And damn was it fun. My friend was right, modern day rifles pale in comparison when it comes to recoil and overall power. The Mosin kicked my ass. I fired exactly 20 rounds and my shoulder is absolutely killing me, even with a rag thrown over it. Secondly the thing gets HOT. I touched the outside of the bore after maybe ten rounds and it burned like hell, even trying to adjust the sights after a few shots was a mildly painful task. Being it has never been used before, the bolt was a bit sticky with a round inside of it, though that shouldn't be a problem after a while.

Anyway, it was an absolute blast to fire, a very accurate gun for never being used before, the horizontal aim was spot on, and once I began working with the sights the vertical aim was nearly perfect. I can't wait till next time I fire it, but I need to get a good cleaning kit first to keep it in healthy condition. By the way my shoulder popped about 3 times while typing this journal just to tell you how much kick that beast has. I have no regrets buying this piece now.

In other notes, I'm going on a vacation tomorrow, not coming back til Friday, so miss the hell out of me.

So yeah the past week or so has been quite an interesting one. On memorial day, the mouse I had been using for 4+ years died, leaving my desktop computer practically useless, and a piece of my heart missing. It was a Logitec G5, one of the 1st gen blue ones with the rubbery grip rather than the plastic shell that gets clammy after a few hours of use. I loved that mouse far more than a man should love a computer peripheral, but that was my weapon of choice for so many years. To replace it I got a Cooler master Inferno, Some mmo-geared mouse with a retarded amount of buttons that are actually set up in a comfortable manner without being downright stupid looking, and interesting software to program the majority of them and otherwise make the mouse a superweapon if you put the time into it. Now I can't wait for Guild Wars 2

After I got hte mouse I sadly had to run off to Orlando to work for my dad a bit, but it paid off considering I had earned just enough money to buy myself a shiny (not new considering the age of the gun) Mosin Nagant. I'd wanted a rifle for some time and since I'm finally 21 damnit, I could go out and buy it myself. Beautiful weapon it is, made in 1927 (friggin 4 times older than I am) and never been fired, one of the many surplus rifles the Soviet's made before the war, even has the Hammer and sickle stamped on it in two places. Anyway I've been meaning to get a gun case and some rounds for it to break it in. I've been practicing with the bolt, oh god does it feel wonderful to work. Anyway, I'll make an update once I've fired it, might be a while since all the gun stores and ranges are quite an annoying drive from where I live.

Alright, so I'm back from Elliot's Spring gathering and I'm not sure if I'm a better person for surviving the weekend but damnit I don't regret it one bit. It was pretty hectic at first, we got there a little late since the spotted faggot that is Kemmy (1) had to wait to get his paycheck before we could leave. In the car we were stuffed with him, Yurath, Leafy (2), and the Hoss (3)

After settling in we went socializing, I was rather irritated to discover that the game room had nothing but FREAKING PS3's In the game room, when I had brought my XBOX 360 fight pad in order to beat fellow furries around like a mail-order bride in MVC3. Oddly enough I spent little time at all in the game room, and most of the con was spent in the dealer den. The majority of my interraction was with well known friends such as Tahoe (4) and his girlfriend, Lavits (5) who I met first at FWA, which introduced me to Grentain (6) and Warrn (7), both awesome guys. I also ran into Mont (8), a particular fox I had met a few months ago at a local fur cookout but sadly due to various troubles in his life had not been able to socialize much with others in the fandom, was rather happy to see him again. Was also quite happy to see an artist I had befriended at FWA, a lovely lady by the name of Ryla (9), who I bothered most of the con by standing at her table.

Saturday was of course the main event, the reason most people come to ESG which is to buy art and drink booze. Oddly enough I only walked away with a Meesh sketch, another from my friend Tahoe and promise of a digital badge from Ryla since time was a bit short and she was swamped on her painted badges. Also got to talk with the two headed girl (Painteddog and Likeshine) for a bit and learn the humorous story about how that entire joke came to be, the both of them are great artists and frankly, amazing people in general. Also later on Saturday, I made the monumental mistake of buying Kemmy and Saph (10) some alcohol after I heard about the alluring thing called a " Skittles drink" which the two quickly became inebriated and Saph pulled a Jurassic park, ending up biting a few people. Sad as it is, what made Saturday the best was that I watched my phone like a hawk, keeping an eye on the Lightning-Bruins playoff game, in which Tampa bay won. On that matter, I made a great new friend that lives near by, who goes by the name of Cat (11) a fellow Lightning fan which was damn well needed.

