I had quite an exciting weekend this last weekend. Saturday started out quite nicely with a visit to the Grand/Slam convention somewhere in the greater Los Angeles area (there were some pretty hill-type things nearby). Saturday's celebrity sitings included the blond chick from Dead Like Me (a show I don't have time to watch, so I have no idea what her name is). We were supposed to meet Hayden Panettiere, the cheerleader of Heroes fame, but her flight supposedly was delayed so she showed up too late in the evening for us to see her. Since the days are sort of blending in, I can tell you that either Saturday or Sunday there was a panel of folks from Battlestar Gallactica and they were pretty funny taken altogether. The actress that plays Starbuck (I just like her name... she has coffee right?) was surprisingly girly and really funny. If we ever have time to do such a thing, Steven wants to watch BG again from the beginning with me so that I can understand what's going on in the show. The creature guy (I'm such a horrible fan-girl... I don't know anyone's names) was there and he was a little ticked off at FOX for screwing him over on some credit he should have gotten. Of course, I generally am ticked off at FOX because they have a track record full of stupidity and illogical reasoning (which are fine attributes when they belong to me, but not at all acceptable in the companies that control my favorite shows).

The most exciting convention event of the weekend for me was seeing James and Oliver Phelps, and Stanislav Ionevski, of Harry Potter fame. The interview was entertaining, but mostly it was a TON of questions about all the actors from HP and not as much about them... this I found disappointing, since I adore them and would like to learn a little more about them. There's already an abundance of information available about the lead actors. Oh well. I did get autographs in my books from all three of the actors and that was nice.

Saturday several of us went out for karaoke and sushi to celebrate the birthdays three of us have had recently. It was great fun, I had much to drink (hangover less fun, now I remember why I don't drink as much), and I also got one of my most-desired presents--a personal GPS designed for hikers/runners to measure distance traveled (although it doesn't have a map, per se). It has a bunch of really neat features that I don't yet understand, but the most important one was being able to time and measure my excursions. Weeee!