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Despite various personal mishaps and actually being rather disappointed by the Hyatt during my second stay there, I very much enjoyed Comic Con. I was there for the two Critical Role panels and all the announcements. (I got to Ballroom 20 literally right before the One Piece screening and there was no line; I just walked right in!) Sunday I attended two more panels, including the Queer Eye for Elfquest which left me with a new level of awareness of just how radical that comic was for its original time, as well as how the free and accepting elf society portrayed there influenced my views and writing, and probably starting before I was even old enough to understand all that I was reading! I purchased a print of mermaids meeting casually with a sea serpent, some geeky cat stickers, a Quark's t-shirt, and a very pretty new oven mitt that probably going to be very useful indeed.
Before any of that, though, I finally made it to the San Diego Zoo, and managed to see most of it, including the pandas. Thirty years after I did a school report on the then nearly-extinct California condor as an endangered species, I finally got to see one in person. Friday and Saturday I went on a seal tour where we got to see sea lions, checked out the city's Natural History museum, and Friday night when the Sing on Street YouTube channel hosted outdoor karaoke in the Gaslamp Quarter, I got to sing "Down by the River" to the crowds. (I don't think they'll put me on YouTube, since I mostly just stood there and sung, though the guy running it complimented my voice.)
Now I am back, and facing down having to make a decision about New York very soon. But I do know I'll be going to Atlanta next May. I ended up buying that live show ticket while I was literally walking out of the plane! I also wrote an extra narrative interlude inspired by all the talking I've been doing about my first BG3 playthrough and Tav on the discords, though it may be late in the week before I have that ready for posting.

Yesterday they had a roast turkey on the pay-per-pound buffet at the Pentagon's Market Basket, which pretty much serves as its cafeteria, with a knife with which one could use to cut pieces off. So I did eat turkey after all, just a day later than most of the country did. Going to work on Black Friday isn't all bad. It was seeming like a nice day. And then we saw news of the latest terrorist attack on CNN. Not that said channel called it that, of course, but it was pretty obvious what was going on from the moment we heard there was a Planned Parenthood involved. People are blaming the latest doctored video and the GOP woman candidate who had spent the last months making up of it to assure voters she loyally supported the war on her own sex, but it wasn't as if this sort of thing hasn't been happening since the 1970s. We're going to need more than dealing with that to end this particular phenomenon.
Warmest November on record continues; walked down to Old Town today and bought the latest Elfquest. I've started following the current series, which I've never done like this; I've always been buying and reading old volumes years and years after their publication, but the cliffhangers they keep throwing at us brought me back to the comic shop today and probably will again next month. I'm not sure how I feel about this plot, though, and how much it's changing the characters and their world; there is such a thing as too much change there, and I fear it happening here. Finished episode eight of Jessica Jones this afternoon; love how the main plotline of that episode resolved itself.