June 29th may be my birthday, but I am looking at making a new one on July the 3rd.

Now that I am in my hotel recovering from it all I can go a bit more in depth. The surgery took 2.5 hours to complete and I was another 2.5 hours in the recovery room after it was done. The doctor said that my liver was
"perfect" and that sticking with the OptiFast like I did made his job "A piece of cake, so to speak".

There was a fair bit of pain, I will admit it, and there still is, as I am still bloated from having my stomach inflated for the surgery, but that is slowly going away.. and I am going to just leave that up to your minds to decide where that excess gas is going ;)

So I am enjoying my whey isolate protein powder, and soon to be enjoying a small portion of soup and some pudding for dessert.

So in spite of it all, in spite of the pain I am in, and the steps I have to take now, I think that I am going to make this work. Nothing is going to stop me that is for sure!

July 3rd.. .My new birthday.. the day I changed everything in my life to try to make it better for me and the ones I love.

*hugs you all tight*

Jason (prplhaze) Palmer

To let you know I am fine. Surgery was just over 2 hours and I was out if the recovery room around 1:00pm EST. I am now in my room relaxing as best I can.

Love you all!

Here we are... 1 hour or so to go. I can't put into words how I am feeling so I am going to just say that I love you all

prplhaze (Jason)

Managed to make it in one piece and it is a pretty nice hotel, less then 5km from the hospital too!

Monte Carl Inns Vaughn Room 106. First floor BITCHES! No stairs or elevators for a recovering bear!

Tonight I get preped, and don't eat or drink after 12am, then off to the hospital before 6am for pre-op and into the room at 8am for my honest to goodness surgery. Should take 2 hours and I am getting them to record it for me to donate it to the University. Yay for making a contribution to science!

Well time to relax.. It is just like being at a con, except my dad is here, and there is not a huge line for the elevator.... or the smell of Fabreeze everywhere ;)

in 25 hours I will be going under the knife so to speak. I am nervous but anxious as well, it is a curious combination of the two. I want all my friends to know just how much I love them and I will be thinking of you always.

Tomorrow at 8AM EST I will be in the operating room where I will undergo my procedure. The surgery will take 2 hours or so and then I will be 3 hours recovering. After that it is 48 hours in the hospital to recover and then back to my hotel in Toronto where I will be till the morning of the 11th of July.

For those interested the hospital is Humber River Regional on Finch and the hotel is the Monte Carlo Inn in Vaughn. If you want my cell phone number so you can TXT me and keep me sane and such please note me, I will be checking FA until I go to bed tomorrow night.

*bearhugs everyone tight*

Today is my birthday, and it is a pretty big one at that... I am now a creepy old man at the age of 35... Get off my lawn you hippies!

Now aside from that, this birthday marks an occasion, it is the last birthday for me as a big guy, because on the 3rd of July, a mere 4 days from now I am going in to the hospital for my surgery. It is pretty hard to put all my thoughts into words but I am a combination of excited, scared, and hopeful.

This journey has been more then a year in the making, and it has been since November that I have really started to get it kicked into gear. In that time I have had numerous doctors appointment, each needing a visit to Toronto which is like an $80 trip each time, plus lost work time, I have been poked and prodded.. and I have been tested... REALLY tested.

In the lead up to this main event, I have lost already 87lbs from November till the 20th of June when I was last weighed, and that is no small feat. I have been on a 900 calorie a day diet shake system since the 5th of June and in that time alone I have lost 25lbs of those 87.

I feel good, but I also know this is only the beginning. I am going to have to keep my friends near me to help me in these tough times, but I know that I can count on people.

I want each and every friend of mine to know that I love them dearly, and I can't wait to see them all again, please keep me in mind on the 3rd, as I may not post here again till I am on the road to recovery as there is still a whole lot to do.

prplhaze

We are at day 7 of the fasting and time to move on to the weeklies. A question was asked in this latest video so I answered it and I hope that the information that I gave was what the person was looking for. Next week I am hoping to have changed up not only the format but also got a new camera and maybe get some help for some of the shoots so that you see more then just one camera angle.

Enjoy and be sure to subscribe or follow me on twitter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMppuBwLm9c

A short video from my parents garden I hope at least some are watching and commenting.

