Decision made, I'm definitely going this year. I asked the boss for the time off two weeks ago, and he hasn't confirmed it yet. Well, screw it, I'm going either way.

I already plan to leave this job in December anyway. If the boss refuses my time off, he simply gets my notice that much earlier.

See you in San Francisco!

Ah, yaoi con! What can be better in the late autumn than four pleasantly warm days in San Francisco with friends? It was fantastic to spend time with the wonderful tameiki1 again, after over a year without her charming and ever-entertaining company, as well as catching up with a number of other friends from earlier cons and adding the inevitable new ones XD We got to spend much more time with the fabulous kiriko_moth and jambery than I managed last year, which was lovely - great company, and even better tour guides, those ladies make :-) They introduced us to all the best shops in the Castro (no, not all of them were sex shops, though I did pick up a little something to try out on the SO ;-) ), and some great eateries. The Castro's Nirvana served very nice food and equally good (and since it was happy hour, more than reasonably priced) cocktails. Saturday evening was an over-abundance of tasty Tex-Mex, which almost made us too late for the bishie auction, eek! But we squeezed in the door, and by a sheer and most unlikely fluke, I benefited from our appalling timing by ending up in the front row....

As has been the story of the last couple of cons, I spent remarkably little time actually at the con activities and a lot chatting with friends, shopping in Japan town, and seeing a few sights - on Sunday I introduced tameiki1 to the Sutro baths, and a group of us headed down to San Jose and a tour of the Winchester Mystery House in the evening. Somehow there's never enough time to see everything and spend with everyone - meerkat and babaca, I'll definitely have to try and grab more of you two next time round :-)

I got back home yesterday afternoon with a suitcase weighing a little over 20lb more than the one I left with - somehow each year I get the feeling I won't be buying all that much, and then I do....

There will be more to come! There will be comments and reviews of Stuff Wot I Bought! There will be ramblings on the sights that were seen! Though I make no promises on exactly when some of those will be forthcoming - I think it might take me a while to read all of the manga XD

I had a fantastic time, with a bunch of new faces to go with most of the old ones returned from last time.

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