Sunday was spent loitering around the artist alley with Rasol, Ryla and Tahoe until it came time to hit the water park, Wet N Wild. I know admission was free and the furries had the run of the park ( to the staff's horror) but I was kind of disappointed. Adventure Island has got to be at least twice as fun as Wet N wild is, i mean most of the rides were just lame, had good ideas, but still just lame. The one ride that looked the best I had a panic attack while looking at due to my paralyzing fear of falling. I can handle quick drops but if it's steep enough and longer than about ten feet I wuss out. Anyway goodbyes were said, numbers were exchanged and we parted. I was rather disappointed that we didn't get to see more of our friend Kuraji (12) due to his work hours most of the weekend

Anyway, I'll be posting some arts from ESG and various other times after this journal is up, don't get t0o excited the three of you who are actually reading this.

Table of contents for people referenced :
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Ok so today, the day after my friggin birthday my friend asks me to help him get some stuff on craigslist, but he promised me some of the profit. The items were some furniture his dead-beat brother left in their old house. I figured I'd show up, move some cruddy furniture into a good open area so his girlfriend could snap the photo, we leave and he posts the ads. Of course fate had another plan.

I was told ahead of time that my friend's brother and his ex-fiancée had owned a dog, and while his ass was locked up in jail, the poor mutt was left there alone for several days, fed and then left for several more turns of the earth, leaving it to deficate inside the structure. What I didn't count on was the side effect of such animal abuse.

I arrived and stepped inside the house for maybe twenty seconds, toting a handy dandy bottle of ozium, a powerful spray which can vanquish just about any foul odor, this time it was the left over shit-aroma of the neglected pooch. Shortly after, my friend's girlfriend proclaims in a very confident tone " I just got bit, there's fleas in the house." which is enough to cause alarm for anyone. We promptly shuffle ourselves outside the condemned house. In the sunlight, I gazed down to find my khaki pants SPECKLED with the microscopic pricks. The next 5-10 minutes were spent uttering foul language and smacking the little menaces off our legs, it was as if the monsters were breeding whilst on our garments.

Goodbyes were said, and they went off to grab insect-grenades from the store while I headed home to rid myself of the taint. The entire ride home I felt contaminated, foul and frankly like I was being crawled all over despite being unable to see anything on my arms. Good lord, the relief of arriving at home and getting to the shower, being covered in such little demons was the worst nightmare I never expected to find myself experiencing. But there was one dilemma, my own mutt waiting for me at home. Last thing I needed was a nest of such minor evils living within my lovable dog. Soon as I got int he garage, I slipped into the laundry room, slamming the door separating it from the kitchen to make sure the dog would not come nearer, and promptly stripped myself and started the laundry. Next was to make the unclad, mad-dash to the bathroom in order to rid myself of the menace without risking the clean state of my dear mutt. Once successful, the water was turned as hot as it is humanly possible to endure.

I'm pretty sure nothing made it into my house but still, the thought and horror of those little things coating my form sends a little uncomfortable shudder through me, God I'm glad it's over.

eh that's all there is to say

Woo being able to buy alcohol

Ok so for those who bought the bulletstorm epic edition, you have gears 3 beta as i'm writing this, I'm ooking for any watcher who are participating cuz I hate not having a team I'm familiar with on Gears games, my usual wingman is at work and I'm doing good but it's frustrating without people I can rely on. FURRIES I CALL OUT TO THEE!!

my xbox live tag is Irid0n, the o is a zero

So FWA was really fun, I admit to being lazy and writing about it three days after getting back home.

I have to say... meeting my friends made the entire experience feel like a dream, I never thought i'd get an opportunity to meet  0r30 in my life. I'm gonna miss the hell out of all of them, I wish it didn't have to end, despite how blatantly exhausting the whole weekend was.

For you sorry people that actually bothered to click my watch button, I'll be posting some art I got from the con when I get off my ass and actually bother getting digital copies of it.