Please send me questions and such that I can answer, I want to try to help as many as I can with these :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOp3TwyDWo4

Also follow me on twitter prplhaze and you can ask me stuff there too. Plus if you can pimp out the videos as well to anyone who may be interested please do. You can just send them to my YouTube account and they can watch from there.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePrplBear

Thank you all

Here is the video for day 5 of my fast. Not a lot of info but I do give you an idea of my mindset and such. Plus I tried my paw at making a time lapse to begin it all so that is good :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL0z_1munUg

Enjoy

So I have decided to start a video blog for my upcoming surgery.. I have decided to do a daily for the first week, then do weekly updates to it just to let people know how it feels to go through it. You can follow it at my YouTube page:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePrplBear

Day 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnsFxuZ4674

Day 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqg6NRNiRew

Day 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksxLCqTfEb4

Day 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UaPEdNTjbY

Please be gentile, I am still playing around with the format.

Friday afternoon  bt-armistice and I finished loading up the car and headed off to Montreal. The drive was pretty uneventful except for a lovely detour that we took where I happened to get my truck slightly airborne on this crazy ass overpass. but aside from that we rolled in around 4:30pm and we were instantly working. We were thrown badges and got started.

We ran into our roomies Dan Racoon and Shiro and unloaded the truck, getting things settled into the room. We took a stroll around to see where everything was, and many hugs were exchanged. BT was up and suited very quickly roaming around and hugging people, they seemed to enjoy seeing the big white tiger roaming the halls though a child was thoroughly traumatized after seeing him we think.

The days seemed to blend together into one seamless non-stop party, with some craziness thrown in for good measure.

On satuday there was much picture taking, drinking and roaming around, BT was suiting and I was talking with friends, making new ones along the way and generally enjoying myself.

Sunday I helped out with the Iron Artist competition by being the official clocktower for the artists. After that I helped to set up the Fursuit games and lent as much assistance to Stripes and Belic as I could. It was quite the competition to say the least.

Just before we were about to leave I was asked to help transport the art show panels off to the storage locker so that put us a bit behind but we still managed to get out by 7 or so in the evening. We finally rolled into the driveway around 10:30 and just crashed..

The drive also resulted in me getting my best ever record of 601.2km on a single tank of gas with some still left over to do another 50km of highway driving, so that got me excited :D

All in all I had a blast and I want to thank Feli, Firebreath, MAnny, Twitchy, Wizzy, Belic, Brun, Stripes, Dan, Shiro, Arc, Tobie and everyone else who I saw there! If I forgot you in this post I am sorry, my brain is a bit addled still from lack of sleep (still not had a real proper one since friday)

I look forward to seeing you all again really soon! Pictures will be posted soon!

prplhaze

This morning at 7:15AM I drank my first glass of OptiFast. For the next 4 weeks will have me drinking 4 shakes a day for a total calorie intake of 900 calories a day.

So far things are going well, I am sure that this first day will not be terrible, but I am guessing that tomorrow will be the start of hell. This is going to be a huge challenge. I think that I am going to tape the progress and see what happens.

Wish me luck guys.

Anyone who has met me has seen that I am not a small man. For years I have fought with my weight and have been unsuccessful with the battle. I have decided to do something about it.

*cue montage*

Like most children, I was born… Throughout school and such I was always the “big guy”. It can be fun at times, some people say you are cuddly, you can be intimidating when you want to be, and you are forever the butt of many a joke. You learn to cope and you learn more importantly your limitations. One of the limitations that I have learned is that I need help.
I need to get healthy. I need to get more fit. I need to be more pro-active in my search for weight loss, and mostly what I realize is that I need help. So help I am getting in the form of a procedure known as Roux En Y or Bariatric Surgery.

This is a process that I started a bit over a year ago and have been working toward completing ever since. I have attended the required classes, and I have changed my habits according to the documents and classes (no more soda ever, no more fruit juice ever, no caffeine, limited alcohol). There were numerous doctor visits from internal medicine specialists and my surgeon, dietitian visits and even some visits with a psychologist to make sure that mentally I am ready for this change. Everyone I have talked to has said that I am an ideal candidate and they believe that I will be able to make this change last.

I have not talked about this here or really outside of some of my friends and family so I just felt it was time to put it all on the record.

