So, Terry and I arrived at the PAX, and I told him that the best time to get his Frontalot CD and have it signed would be before things got too hectic, at the start of the expo. We were walking towards the main theater and I could see that Frontalot was in his booth and we would be able to stop without waiting for nearly as long as the line after his show would be sure to be.

So we stopped, and since Terry got the hotel room (and the bright idea to get it in the first place), I purchased the Front’s first CD for Terry and the sticker pack for me. As part of this ritual, Frontalot has a sort of “bonus round” where people who purchase schwag from him get a chance at a little something more. He allows the roll of a 20-sided die, and upon achieving the lucky and magical “20″, you are rewarded with a signed poster, and perhaps other such prizes as I was unaware of. I have done this before when purchasing something from him, both with my (now) wife and by myself, chatting him up nervously as we greeted Frontalot and exchanged our moneys for goods.

I was feeling bold, so I made a comment to Terry and MC Frontalot along the lines of “I Roll Twenties,” which is a really funny joke if you read Penny Arcade. Tycho has mentioned it since and I think even had a shirt made with that particular line of dialogue upon it, so this is a well understood joke for fellow aficionados of the comic strip.

I gave it a windup, took a breath, and rolled a twenty!

Pow. Yeah. I control the Matrix and stuff, too. ;-)

I am now a proud owner of a signed poster of the Frontalot/Optimus Ryhme/MC Chris tour from this last April, which is just great since both Bekah and I made it to that show, and I even made a DVD of the event for my friend Adam afterwards as an exercise. He (Damien Hess, the man behind the Frontalot facade) congratulated me on my good fortune, and asked me to roll again for what I assume was even more schwag, but I was still quite excited and happy with the first go-round. Had I won again I would have almost felt guilty of taking a disproportionate amount of the prepared show-booty that he had brought for his faithful schwag-purchasing public. Nice problem to have to worry about… :-)

Just goes to show that sometimes it pays off handsomely to take a breath, go all out, and throw the dice (or place a stone).

The concerts tonight were a lot of fun to listen to, and I have a roll of pictures from the iPhone taken during the event and at some of the concerts that I might put up later. Its late now, and tomorrow I will be driving to see my dad again and pick up my family. Hopefully, we will enjoy another game of Go together and a glass of beer.