I had great plans for covering Dragon*Con this past weekend. Fan profiles! Image galleries! Write-ups of every panel I attended! Sadly, equipment failure and the lack of cheap-but-reliable WiFi sent my plans out the window. Dragon*Con is also a lot more crowded than it was when I covered it four years ago — and I just can’t be That Guy (or That Girl) who ties up traffic taking pictures and conducting interviews.

On top of that, my plans to do some write-ups yesterday were foiled by con crud, which I bring home with me every year in spite of fastidious preventive measures.

It could have been worse, though — I’m on the mend today. PAX, Penny Arcade’s annual game expo, also took place over Labor Day weekend. Yesterday, the official PAX Twitter account reported that tests had confirmed a case of H1N1 (swine) flu in an attendee.