June 5th I begin my all liquid diet in preparation for the surgery. It is 4 OptiFast 900 shakes a day which as the name suggests gives me a total of 900 calories for the entire day. This is given so that it will shrink the fat around my liver and also shrink it as well to allow the laparoscopic surgery to have as few hindrances as possible.

This procedure will create a new stomach for me that is roughly the size of an egg and it will put me on more or less a controlled starvation which allows me to lose and maintain a healthy weight. I will be on vitamin supplements for the rest of my life and it means a lot of changes to my lifestyle, everything from eating habits to even the simple act of drinking water. It is a rough road but I need to make this change.

*cue sad music*

The reason that I need to make this change was made ever so clear to me in the past 2 years. I have looked at my family history and it reads like a bit of a horror show.

Diabetes: Mother, Father, Grandfather
Liver Disease: Father, Grandfather
Heart Disease: Father Grandfather
Cancer: Mother, Grandmother

This my friends is why I need to do this. I need to stick around for all my friends, I need to be here 20, 30, even 40 years from now. If I don’t make this change… I can’t even realistically say I would make it to 5 years from now.

It is the cold hard truth. I need to do to my best to make sure that I will still be annoying you for quite a while.

I go in for my surgery July 3rd at 8:00am at Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto. I still have to figure out where I am going to say for the week after the surgery as you have to be within an hour drive of the hospital in case of problems, but I will figure that part out soon enough. It is then 3 more weeks of recovery and really restrictive diets during the recovery phase, but I am optimistic that this will happen, this will work, and I am going to make it.

I know that this is a lot of TL;DR but I have to let people know what is happening.

I love you all.

Jason (aka prplhaze)

Hello everyone! Myself and the local furs here in Kingston are involved in a charity event raising money for the local Humane society. The KHS is holding an event to raise money to help care for the community's homeless, injured and abused animals.

Our team "Those Furry little Critters"vare asking for some help in raising donations for this event! We are bowling in Fursuit and were asked by the organization to participate.

SO? feeling generous? every penny will help this great organization!

I have been to enough conventions to know that we in this fandom are pretty generous but even if you can only donate $1 it will greatly help some needy animals get the shelter, care and forever home they so need.

CLICK THIS LINK to Help our team out and look forward to the photos and videos

So I am having a bit of an introspective moment.

A few years ago, I helped a friend start a fur convention in the city of Montreal called AnthroFest. It ran for only 2 years, and had decent attendance in a time when fur cons like anthrocon were just around 3000 attendees and other cons thought it was a success if they had 200.

I sunk 2 years of my time and close to $10,000 of my own money making this convention go. It put me quite far into debt but I loved seeing the looks on peoples faces when they were there, having fun. It made it all worth it.

Now that you have the back story, I can get to the soul searching. Lately, a lot of people have been calling it "The con that shall not be named" and slagging it off, or worse yet I have heard reports of people who when it is mentioned they are admonished for it. This really cuts me to the quick. I worked extremely hard to help make this con something that people could enjoy, and at times there was very little support from other sides, but I am proud of what I did. To this day I am honoured to have given 2 summers of my life to this, making it work as best as I could.

To hear that it has become a joke burns.. It makes me feel that I wasted my time, that I wasted my energy to try to make a difference. I could not continue the convention myself after the principle in the con dropped out, so it fell by the side. For that I am genuinely regretful. But I honestly wish that things were different in some way. I wish that people could understand just what I did to help make it what it was. I wish that people would acknowledge just what that con did. I know it was not much, but damnit in my mind it was a success. To hear it slagged off...

You may as well be slagging me off too, as that con was my heart for 2 hard, long years.

No one will probably read this or care really.. I just want people to know where I am coming from.

To know how it hurts.

Back from another one and what a weekend it was.

We arrived Friday morning and I was thrown my badge, and put instantly on duty helping out where ever I could. A lot of the weekend was qute the blur for me, because it was spent with a red shirt on and me looking all serious.

My most important duty was to run dealer room opening security stationed at the GoH tables. I spent the first 2 hours of each dealers room watching over the tables of  darknatasha and  marcimcadam to make sure nothing happend to them. The fun part of it all was getting to sport some of the finest bludgeoning equipment on loan from Northern Armour Studio. The first was a mace which was quite nice, then I had a club, and finally I was upgraded to a sledge hammer. I am sure that a fair number of pictures were taken of me holding them, if you find any let me know. ;)

I want to thank  ~soulwolf~ and Gryphan for rooming with myself and  babytiger I had such a good time!

