But the work is done. The new furnace was installed last Thursday and will need to be run with the windows open from the sounds of what I'm hearing. Sounds like it's putting out a "new furnace smell" that must really be gawdawful.

Total cost was a little under $4,000 out of the retirement fund.

I need a new furnace.

Weird thing about my furnace, it's an oldie, was here when we moved in over 22 years ago and gave us some fits on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, which only required me to clean the flame sensor, and it ran great up until the last day we needed it. After that, nothing.

The weather is starting to turn here in western Pennsylvania so I called out an HVAC technician (a "furnace guy" for those of you in Rio Linda) and paid him $135 to find out the heat exchanger has a crack in it, and as such is unsafe to operate. So he tagged the furnace as a Do Not Use and I have another guy coming out on Monday to take measurements and to write up the purchase of a new furnace.

This can run me in the neighbo(u)rhood of $2800-4000 or more.

Commissions are open again.
Donations of love and charity are welcome at my PayPal account chris[at]chrisfoxx.com

Also, if you need a real estate agent, no matter where in the world you are I can help, let me know.

Putting it here for both safekeeping and for anyone in need of a model, Here is a list -- so far -- of the characters I own.

Silkenvixen, aka Christyne Vixxen, my twin sister
Barbara, raccoon babe aerobics instructor
Jennie, skunk girl mid-lev executive type
Dawne, jennet (the cat, not the horse), no art of her yet (hint-hint)
Nikiya, Dawne' sister
Cottonlop, cream-colored fur with specific brown spots, bank accountant
Sammy, my raccoon protégé
Randy, I broke down and created a sub male character

And one character who is not a model, David Mackenzie, you'll learn more about him later

Another character, a MILF red panda who needs a name still!

Under my ChrisFoxx moniker, and I've opened them up for modeling jobs also as well (they've all been drawn at least a couple of times tied up and gagged) who have co-starred in Sabrina Online: The Story at www.chrisfoxx.com:

Susan Felin, lioness college cheerleader
Cindy Lapin, lop-earred bunny doe
Debbye Squirrel

The list is by no means complete.

If you see someone you'd like to tie up, please let me know and credit appropriately!

Despite that cocksucker DIAF guy who ruined it all, the artist put a background onto it to help make up for what happened, and my friend's only criticism was that only one of his legs was frogtied But he did like it.

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I commissioned an artist here on FA, a good friend of mine, to do a picture, a piece of gift art for another good friend of mine. He kept up with showing me WiP's and I saw it in flat color, and I was loving how it was coming out.

He was obviously proud of it too (this guy produces art fast too!) and he showed it to a friend of his. No big deal there, and I don't care.

This assfuck went and showed it to the guy I commissioned it for.

How the FUCK do you get it into your fucking head to give away SOMEBODY ELSE'S GIFT.

I mean, how fucking stupid are you??

I want nothing more than to lock this guy in a car and set it on fire. I want it on fire in the middle of a tunnel. At rush hour.

If he ever shows up at an Anthrocon I'm only too willing to risk my badge to teach him not to do shit like this. He'd look awfully funny trying to eat corn on the cob with no teeth.

This Fucker OWES ME. He gives it away, he better pay me the price of the commission. An apology will not cut it.

Fucking asshole doesn't cover it. I need to invent a new word for 'fucking asshole' to be able to describe this motherfucker.

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I've done it a couple of times, I told The Teeming Millions not to get used to it, but . . . . what would everyone think if I began drawing males in bondage?

So it seems there's this hair salon in China, 'kay, and they were trying to get an English translation for the name of their shop, see, and they immediately used the first response they got.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBLzSF8UQAAwLbQ.jpg

I'm sick up and fed with this.

I've been getting infections on my laptop off and on over the past several months. And they ALL have occurred when I'm trying to look at art on FA.

Anyone else having this happen? I can NOT be the only one.

Well I'm back home. Texas, what little I got to see of it, was nice! Weather couldn't have been better, which stands to reason when I spent most of my time there indoors

I somehow missed an invite from  KazeNoKitsune to eat bar-b-que ordered by the pound, I would have snapped that invite up in a hot half-second! HOW did I miss that, hoooowwwww!?!?!?

I passed my certification test on the Revolution money recycler, missed a perfect score by one lousy question, one out of sixty-three. But I can work on them now, which is either good or bad, I run the risk of being awakened out of a sound sleep to drive out on a service call now

Apparently I also missed an attempted bank robbery at the bank about 2/10 of a mile from my house. Seems a woman walked in and demanded money. No sign of a weapon. Essentially she was told by the teller, "No", so she turned and left, got into a car that drove her away. State police came and cordoned off the building with yellow tape, far as I know nothing more has come of it.

