Not a full con report, but some highlights...

The main reason for not being full is the lack of photos, which I haven't gotten out of my phone. I'll probably do a photo only post. I don't know how good they'll be, and there probably won't be many, so often I saw something I wanted to photograph but the moment I got the camera out and on (even just awakening from sleep mode takes a few seconds... probably should have extended the time in sleep mode before needing a password for the con, too), the moment past. And a little more infuriatingly, the camera quality was pretty good in the viewfinder (still haven't seen how it all turned out) MOSTLY, but sometimes it would be blurry for 10-20 seconds before suddenly clarifying, and in that time the photo I wanted to get disappeared. Also, it kept reverting my settings on zoom and stuff every time it went to sleep. Poor program design. And occasionally I accidentally hit the 'record video' button and didn't realize it and was stuck just recording random travelings for a while until I caught myself. Anyway, I think my best days as a shutterbug lie in the future where I wear Google-Glass type things that just record everything I see into one video that I can snip out individual shots at will. Still, I'm glad I got the phone.

I'm still exhausted today (of course, I worked today, so that may be a big factor in extending it), but we'll see how it goes.

I'll give the long semi-linear story behind the cut, and maybe a bullet-point list of edited highlights at the end.

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