Heyo folks! Went and visited  raththomas and  tyren up in their place on the edge of Detroit for Furry Connection North, turned out to be a fair bit of fun, even for a small con and stuff, mhmm!

There wasn't a whole lot going on at the con, but the theme, 'The 80's' seemed endlessly appropriate for the furry fandom, lots of people happily jumped on the theme and went out of their way to embrace it, from old bricks known as portable computers, to ghetto blasters rigged to cellphones to play classic tunes.

I think my highlight of the con had to be the lego room, yes, LEGO ROOM. Gir, the big guy runnin' the con this year, brought in his massive collection of legos for the myriad of some 800 furries to play with. If that's not nostalgia to most of our childhoods, I don't know what is.

Now, I know most furry cons these days like to have video game competitions and stuff, but FCN made one horrible mistake. Right down the hall was the sponsor lounge. Being a sponsor at FCN entitled you to as much of the local beer you cared to have. Couple this with a rock band tournament, the drunken singing got reeeeally wild.

Food wise the three of us with the occasional  dook  dracoofzeradaith  spiketxtyger checked out a local favorite of Tyren and Rath's they refer to as Mongooooo, mongolian barbeque. You basically heap stuff into a bowl, add spices, and hand it off to a guy with cooking swords, who promptly chops the crap out of it on a hot burner, slathers your sauce and spice all over the stuff, and scoops it onto a plate and hands it off to you. Tasty stuff, that.

Kage's Story Hour was enjoyable as always, and because Kage lost all his information about what he told at Anthrocon this year, he gave us fresh stuff! [Fopishtish I say!] which was rather entertaining. It worked for me 'cause he went into his Germany stories, more than appropriate for what I was doing the whole damned con.

What was I doing you ask? I was being an ass! What sort? One with ZE GERMAN ACCENT! I vast goink through ze whole convension speaking with za German accent, much to ze confushion off many a furree type.

It was nice to relax at a con for once, normally I'm full time staff, but I'm glad I was staying with Tyren and Rath, the dead spots cons sometimes have weren't that bad since we got to go and chill out back at their place and mess around with their frikkin' 108 inch projector screen with attached media computer, TV, and game systems! Darn crazy folks!

My only fuss about going up to Detroit was the roads on the way up. If I'm paying a lovely total of $20.80 for traveling the damned turnpikes just one way, then why should I be stuck in gridlock because of construction every two miles?! Tolls are getting out of hand these days, and it makes this fox grumpy, and tired. Eight hours is a meeeean drive to do alone.

Anyhoo! Overall it was a fun, enjoyable convention! Furries and copious amounts of alcohol can be entertaining, but I think I'll just stick to the Canadian Coca-Cola next year, mhmm.

-Rhen