What else did I miss?

Howdy!

I am in Dallas, Texas all this week. And I have YET to see ONE oil well, ONE horse, ONE cowboy, I feel cheated dammit!

So if anyfur's in the area and wants to say "hey" or whatever they really say down here, holler!

Hungarian Yummy Gummy Search For Santa Movie

I need a new chair upon which to sit.

http://www.startrek.com/article/kir.....ady-for-action

Aside from selling real estate, I work for a company called MTI Global Technologies. One of our customers is Context Media, they have equipment I set up in doctors' offices that include the TV's in the waiting rooms that scroll medical and health information, and the wallboards and patient tablets in the exam rooms. The tablets are for when the nurse takes you in and tells you the doctor will be in "in a moment" *snicker* and you can use it to watch health videos, learn things about your body and such, etc.

They look like the picture in this link. Notice the stand to which the tablet is affixed:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DDWd0d4AQ.....3206%257E2.jpg

So last Monday I'm in an exam room, which has a padded exam table in the center of the room. I'm using it as a workbench, assembling the stand. I did, they turned to get the power supply, the cable routes up inside it.

Before I got hold of it, I saw the stand start to roll, something I never expected. It steered toward the edge. I reached for it as it fell.

What I also did not expect was the stand to bounce.

It bounced all right. The heavy steel base bounced on the floor, came up, pushed my glasses up and nailed me square in my left eye.

I yelped. And yelped again as I fell to my knees. All I saw was black.

I can feel it happen all over again just describing it.

Thank God all that happened was a good cut above my tear duct and swelling. As people were running up to see what had happened I was literally forcing my eye open to make sure it still worked.

Scared? Oh yeah.
But thankfully everything's okay. I still finished the job, late due to the office people twice making me take a break, especially after having shadows appear from the corner of my left eye up toward the middle of my vision. Then after the job was done, a 2.5 hour drive to Morgantown, West Virginia for a job to do the next day.

Thank God I still have my eye.

So I had this skin tag, big one too, and looked like it was FULL of blood! Blood on my shoulder around it, didn't want to bother it because they go away in 3-4 days anyway. Tugged on it now and then, one time I pulled and it hurt like a sunuvabitch!

So nearly a week goes by and it's still there. Just so happened tonight after dinner I tugged on it and it came off! Fell down my back and got hung up on a wrinkle in my shirt. I reached inside my shirt to retrieve it. Imagine my shock and surprise when I saw this skin tag had tiny moving legs.

Yep. Somewhere, somehow, last week, I picked up a tick.

Well the wife drove me to the emergency room and thankfully it was no big deal. I brought the tick along with me in a sandwich bag in case they'd want it for any reason. They didn't; looked at it, decided it was all gone, and gave me an antibiotic and a prescription for more. Fun time. And I still have this urge to yell "spoon", I don't know why . . . . .

I'm making it official. I do not want to do this, but ever since I went to work for CompuCom® in 2014 I hadn't had the time to work on keeping it updated. Then it was hard getting back into it, especially now that I'm running Windows 10 and only have Dreamweaver 8 with no way of knowing if it'll work if I install it or not.

Also at $50 a month for two years, including an extra $50 each year to renew my URL
(www.derekscorner.com)
well, do the math. How much have I invested, against a pitiful return that no longer keeps the site self-sufficient.

Come October, the last paid membership will expire and I'm shutting down the website. If you were a customer, thank you so very much for having been there! If you were a VIP member, thank you for your support! For my good friends , , my former slave Eclair, the assumed-late , my original benefactor Derek Barker who provided all of the photo and video content and passed it all on to me, I thank you for having helped make The BBE what it was.

The online store will continue to operate until the last day so you can still buy videos. The freebies haven't been updated lately so if you want to run over and get them or lost them and need to get them back, now's the time to do it.

The furry bondage music videos by The Catastrophes can be seen on YouTube.

What's going to happen to the content? It will be for sale on BentBox and on my Clips4Sale and Images4Sale sites. Content not created by myself or under my direct ownership will not be sold by me, those you can get from the artists themselves, primarily Driprat and Iron Badger. If you use BeeTokens, the two photosets of Anna Lieb in Bondage will be available until Lastday, sometime in October.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

On the upside, I am now freer to get back to BondoFox: Advanced and Sabrina Online: The Story, in between family stuff, service calls, and selling houses. And I'll be saving $50 a month. Wizzy!

