EdKitten

Ooops -- meant to say "ask if they can recommend a cheaper place to park that's safe."

Also, I've found the people at TripAdvisor.com to be really helpful with trip questions (almost all the time). You might want to tell them the dates of your travel, hotel name, cost of parking, and ask if they can recommend a cheaper place that's safe. https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g28969-i39-District_of_Columbia.html If the url doesn't work, you can get there by: www.tripadvisor.com click: More (near the top) click: Forums click: US click: District of Columbia

Back in the 90's I had bosses who traveled a lot. They'd park their cars and leave them at Reagan National Airport during their whole trip. A google search said the airport's economy lot is $19 per day. The daily parking rate at the Terminal Garages is $29 per day. National Airport has a metro stop right there at the airport, so you could hop onto the metro. Dulles Airport also has a metro stop now, but I don't know if it's right next to the airport or farther away. The down side is that your car would be at the airport during your trip, so you wouldn't have the car near you

What an incredibly huge loss! I never got into his works, but know that so many people must be feeling his passing. Saw a minute or so video about him on Youtube, titled "15 famous celebrities who died today 17th March 2024" by the Youtube channel: Hollywood Culture. (I don't know why they put "died today" and "March 17th"). The timestamp for Akira is around 8:56. In the same video, at around timestamp 8:02, they had a short video about Tarako, a Japanese voice actress for Inuyasha, Castle in the Sky and other things.

Just another reminder -- clocks should be turned forward one hour on Sunday. Hey, just looked through some of the programming -- Crunchyroll is going to be there and will have some screenings and other things. And looks like Awesome Con will have a small section for anime stuff. I hope it's good. So great that anime is getting a bigger presence at a comic con!

Yeah, sorry about that. I was running out of time on the computer. But, I just went through their whole guest list today: 😃 Star Wars: Hayden Christensen Rosario Dawson Natasha Liu Bordizzo Daredevil, Echo: Alaqua Cox Charlie Cox Wilson Bethel Josie And The Pussycats: Rachael Leigh Cook Rosario Dawson Tara Reid Breaking Bad: Daniel Moncada Luis Moncada Dean Norris Raymond Cruz RJ Mitte Steven Michael Quezada Smallville: Michael Rosenbaum Tom Welling

Just a reminder -- the WEWCC will have Awesome Con this weekend March 8-10, 2024. url: awesome-con.com If you're going via Metrorail, you might want to make sure the stations you're using are open, to schedule your travel time. (Some that I'll be using will be closed, but they'll have free shuttle buses to the next available station.) Metrorail's url for trackwork is: wmata.com/service/track-work.cfm A color map of the Metrorail system is at: wmata.com/schedules/maps/wmata-system-map.cfm Some movie/tv stars scheduled to attend (g

Great info -- many thanks! Hey, they did take cash to register at the Travel and Adventure show recently (along with cards, of course)! And believe it or not, they had actual people there at the booths to register (instead of iPads)! Of course though, they only took cards to buy food and drinks inside the convention center. My guess is, each show can pick and choose what type of money they want to accept for registration.

The url: https://travelshows.com/shows/washingtondc/ Last year, Andrew had to cancel because of testing positive for covid, so I hope everything's A-OK for his talk tomorrow. I think he's given autographs in the past (he's been giving talks at the show for a few years), and there's a book vendor which sells his books (and other books of course).

This post may be too late, but WEWCC is having a "Travel and Adventure" show this weekend Feb 24-25, 2024. Andrew's going to be talking on Saturday around 12pm or 12:15pm.

Gosh, I had no idea other places were making it hard to use cash, or not accepting it at all. Locally, there's two places that don't use cash anymore (I'm near DC now). There might be more, since I don't go to every store, of course. Yeah, a pre-paid card sounds like the way to go. Hopefully, with Otakon's pre-registration, they'll want to use their own computers/ipads, so the registration will be like last year. P.S. Sorry it took a while to respond -- I use public computers, so sometimes it takes a while to get to them. 😵

Forgot to say -- I'd really rather have registration stay the same way that Otakon's done it in the past, if it's at all possible! 🙂

Since the last Otakon in 2023, I've been to a few events at the WEWCC. Like last Otakon, to buy food, they only accept cards for payment. But the last two events I attended wouldn't even accept cash for on-site registration! For registering, they had a bunch of long, rectangular shaped ipads set up and you had to type in some information and pay with a card. One event did accept cash -- but you had to type in the information on the ipad, then have a staff member direct you to a far-away booth, where a staff member looked up your registration on their ipad, and then you paid them with c

If anyone's interested, a lot of the Book Festival's talks are on Youtube already. (I haven't checked the Festival's webpage yet, to see if the videos are on there.) On Youtube, Elliot's talk is at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnAmtoEYoVs The video's over 8 hours long, but Elliot's talk is around 6:15:23 -- 7:02:10.

A little before Otakon, I gave up seeing the boards, after many times of waiting 4 minutes each, and it never loaded. A little after Otakon happened, I tried again and it worked great, saw lots of people's comments about attending Otakon, hotels, etc. But after that, the boards sometimes load right away, sometimes not. I hope people don't give up coming here, since loading has been so moody. 🙁