
I guess not. My mission down there this morning (without tickets, mind you), was to try to distribute promo cards for Nature's Little Recyclers' current Kickstarter campaign "No More Landfills" (we had hoped to have had promo cards for a specific part of that, the "NERDICULTURE" event we're having this summer, but although the cards were supposed to have been ready for pick-up on Friday - and probably were - we didn't get the notice that they WERE ready until Saturday, when the printer was closed and we couldn't get them).
So, there I was, up on the second level, somewhere between the escalators up to that level and the ones to the next (main) level, and I can't get a single person to take a card from me ... nope, NOT ONE. Really. Dozens and dozens of people moving past all doing the hand-wave decline and scooting past me. Even one guy who "got" my shirt and chatted about it wouldn't take a card. This made me a sad and paranoid camper. I suppose I may have looked like some preacher person who was trying to warn them that attending the show was a first-class ticket to Hell, or something (and not some random Urban Agriculture guy trying to get funding for worms to eat waste before it gets to the landfills), but going 0-for-hundreds was pretty damn depressing.
Speaking of depressing, it looks like LiveJournal is broken today ... I had to fight to get a pic to upload and had to go through "back channels" to get it into the post (none of the buttons in the update screen are working) ... and I can't preview or post this right now. {insert irritating hold music here} OK ... a few hours later ... I still can't get LJ working in FireFox, or Opera, and it won't even LOAD in MSIE. I have, however, finally managed to get it to work in Chrome, so I logged out of the Btripp-Books account and logged in with my main account there, and things seem to be working (I can preview the post and the "post" button appears to be active).

Anyway, that was my day ... go down to the convention center to be totally frustrated in my mission, then fight all afternoon with Live Journal trying to get this post up (and I was planning on putting up one of the book reviews I got written last night, but now I guess I'll hold that for tomorrow). Once again, sucks to be me, I guess.
