Whew, I survived this year's CCEE. Wow, there were a lot of people this year. And I mean a lot. It was so epic, the fire marshal was called in and had to shut down the place for awhile while they counted heads. Not cool for all of the geeks outside of the building. And just to be clear, no codes were violated; the fire department just had to do their jobs.

I'll talk more about this once I have had a good night's sleep, but the highlight of the day was definitely meeting Sir Patrick Stewart twice. Once to get his autograph, a birthday present for my sister, and once again for his photo-op. Yup, we did a family photo with him. We are a family of geeks. I didn't get to say anything to the man, but it was still nice to stand next to him for all of two seconds.

Despite all of the hiccups this year, I'm confident that the Expo people will sort it out and have next year working like clockwork. It happened last year. The year before that was a bit of a gong show but they fixed all of the problems by the next expo. I'm just not sure where they can go from here. What other TV cast could they reunite? I vote for the Firefly cast. It'd probably be the only way to get Nathan Fillion to come to the city.

Okay, I'm going to bed now.