Sometimes making funny things is terribly unfunny work. That’s what the past couple weeks have been like. O and I have been scrambling to get a number of projects done – The Monster Alphabet is getting its last round of polish as we get ready to send it to the printers, Scurvy Dogs is getting all sorts of small details done, and then we’re in the process of ironing out our details for upcoming conventions.

So Monday, our conversation was bland. It was a quick bit of chatting about how Katsucon went sales-wise, and what the spine size of Monster Alphabet would be. And O needed to know the address of where we’d be staying in London to complete his Visa.

The only problem was, we didn’t have a place to stay.

Initially, there were some nice cheap hotels around London Comic Con. Then we announced we were going to show up. Then the rooms sold out before we could book one. Unrelated? We like to think not.

So then I started looking for apartments to rent. I was all over Air BnB, and we were getting a steady flow of rejections. Right now a lot of people in London are converting rooms into temporary lodgings, so that they can rent them out for the Olympics. But not a lot of people actually want to rent out the rooms before the Olympics.

The saddest rejection came when we found a former pub turned into creative collective. Six people had taken over this beautiful 1930s building and de-pubbed it, turning the upstairs into their housing. The downstairs bar area became the kitchen, and the saloon became the living room. And there was still an extra room, which they chose to rent out on a revolving basis. I loved the concept of this place. Unfortunately, they’re also planning on leaving the place before May, so they couldn’t set us up as a renter. And we needed to get O’s paperwork moving.

So finally, we went and found a bed and breakfast that’s so very crazy British. O and I will get our snuggle on, and then be ready to comic you up at London Comic Con.

But that’s a ways away. Right now, my thoughts are on MarCon, a multiple realities convention in Columbus, Ohio. It’s been a long while since I’ve done a show in the midwest, so I’m really excited to head back there (and as a guest no less). It’s just over 40 days away, so I’ll talk more about it the closer we get to it.