it to be honest.My iPhone is a close second.

I live by myself, and it makes absolutely no sense for me to make a huge pot of coffee, only to drink  2 or so cups of it and throw the rest away.  Another added bonus is the selection of K Cups-now, me, I like my coffee on the strong side, so lately I've been drinking McDonald's  French Roast McCafe K Cups.

For a while I was addicted to the Costco bold  KCups..I'll probably get burned out on those after a while and switch to something else equally as strong(I have to wake up in the morning..it is crazy how addicted to coffee I am-I get a headache if I don't have coffee or some strong form of caffeine.)

[Nothing I can do..a total eclipse of the..moon]

I love lunar eclipses. Actually, I love 'em...just don't love that the vast majority of them are at asscrack thirty in the morning,LOL. The last two I got to see,which were a thrill-the most recent one I woke up in the middle of the night and something was compelling me to go outside and look up and I did-and was not disappointed!

So there's *another* lunar eclipse early Saturday morning, at(you guessed it)asscrack thirty.I'm going to camp outside,I've got a tent and an airbed and some warm blankets(though the weather's been pretty mild here which is a good thing.)

There are some interesting coincidences too(which freak people out-more about that in a minute!).The eclipse coincides with/is around the same time as Good Friday,Passover, *and* Easter. That's kinda neat to have all the holidays right in a row-I don't think that happens all that often given that they're all moveable feasts(to say nothing of Lent.)

This freaks some people out. I really don't understand how people equate the eclipses-or "blood moons" as some sort of bad thing. Because all of the blood moons are on Jewish Feast days and this has some sort of significance,I guess? Not really sure how people came to these conclusions and I'm too busy/have better things to do with my life than Google all of the particulars.

Imma get a bit controversial right now, so if you are easily offended, quit reading:

I think there are a LOT of people that take the Bible VERY literally.They are-I'm sorry-incapable of rational thought.

(In the movie The Seventh Sign, one of the characters asks a minister about the signs that foretell the end of the world(he has seen the moon turn  blood red-which was,without doubt, a lunar eclipse.) The minister tells him,basically,that there is a rational explanation for everything that's going on-which is true enough.)

There's other things that can cause red moons, like smoke and dust in the air.The moon is also a darker colour when it is low on the horizon, as when it is rising or setting.For people to see it as some sort of ominous portent is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

Wow..this turned into waaay more of a soapbox that I wanted it to but I thought it should be said.

[right in my own backyard]

Today tickets for SD ComiCon went on sale.I'm not going(I don't do crowds TBH).  I have to   live vicariously through the people that blog/tweet about what's going on.

And anyways, if I was going to go,I would only go to the day with the panels that I was most interested in(like Hannibal..) and would stay there for the day just to kinda take it all in. Like I did with Coachella. I only went to one day of Coachella a bunch of  years ago and it was enough for me.  I would go to Coachella again if there was the right lineup(actually,there were a couple of bands on one of the days(Saturday?)that would totally have gotten me there again.)

But it's hard to get badges-especially if there is a day when there  is a lot going on. Like I said, I'm not going, but the Hannibal panel will be online, like the Paley one was.That'll be a lot of fun. I kinda hope they do a Q&A at Nerd HQ again-that's free but as with getting the SDCC tickets, you have to get in there fast(I think you had to call or email to get a spot, iirc?)

The one good thing about Hannibal being on in the summer is that it will probably be on during SDCC(usually Hannibal is over by ComiCon time) More chances to get out there and promote the show(lord knows NBC doesn't do that enough :P)