Hello from San Diego, Pre-ComicCon!

I am in San Diego, several days before the Con of all Cons starts to get a little relaxing in before there will be no more relaxing for several days. It is so weird to see the convention center and the Gaslamp District empty; I'm accustomed to seeing it teeming with costumed humanity. Here's a peek at my adventures thus far:

Welcome to the Historic Heart of San Diego, the Gaslamp District! This is where the majority of the off-site events take place during the Con. There's a ton of great restaurants and shops to check out here.

So this is what the convention center looks like with no people! Super weird. 

Where is everyone? I should probably get in line for Hall H right now, maybe I'll actually have a shot at getting in.
















Look, I found Terminus! And it's at a Hilton, how convenient. I believe there's a BBQ taking place there that you can go to if you tweet a selfie of yourself in front it, and then be one of the first 200 people to show the tweet to the people at at the entrance. Hopefully this works out better for you than it did for the gang in The Walking Dead...

 I guess there's Game of Thrones beer (sorry, ale) now. If only I liked beer...












Seaport Village, which is northwest of the convention center, hosts quite a large number of shops and restaurants. I had no idea there was so much back there! It's definitely worth checking out.

There was this awesome guy balancing rocks using magic/physics. While I was watching, he balanced was working on the tower in the right of the picture. He put a huge rock on top of a very small rock. It took a couple minutes, but then it magically balanced. I've seen pictures of this kind of thing but never seen it done in person, so I was really really happy to see this!