No Strings Attached

Posted By Kathleen David on July 29, 2016

I had a friend say on Facebook the other day, “Can we unplug 2016 wait ten seconds and plug it in again?” Might be worth trying because the number of these I have written this year amazes me.

I met Jerry the way I met the entire cast of Babylon 5 through Peter.

Jerry was one of those large than life people you meet. He could be loud and opinionated…OK he was always loud and opinionated but that was Jerry.

He had a distinctive laugh that could be heard quite clearly. I remember one convention I was taking to Pat Tallman and catching up with things. We heard the laugh and Pat said, ‘Jerry’s here’.

He had a sense of humor and knew how to tell a joke.

He once broke his arm while filming Babylon 5 and insisted on staying until the take was done before going to get his arm set.

J. Michael Straczynski said of Jerry, “Regardless of whatever was going on in his life, whether it was marital issues, a broken arm, forced couch-surfing with Bruce and Andreas or other problems, he never once pulled a prima donna on us; he showed up every day on time, knew his lines, and insisted that the guest cast live up to the standards of the main cast.”- copyright JMS all rights reserved

Jerry, you and your laugh will be missed by me and many others.

I am grateful that I met Jerry.

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Posted By Kathleen David on July 28, 2016

The flight back was smooth. Getting to the airport and getting checked in worked out. The car service was there to pick us up. We got home and collapsed for a couple of hours before picking up some of the threads of living and starting to return to mundane reality.

Today is about unpacking and putting away this convention. Caroline is going to do laundry. I am going to be cleaning and taking care of some things that must be done like getting edible food back into the house. We have both agreed that we need to go to the gym today and get back into the swing of that. I have decided to start again with legs since I still need to give the tattoo some time to heal.

Over all the tattoo is doing fine. The only irritation is in the areas where he had to pack in the black around the neck and a couple of other spots. I am being very careful and keeping it clean and lotioned up. Susan Ellison was kind enough to give me an airplane sized container of lotion to use on it while I was traveling which was wonderful.

The cats are running hot and cold on us. They go between ‘oh we love you and we are glad to see you’ to ‘you left us alone so we are going to leave you alone’. Right now Inky is curled up at my hip and butting her head against my arm to get scritches so I think we are OK. Fig spent the night curled up with Caroline in her room.

I want to publically thank Janet, Becky and the rest of the Guest Relations crew for all their help to us during the convention. The words above and beyond are so often used but these people were the really deal on that. From the time we got there until we left, they made sure we had what we needed when we needed it.

I also want to publically thank the Artist Alley Crew for all their help as well. The Artist Alley Crew made sure that the area they were in charge of was neat and tidy and that all the artists had what they needed including people to watch their tables when off at panels and the like and some seriously magnificent crowd control for various artists lines.

Special shout-out to Michael D and the Marvel gang who were bloody but not unbowed after the convention. They did amazing considering the conditions they were working under and the odd spanner in the works that had them thinking on their feet the whole way. I am glad that the bag I made worked out so well.

And a special thanks to Michael D and Blake for something that didn’t happen but I do know how hard you both tried and wanted you to know that I appreciate that you even tried. I told you both that ‘not going to happen’ was a perfectly acceptable answer.

I am still sorting through my thoughts about the convention and will probably being randomly talking about things that happened as they come to mind.

Now back to reality and what needs to get done next, which would be the marathon of puppet building before Dragon Con. Along with one or two other projects that Caroline and I would like to have done before Dragon Con.

But first the larder and the gym await my attention.

I am grateful to everyone who helped us at Disneyland. Made it a magical experience.

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Posted By Kathleen David on July 27, 2016

We are rather tired too.

May be more later. May be more tomorrow.

I am so grateful to be home again

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Posted By Kathleen David on July 25, 2016

I have absolutely no idea why Logan’s Run was going through my head.

Anyway, the last day of a convention can be a funny thing. You are trying to do those few things you wanted to do before you left and you spend a lot of time saying good-bye to people that you are probably only going to interact with on the Internet for six months to a year.

Our day started with Peter having two panels and then had to go run a few floor errands so he didn’t get to the table and seated until 1 pm. Caroline went to the voice actors panel part 2 and was going to go to the Sailor Moon panel but decided against it in favor of going with me while I got a very different souvenir of the convention.

This all started back in 2004 at the CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) where Peter ended up getting a tattoo of the Elfquest character Leetah on his arm after Richard and Wendy Pini donated a 1000 to the CBLDF.

Since then we had, at first, joked about me getting a matching Cutter tattoo. In 2012, Wendy drew a Cutter on my arm, which was fun, but that one wasn’t to be permanent.

Now it is permanent and Peter and I have an art piece on our arms.

This started Saturday night when we found ourselves at the same restaurant as the Richard and Wendy. We were having dinner with Mark and Maggie when I spotted the Pinis. Wendy came over and in short order this happened.

Wendy Pini drawing Cutter on my arm

Peter’s Leetah tattoo beside my freshly drawn Cutter tattoo

So yesterday I went to Nothing Sacred Tattoo Shop and made the drawing a permanent part of my life. Hector did a good job. He appreciated that I had photos of the original drawing so he could get it right and I think he did a bang up job.

At the next convention you see us at, ask to see the tattoos together because they are of a piece.

I am grateful that after twelve years we have the bookend to this story.

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Posted By Kathleen David on July 23, 2016

Where in Caroline spends time with Steven Universe.

There is a show on Cartoon Network that Caroline adores entitles Steven Universe. It is about a boy who is being raised by his father and some alien sentient gems. His mother was a gem so Steven is half human and half gem. It is a show with a very good heart and excellent world building and story telling.

She found out that Rebecca Sugar who created the show was going to be at SDCC. Her one wish for the convention was a chance to say thank you to Rebecca.

She did that and even more.

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