I SHALL BE MAKING IT THIS YEAR. I got about $380 saved up, and $150 in gas cards. Got a good excuse for why I'm disappearing for a weekend, and some friends to go along with me so the 7-hour drive doesn't take a tax on my already frail sanity. This is like a dream come true, a lot of you furfags out there, I honestly never thought I'd see the day when we would meet in person!


Who I'm going with:
 Kemmy This guy is awesome, hang out with him
 Celyn Amazing artist, buy stuff from her


Who I need to hunt down:

 0r30
 Pilot
 yoshi_foxburr
 azur
 kuraji

If anyone else is going, let me know so I can track you down!

Damnit, the worst thing about having 4 stitches in the right paw is not the constant pain or trouble sleeping, but the fact I CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO KEEP MYSELF ENTERTAINED. I Can barely hold a mouse let alone grip a console controller, so my usual pastime of gaming is out the window for the time being. I can KINDA type but not accurate or fast enough to get any writing done at a reasonable pace. So far I've been limited to downloading movies I should see as a nerd/furry/gamer. So if anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful for a list (For those who don't know my taste, any movies in the past decade I hate, I think CGI and simple-minded audience are killing the cinema industry, I want things with meaning and brains behind them, I don't mean Avatar's kinda of 'deep meaning' any numbskull with half a brain cell can absorb the message " HUG TREES" from that cinematic abortion) At this point I'd accept just about any suggestions for being productive without the use of one's dominant hand, I just want to feel like I'm not completely wasting time while I have to wait for this thing to heal.

AND BEFORE YOU PERVERTS START MAKING JOKES ABOUT "OH IT'S GONNA BE A LONG WEEK" OR " YOU COULD LEARN TO USE YOUR LEFT HAND FOR YOU KNOW WHAT" It's been covered. Many times. Thank you.

This year SUCKS so far. Just got four stitches in my right palm and right now my hand is useless cuz of the swelling. Cant even grip a mouse or controller, and i can barely type. Fucking dinner plate shattered in a fit of rage and put a jagged cut below my index finger . i could still move it despite the pain, a little less now that my hand has inflated like a balloon, though i am a bit worried cuz its been numb since the accident. anyone with medical knowledge, can you tell me if my finger will regain ful feeling or is this permanent x.x

Ok so my new nears consists mostly of waiting for cool shit to arrive in the mail. And it's got me bummed 'cuz the good stuff hasn't come yet. I already got my copy of Stalker the movie and poster of such movie since I am a huge fan. Still waiting on my dad's x-mas gift to arrive, a nice pair of Oakley that I customized online. ( Fun fact about me is where most furries have goggles for bullshit reasons, I actually walk aright Irl with a pair of nice sunglasses on my head whenever i'm out, that is until my friggin mutt chewed up a $180 pair to test my love for her.) Plus I ordered a small gift for a friend who's birthday is TODAY and the damn things haven't arrived in the mail. And finally, to add to the suspense I ordered a new Asus monitor 'cuz my center one is starting to PISS ME OFF considering every time I turn the PC on or wake it up, it takes a good five minutes for the damn thing to go " OH WAIT, I SHOULD BE DISPLAYING SOMETHING SHOULDN'T I"... That and having 3 mediocre grade screens hooked up to an eleven-hundred dollar gaming rig just seems like i was wasting the video quality, so a newer one was in order. So yeah. We wait

Ok anyone who still reads these shitty journals probably knows I have claimed I was gonna start writing again and the following months have bore no stories. But this time I'm actually writing something, I just got two pages done before mirco-nuking dinner and writing this journal. It's been in my head for a while and last night I found the drive I needed to actually begin assaulting my keyboard with the Thousand-Finger Flurry (My own signature japan-style bullshit move as of now). But yeah. For you three people reading, don't get too excited.

Good, now that I have the divided attention of the few nutcases who actually watch me, here's a bit of an advertisement

 Oli_Snowpaw Is a fantastic artist and frankly, one awesome bitch. She's currently doing an Iron Artist with 200 slots, $7 dollars a piece and $3 for every extra character. Oh and she does porn, so if thats what you are looking for, go nuts.

Buy a piece, no six. Do it >:I

Well some of you may know I have a monster of an oral fixation, if there is something rigid to chew on its most likely in my mouth, and the oriface tends to get more use as a third hand than anything. Decided I might expand. More on this any future art will contain either a tootpick or lollipop in my muzzle. And no the sucker won't be sexual, just the stick protruding from the corner of my lips or something. I have quite the sweet tooth.

