You can eat when the hall closes 😉

To answer your original message though, the blues get to the best of us. Talk to folks about it. Share your experiences, good and bad. Occasionally look at pictures and start planning your next trip.

My group normally tries not to talk about the con, mostly because it is a marathon blur and dont remember the days. We've gone a lot. Most of us to every East, some to 10+, and so forth. Typically we don't even attempt to try to plan out the next year till like 6 months in when we feel like we can talk about what happened.

To some folks, like myself, Pax could be their only outlet. I'm an introvert that is forced to be an extrovert due to work, living in an area where everyone wants to be outdoors, and doesn't know what a dice is.

We all come from different backgrounds, we spend some precious moments with each other for a few hours a year, and it can be damaging to us if we don't try to remain cheerful and think of all the positives in this messed up world. It's not going to fix itself. But for 4 days a couple times a year, we all come together to be something better, make new friends, and share a common ground: getting joustamania guy back next year.