Arisia

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My wife agreed to do some demos for the Higgins museum at the Arisia Science Fiction convention this weekend. It is a show we used to do all the time. But, since I quit doing Higgins demos more than 5 years ago, I hadn’t been in a while.

On the way in we saw a rainbow and hoped it was a good luck sign.


Apparently reflection rainbows are good luck signs. This one was a refraction rainbow.

The show was in a part of Boston that has changed a lot since I grew up just outside the city line. So, we got off the new turnpike exit and drove around a while trying to figure out which hotel we were after.

It turned out to be the one next to the place with the big roof.


As you’d expect of a big hotel that caters to conventions and such, they only have 200 parking spaces.
Wait, did that make sense?
Not to me...

Still I managed to find a place across the street and was probably better off for it.

After all, the 200 spaces they have go for $40 to get in for any amount of time. I paid $2.50 in quarters to the meter across the street....

My wife was only there to practice today.


I tried to keep people from walking through the practice. This wasn’t bad when they were just waving their arms. But, more of a worry when they picked up the swords.


Despite palusbuteo and my attempts to block people two different mothers towing their children behind them pushed past me to walk through the sword fight.

Two!
Morons.

When they were done practicing, there was a little hat on one of the chairs we had used to try and stop people.

This fit the theme of rainbows and creatures associated with them. But, not having found the end of the rainbow, the gold and luck were not ours.

We still had a few minutes of the 2 hours left on the meter when we headed out of the city.
Sadly, as mentioned above, all my instincts for getting to the highway are based on the city 30-40 years ago.
So, we drove around and around a bit. But, found the turnpike again and went home.

When I got home I found messages from my boss and the folks in Switzerland saying they didn’t like the drawing I had sent them yesterday and I needed to fix it before Monday morning, Swiss time.
So, I headed into work and spent a couple hours there.

Next time, I need to find the right kind of rainbow...