So What Is Going On??

So, here we are about a month and a half or so until the internationally famous Comic Con. I am very, very excited. I'm not excited about taking the 8-10 hour trek to San Diego but it was my choice to drive, but I am excited about going and the chance to see Stan Lee and Ray Bradbury. These two men composed my life in an outwardly sort of way to what it is today.

Stan Lee had everything to do with comic books. Comic books are something that I grew up with in my family home. My father made sure to have plenty of Donald Duck, Batman, and Archie comic books to help us to learn to read but also, to have something to read in the bathroom. He was not into porn like most guys today. He read comic books. He had a lot of comic books. One whole shelf in the middle closet was dedicated to comic books. This was right across from the bathroom and that's where everyone looked first before entering the throne room. They picked their choice of books and then sat whittling away the hours doing their business and learning to read. I have to have a chance to meet Stan Lee for my father who is now deceased but would have loved to go to Comic Con but also for myself to thank him for all he did for my dad and our family.

Ray Bradbury backed up my love for ghost hunting. It was his books and the occasional television special that wrapped up my desire for what I now do as a "job". It was from this man's mind and books like, "The Martian Chronicles" that gave me something to read and build a fantasy from. It was with those fantasies that I was able to mold myself into the ghost hunter and paranormal researcher I am today. All those stories enabled my mind to become open and wonder what else there is in the world that I want to learn about and become. He taught me from these writings that I can do whatever I want to do even though it is not within the norm of today's life. I learned from him. I would like to thank him personally.

I am excited about Comic Con. To this point I have not found too much to get excited about. It has been a voyage filled with glitches and problems. I have not been happy about purchasing tickets almost a year in advance. I have not been happy about the hotel rooms, how we had to acquire one, the cost which was a third more than you could get them online, the fact that you couldn't get them online, just from the company they assigned, the fact that you had no choices even though they gave you choices you had to get what they gave you not what you may have wanted. The negative side of that being that if you didn't opt for what they gave you, that's just too bad because then you don't get a hotel room at all. I still haven't heard back from the hotel company regarding my second hotel room so I guess there will be none. I am concerned about what I am going to be up against once I get there considering the hundreds of thousands of people that will be there and that Comic Con can't promise anybody anything.

It is something that will require navigating once and then return the next year so that you get the proper experience. This is obviously something you can't get right the first year. It begs of being allowed another year to get it right. I will make it a point to try this and we will see how it works.

But, for now at least, I am at the mercy of trying and re-trying to get it right this time. It has been disappointing but we'll fumble through this.

There have been no reminders, alerts or anything to let us know if anything new has happened or is happening but going to their website can be confusing. There are last year's things on it and instead of taking it off or just posting it to it's own page, you have it there and think you are looking at the current year's postings. Not so. You need to read and re-read everything to be sure where you have navigated to and what you need to know.

I'm still waiting to see how this all pan's out. It will be a pain but a pain I'm willing to take on at least once.