Was fucking fantastic.

I've always wanted to go to the UK, always wanted to go to London, and the past 6-7 years I learned so much about it when I got into Furry and became friends with some of the UK furs.

After my long-ass trip on the P&O Azura, I was able to show Gaz_a around on the cruise ship before he took me to the Train Station. He ended up fixing some equipment while he was there... Lol

So my train ride was uneventful to my new destination where I would be staying for the majority of my trip. I ended up in Waterloo, sitting in a Pub waiting for LondonWolf to show up... Two beers later, I see a man walking up with a briefcase sitting down to drink the beer I had bought him sitting on the table awaiting his arrival!

After a very short chat, we decided to hit the underground before it got too busy, then the next train to the train station near Alfa and Lupus' place.

Dinner was awaiting for us on the stove (THANKS ALFA!). It was a very fantastic Stirfry but it did not last long :)

So I was all setup to stay at their place for a few days and they had great plans for my visit!

First, we went on a local, short, pre-london pubcrawl. Lupus and I started the pubcrawl, and met Alfa later on after he got off of work at another pub near his work.. Where we ended up having out of date beer... Lol. Recieved a free beer in replacement and also our money back for that round. Not too bad I guess :)

Well, we went back to the apartment and I was so beat. Needed sleep -- So we ordered kebab and went to bed.

Next morning was an early morning. We were in "The City" by 10 AM having our first beer on the so very awesome Pub Crawl that lasted to 11ish PM.

I met a lot of very nice furs in the UK - They joined us on the crawl, some of them whom I've known from F2F and the others were just a pleasure to meet as well. I got to see some of the sites with these lovely people, and most of the Pubs :) (Thanks Chance, Phil, Gaz, Bariki, Alfa, and Lupus for the fantastic time!) - Sorry I can't name all the names, I'd get lost. :)

I ended up breaking my finger on the Large Lion in Trafalgar Square (I guess it's true what they say, those Lions do guard the square) by attempting to help Alfa on the Lion while I was on it... Basically snapped my finger.. I ended up just snapping it back into place and going on with my life in London (thanks Beer, you helped with that!). Also Gaz got it on film. :O

Well, after about 11pm, we decided to be on our separate ways and go home to sleep off the beer, for the next day was BBQ day! They told me "Oh we always get rain, blah blah blah" ... WELL AMERICA LET ME TELL YOU WHAT! IT WAS PERFECT WEATHER NEARLY THE ENTIRE TIME I WAS THERE! except when we were in London and ended up getting soaked in the 'rain' which was really just humidity.

Ended up going to the store to pick up BBQ supplies -- People showed up right on time and the BBQ started. It was a little rough at the beginning, as it was drizzling down humidity (lol), but managed to get the fire going and start cooking in no time (after almost setting the umbrella on fire). I swear, UK people are the only people I know that BBQ with Umbrellas! So weird...

Anyways, we consumed a lot of alcohol, lots of food, played guitar hero with a lot of people over... played poker, and goofed on in general. Was a great way to wind down the fun we had the previous day. Although I think I consumed more alcohol that day then in London. :P

Monday was a relaxing day with Alfa and Lupus. I took them to dinner for all of their hospitality and planning. They are truly great hosts.

As Lupus had to get prepard for his operation (Good luck!), gaz was so very kind to allow me to take my last couple of days at his house to relax and sober up before my next work-trip to France (Thanks Gaz!).

My trip is near the end. All that is left is that I go to my hotel, grab a bite to eat, head to the airport at stupid-o-clock in the morning to fly to france and meet the rest of my co-workers to take a train to my job-site.

Thanks UK Furs for all of the fun. You are all welcome to my place whenever you want and will show you a good time also :) And I will be back, as I had a fantastic time...

Roof~

Hello everyone!

Out in the middle of the mediterranean typing this entry :) Not many LJers people can say that! *wags*

Anyways, the job here is completed, and now I wait to disembark in Southampton, UK.. Once I do that, I am off to Lupus of London' and Alfa'ss place for a week. Thanks, mate! - Hopefully make it to London once or twice to take a look around.. Never been to the UK before so pretty excited.

After a week in the UK, I am going to France for another job. I will be returning in July (hopefully before that) and throwing a party with the help of darkwolf.. All in Fort Lauderdale.

Let me know if you are interested - There will be Beaching, Jetskiing, Volleyball, Fireworks, Drinking, BBQing -- the works :) Should be a fun weekend!

Gonna be on the boat for a looooooooooooong time! Hope I can get interwebz... not sure if it will be possible but will try to get it ^_^

If not, see ya'll in a couple of months!

P&O Azura Cruise Ship

:)

Okay - As you all know, I am in Italy at the moment. I am working with four other colleagues which of whom serve different roles in the company/project.

They are all alcoholics. I drink a lot, but I choose my days to drink. Not a day where we have a conference calls with our big boss etc.. I know when to party and when to not party...

Well, tonight was a night not to party. We have a huge, busy schedule tomorrow and my entire team got wasted, two of them which proceeded to sit in the same cabin talking shit about EVERYONE in the company.