I wish to thank everyone, and let them know that I had the greatest time, and if I was a bit short, or had to run away for some reason, I do apologize, it was a bit stressful. You guys made this con a blast, and I better see each and every one of you again next year!

Babytiger and I decided this year to skip AC for a number of reasons. The largest one being that we are both trying to focus on our finances a bit better, to help us buy a house. We are tired of this apartment that we are living in and really need to get back on track with the plan we had made years ago.

This merks the temporary end of an era for us though. For the last 8 years we have headed to Anthrocon and have enjoyed every minute of if we could. Things have changed though and that also plays into it all.

The cost of going to AC has steadily increased for us as we go along making it a lot tougher to justify it every year. The last 3 years that we have gone as well, we have had room mates stiff us for part of the room or bail on us a couple weeks or even days before the con leaving us on the hook for the room. This played heavily in the decision to not go. We used to go with very reliable people and knew that rooms and rides were evenly divided and payments happened quickly and in full now that is not so much the case.

I hope everyone has a blast at AC and unless things change drastically we will not be there. The $1000 or so that it costs for room, travel and food can be better put in a savings account for that downpayment that we need to make.

I will miss everyone and miss out on getting my 10 year badge but to be honest, the thought of having my own house far outweighs that little ribbon on my con badge.

I will still go to Furnal Equinox, that is a given, it is so close and I am part of the security team there so that is definatly on my list, but I will also be at Fur Fright as well, given that it is a lot closer and cheaper, and I have WAY more fun there then anywhere else. \

prplhaze

5 of my submissions were deleted a bit ago, so if you faved them and don't see the, I didn't delete the, they were removed. Just a note to let ya know.

Came in to work this morning and had a nice surprise in my inbox.

Submitted At: Fri,04 Nov 2011 08:29:55 -0400
Student Feedback / Comments:

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Good morning Dr. Xxxxxxxxxx,

I usually arrive to our MEDS 2015 morning classes in 132A before 8, so I have had many instances of seeing Jason (the New Med Building's tech support person) interact with professors trying to setup equipment.

I just wanted you to know that he's great. He's extrememly helpful, and he's a great resource both for the studentsand profs.
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It was nice to see this.. I am getting so many bad vibes from the professors about the state of the technology in the building due to a lot of stuff not being done due to the flooding, it was great to see someone acknowledge that I am doing the best I can with what tools I have to work with.

My boss has stated that he is going to place this in file here at work. It certainly brightened my day.

On Thrusday night our friends SoulWolf and Gryphan arrived and much hugging, talking and pizza was had. Friday morning at the ass-crack of dawn we were up and had the car loaded and off to Fur Fright. The border crossing was pretty easy as it has been for us in the past, with no real lineups or issues overall. The car was not in good shape at all though.

No power at all, and the most horrific knock and judder whenever I laid on the gas. The check engine light flashed away at me but we managed to limp into the con.

After unloading the truck and parking it, we proceeded to check in and go to our hotel room. It was pretty sweet, because we found that our room was right at the end of a small flight of stairs that pretty much dropped us right into the convention space. We kept calling it our "private entrance" to the con.

I ran into Dark Cougar and was able to talk him into helping me with the truck, seeing as he is quite handy with his paws and knows the area, so we set plans in motion to take a look at it on Saturday. I really wish I could break down everything that happened at the convention but sadly most of my time was spent stewing about whether or not the truck would make it home and if we would find out what was wrong with it.

Saturday Dark and I took a look at the truck to find that the 90 degree elbow that connected the PCV had partially melted and caused a hole in the system and partially collapsed it anyway. That and the PCV itself had come loose from the head. Not having a replacement hose we borrowed some electrical tape and I cannibalized a pen and dark cut the hose and removed the bad section. This MacGyver arrangement managed to limp the truck to the local Advance Auto Parts where we grabbed a code reader and found that I had misfires in the nubmer 1 and 3 cylenders. This was what caused the stumble. We were able to pick up some carb cleaner and a replacement hose and get the PCV attached again more permenantly and the truck was back to Fur Fright. On the way home we still noticed the stumble but the lean condition in the truck was gone at least and it smoothed out a bit.

Saturday night was a blur of drinks, relaxing and Rocky Horror, which was good.

