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14 years ago
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So many things to talk about, and as usual I've been too busy to write them up. Oh well, here goes...
First - the tooth. One of my teeth had a crown. A few weeks ago, the tooth that the crown was anchored to broke, and now it's useless. It's not hurting, but it's left an embarrassing gap in my smile. Not only does it look bad, but it's harder to bite things through properly. I can't really afford to get it fixed at the moment, so I'm going to have to live with it for a long time. Pardon me if I don't grin too broadly.
Second - My friend, Gary Akins from Texas paid me a visit, arriving on January 1st. His trip was timed to coincide with MiDFur, but before and after that event, we did various activities such as visiting the Frankston sand sculptures, going to Ballarat to visit the Sovereign Hill gold mining reproduction settlement and gold museum, and going through the Melbourne museum. I was glad that Gary was able to visit for longer than his first trip to Melbourne for MiDFur X, and will be looking forward to seeing him in June when I go to America for Anthrocon.
Third - MiDFur. As Head of Exhibitions, I was kept very, very busy this year. I was responsible for the Dealers' Den, Art Show, and Charity Auction. The Dealers' Den was the easiest because after four years, I've got that pretty much perfected now. A few minor tweaks perhaps, and we will be trying to get a pico-cell in there next convention so that we can get cell phone reception. The art show was a major headache due to the fact that it has taken a quantum leap from last year's. A lot of work will be going into improving it for MF14. Many aspects need tweaking, and I might have to build more display panels also. The charity auction went smoothly, and I was very happy with the result. I wish people got their donations in sooner though because I was practically tearing my hair out, trying to finalise that while both the art show and the dealers den were packing up. Some re-thinking needs to go into that too. All up, I was kept very busy almost all the time, and if it wasn't for Gary manning my table, I might have hardly found the time to sell anything. Gary was my right-hand man, from setting up to tearing everything down again, and I was very grateful for his help.
One of the events at MiDFur was the traditional collation of South Fur Lands fanzine. This is issue #57, and it is also the very last edition of the zine. SFL has now ceased production due to rising costs and falling interest. All the issues will remain available for order though, either through back-stock or print-on-demand.
And that's pretty much what's been happening for the past few weeks. Now that MiDFur isn't sucking up a lot of my free time, I hope to spend some time catching up with other things now, and my room desperately needs some clearing out and tidying up. I also hope that my muse gets back to work so that I can finish the fifth episode of Phoenix.
Tail high!
Goldfur
First - the tooth. One of my teeth had a crown. A few weeks ago, the tooth that the crown was anchored to broke, and now it's useless. It's not hurting, but it's left an embarrassing gap in my smile. Not only does it look bad, but it's harder to bite things through properly. I can't really afford to get it fixed at the moment, so I'm going to have to live with it for a long time. Pardon me if I don't grin too broadly.
Second - My friend, Gary Akins from Texas paid me a visit, arriving on January 1st. His trip was timed to coincide with MiDFur, but before and after that event, we did various activities such as visiting the Frankston sand sculptures, going to Ballarat to visit the Sovereign Hill gold mining reproduction settlement and gold museum, and going through the Melbourne museum. I was glad that Gary was able to visit for longer than his first trip to Melbourne for MiDFur X, and will be looking forward to seeing him in June when I go to America for Anthrocon.
Third - MiDFur. As Head of Exhibitions, I was kept very, very busy this year. I was responsible for the Dealers' Den, Art Show, and Charity Auction. The Dealers' Den was the easiest because after four years, I've got that pretty much perfected now. A few minor tweaks perhaps, and we will be trying to get a pico-cell in there next convention so that we can get cell phone reception. The art show was a major headache due to the fact that it has taken a quantum leap from last year's. A lot of work will be going into improving it for MF14. Many aspects need tweaking, and I might have to build more display panels also. The charity auction went smoothly, and I was very happy with the result. I wish people got their donations in sooner though because I was practically tearing my hair out, trying to finalise that while both the art show and the dealers den were packing up. Some re-thinking needs to go into that too. All up, I was kept very busy almost all the time, and if it wasn't for Gary manning my table, I might have hardly found the time to sell anything. Gary was my right-hand man, from setting up to tearing everything down again, and I was very grateful for his help.
One of the events at MiDFur was the traditional collation of South Fur Lands fanzine. This is issue #57, and it is also the very last edition of the zine. SFL has now ceased production due to rising costs and falling interest. All the issues will remain available for order though, either through back-stock or print-on-demand.
And that's pretty much what's been happening for the past few weeks. Now that MiDFur isn't sucking up a lot of my free time, I hope to spend some time catching up with other things now, and my room desperately needs some clearing out and tidying up. I also hope that my muse gets back to work so that I can finish the fifth episode of Phoenix.
Tail high!
Goldfur
I would also like to place an order for the New/Last SFL issue... I'll take 5 of them ( hopefully autographed ) =^.^=
Just let me know the $ total ^.~
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Tail high
...wait, Gary is from Texas???
In that case, you probably got the idea from the fact that I used to post to FurNet via Shadowfax BBS, which was physically located in California, because there was no BBS local to me which carried the FurNet echoes and Shadowfax had the "BlueWave" offline reader package installed so I could grab up the day's messages in a 2-minute phone call and then reply to them at my leisure without tying up the phone. :)
Mel. White lives up in Dallas, as I recall; that's about 3 hours away from me, so I don't think I've bumped into her but maybe once or twice. I've certainly never contributed to the Dallas Brawl 'zine, or anything like that.
I've found a few of the old gang here on FA, in case you want them.
Good to see you again, Gary!
I think the biggest issue with the Charity auction was that it wasn't until Saturday morning, barely a few minutes before the 11AM donation deadline, that a staff volunteer went around the Den soliciting donations. With the Den and Artshow both closing at noon, and a con-feedback session which Goldfur had to attend starting at 1PM, that was leaving it way too late, I think. I'd suggest making the deadline be close-of-business on Friday, and have that staffer shake the trees for donations a couple of hours before hand.
and sorry to hear about the toothy-blahness |'C I am having a lil' pain n trouble with a wisdom tooth that iz being a butt~ :'/ ((which i totally dont have the funds to get looked at either~~ :'I ))
Hoping the on-coming 2012 will be good for you though Goldfur ^____^ n see you again ((and most likely before then)) in December! :'D