Yes, I'll still be here on FA and on dA and still drawing so-called bondage "art", and I'm still willing to photograph females with an interest in being helpless, just drop me a line when you're in the western Pennsylvania area (say, for Anthrocon!) or when I may be coming to Ohio or upstate New York.

My Internet's been shut off. I can't afford to pay the bill.

Any help would be helpful!

I'm working on some commissions and getting them finished up during my downtime. I can still get online at my office or at a public venue, though it's sporadic when I can. Which means I CAN accept gifts and commissions, it just may be a day or two before hearing back from me.

And the picture I'm doing isn't coming out so bad. Except for one tiny little thing I need to correct before (and if) they ever go out into the wild.

I'm trying an idea I've been threatening to do for a long, long time. I drew all three of the girls in the nude. Nothing pornographic (I couldn't do anything pornographic with those three girls if I wanted to); the idea is to draw them nude, then draw clothes on them, presumably by doing it this way their clothes will look more natural and more correct. I drew Dawn and Cat on one sheet and Ronnie on another with the idea of marrying the two pictures together later on.

Dumbass me started inking the Dawn/Cat pic before drawing clothes on them

Uh, sorry Ellen-Natalie?

I think I can still do it though. I'm not inked into them all that far -- Dawn's almost done but I think I can still pull it off. Besides, Photoshop® hides a world of ills.

So if you're on the ball you read my previous journal posting about an assfuck who used My Good Name for his own Telegram account and misrepresented My Good Name with an icon of a male anthro fox in bondage.

You would not BELIEVE the level of horseshit I had to do to prove I am who I say I am! I jumped through so many hoops I'm ready to join the circus.

They want you to post a "Telegram, please give me my username" message on two of any three accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

Facebook, they wouldn't accept because it doesn't say "BondoFox" alone. Well stupid, Facebook doesn't permit pseudonums. Du-uh!

Twitter, the username "BondoFox_Art" isn't acceptable because it doesn't just say "BondoFox". Okay, now I'm getting angry. I kept it all professional, but I'm reach to reach through the screen and bit-slap whoever that was.

Instagram, I user once in a blue moon and didn't remember how to post anything to it, not to mention I didn't want to post a photo but how else am I going to make a post there, right? Okay, I got it done.

I also managed to get my original BondoFox Twitter account reactivated so I was able to post there too.

To add insult to injury, the jerkass using My Good Name is online as we speak. I dropped him yet another NastyGram and he doesn't have the balls to reply. In a way I'm flattered he's a fan and wanted to use My Good Name but not without asking, bub. To which he would have been immediately turned down. it was bad enough when I had another asswipe on dA calling himself "BondoFox666". Asshole.

So now, finally, "a request is now in the queue" to the Telegram Administrators to release the name and assign it to My Good Self. Want to bet it won't happen today? Excuse me, tonight.

I want that hour of my life back.

Assfuck.

By the way, if you yourself are on Telegram, be a dear and look him up and give him 9 levels of Hell for me. I'll be your best friend if you do.

So I went to sign up for this Telegram thing. Imagine when I discovered there already is a BondoFox there. The name I've been using for over 16 years and created by the one and only James Bruner for My Good Self to use.

Spelled exactly the way I spell it, as above.

Misrepresenting My Good Self with an icon of a male fox in bondage.

I've reported him and I'm stymied from using this Telegram thing until they get back to me, which could be days, they say.

Let me find him. We'll all get a good laugh watching him eating corn on the cob with no fucking teeth.


Yost's Fourth Irrefutable Law of Life: Don't Fuck with Me

Oh, it started out all right. Had a great breakfast, ordered the same thing I had the day before. Then headed over to the DLCC to the art show.

Now Saturday I bought a game of Killer Bunnies for my son's girlfriend's birthday coming up this Friday, and Jeremy's (my son) will be the week after, the 15th, same day I hope to close the house I'm selling. For him I got a set of tech dice, total overpricing came to $51.36.

After my art show shift was over I was in the Dealer's Den and at one point remembered I'd forgotten to grab the bag with the stuff off of the rack the staff keeps their stuff on. I thought, no biggie, it's safe, I'll just get it tomorrow.

Now Sunday, after breakfast, I walk over and go to the rack -- where the fuck is my bag?

$51.36 I couldn't afford and sure as hell can't afford to replace vanished. It wasn't there.

Panic.

I mentally retraced my steps yesterday -- basically I went out looking where I knew it wasn't to satisfy myself I didn't leave it anywhere, and God forbid someone found it and kept it.

Retraced steps, could not find. From all of the running around and the anxiety I had a panic attack, something I haven't had in years.