As for calling myself a writer, I've been expanding more and more on my story ideas, one has beein coming along quite nicely and I'm liking the character design so soon enough I might seriously begin to assault my keyboard with the ideas in my head.

Ok so I took in my computer today to fix up the thing, and I repaired the power plug, the inside of toshiba's are pretty cool, the Plug isn't hard-soldered to the motherboard and is replaceable if it gets damaged. Anyway so after some Multimeter testing, we determined it's my cable that actually died, no voltage was coming through. I'll take a broken power chord over laptop any day.

And as for the phone, I retired my old G1, I'd say a 2-year run isn't bad for a smart phone, especially the first android one. But I upgraded to the G2! and it's starting to become more of a toy than a functional device, though the smaller keyboard messes with me.

Ok so starting off this shitfest of the week is:

Tuesday, In class my phone decides to stop downloading new apps so in order to fix it i have to factory reset the fucker ( for the fourth time) and set it up to my personal settings again. Fallout Vegas came out, a game i reserved MONTHS in advance, hoping it'd be better than the predecessor Fallout 3, But the game turns out to contain more bugs than a fucking beehive, One of which forces me to to always play it on all three screens, disabling my ability to exit computer terminals in game, otherwise if I try and play it on one screen, the mouse floats along the extra screens and when I click, it lowers the fucking program. Secondly, I had some friends over later the night, and my dog escaped not once, but twice, leaving me to chase her around the neighborhood until 2 in the morning, breaking her harness after I tied her up in order to run free the second time,

Wednesday: I decide to skip my classes on account I was chasing the fucking mutt around all night, pretty decent, I finally get my Daily Affirmation animation I paid  Baebunny for, but later that night I break my fucking laptop's charge plug, rendering it useless essentially, figure i could take it into class tomorrow and get it soldered fixed.

Thursday, revisiting my issue Tuesday, since I had to set up my phone again, i forgot to set the alarm, and I miss class today, but meh, i have nearly perfect attendance, so i don't sweat it and go about my usual furfag Thursday where I get together with my local fur friends and we just generally dick about at an arcade. Instead tonight we end up staying around their apartment which I don't particularly mind, but in the process my phone decides it's back light doesn't want to function properly anymore, making it extremely difficult to read. I try anther factory reset (fifth) and it doesn't work, leaving me with what essentially is a brick that receives calls. My contract doesn't end till December, and getting out of it would cost 200 bones, a replacement phone would cost 100.

Friday: lets hope it leaves me with memory loss or death

The fucking week isn't over yet and I'm already left with a busted laptop, busted phone, a busted game, and during this whole week I've been trying to fix my neck which I habitually pop, by resisting the urge to do so and letting it heal ( 2 month process according to a chiropractor) on day three the fucker is already causing me to be chronically tense and lose sleep.

The irony in all this, was that Monday, I determined that despite being single again, jobless, living with my parents at age 20, in a class I don't enjoy, and having trouble with who I am as a person, I was rather comfortable with my life.

...Follows Dragoneer on Twitter, this is interesting.

http://s611.photobucket.com/albums/tt200/IriJackal/?action=view&current=drogobomo.jpg

Could the President be a closet furry? Maybe, maybe not, but this screenshot sure is intriguing.


Screen shot provided by  0r30 who also told me in the first place about this little bit of info.

Not too long ago we were doing Sunday errands and the door to the garage was left open and I couldn't find my dog. It was clear she got out, it wasn't the first time and we all knew she would come back so we didn't worry too much, chasing after her just makes her run more anyway.

What we didn't count on was finding her at the neighbor's house, broken through the patio screen with their chihuahua in her mouth. Took a bit of force to get her to release it, and we aren't quite sure how the barking rat is yet but it doesn't look like there is gonna be a good ending to this. The best we can hope for is finding a home on a farm where she will have a fenced in area and no dogs for quite a distance.

Can't say I didn't see this coming, from the first time I saw her act aggressive towards another dog I knew she'd get out and get in a squabble with another. Didn't see it coming this soon.

