Alright. No major issues this year so I figured I will get my self down to doing some recap journal goodness.

Day 1 (Thursday): Woke up at the Ass-crack of dawn to drive to Pittsburgh. Like...4 AM early. So I'm using Waze to do my navigation now and just arround 3 miles from the airport it tells me to take this other route. I see a bunch of PennDOT signs and I figure it's routing me arround construction. So I start taking these roads and I notice I am going deeper and deeper into the boonies finally getting to a large orange sign that says "NO TRESSPASSING. VIOLATORS WILL BE ARRESTED BY ORDER OF THE FAA" So apparently Waze took me to an access road for the airport instead of the terminal. Parked the car, and walked to the terminal in a nice heated walkway. Got to my usual space at the Massage Bar in the terminal. I have found myself kinda requiring one before I leave for MFF to reduce my stress levels of driving there and to get myself into "Con-mode" by forgetting I don't have to worry about work. I'm flying United this time arround and it was pretty painless. Planeside check in like American. Seats were comfy. I liked it. Touched down in O'Hare. Had to walk arround a little to find the place for JetBlue, but I found it and proceeded to wait. Then I pulled out my 3DS and started street passing like a motherfucker. Acctually missed  gabriel-fawks as he got off his plane. He wound up calling me after a few mintues and we met up and headed to baggage claim. Wound up getting on the stuttle to the Hyatt with  reccasenli,  sawblade5 and a bunch of other furs. My god I love whne this happens at this con.

We finally get to the hotel and we see  coyotesnack shooting video as we unload out bags from the bus. We get checked in, and hit the lottery in terms of con room. Literally 1 flight of stairs from the main lobby level. Only a king bed, but we managed. A little less than an hour later  omegafolf and  chu-tora show up after almost getting sideswipped. We settle in. I send a text to  crashmccloud and tell him I got in and he needs a place to well... crash. As he doesn't have his room yet cause his mate hasn't arrived and needs to drop off some stuff for a little while. He stops up and we talk wrestling for a while and order pizza from Giordano's cause it's my birthday. Went through reg after that opened and got my badge like 4 minutes before the pizza guy showed up and we went back and ate some amazing pizza before turning in for the night.

Day 2 (Friday): Woke up at about 8 or so to go to take care of stuff. Got to the dealers room and spent money. Managed to get a piece from  gideon. One more off the bucket list. Also managed to get one from  toonfx and  cylnx as well. Got omega into suit for a little while as well. Fridays are always the worst for me for cons because of everything going on and my head is spinning. So do forgive me that I don't go into much details on Fridays. Went to the Cards Against humanity game later that night and really enjoyed playing. Acctually got a chance to play against a fursuiter who stayed in character the whole time. Kinda had to do double duty as Card Czar because he wouldn't talk to read the card choices and such. Then I headed to out to 2's show cause I missed it at AC.

Day 3(Saturday): Got my books and got a "special" commission for a friend from another artist. Picked up a comission from the company that does Vinyls and I now have a tiger and a pawprint on my 3DS which looks really awesome. Caught up with Crash about something we were gonna do for teh Variety Show. Him and a friend were gonna do a wrestling match, and since i have the equipment for it (namely the shirt and dress pants I dont' give a fuck about) I was gonna act as referee. Unfortunately, due to some logistics changes with how they do it. They werent' accepting "at door" registration for it. So we just kinda stuck in the green room and bitched about stuff and people for a while before I cut out to grab something to eat. Got omega into suit for the parade. Where my camera almost went bust, but thankfully I have a bunch of pics cause I was able to change the batteries fast enough and I got my 3ds working as a 3d camera too. Kinda wishing that I had stayed at the Whose Lion instead of attending the 2-Kage Charity show because atleast Whose Lion was funny. Though I love supporting the charity, and I do respect 2 and Kage for what they do. Whose Lion was much much funnier.

Day 4 (Sunday): Last day. Picked up two comissions I've kinda wanted for a while. One from  shinigamigirl which I got in my book and another from  roxikat which will be a take home. Went to the Dance Comp, which is something I never really ever do. I'm not one for the Dancer culture in the fur fandom (Simply too much Yolo for my tastes), but I do respect anyone who can do what they do at Floor Wars or at the Dance Comp's because of their talent and dedication to their craft. Saw some amazing stuff by some amazing people. FINALLY got a hold of my friend  matrixcodex after attempting to chase him down all con to just catch up for a few minutes. Spoke with him about some plans I had for AC, but I will keep those private for my own sake. Went arround and talked with a few others. Went to the dead dog and just enjoyed listening to the music when it wasnt' making my chest cavity vibrate uncontrolably. Caught up with Crash one more time for a small Photoshoot with Omega which acctualyl illicted a small "FIGHT!" chant from a few other people who were watching it which really was kinda cool IMO.

Day 5 (Monday): OK... This is where thigns went south. GOt to O'Hare after cleaning the room up for the Cleanest room contest. Started walking though the United gate and I got stopped by a woman from United who said I had to check my bag. I told her the bag didnt' need to be checked when I went from Pittsburgh to O'Hare, Why the hell does it need to be checked now? She told me I couldnt' go on with it (even after I told her I was doing plane side check in.) so I lost $25 cause I had to check my bag. On the plane I sat down, of cource there are a half dozen kids including one who wouldn't stop jumping on her seat to look back at me and wonder why I was wearing a hoodie and trying to sleep. Then...well my iPod died. Yep. Sad iPod logo and everything. Tig's Tech Con Crud strikes again. MFF 2 years ago my Droid broke, AC this past year my Galaxy Nexus' usb port died and required replacement, and now my iPod that I've had for nearly 10 years has bitten the dust. Kinda knew it was gonna happen, but this was unexpected. Managed to sleep through the flight back home. Got in my car, got stuck in traffic on 79 and 519 for the better part of a half hour and got home.