Sunday we played some games in the game room, relaxed, I commissioned Grisser for some art, and that was really about it..

I wish I could mention everything I did and everyone i saw, but it was such a blur of happy times, great furs, fun activities, and maddening car troubles it is just a wash for me to try to get it all straightened out in my head.

Neededless to say I am back home, safe and sound and at work.. Man.. I wish I was still at the convention.

prplhaze

I will be off to FurFright again this year! We will be in the main hotel, and arriving on Friday. We are so excited and we are bringing 2 people with us who have never been, so it will be fun to expose them to all the greatness of FurFright.

Sadly this year I will not be driving up in the vehicle I had planned on.. It didn't pan through so I have fingers crossed that the Lincoln will make it both there and back. If it does I have promised it a decent burial.

Can't wait to see everyone there!

prplhaze

Okay, so here goes... I need to get this down while it is still fresh in my mind.

It is 4:30am, and I have now been up for about an hour and a half. We were startled awake by our fire alarm going off, and someone pounding and screaming at our door. It was the kind of terror scream you only hear in movies. BT went to the door to see what was going on, and tried to crack the door as I was throwing on pants and a shirt. Just as the door cracked someone burst into our apartment.

She was a mid to late 20 year old girl, shorter with blond hair who ran into our kitchen, grabbed a knife from my knife block and was screaming that we needed to call 911 someone was trying to kill her. BT called 911 and had them send everything they have to our place then hung up the phone. We were trying to talk to her and calm her down to find out what is going on but there was no way we could. She was babbling incoherently about how her entire family was murdered by some guys she went to school with, and that she had been thrown from a car just off the 401 highway (about 8km from my apartment) yet she had no bruising, cuts or lacerations. We tried to keep her focus but she was darting from room to room and brandishing the knife. Finally I called 911 again to get more of the story to them and she grabbed the other phone and started talking to them.

We were able to keep her distracted for a bit and I finally got her to give me the knife. I set it on the counter and tried to continue to talk to her as she was on the phone with the operator. When BT heard the knocks at the door of the firemen, he went to open the door and she once again became highly agitated, ran into the kitchen (CURSE YOU LONG PHONE CORDS) to grab 2 fresh knives from my knife block. The fire department was getting ready to pry bar the door open when BT was able to convince them that it was not in their best interest as there was a woman in here keeping everyone at bay with 2 of our knives.

The firemen backed off and BT went outside to talk to them leaving me in the apartment alone with her. I sure as hell was not going to let her be alone in my place with the knives as no one would be able to get back in without getting stabbed. I kept her focused on the phone, even though with every single noise that was made she was jumping up and brandishing the knives again. This went on for what seemed like ages, but was probably only about 5 minutes at most before the police arrived.

The officer cracked the door a bit and she bolted up off the arm of my chair and ran to the door. She was screaming about these people trying to kill her who had already killed her entire family, and the officer was calm as he talked to her finally getting her to give him the knives.

She handed me the phone and I talked to the operator as she was taken from our apartment by the police to 2 waiting cruisers. The operator was asking me who she was and what was happening so I relayed that we had no clue just who she was and she just burst into our place babbling and highly distraught. She told me to talk to the officers and hung up the phone.

As a matter of thoroughness the officer came in to look in the apartment to make sure that no one else was in here, and we both went outside.

I was informed by the officer that it appeared that the woman was in the midst of a schizophrenic break, and that we were pretty lucky that it ended like it did. They took the girl off for evaluation and the officer got a quick summation from BT and myself, taking our phone number for good measure which means we are probably going to be getting a call soon from the police wanting a formal recounting of events for a statement.

As I finish this it is 5am, and I am wide awake still… In fact, I have to get up and start getting ready for work in about an hour so I think that I am going to not be getting any more sleep tonight. What a night, I guess I got a solid 3 hours sleep, that should do me right?

It was a Civic Holiday here in Canada yesterday so I was able to relax on sunday a bit, and then monday do my regular sunday chores.. which made for a really odd day as I am used to the other routine, so I was a bit thrown. But none the less, I got laundry done and was out at my parents house which was very nice. I even spent a few minutes chilling under the tree at their place, which is something that I don't really have a chance to do all that often.

