We're having Fursuit Bowling once again at AMF Bradenton Lanes this
Saturday, July 11th at 5pm.
Where: AMF Bradenton Lanes 4208 Cortez Road West, Bradenton, FL 34210

When: Saturday July 11, 5pm

Cost: We pay a group rate so it varies by how many attend and how many
decide to bowl. Last time it came out to 4 bucks a person plus shoes, but bring more if your bowling just to be safe. (Like 10 bucks?)

Due to Megaplex in 2 weeks, we will have a special schedule for bowling in the near future:

July 11th - Bowling
July 18th - Bowling
July 25th - No Bowling due to Megaplex
August 1st - Bowling
August 8th - Bowling
August 15th - No Bowling

So well As of this past Thursday Ratchet (my bf) has quit smoking. He quit when he left Thursday evening to head to a party in Fort Lauderdale. I have quit as of his return from said party this afternoon. So try to support me with this, it's going to be tough, and rough, and I might get a bit grumpy at times while going through it, but I'll try not to. I'm kinda worried about how I'll be come Megaplex, but I guess I'll find out cause we really need to quit smoking.

Umm if anyone can think of any rewards or gifts for me to help me reach milestones in my journey I'd be one happy cabbit. =^_^=

Thank you for everyone's suggestions and support in this matter. I'm going to try some OxyClean first with the Folex suggestions as a secondary idea if it doesn't work. *hugs*

Thank you all again.

So I'm looking for advice. Iw as at Liconheartwood:'s party Friday night, and had a great time there, but sadly my fursuit had a disaster in the process. Folks were painting/drawing on each other in sharpie and from some hugging of them without realizing it my suit has been stained. Now the paws I was planning on replacing soon anyway, my hands sweat so much the fur has been destroyed for the most part already, but anyone have any idea of anyway to get the sharpie out of the chest fur?

Here are pics of what I'm talking about:

http://www.ao.net/~mengel/SN850210.JPG
http://www.ao.net/~mengel/SN850212.JPG

*whimpers* My suit is so special to me, it's the number 2 thing in my world aside from my bf. I have been trying to just go with it, deal with it, and it's slowly been eating me up inside for letting this happen to it. So any advice would be good, chances are I'll just have to save and have the white fur replaced though. =-_-= But if you see me wearing my hockey jersey in suit in the near future, well you now know why.

And I am not upset at the sharpie artists or sharpie wearers, it was just an accident, no one knew this would happen.

There is no bowling this week, but we're having Fursuit Bowling once again at AMF Bradenton Lanes on
Saturday, June 27th at 5pm.

Where: AMF Bradenton Lanes 4208 Cortez Road West, Bradenton, FL 34210

When: Saturday June 27th, 5pm

Cost: We pay a group rate so it varies by how many attend and how many
decide to bowl. Last time it came out to 4 bucks a person, but bring
more if your bowling just to be safe. (Like 10 bucks?)

Anyone else going to download this tommorow? http://www.wizards.com/magic/digita.....gital/dotp/faq

I miss playing Magic,  gebji and  moosebmd brought that fun back a month or two ago when they let me play some with one of there decks at a gaming night thing. Back when it first came out I was big into it, but sadly i lost a box of my best cards back in high school and I never really got back into it after words due to how much that box was worth. I miss my Mox's and Vsuevian Dopplegangers, and Black Lotus =-_-= merf.

I'm going to dl the demo for sure, and prolly end up buying the game so if your going to play it online let me know. X-Box Live: Ripner

Sadly I will not be attending Anthrocon this year. It's a bit more important that I conserve my savings account, instead of digging into it by going to a distant con, so I will miss out this time around.

But I am going to Megaplex since it's local to me and all, just wondering anyone else going to it?

If you wanna chat I'm online now and drunk. Lots of Jagr with friends and watched a lot of The Whitest Kids Ya' Know (Such a fricking funny show). Message me if you wanna.

IM: Ripner ICQ: 2044189 Y!: ripner_cabbit
msn: ripnercabbit[at]hotmail.com Google Talk: Ripner
Tapestries: Ripner and Renpir Second Life: Ripner Bunnyhug

So I found some fraudulent charges over the last week and a half on my credit card. Had to call Chase today, have the charges removed and have them cancel and issue me a new credit card. Chase is great at least in dealing with this, this is the second time in the past 2 years this has happened, and both times they've been very pleasant to deal with, and very happy to assist me, as well as believe that I did not make the charges.

As for blame, last month I set up a Paypal account again to buy 2 small commissions from artists, and lo and behold I have fraudulent charges now, the 2 other times I've had this happen, I had set up PayPal accounts shortly before as well. So I'm not using PayPal again. If you are an artist that only accepts PayPal, I can't commission you. If you run a con that only accepts PayPal for pre-registration, I can't preregister and will prolly not attend in the future. What ever happened to the good old days when folks would accept checks and money orders for payment?

But as for the thief, they had an affinity for spending 40 bucks a day on Itunes (and twice in one day last week as well), and signing up for every dating site under the sun.

