Here's a recap of a week that wasn't too exciting... aside from two very eventful days. My apologies for getting this up later than usual, but I had to do some things before finishing this off, including going to Walmart, which was thankfully an uneventful trip.
Monday I did not do anything. Tuesday, I went out to dinner, which meant going to Chipotle and after that going to Planet Smoothie to get one of their new limited edition flavors (they are going with a superhero theme and the one I had was Thorberry Greek). Wednesday I did not do anything either (but the friend of my mom's went back home to Illinois) so let me get to the crux of this post, which is what I did on Thursday and Friday.
Thursday night I went to the Amway Center in Orlando to catch a pair of college basketball games. It was part of the NCAA tournament, a big deal during this time of the year as many people who don't even watch a second of those games otherwise participate in office pools where they try to come up with the most accurate bracket. I had never been to one of them so I figured I should use part of my birthday cash to check it out. The first game was Saint Louis vs. North Carolina State and the second was Manhattan against Louisville, who won the entire tournament last year. I sat in the upper deck but the view was fine. The people around me were usually fine, but during the second game there was someone who loved hollerin' in a barely coherent manner. I never got a glimpse of him... for all I know that person was “mentally handicapped” with how they were acting. If not, then yikes.
The first game wasn't the prettiest to watch; North Carolian State built a big lead but due to crappy play they blew it and the game went into overtime, where Saint Louis won. There was a half hour break, where I got to eat some pizza. Then, it was Louisville only beating Manhattan by a few points. The people that put together the tournament knew what they were doing here; they had Louisville play against a team coached by a guy who used to play then coach alongside Louisville's coach, and that had to be a big reason why the game was close except for the final 90 seconds or so. I was at least glad I got to see two close exciting games in a row. If only the second game hadn't taken so damn long and I wasn't in the building for almost 6 hours straight.
Friday, I did another first; I went to a comic book convention. It was at the Orange County Convention Center on I-Drive and it's known as MEGACON. The past few years I was interested to go to one of these but due to various circumstances, I couldn't do it until now. I got there not too long after it opened and it was already jam-packed and OH MY GOD. The sights I saw there were even wackier than I could have imagined. There were some classic cosplaying, such as Doctor Who (there were plenty of Doctors around), Star Wars, Star Trek, or something old like Indiana Jones and Marty McFly. Many of the videogame ones I recognized. But, just about all of the anime characters (which was many of the people there), I have NO idea as to what character they were portraying as I don't watch any anime at all, and most of those were pretty wacky-looking to me. Of course, I do have to give props to everyone who dressed up, as they all put in a lot of time and effort into their costumes; some were pretty elaborate and/or required giant props.
I know that the title of this post references “smelly cosplayers”. Sad to say a few times I did smell some pretty bad body odor, which lives up (or down) to the stereotype. I hope that during the weekend where I understand MANY more people were there, that body odor didn't hang in the air but that's a distinct possibility. I actually shouldn't make fun of most cosplayers like that, as I am sure only a small segment of them have an issue with showering. After all, at least 6 random people complimented me on an XFL shirt I dug out and wore that's vintage from when I bought it in 2002 from a Spencer's Gifts when it was on clearance for only like 4 bucks. I can only imagine the sort of attention I would have gotten if I had dressed up in any sort of outfit; it's easy to see why those people would want to dress up and get showered with compliments for their duds.
As much of the items there weren't for me (I just don't care about anime or comic books, and I don't really care for hentai, which was actually on one table), I spent a lot of time just walking about and looking at everyone's outfit. I ate dinner there; they offered up chicken fingers and fries and as I ate it, it was not too great, and I later paid the price for eating that food!
There were people around I knew who I didn't see (I discovered this later), but I did see some people I know and it was nice to talk to them, even if it was only for about a minute or two. It was certainly a different environment for me, all those “unique” people milling about, and a rare case of me NOT being one of the oddest individuals around!
By the time I got home I was simply exhausted from all the walking around I did in that 24 hour period. That is why I did not do anything Saturday or Sunday. At least there was college basketball to half pay attention to, as that's at least more interesting to me than most of what's on TV. To be honest most of what you do see on TV is total mindless garbage but that's another rant for another day.
When I return next Monday to post my next blog, I really don't know yet what I'll be writing about. It won't be as eventful or different as this blog post, but it should turn out at least OK.
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