I found my way back to the art show soon before they were going to get ready to form The Wall to close out the bidding. Shujin Tribble took my arm and guided me back behind the table to a chair and got me some water. I sat with my head between my legs, I couldn't breathe well, my chest had a really good steady pain. Drew the attention of Kamau, another staffer and former Roman Catholic Marine Corps chaplain, saw me and came over to make sure I was all right, checked my pulse while Hugmonster, the art show's 2nd in command, radioed for paramedics for a "possible heart attack". If you never saw someone having a panic attack, it looks very much like someone having a heart attack and is about as close to actually experiencing one as anyone ever wants to get.

I couldn't keep my head up, not from wanting to pass out but I had no strength to keep it up, my head kept wanting to flop backwards.

The paramedics arrived with a gurney and some Squad 51-type equipment and gave me a good checking over. They gave me an EKG and everything was good. They removed the leads and left the 10 sticky pad contacts glued to me all over my chest, thanks a lot, and because I'm diabetic also took my blood sugar reading which I had failed to do that morning. After a breakfast of 2 eggs Benedict with more Hollandaise sauce than yesterday over salmon and wilted spinach and two good and fat link sausages I was expecting at least a reading of 149 or higher. Due I'm sure to ALL of the running around I did looking for the gifts I'd bought I had a blood sugar reading of 94, which the relief of hearing that took roughly half of the pressure away from my chest and I could sit up straighter.

At this point the convention was 100% gone for me, totally and completely ruined.

I never did get my packages back. I'm out $51.36 of gifts for my son and his girlfriend, I have nothing to give them now.

For luncheon they always feed us. I could only eat part of a slice of pizza and some chips they make there in the kitchen. I did my art show checkout duties and left as soon as I was able, somewhere after 7. My favorite thing to do in the world, Anthrocon, now I don't know if I even want to come back again.

I didn't even stay for the staff dinner, which is a huge spread out as a "thank you". I had no appetite whatsoever and didn't all the rest of the night.

A little late for the art staff breakfast but still there! I saw the hotel restaurant took my favorite breakfast off of the menu, eggs Benedict over salmon over wilted spinach with Hollandaise sauce! Thankfully others liked it too and the restaurant was able to make them off the menu special. I of course got gypped on sauce, but along with an extra side of bacon I still liked what I had! ShiroTora and Arc, two veteran staffers who have the best stories and the loudest voices entertained everyone for nearly the entire time. No idea what I'll have tomorrow, tempted to get the same thing. After all it's only once a year .......

I wasn't due on the floor for awhile so I hit the zoo for a bit and realized I didn't bring any reference pictures at all, so I couldn't draw a thing, dammit. And I bought a new sketchbook and everything.

Hit the Dealer's Den and chatted with some folks. Anthrocon staff got an extra gift this year, along with an AC messenger bag that's incredibly cool on its own, we also got a sketchbook, hard cover with a spiral binder, with a Lackadaisy character head on the cover in gold. I asked Roz Gibson to break it in for me, outside of the commission I'm due from Max Blackrabbit it pretty much tapped me out. Of course I also left my huge back of trail mix in the room so breakfast had to hold me until dinner.

I spent most of the afternoon -- actually, all of my shift -- watching the door to the mature section, making sure no minors tried to slide in, and none did. Picked up my sketchbook from Roz after my shift. They didn't need me to help close out the mature section so I opted for an early dinner at Pizza Roma; staff members get a coupon for two really big slices of pizza plus a beverage. Ran into Arc there, then in walks  chubbyjosephine and friend, we all visited until our food was up and went back to The Zoo to consume and visit more. But I had to sit outside The Zoo to charge my phone, which was on the road to dying on me.

Uncle Kage's Story Hour was funny as usual, I just wish he wouldn't ostracize members of his audience by opening his yap on politics. He ended his show with a cool story about his father who recently passed away. Then I saw my cell phone was dead.

After Story Hour my phone was down to 6% battery life. I plugged in to an outlet and sat on the floor texting my wife, who was at our niece's wedding reception in Cleveland until, despite being plugged in, battery dropped 3 percent more. And I didn't want to sit there all day. So I signed off of her and let it die on me while I rode the escalator down to The Zoo and again sat outside of it charging my phone. Finally got a small enough charge to get up, I was tired of missing out on things. Went to Zoo and bumped into SirFox, went and sketched a little gagged bunny doe bust for someone's FA contribution box for the hell of it. Off to the hotel to a table to meet and greet people and charge my phone, THEN back to Zoo to fetch my water botte. THEN back to the hotel lobby. Met a new fursuiter from Tulsa at his first con and we chatted for a good while before I left to drive to my hotel to write this up and turn in. With luck I'll get a little under 6 hours sleep tonight before I get up to pack up and check out and go to breakfast. Busy day in the art show tomorrow!!