Just a note, there needs to be more cabbit pictures. (Since I can't afford to commision any right now). That is all =^_^=

Bowling on Saturday was a lot of fun. I finally was able to get  ferloo to go, and he had a great time. And last minute  reccasenli decided to come as well, which was pretty awesome. He beat me the first game while we were both in fursuit, but the 2nd game we both got out of suit and I rolled a 146 I think to beat him in a close heated match up. :P

After that,  ferloo came back to my place, where we drank a lot with ratchet and later got  deadmeat and  scarlettseraph to come over and we drank and watched tv and talked and stuff and was a great time. =^_^=

We're having Fursuit Bowling once again at AMF Bradenton Lanes this
Saturday, June 6th at 5pm.
Where: AMF Bradenton Lanes 4208 Cortez Road West, Bradenton, FL 34210

When: Saturday June 6th, 5pm

Cost: We pay a group rate so it varies by how many attend and how many
decide to bowl. Last time it came out to 4 bucks a person, but bring
more if your bowling just to be safe. (Like 10 bucks?)

We will also be doing bowling next Saturday, June 13th at the same time
and place.

Since folks don't like me posting too many fursuit pics here I've put all the pics  deadmeat took of me up on my Furry4Life page in a gallery here: http://furry4life.ning.com/photo/al.....gathering-2009 if you wanna see. For all of  deadmeat's pics head here: http://meatyphotography.com/Elliott.....009/index.html

Well I had a great time there. I won't name names cause I don't want to leave anyone out, but you all know who you are who gave me a nice much needed vacation weekend, and some great furry times.

If anyone took any pics of me in or out of fursuit please give them to me. =^_^= please? ripner at gmail.com hehe

Also my buddies  scionix32 and  nuka_nuki ended up somehow in a music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZja.....eature=related please watch and fav and share it.

Well almost time for Elliot's, tomorrow I'm heading to Kissimmiee to visit  wildwolf and hang out, and then heading to Elliot's from his place Friday. I can't wait, it should be lots of fun. Be sure to snuggle the cabbit :P

My bf recently turned me on to Last.FM, it's pretty cool, lots of music to listen to, but really I love the whole keeping track of what I'm listening to thing. I'm quite the music addict and now you can see my collection and what I've been listening to lately and stuff. If your on there, friend me please.

http://www.last.fm/user/ripner

So almost time for Elliot's I am so excited.

Also here's a video of me getting a strike in suit at bowling this past Saturday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kB5ZOAzijc

We're having Fursuit Bowling once again at AMF Bradenton Lanes this Saturday at 5pm.
Where: AMF Bradenton Lanes 4208 Cortez Road West, Bradenton, FL 34210

When: Saturday May 16th, 5pm

Due to Elliot's next weekend, we are holding bowling this weekend, May 23rd, taking off for Elliot's and then holding it again on both June 5th and June 12th.

Now next week I'm heading to Orlando on Thursday, and will hang out with  wildwolf that night and head to the Elliot's part on Friday through Sunday. Whose going?

Due to not realizing it in the FA rules, all the photographs of my fursuit and other irl pictures, as well as all my second life pictures (That weren't artistically done by others for me) are being moved to scraps.

We're having Fursuit Bowling once again at AMF Bradenton Lanes this Saturday at 5pm. I apologize for not giving a lot of notice as i've been unable until tonight to get a hold of a manager to set up our changing room and everything.

Where: AMF Bradenton Lanes 4208 Cortez Road West, Bradenton, FL 34210

When: Saturday May 16th, 5pm

Now as many people noticed, the following Fursuit Bowling would land on May 30th which is Memorial day, as well as Elliot's that weekend. So instead of canceling bowling for that weekend and not holding it for a month, we'll hold bowling two weekends in a row twice. May 16th and 23rd, this and next week. We'll have the 30th off for Memorial Day and Elliot's, and then we'll hold bowling June 6th and 13th before deciding if we want to switch back to every other week.

This will be a test to see if we have enough interest to hold it every weekend.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday. :)

(Originally posted by  Seifer)

The bi-weekly Bradenton Furry / Fursuit bowling was great yet again. We had about 22 people show up along with 5 fursuits this time, so it was pretty awesome. with how much the group has grown each meet, I wonder how big we'll be next time :P . But yea I had a great time there, there were too many great folks there to really mention names though, although  Seifer and  ShelbyDingo do deserve thanks for starting this event and getting everything in place and helping us all have such a great time.

Afterwords  Scionix32 and  nuka_nuki invited me back to there place to a party they were having with some of there classmates from school to celebrate getting projects done and stuff. And much Rock Banding and drinking was had and it was great fun too. Although I was weird and wore my fursuit almost the whole party, but fursuit Rock Band is so much fun :P

It's that time again, our bi-weekly Fursuit Bowling is being held again at AMF Bradenton Lanes on May 2nd at 5pm until 7:30-8pm. Afterward we will head to nearby Wing House for some cheap food and good company.