Need I say, the walls in the hotel are VERY VERY VERY thin and I can hear every single word they are saying while laying in my bed trying to sleep. I heard it all, not one bit did I miss, even when trying to tone it out.

So I did what most anyone else would do, sit there and listen to the conversation while laughing at it to myself (and on IRC).

So apparently, to two brand new drunken colleagues (they are less than 3 months old to the company) I am the following:

Smart, very dependable, very nice, and will do whatever I am asked; however, to them, that means I am manipulative. They mentioned they've yet to see it, but are certain I am a manipulative bastard... Personally, I could see myself being one, but it's not my forte' to do so. I do my job, and I do it well. I help other when they ask and I am always sensible / kind when I see fit to be. Most of you who know me know this is true, so I need not to explain that :-)

I, however, found it funny that these two people have 'figured out' the entire company within a few months of working here... Whatever alcoholics =)

I have a feeling I am going to make the next few days a very long day at the work site :)

...gets drunk twice in one day. Start drinking at 10 am, get drunk by 11 with 1.5 bottles of wine...

...sober up in the day...

...Drink at/after dinner and get drunk again before bed.

Training for the alcohol olympics.

Hey fellas,

Well, I am off to Italy once more. This time, it's going to be for a little longer time than before... so won't be around much.

I start my journey to Trieste, Italy, and then head to Monfalcone where I reside there for a little over a month. After that, I do the first revenue cruise for the P&O Azura Cruise Ship where I will be visiting the UK (Southampton), Greek Islands, Spain and many other places on a long-ass 20 day cruise.

After that, I will have a week before my next project. It is up in the air whether I will come back to the states for a few days, or just stay in the UK before I am sent to France to do the next largest ship in the world (NCL Epic).

NCL Epic will be a 7 week at least project, and not likely to go very smooth. The Network topology is very, very complex and we're working with a brandnew system of ours so there are going to be a million bugs to be worked out within that seven week time-span.

Personally, I am being burnt out with the travel. I love traveling, but I want to feel like I am traveling and not just working in one place when I do travel... And lately that's how it's been.

As you might have noticed, I have been flying out of the state quite often to visit other people, because I know it's going to be rough for me... Not being able to see a lot of my friends or talk to them.

I will have limited internet access, so hope to see you all a little bit online. If not then I'll catch you guys when I get back.

Ciao,

Rrruff

So I was thinking... We have all these furry cons... why not have some sort of tourney for fursuiters? The catch would be to get some sort of prize for the winners, and it would have to be a substantial prize too to help get people interested and involved...

I was thinking, what would be easiest to start out a 'sports tourney' between fursuiters all around the US? Well, the only thing I could come up with that made sense was fursuit bowling. It's a relatively easy sport and anyone can get lucky in it, and the actual good people will stay consistent, so everybody wins.

Now the hard part would be to organize it...

I was thinking something along the lines of having an event in several different areas, with one or two 'captains' in each area that would hold the mini bowling tournament. The captain would be in charge of taking care of the bowling tourney of their area, which would include keeping score, organizing the date/time and handling any problems that may come up for their event. In the end, they would give the scores and the winners of their group to me and we'd begin organizing the 'final' tourney in a central location (or a con) for all the winners to go to and bowl it out for the championship.

I would like to do this, but I think we'd have to have more than just a bowling tourney to get people interested. So, just looking for some ideas to be branched out from this and would like some feedback.

If you think this may be a good idea, or have some potential, post it to other LJs you know and hopefully they can help ^_^

Grazie!

Rrruff

Sunday, Darkwolf, Han, and myself all went to the Renaissance Faire! It was a lot of fun... We ate junkfood, I drank beer, and most importantly, fursuited there!

I have tons of pics, so I'll post them here :D

PS: So much for my shoulder. It is completely fucked right now :P



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Wooooooow

Bad accident, all is okay.. not my car. go into details later.. mostly ok, a little sore and hafta to get back checked out.

Edit: Dislocated nose and shoulder.. wtf nose? didn't feel that one... and doesn't hurt now unless i press on it really really hard.. but that would hurt anyways! Shoulder is sore so can kinda understand that.

Anyways, got clipped from behind, airbag went off..seatbelt locked up.. those caused the injuries.. everyone was okay, co worker wasn't at fault but is pretty pissed his car is totaled. Old beatup car, so that's why it's totaled.

Was interesting ;p took up my entire afternoon/evening!

Icing shoulder now.. wanna go to Ren fair tomorrow ;p

So March 3rd is the day I leave to Italy. I am there for a month, then go out on a cruise (for work) for almost a month. I will likely be stuck in the UK afterwards on April 28th - May 6th, where I will be sent to France to work on our new HD system... where I will be there for a while (Probably end of June). Then hopefully I'll be back in the states then.

Going to try to get an international Data plan for my iPhone, that way I can atleast use 60MB of data a month. Will likely be mostly used for work, but will have some free time on it too I'd assume.

Not sure what to do this weekend or next weekend. Sorta had plans but they fell through. If anything's going on let me know!