There are many of you that all ready know what Dragon Con is, for those of that don't I can only refer you to this link, http://dragoncon.org/members.php#OnsiteReg and to this link, http://youtu.be/qZQUVkPl9Zw .
The first link goes directly to Dragon Con's official Web Site and provides information on dates, times, location, activities, parades, seminars, presentations, and much, much more.
The second link goes directly to about a half hour long video that gives you a clear view of the multitude of people and their costumes worn while attending D*Con.
My daughter who happens to be a very long time attendee of Dragon Con and therefore knows everyone there is to know at Dragon Con was able to get me an Exhibitor's Badge so that I could get into
Dragon Con for free. What we did was take two cars and caravan to down town Atlanta starting at about 8:00am this morning(Sept 1, 2012). We parked at the Peachtree Parking center, right next to the Hilton Hotel. The reason we took two cars was so that I could leave whenever I felt I needed to.
The line for attendees to get their badges circled completely around the Hilton Hotel, that's a block long on 4 sides people. But most everybody was in costume and the line was moving at a steady walk. The Dragon Con people have the ticketing process down to a science so that the purchase and collecting of the tickets are quick and easy.
Fortunately I already had the Exhibitors Badge so I was able to go into the "Assistance Needed" area to obtain a special sticker added to my badge so that I didn't have to wind up waiting in long lines, and I could sit on the end of any row of seats which allows one to get in and out easier. Especially if you are using handicap assistance of any kind.
Everybody I met was polite and very helpful if a person needed help or had questions, people would happily answer your question or get somebody who could help.
My main focus was to attend the Space and Science presentation which gave a movie of the major achievements and the major failures along the way to getting to the moon. For me, it brought back a lot of memories of programs that I worked on in the space program. For those of you too young to know it, there were over 150,000 people across the nation working directly or indirectly on various phases of the space program. There were at least another 500,000 people involved in supporting the space program in ancillary and support functions. And believe me when I tell you we were working on the leading edge of technology, including having to invent new products, and solve major problems in order to fix the mechanisms needed to reach into space and to land on the moon.
I am very proud to have been part of the program. I will be writing up descriptions of several of the programs I worked on, which hopefully will bring a smile to your face, and a Greater Appreciation of some of the problems we had to overcome.
God Bless us all from the gahillbilly.
"(C) Copyright by Victor Winebrenner"
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