Weekend recap and some updates
So, this weekend initially started off kinda slow with a lot of work. Once Friday rolled around, I was soon getting MFF tweets and my mood went from soso to total shit and I kinda dropped into depression mode. The point wasn't that I didn't go to the con, the point was that I had a chance to go but things didn't work out in the end. From that point on, I promised myself to make this the most epic weekend I could. So begins the story of my MFFesque weekend.
Friday was hell as I went straight from school to work, then got home late, but not before I snuck in a bit of hot tubbing at a good friends place. Once I got home, I decided it was a good idea to get drunk and relax. So a nice relaxing night a a series of drunk tweets followed
Saturday began with work again. Afterward, I headed to Berkeley to hang out with Dax and Latte and help out with a photography project. I soon found myself in Doppler, running around the streets of downtown berkeley, getting pics at bus stops, waving at people, dealing with the "crazies", riding BART, and getting more pics pulling groceries out of the trunk of a car. Was a crazy fun time and hopefully Latte got some good pics to use for her project.
As soon as we finished that, I headed down to Fremont and got the Fremont Furbowl rolling.
I was immediately surprised at the number of furs in attendance especially with MFF going on, with even more on the way. We ended up splitting into multiple groups to do food since no single restaurant could handle all of us. The rest of the night was composed of fursuits, photos, booze, flashy dance lights, music, and dancing (those special bowling nights). Final headcount was about 25-30 furs in attendance and 11 fursuits. Probably one of my most successful ones yet.
Sunday, actually got to sleep in. Woke up and got my first of 2 new dual intel Xeon systems set up as my new media center PC.
specs:
2x 1.6GHz Intel Xeon
1GB ECC RDRAM
80GB+120GB HDDs
Nvidia Quadra video card
Lots more power and lots quieter than my old box. Soon after, I headed to berkeley to meet up with a ton of furs at Zachary's Chicago Deep Dish Pizza and proceeded to stuff my fat little face full of pizza. Then more hanging out and Icis for ice cream. Many thanks to TreyCat for pseudo-organizing this.
After all that, I came home to hang with Kai Fox and do some fursuit work and get my new server up, which brings me to now, waiting on the server to install while drinking some Little Roo Merlot and enjoying myself greatly. Specs on the server are as follows
2x 1.4GHz Intel Xeon
512MB ECC RDRAM
2x 80GB HDDs, 1x 120GB, and 1x 18GB 10k RPM SCSI for swap space
Nvidia Rage128 (don't need powerful video for a headless server)
This weekend was AMAZING. Got to fursuit, dance, got drunk all 3 nights, ate at Zachary's chicago pizza, hang out with awesome friends, see friends I hadn't seen in forever, got 2 computer's upgraded, almost ready to fur a new fursuit head, and lots more. Thanks to everyone for putting up with my BS, hanging out, and generally being crazy with me. Next weekend, Turkey day, black friday, and a trip to reno to visit Tyco. Fun Times!
Friday was hell as I went straight from school to work, then got home late, but not before I snuck in a bit of hot tubbing at a good friends place. Once I got home, I decided it was a good idea to get drunk and relax. So a nice relaxing night a a series of drunk tweets followed
Saturday began with work again. Afterward, I headed to Berkeley to hang out with Dax and Latte and help out with a photography project. I soon found myself in Doppler, running around the streets of downtown berkeley, getting pics at bus stops, waving at people, dealing with the "crazies", riding BART, and getting more pics pulling groceries out of the trunk of a car. Was a crazy fun time and hopefully Latte got some good pics to use for her project.
As soon as we finished that, I headed down to Fremont and got the Fremont Furbowl rolling.
I was immediately surprised at the number of furs in attendance especially with MFF going on, with even more on the way. We ended up splitting into multiple groups to do food since no single restaurant could handle all of us. The rest of the night was composed of fursuits, photos, booze, flashy dance lights, music, and dancing (those special bowling nights). Final headcount was about 25-30 furs in attendance and 11 fursuits. Probably one of my most successful ones yet.
Sunday, actually got to sleep in. Woke up and got my first of 2 new dual intel Xeon systems set up as my new media center PC.
specs:
2x 1.6GHz Intel Xeon
1GB ECC RDRAM
80GB+120GB HDDs
Nvidia Quadra video card
Lots more power and lots quieter than my old box. Soon after, I headed to berkeley to meet up with a ton of furs at Zachary's Chicago Deep Dish Pizza and proceeded to stuff my fat little face full of pizza. Then more hanging out and Icis for ice cream. Many thanks to TreyCat for pseudo-organizing this.
After all that, I came home to hang with Kai Fox and do some fursuit work and get my new server up, which brings me to now, waiting on the server to install while drinking some Little Roo Merlot and enjoying myself greatly. Specs on the server are as follows
2x 1.4GHz Intel Xeon
512MB ECC RDRAM
2x 80GB HDDs, 1x 120GB, and 1x 18GB 10k RPM SCSI for swap space
Nvidia Rage128 (don't need powerful video for a headless server)
This weekend was AMAZING. Got to fursuit, dance, got drunk all 3 nights, ate at Zachary's chicago pizza, hang out with awesome friends, see friends I hadn't seen in forever, got 2 computer's upgraded, almost ready to fur a new fursuit head, and lots more. Thanks to everyone for putting up with my BS, hanging out, and generally being crazy with me. Next weekend, Turkey day, black friday, and a trip to reno to visit Tyco. Fun Times!