The OH 2015

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The OH 2015

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(copied and pasted from a Facebook post)

I had such a wonderful weekend at the Palladium Open House, which was a mini-convention for fans of Palladium Books, one of the companies I work for. I'm very close friends with several other freelance artists and writers, but we're spread so far across the country we don't get to see one another. But when we get a weekend like this, we're thick as thieves. After hours since Thursdays was spent laughing over Mad Max, one live Tigers game, bourbon, and games games and even more laughing with Brandon K. Aten, Amy Ashbaugh, Josh Sinsapaugh, and Juan A Baez.
But during they day, wow...all I can say is wow. Every time we have the Open House, I'm blown away by the enthusiasm and care and the kind-hearted nature of each of these great, weird people. My people. And this year was special for me, as it was my first time really out and on public display since the Incident™. And and each of my fans came up and expressed their love, told me how worried for they had been for me, and hoy GREAT it was to see me me not only out, but that my newly diminished physicality has done nothing to squash my spirit, humor, or energy. My ride to and from the OH flew in from Germany. Two of the gentlemen who also took in the baseball game were from Great Britain. I met a man from Uruguay and another from Asia. One fan even made me something so special, and so specifically useful to me as a hemipalegic that I about gave him all original pieces of art as my way saying thanks; instead opted to give him the limited edition print I was offering...and the guy tried to tell me no! That's the kind of fans Palladium Books Inc. has, and they are wonderful.
I came away from the weekend tired and exhausted with the kind of sunburn you'd expect to find on an extra for Close Encounters, with more cabbage in my coffers than I started the weekend with, some terrific memories, and hugely spiritually boosted.
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It was great to see you Mike! You are an inspiration.
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You didn't even say good bye. Jerk. Also, Last Night on Earth is a very cool game, even though you turned it into 28 Minutes Later.
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Brian Manning wrote:You didn't even say good bye. Jerk. Also, Last Night on Earth is a very cool game, even though you turned it into 28 Minutes Later.


I didn't say goodbye to you guys? I'm sorry man! Though I do walk very slow and pretty much had everyone else carry all my stuff and it was all place right in front of you as I exited..slowly...
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MADMANMIKE wrote:It was great to see you Mike! You are an inspiration.


Oohh, wait... I was looking in the mirror and talking to myself.... my bad... :D
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MADMANMIKE wrote:
MADMANMIKE wrote:It was great to see you Mike! You are an inspiration.


Oohh, wait... I was looking in the mirror and talking to myself.... my bad... :D


And it was great seeing you too, knothead.
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I've always liked your work Mike. Glad to hear it was a good weekend for you.
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Jerell wrote:I've always liked your work Mike. Glad to hear it was a good weekend for you.


Thank you very much!
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I have never been so happy paying off a bet.... you are amazing.
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Brother Mumah, it was great to see you, I enjoyed our too brief conversations. BTW, you have a new fan in Connor, thanks for the sketch!
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Yeah, I'm gonna join the others in saying it was great to see you again. Hope the sunburn didn't affect your weekend too much! Keep up the good work!

P.S. sorry I thought you were a traitor!
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Which one were you Mike? (jk) :wink:
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zyanitevp wrote:I have never been so happy paying off a bet.... you are amazing.


We had a lot of fun drinking your payment Saturday night. See Wayne Smith's, Taylor White's, and Stephen Dawes' posts on Facebook for photographic evidence of us enjoying that little victory. There is very little of that bottle left.
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mumah wrote:
zyanitevp wrote:I have never been so happy paying off a bet.... you are amazing.


We had a lot of fun drinking your payment Saturday night. See Wayne Smith's, Taylor White's, and Stephen Dawes' posts on Facebook for photographic evidence of us enjoying that little victory. There is very little of that bottle left.

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We're all decent. You just didn't know any better.
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It was a please meeting you, and I'm glad that you're doing so well and had a good time this weekend! You certainly seemed in good spirits to me! I think you even commented about the amount of "spirits" involved...

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Jeremy_Black wrote:It was a please meeting you, and I'm glad that you're doing so well and had a good time this weekend! You certainly seemed in good spirits to me! I think you even commented about the amount of "spirits" involved...

-Aaron


Yeah, there were plenty of spirits for sure.

But yeah, I've been in pretty high spirits since the beginning, because, let's face it, it could be much much worse. And fuming about it wouldn't get me anywhere.
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It's been an honor to finally meet you :-)
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ffranceschi wrote:It's been an honor to finally meet you :-)


Meeting you was truly a pleasure and I wish we had more time to talk!
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