First I'd like to say I had a BLAST at MFF this year. Thank you all for making my time there so enjoyable. I met so many fun people, some of whom I'd been hearing about for months from  tiptoe and  maximus-ursus. It was great to finally put faces to the names.

Alas, of my friends from Arizona I only got to see Kamo and that was briefly while he was suiting in his adorable rotty suit. It was good to see him again though and hopefully next year they'll all make an appearance.

As for the con itself, I got to room with Tip and Max and a new fur I met named Soulwolf. He was quiet and tidy so it worked out well. I didn't do any gaming or see any panels or even buy any art this year, which is really unusual for me, but I was just way to busy meeting people and handling Tip and Max while they suited. If you want to hear about our crazy adventures go read their con journals.

Of course, I didn't want to come back but life in the mundane world must continue. I came back to having to start my move into my new place. That's right, I'm no longer living with Max. I loved living with the big blue bear, but he needed to move in with his mom to save money for a house. Got my own place now, lots of space but no furniture for most of it yet. I'll have to do some bargain shopping soon, heh.

That leads me to Wednesday the 24th. What's so special about the day before Thanksgiving? Well, it was going to simply be moving and getting something to bake for Thanksgiving dinner, but life has a way of adding some spice. In this instance it was some nasty spice that I'd hoped not to have to taste again.

My car got totalled. Yup, got t-boned by a guy running a stop sign. Hit-and-run and I only had liability insurance. So... I have no car now. It took me 4 years to get back into a position where I could buy a car after my last one got totalled while sitting at a stop light... and 2 months later some douchebag totals it. I don't even know what to say. I hope the guy gets what's coming to him, because he set me way back. I try to keep things in perspective, I really do, but every time I start to get ahead in life something like this happens. My car gets totalled, or I lose my job for something crazy stupid like taking a scheduled vacation or some other kind of BS. I've bounced back the last dozen times, but it keeps getting harder. I don't know how much bounce I have left in me. I know its been showing since then, and I'm sure I've been terrible company for my friends and I apologise to them for that.

*sigh*

Well, I guess on to Thanksgiving. My family is all on the opposite corner of the country from me so Max invited me to his family dinner. They're all great people and have been trying to cheer me up, and I very much appreciate it. It was good company, good food and good wine... lots of good wine.

Tip and Max helped me get all my stuff moved to my new place and now its time to start a new work week via public transportation. What was going to be a 20 minute commute into work will now be closer to an hour long bus ride. I'm very glad I bought a new bottle of pain killers. I'm going to need it.

Thank you all for the good times. I'll catch up with you all again soon.