What's Stopping You?

While I learned a lot from my first Art Booth experience at a sci-fi/gaming convention, this is the lesson I want to remember most:

Sitting in a small curtained room for 4 days of 8-hour shifts, hoping someone will walk in and look at something and wondering what is going on around you....not something I'd recommend. A booth partner is highly recommended.

Is anyone going to Dragon Con that would like to help me run my booth in the art show?

My spell check program has stopped acknowledging the existence of contractions. Every time I type an apostrophe, it complains. I am just saying.

So, I was going to tell you about Shenzhen, and though my time on the other side of the world already feels painfully far away, it's important to me that I document the rest of the trip.

I got up early and gave Thorn Chain a call, as we'd agreed that the first to wake should call the other. They were still in bed, and I spent a good long while online trying to hunt down that beautiful Shen Hao that I wanted. There was a phone number for a store in Shenzhen. I think I wrote about this part already. The number had a message in Cantonese in it. I went downstairs to the lobby and had the clerk on duty translate for me. He grinned apologetically and said, "It says this number is, how you say, not there. Not working. Gone."

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