I like to take Aiden to comic book conventions. Primarily, we go to see superheroes (or people dressed up as super heroes) and take pictures with them. I do enjoy comic books, but these trips are more for Aiden than for me. I’ve followed comic books for twenty years without feeling the need to buy any or go to any...
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Last year, I took Aiden to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place. C2E2 was in its first year, but it was the first comic convention that Aiden had ever been to. We went specifically to see super heroes (and take their picture), and we met about a dozen. Aiden had a good time and we vowed to return. This...
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Aiden had such a good time at C2E2 in April that I had planned to take him to Wizard World Chicago later. Wizard is a declining force in the comics industry (they were huge back in the 90′s), so they changed the name of the event back to “Chicago Comic Con” this year. This con was arguably bigger than C2E2, but...
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Normally, Chrissy and I go to Botcon together and get a Primus package for each of us. The Primus package entitles you to an exclusive set of figures, which usually end up being very expensive on the secondary market. We buy two sets of all the exclusive figures. Chrissy will sell her stuff on eBay, and this will pay for our...
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When we found out that Botcon was going to be held in Disney World this year, we decided to bring the whole family. We confirmed that Chrissy’s mom and sister Cassie could come with us. But that was six months before the actual event. So it kind of snuck up on us, kind of like your birthday. You barely know it’s...
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I used to collect comic books in college, somewhere in the mid-nineties when comic collecting was becoming a main-stream hobby. I was really into Dark Horse comics, Tim Vigil and Joe Linsner. At one point, I owned every appearance of the Punisher (my addictive compulsive nature at work). Then I stopped. I think that I ran...
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We recently found out that the National Conference on Childhood Apraxia of Speech, a conference for speech therapists and parents of children with apraxia, will be held in nearby St. Charles, IL. Chrissy and I will be going for three days of seminars and networking from July 9th – 11th (and whatever spare time we find will...
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We did send out a Christmas letter this year, but I wanted to post it to the web site anyway. Who knows, maybe somebody who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year? If you’re not on our Christmas card list, and would like to be, please let me know! The “online...
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