Where: AMF Bradenton Lanes
4208 Cortez Road West
Bradenton, FL 34210

When: Saturday, May 2nd at 5pm

What to bring: Yourself. Fursuits, tails and ears are welcome.

We hope to see people there.

Seifer

1 – Do you and your fursona look “alike”?

Hmm not really, I look like my fursona done as a fursuit somewhat, because the fursuit was designed for my body. But yea my fursona is more like what I wish I looked like. A short cabbit with a long tail and not my big belly. :P

2 – Do you and your fursona share attires?

Well my fursona is almost always naked, and I usually dress in a t-shirt, shorts or cargo pants, and a baseball cap.


3 – Do you share the same sexuality as your fursona?

Yep we are both pretty gay :P


4 – If you hadn’t already made your fursona look like you, if you would to change how he/she looked like to make him/her look more like you, how would you think he/she would look like?

I like how my fursona looks, once again it's my ideal self.


5 – Did you work hard to develop your fursona? What is the (brief) history of your fursona?

Well uhh I used to doodle a lot back in grade and high school, and came up with my character back in 94 or so while doodling at lunch. It just kinda came out and has grown over the years.


6 – Do you and your fursona share relationship status?

In a devoted open relationship, yep.


7 – Do you find yourself jealous or upset if you get paired with someone you don’t like or your partner does?

Not at all, the more pairings the better.


8 – How would you like your character not to be used?

Umm in like anything violent, gorey, vorey, or anything like that :P

9 – What’s your fursona’s specialty?

Being a good sexxy agressive bottom :P


10 – At a score of 1-10 how much are you and your fursona alike?

8, I'm not quite as forward or sexual as my fursona, but I cna live my fantasies out through him.

Are you a Florida Fur?

Did you subscribe to the Florida Furs mailing list at some point and then decide to unsubscribe due to only wanting info about events and not long discussions?

Well there is now an events/announcements only list that has been started up just for you. It is completly moderated so only events/announcements will be allowed to be sent to the list.

This list and the regular Florida Furs mailing lists can be accessed and joined here:

http://lists.floridafurs.com/mailman/listinfo/

Well work is getting more and more annoying as I guess they severely edited this weeks and next weeks schedule to cut hours down a ton, and made me quite angry in the process. Not because of hours I'm losing, but due to them cutting out the other main electronics persons shift on Monday next week when I set up my entertainment department for new releases. Usually the have the other guy scheduled 9:30am-6:00pm Mondays, but they cut out his shift and now somehow I have to deal with all the electronics guests as well as get my new releases all set next Monday in my 8 hour shift, and it just totally pissed me off all day at work the moment I found out.

Of course the person who cut down the schedules wasn't there today so I couldn't even talk to him about it and instead had to jsut let it fester and build a rage inside me all day.

Aside from that it's just really frustrating to see all the FCN posts now, after seeing all the FWA posts last month. I so want to go to a con again, and although we have a very large savings account, I can't justify spending any of it now with Ratchet's impending lay off next month and my hour cuts. We prolly have enough to last about 2-3 years without working if need be, not that that will be the case, but I need to remain prudent no matter how much I really want to attend a con again. At least the Eliott's party is coming up at the end of May, and I will be going to Megaplex in July since it's so close to where I live and wouldn't require flying at all.

I guess what upsets me the most are the folks whoa re all "I'm tight with money yet I'm going to FCN", kind of posts. If your tight with money why are you going to a con? If you have no savings to fall back on why would you spend money on anything other than the bare essentials of food, hygiene products, and gas/public transportation costs? I jsut don't understand it and for some reason it pisses me off, msotly because with 50k in the bank I could be spending money on other stuff, but I know it's prudent not to. I don't spend money on going out to eat, or going to the movies, or anything beyond the essentials at the moment, and it's jsut such a change from our free spending days only a couple months ago when Ratchet was locked into his 90k a year job and I was making my 20k a year at Target.

Ok enough talking, just kinda needed to get this outta my system, and maybe see if I cna get nay kind of moral support. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

Today was pretty awesome, finally after chatting online for 2 years, and meeting at AC last year, and occasionally at my work, I went and hung out with  Gebji and  moosebmd along with their friends  scionix32,  Nuka_Nuki, and  eccentricdroll . It was wonderful, was nice to finally know there are other furs in the area, who are nice normal guys who are fun to hang out with. Played a lot of Rock Band 2, drank some, went out to eat at an awesome BBQ place called LeRoy's, watched some Strangers With Candy and Upright Citizen's Brigade, and all together just had a wonderful time.

It's too bad  scionix32 and  nuka_nuki are heading to Michigan for a while as soon as there semester end sin 2 weeks after jsut meeting them, but they'll be back in the fall.

Thank you, all 5 of you for helping me have a great time, and hopefully I made 5 new friends. =^_^=

Well things have changed, bowling is sitll on Saturday and all, but the manager we were in with who let us bowl free no longer works there, so we do have to pay for bowling now. That is all.