Good morning all!

I got into Pittsburgh and holy crap $10 to park! I drove up the the next open-air all day lot and same price, though when I mentioned Anthrocon he knocked it down to $9. Yay, a whole entire dollar, but when you're at a con on a shoestring you find out that every dollar counts.

I spent most of the con in the Art Show doing one thing or another. Took an occasional break to go to the Dealer's Den, picked up a couple things from  RozGibson and a T-shirt for my #2 sons birthday. Visited with some artists with whom I"m friends and ran into  shujintribble and chatted for a spell. Getting near closing I met  maxblackrabbit and  gnaw and got the picture I commissioned from Max 2 years ago!! Silly man forgot to bring it last year But I got it and it looks even better in person. You should see it in colo(u)r!

After 6 everything closed up and I went to Furnando's for my staff-freebie dinner, a 6" sub (steak and cheese), chips and drink. Now when I go to a place like this I always get the works, anything there is to put on a sub, I want. The moral of that story is that can sometimes bite you, this sub was LOADED! I ate the sub, then got a plastic fork to eat the salad that was on my plate from everything that fell out of the sandwich!

Back at the con I went to The Zoo and hung out with  campion for a bit before I had to go back to the art show for the Artists' Reception. Was hoping to meet up with Campion after that but I just had to get to my hotel (about 10 minutes away on the outskirts), got there pushing midnight. It's now nextday and time for me to throw clothes on and get to the con for the Art Show staff breakfast.

Because everyone else is doing it ...... probably.

BASICS

What day are you getting there?
Hopefully Friday, probably Saturday, sad but true.

How are you traveling?
Driving

Where are you staying?
Probably in my car. Lord knows I can't afford a hotel room. I probably shouldn't even be going

With whom will you be rooming?
My Good Self, unless somebody wants to split the cost of the parking lot and sleep in the passenger seat

How long are you going?
Probably Saturday and Sunday, if I can do it I'll be there Friday also as well


PERSONAL
What do you look like?
A guy with a slight pudge, greying hair unless I get it dyed in time (hope so!) You'll be able to recognize me because I'll be wearing a furry-based T-shirt

What is your gender?
Male

How tall are you?
5'8"

Can I talk to you?
I'd feel offended if you didn't

Can I hug or snuggle you?
Hugs are always good juju! Snuggles, sure, if you're female, over 18, and especially if you like being tied up

Are you nice?
I'm damned nice! People love me! Women and children love me! Now dammit, you come out here and you love me!!


ART
Do you have an artist table?
No. I'm on the convention staff in the Art Show

Do you do free art?
Now and then, depending, what do you have in mind?

Do you do trades?
When people let me

Do you do badges?
Dittos Rush, I do, but never have, you may want to get someone else on that one


CONVENTION
Will you be fursuiting?
I wish! Sadly I don't own a fursuit

Where will you be most of the time during the day/s?
Either in the Art Show, or the Dealer's Den and Artist Alley. Sometimes in The Zoo. Look for me!

What is the best way to find you?
Optically. I'll also have my phone with me.

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Well the best way is to walk up and say "Hi!" :) Or call out, I answer to Chris and also as well to Foxx. Or Bondo. My con badge will say  ChrisFoxx

Are there any panels you might be attending?
Depends on whether or not I remember to attend one! I always forget, don't ask me how

Will you be going to parties?
If I'm invited I will! I never seem to get invited though.

Will you be performing?
Not on stage

What/where will you be eating?
Whatever I can find in the garbage cans in The Zoo.

Actually I'll eat at least once at Furnando's and at least once at that pizza joint, Roma's I think it's called? You'd think I'd know, I only live 90 minutes away from The 'burgh. I eat at both of those places for free thanks to the con. I may also invest a few dollars for a hot dog at the street vendor, he grows a good hot dog and a good hot sausage

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
I don't see why not, as long as you can pay for your own and don't try to mooch off'a me!

Can I visit your room?
Yes, you can visit my car

Can I buy you drinks?
Absolutely, the more drinks you buy me the better a friend I'll become

Can I give you stuff?
Absolutely! Unless it's an STD, then thanks away, you're sweet for offering, really

Can I take your picture?
Yep!

What are your goals for the con this year?
To not be so damned alone as usual, to be able to afford it all, to make it home and be able to get around/eat/get to assignments and house showings with enough money to buy gas. Actually I'm hoping to afford some art to take home with me