I have had a lot of time to think about things and I am pretty satisfied where my life is going these days. Of course there could be room for a lot of improvement but what kind of life would I lead if there wasn't? I have decided to change a few things, and fix a few others, so it should be interesting. The second biggest thing I need to fix is my debt.

Not many people here may know this but about 6 years ago I was just shy of $30,000 in debt. This was a combination of being young and earning a lot of money at a bio-tech company, so I spent beyond my means in many cases, mostly with things I just wanted, not with things I needed.. Pretty classic story really.

So I tightened my budget, worked with a credic councellor, and killed off that entire debt in 5 years. It was tough, but it was so rewarding. The freedom you feel when you make that last payment is beyond anything I can describe. I was very happy that I had done this and was able to live without guilt and even save some money for the next year.. Then in June of 2010 I was laid off.

I was forced again to live within a meagre budget, and that part was not that terrible, as I had done it for a long time while paying down debt, so it was almost second nature really. Eventually though, my bank account dwindled, and my one credit card (with a very low limit) was starting to incur charges again. This was going against everything I worked so hard to change. It all disappeared all that hard work was gone with swoop. Now I am back to work, and back to still living on a ghetto poor amount of money just so that I can pay back that credit card, and also pay my parents back some of the nearly $4k that I borrowed from them to keep my truck running and help out along the way.

I want to do this.. I need to do this, to show myself that I am able to bounce back once again, and start saving. To start down that road that I began when I paid off my debt the first time, the road to home ownership. I am tired of living in an apartment that is a piece of crap, with no water pressure, or hot water half the time. I am sick of paying someone else for something that I can't change to suit my needs. I hate paying money for a place that is far to small for what I own, and I most of all hate the fact that I don't own anything.

Sure I have a truck, and I have some cool things, but I don't really own anything. A vechile depreciates in value every day you own it, and eventually after thousands in repairs, and gas, you have to get rid of it simply because it doesn't work anymore. You then step back onto that roller coaster only to do it again with yet another car. This is not owning something, it is mearly paying for its temporary use and never getting out of it what you put into it.

Owning a house for me is different. It is something that only appreciates in value over time and it is tangible. It is something that I can stand out in front of today and have it still there tomorrow. Sure it will need upkeep and maintainence, but it will never depreciate like a car would, and every penny you sink into it is a penny you can get back after you decide to move.

In my family my parents didn't own a house of their own till much later in their life. They were almost at retirement age when it happened for them. I don't want the same fate. Of all my cousins, of everyone else in my family only 1 owns their own house. I need to become the second. Come hell or high water, I will be that one..

That is the kind of stuff you think about, when sitting under a tree, at your parents house, in the summer breeze on a holiday from work. The rewards of working for something. I am fired up again to make this work, I need to do this.. and hopefully by the very near future.. the next monster post you will see from me will be me complaining about how long it took to get my new hot water heater installed in my house.

It appears that we are going to need roommates for our suite in the DoubleTree. Message me if you are interested. I know it is not the main hotel, but honestly the walk is not that bad, and is made up by the fact that there is never a line for the elevator ;)

2 would be nice, 2 who would not cancel last minute would be even nicer.

prplhaze

This weekend is Furnal Equinox 2011 and once again I will be attending. This time things are a bit different as I am woking at the convention but I still plan on having lots of fun. I will be tweeting throughout the con, and posting pics there as well, and who knows I may even hop onto ustream and livestream some of the convention as well.

http://twitter.com/prplhaze if you want to follow my #FE2011 posts

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/prplhazes-den is my Ustream, but that will only be on from time to time, check my twitter feed for announcements

Also, I will be bringing something special to the convention this year. Making an appearance in the Game room this year will be my vintage 1971 electro-mechanical pinball machine Klondike! http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=1388

It is set up for free vend 3 balls per play, and you don't need to get a fistfull of quarters to try your luck! This pinball machine is rated as one of the higher replay value EM pinball machines out there, rated as a 7.6 overall! Which for a vintage machine is pretty darned good. Pinball magazine rated it as one of the top 100 pinball machines out there, and it was the ONLY EM machine on the list, that says a lot for this baby. Even if you don't like pinball, or have never had the joy of playing a classic game of skill, please give it a try, you will not be disappointed.

So I hope to see you there, and please stop me if you spot me, I will not be hard to miss (especially when I am wearing the infamous "red shirt")

prplhaze