First off, my PSP problems are fixed, I found another blue psp in gamestop for cheaper than all the a-holes and b-holes on craigslist wanted for a regular black 2000, sold off the old parts to the guy who mods the PSP's for 30 bucks and a free CFW install. Hell the blue one i got was in better physical condition than the last one I owned

Got a long board that is made by the same company my snowboard is made from, even has a similar feel to a snowboard, cept without being rooted to it
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4430564/

Aaaaaaand bit the pavement with it the next day...
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4438007/

Not much else to say, just wanted to get that emo-ass journal about killing my PSP out of the way. ^^

I put several weeks and about 65 dollars into obtaining a hacked PSP, eventually get it, break the case, try to replace it (about another 35 dollars for the case) pay a guy 20 dollars to swap it out for me, (another 20) the shell was a piece of crap and barely fit, I put the old one on myself and just dealt with scotch tape holding the battery in. The left bumper was acting funny so I opened it up again to fix it. After making sure it was snug and good, I plugged the screen back into the motherboard and pushed the clamp closed on the wire and accidentally snapped it, now the screen doesn't work. So a month and a half, $115 later, I have a broken PSP and an addiction to Monster Hunter Unite on top of it.

Ok so it was a frustrating road but I got a hacked PSP 2000 without sacrificing too much money. Now i'm having trouble finding a good place to download ISO's, the only one I've found that actually worked was Monster hunter freedom unite (thank god). Also I'm looking for good emulators/roms so if anyone knows a good place to get SNES roms I'd greatly appreciate it if you could give me a link, romulation is dead T.T

The movie was absolutely fantastic. I mean it was more amazing than I expected. the fight scenes were amazing, an absolute blast to watch, it was like being on acid and playing the best game in the world at the same time! Good story, quirky and intelligent humor, great characters, the comic book and game elements in a live action movie, Micheal Cera wasn't too boring as usual. The movie was just fantastic, and dare I say it, better than Inception. This is probably the only movie about love that I can stomach, hell, enjoy. Still my favorite thing ever in the movie is to see a pixelated sword in a live action movie, that made me nerdgasm hard. Honestly, I recommend this movie to EVERYONE and if you don't have a blast watching it, you can go back to Soviet Russia, you Cannibalistic Chinese communist Nazi Jew.

Also, if anyone can get me the isolated KO! noise from the movie, I will proclaim my undying love for you

For anyone who I have talked to in the past week you probably know my new obsession with obtaining a hacked PSP and turning it into a wonder device. I traded my used DS lite for a mint PSP 3001 and while I can't hack it I'm doing so negotiating on craigslist

In the meantime, I'v fallen under the spell of monster hunter freedom unite. ( I'd play tri but my router hates nintendo devices so therefore I can't play online) I stayed up till 3 Fucking AM last night staring at the screen and running around with an oversized katana looking for monsters and recourses. I finally had to stop when my PSP started going " yo, low battery" so I plugged it in and proceeded to take my friend's PSP which I was holding onto for various reasons, and continue my game on that. I blame it all on one mother fucker :  moana

This little asshole told me to pick up the game and so I did. Now I can't put it down. I haven't encountered such a frustrating and addicting game since Devil May Cry 3. What the hell is it with Capcom and producing games that make you want to put the controller through the wall, re-assemble it and keep playing.

it was fun, people were retarded, saw some good cosplayy, my favorite was Deadpool Cosplaying link, made me chuckle. Kinda glad it's over, sleeping on a pullout sofa without any sheets sucks ass. Got some good pictures and swag, and now I have a strong urge to watch Ghost in the shell all the way through in correct order without Adult Swim butchering the shit out of it. Good to have internet and my bed again.


On a side note, what the hell is wrong with this site, I type in " winamp" to see if anyone has made a good skin by any chance, and I still somehow get PORN coming up...

Won't be making it this year, since it was someone's brilliant idea to schedule Metrocon (Tampa anime convention) and Megaplex on the same F-ing weekend, I have to choose which I'm going to be making it to. Since old friends come first I'm obligated to go to Metrocon, that and I already bought my ticket half a year ago in a group rate with friends. Pisses me off that over the course of the entire summer, both cons fall on the same date. To ad Insult to injury, the woman who used to run the furry panel(s) at Metrocon moved to Delaware or something, meaning the other furries who aren't cool enough to make it to Megaplex won't have a little place to congregate. To those who are attending Megaplex, Hope you have fun.