Anime Weekend Atlanta (or Good Times in the Big Peach)

“Good moanin’, good moanin’, how are you this moanin’?”

“I’m good. How are you?”

“Good… might as well be.”

Two elderly black gentlemen had entered the dining area to eat breakfast. I was just finishing mine. Might as well be good. Yeah, that’s right. I might as well be good, it’s better than feeling bad. We all have a choice. Choose to feel good. It makes a lot of sense. As Tolstoy wrote in “War and Peace”:

There’s no escapin’ fate. But we are always findin’ fault and complainin’: this ain’t right and the other don’t suit us. Happiness, friend, is like water in a drag net – pull it along, and it bulges; take it out, and it’s empty!

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, page 1150.

I needed that. I was facing 3 whole days of an anime convention in Atlanta. Moe was attending her first “con” as they’re called. So I decided to run with it and have a good time.

Biggest Con in the Southeast

Yes, it was big. It took us all day to register, and because I did not have a booster, I had to pay $35.00 for a COVID test. I have had many COVID tests, and this is the first time I have had to pay for one. The interesting thing was that they wanted so much personal information first. I wondered aloud to my neighbor in line, “What’s more important, getting the test to find out if I have it, or collecting all this information about me?” A wry smile and knowing nods from the young guys beside me confirmed my suspicions.

A guy in line bending over backward for a Covid test. It’s a good thing I didn’t have to go that far.

Halloween for Elderly Teenagers and Young Adults in Atlanta

What other way is there to describe it?

Gawd!! How disgusting. Gouged-out eyes. That’s really horrifying.