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and the following author guests:
Jim Butcher (Author Guest of Honor: White Knight)
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (Author Guest of Honor: Star Trek: Federation)
Tanya Huff (Author: Blood Trail)
Kelly J. Compeau (Author: The Black Tower)
David Nickle (Author: The Claus Effect)
Shannon Butcher (Author: No Control)
Kelley Armstrong (Author: The Summoning)
Erik Buchanan (Author: Small Magics)
Peter Watts (Author: Blindsight)
Kenneth Tam (Author: The Forge Fires)
Derwin Mak (Author: The Moon Under Her Feet)
Julie E. Czerneda (Author: Reap The Wild Wind)

Plus! Over 300 hours of programming including Special Celebrity Guest Q & A’s, Scientists, Authors, Discussion Panels, Anime & Video, Gaming, Autographs & Photographs, Masquerade Contest, The Dance and Art Displays.  And don’t forget The 2nd annual Constellation Awards with host Rick Green (The Frantics, Prisoners of Gravity, History Bites), and Step into Darkness: A Vampire Event! 
For more details check out the Polaris 22 website at http://www.tcon.ca !

Polaris 22
July 11-13, 2008

This is going to be great!

😀

Guests incluuuuuude

Jamie Bamber (Apollo in the current Battlestar Galactica)

Kari Byron (from the Mythbusters)

Tori Belleci (from the Mythbusters)

Arlene Martel (Spock’s wife, guys!)

AAAAANNNNNNDDDD *about dies of excitement*

Claudia Christian (Commander Susan Ivonova from Babylon 5)

Dean Haglund (Richard “Ringo” Langly from The X-Files) (!!!)

Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar, from Star Trek: TNG, producer of Trekkies) (Even if she is responsible for [i]Trekkies[/i], I cannot suffer the witch to live :()

Erin Gray (Colonel Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Basically I am bouncing off the walls in excitement; IMHO this is the best line-up since I started going four years ago. Any opinions here, guys? Anyone wanna come? I’m a minion so I get in free, in exchange for eight hours of backbreaking labor. It’s worth it though. SQUEE!!! ^_^

TheBrother was determined this year not to be caught in the usually Friday noon rush, so we arrived on Thursday afternoon. Sixish, after a sixteen hour drive. ;D Whooo, what fun. But it was a good thing. After showing my id to the Marriott Marquis’ clerk at the check in desk, said id was snatched out of my hand and theBrother took off to get our con badges. Leaving me to finish checking in and deal with a heavily over burdened hotel luggage cart and a very nice baby bellboy. Despite the lumber protruding from the cart promising potential peril to all the convention goers we passed, we quickly made it to our room.

Good thing too. The minute I tipped said luggage lugger, I speed hobbled down to the main convention floor to sign in for our Lexx Fan table. Even though the table check-in deadline was noon on Friday, quite a few of the good tables were gone. However, as luck would have it, I managed to find Ms. Tabor a few seconds before the Romulan group did. So as he danced impatiently, she let me study her map and pointed out the remaining tables. Central table. Last end cap. Wall behind it. By the Exhibition Hall doors. Yeah baby, prime table real estate. 😀 I bounced back up to my room and snagged my packing tape and a Lexx Flyer and taped it securely to the table so there would be no last minute mistakes.

Shortly afterward theBrother arrived with our badges and we went out for dinner. Which surprisingly enough was not as easy as it sounded. The Marriott was undergoing some construction that started about three weeks before we arrived so their skybridge area was closed for construction. We also found out that the alternate route would only be open until six the next day and then closed for the rest of the weekend. Who starts a major building project two weeks before a convention that draws 30,000 people? Ah, that would be the Marriott.

Apparently the only route to the Hyatt would involved leaving the cool of the hotel, fighting the vehicle traffic at the main entrance, crossing a busy street and going up about two flights of steep crowded stone stairs. As some of you may know, I finally killed the last of the cartilage in my left knee, so me slepping a heavy cart full of dvd’s and other Lexx loot up two flight of stairs Friday night was not going to happen. Not to worry. After pointing out a few failures to plan and expressing my joy at this turn of events to the right person, they gave me a call card for a hotel car. Yeah me. Chalk up another one for the powers of persuasive speech class.

Anyhow, Thursday night drew to a close. And lest you think I am totally down on the Marriott for the numerous bone headed things they did over the course of the convention, quite a few bone headed things actually. I have got to tell you, the beds were to die for. I found out later that they have added 4” down feather beds and duvets to their rooms. Now, I have some killer good mattresses at home, but these were heavenly. And yeah for me… they sell them on line. I think theSpouse will get a gift that keeps on giving this Christmas. If I can wait that long. And… I have found something for theFather who is fed up with fruitcakes, specialty jellys and aids for the hard of hearing. 

I only have a few picture, but this weekend, after I finish my inventory at work 😥 I will finish this and post my pictures and a link to a lot more. Perhaps we can get jkd112 to pop up the ones he took also.

Inventory. Ugh. Pray for me 😛