Treebeard the Ent's Journal: Star Wars Celebration 3

This weekend, it seems living in Indianapolis is finally going to pay off. Star Wars Celebration 3 is in town and it has everyone here talking. Most people making fun of it of course. But people like me are excited about it. While I have been excited about it too, I have also been saddened by it. I mean I live in the city that the biggest Star Wars event (outside of premiers) is being held, and my dumb luck that I have had nothing but bad luck lately. My wife has recently been sick and had to go to the hospital for pneumonia. My daughter has been to the doctor a couple of times because she is throwing up very badly and... well let's just say she has been throwing up and down if you know what I mean.

So it looked looked like I would not be attending the convention. Then I heard George Lucas himself was going to be here, and that renewed my desire to go. Alas financing was still a problem... Until last night. I got a call at about 8pm and it was my mom. I have been doing a lot of upgrades on her computer with no charge (I mean she's family). Pretty much I have used extra hardware sitting around the house to build her a new decent machine. Well, it appears that she wants to show how much she appreciates what I have done by paying for me and my wife to go to Star Wars Celebration. So it looks like tomorrow, I will get to go and enjoy a day at the convention (depending on my daughter's health)(and if it's not sold out).

I'm so excited. Anyone else going to be going this weekend (yes, I know it started today.)

In other news, I have heard about a group of storm troopers that are marching on the Indiana State House today. They are trying to get legislation passed that would build a new/expanded convention center and a new stadium for the Colts.

Yay!

[robi2106]

A good friend of mine in real life will be attending along with a group of people from the newsgroup Alt.Fan.Wedge [google.com] (yes that is how geeky we are). Check out the newsgroup and see if any meetup posts listed times / dates / places. OR just check out some [livejournal.com] of their [livejournal.com] LiveJournals for up to the minute posts from inside the convention.

jason