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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
3:25 pm	Birds do it, Bees do it, Even Big horned sheep do it... http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/06/the_gay_animal_kingdom.php Current Mood: amused (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 19th, 2007
2:35 pm	Should have been Baloo.....Oh...I am blue What Disney character are you? Genie You're unique, comical, and just a joy to be around. You make the wishes of others come true by putting a smile on their faces. Click Here to Take This Quiz Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
9:41 pm	My absense Hi Gang, Well, as I stated earlier, I am feeling better about things and decided to restore my LJ before the 30 day limit was up and I had to start from scratch again. As to what happened, I have a rather vauge answer to that which I have been using, and I will share it with you all here. I was betrayed and very hurt by someone who I helped get into the community and who cruelly and arrogantly abused my trust, friendship, and love of furry fandom and the people in it, and I needed to take a break and some time to reevaluate the place of the fandom in my life. I am not going into detail as it is not necessary, but I was feeling pretty jaded about the whole Furry thing after FC, but I've mellowed out about it and will ease my way back over time. I must say, I am a bit overwhelmed by all the responses and it goes a long way toward making me feel better about the whole thing...Thanks to you all...you make this old Bear feel welcome and illustrate vividly that not all the folks in the fandom are out only for themselves. Thanks again, and I will thank you all personally next time we meet... Current Mood: anxious Current Music: nope (23 Comments |Comment on this)
8:07 am	Feeling Better about things So I'm back...will have something more to say soon...missed all my friends. CyberBear (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
12:52 pm	Further Confusion, here I come! Heading to San Jose for Further Confusion........ Hello Gang! Just thought I should post letting all my furry friends that I will be at this years Further Confusion. I plan to post an info card on the message board with room number and cell number in case anyone wants to say hello to the Bear. I will be there Thursday thru Sunday. See you all there, and for those who cannot afford to go, believe me, I understand...tough out there these days. I will be posting clips and pics on my website when I get back, so at least you can see some of what went on. Take care in your travels and I look forward to meeting some new furs! CyberBear (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
2:44 pm	What a Weekend! Here I am again, just sharing the joys and sorrows of my life. (Here comes one of many joys) I want to let those of you who don't already know, that the very sexy and handsome John has accepted my invitation to join me in San Diego where he can establish himself and enjoy living near his favorite Daddy Bear. I couldn't be more excited to have him so close. Since we met over a year ago, we both soon realized that we have much in common including our love of music and live performances. It is for that reason that we had such an extraordinary weekend. My brilliant friend John, managed to get tickets to the reunion tour of the great '80's band, "Asia". WOW! What a great show we saw! Sold out and the joint rocked! These rock n' roll veterans came from other, even bigger groups, and, much to our enjoyment, took time to cover a song from each of their original bands. So, no only did we get "Asia", we got to hear a tune from "Emerson, Lake, and Palmer" since Carl Palmer is the drummer for "Asia"; Fanfare for the Common Man: and, since the keyboardist of "Asia" is none other than Geoff Downs from "The Buggles", we got a great cover of "Video Killed the Radio Star". Steve Howe; extraordinary guitarist from the group, "Yes" provided the connection to give us a great cover of the famous Yes hit, "Roundabout" and John Wetton, having been in one version of King Crismon, provided a great vocal on a cover of "In The Court of the Crimson King". During the time after the concert, two members of the band, Carl Palmer and Geoff Downs, came out to meet the fans. It was great because both John and I brought albums for them to sign, which they were happy to do. I also ran into a furry I had seen at cons before, but never actually met. I was very pleased to see that he was interested in seeing Asia as I was. His name is Matt, and he is a Black Panther fursuiter. He told me his fur name, but the place was noisy so I didn't quite get it, so. if you read this Matt, please post your fursona name for me. Since we got out so late, and had a long drive back to San Diego, I decided to ask my good friends, Al and Dex if we could stay overnight at their place, less than a 20 minute drive away from the venue. As gracious as ever, they were happy to have us and were wonderful hosts, as always. We really enjoyed our visit and ended it with a fine giant burrito from El Taypiac...it was bigger than my head, but I ate it anyway...well, part of it! John and I said our goodbyes and headed south, only to (here comes the sorrow part) have my 4runner blow a head gasket. We ended up getting towed by AAA to my house and finally got home around 8 PM. Oh well...at least I still have my pick-up truck with which to drive to work...all things considered, I'm pretty lucky. Well, that's all I wanted to share with all of you. Sorry these posts are so few and far between...I will try to do better! Have a great fall everyone and I will see some of you at the DooDah Parade, FC and Califur...Take care and I hope your adventures are all pleasant ones! - CyberBear Current Mood: cheerful (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
9:01 am	CaliFur 2006 OMFG!!! CyberBear posts! Yes, once in a rare while, I actually have something to share. This time it is about CaliFur. I volunteered to assemble the Con Book for this years celebration of all-things-furry in SoCal. I want to say that I had a really good time at the con and made a few new friends in the fandom, which, for me, is one of the greatest things about the fandom. I also had the chance to visit with many furs I have met and become friends with. I see these interesting folks far to seldom, so a Con is a great place to catch up on their lives, and to share some laughter with...I laughed a lot at this con, and not because of the drink, but the company. To all my furry friends, thanks for showing this Bear such a great time! Due to my work on the Con Book, I met Waggs, who helped assemble all the component parts, and Trappa, who actually picked me for the job. Although we had one late night, all in all, things came out well. I was pleased with the results and was thrilled to hear some positive feedback from some Con attendees. I only wish they were able to print more copies and, perhaps, go 4 color throughout the pub. So much great art was submitted; thanks to the artists who contributed...this was really your showcase! Waggs tells me he is working on the creation of a Furry Magazine for the fandom...I wish him luck with that project, and will reserve my copy now. I hope every fur out there will support his efforts so we can have an even better voice in the world and defend ourselves from those who would want to trash Furry Fandom. Finally, I want to share pics I took at the con of the many great fursuits! Here is the link; http://web.mac.com/bswaim/iWeb/Site/Library.html See you all online and at the next con! Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Dan Hicks (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 1st, 2005
2:46 pm	Having fun despite PinkEye I've enjoyed a wonderful weekend entertaing many of my best furry friends who came down to enjoy San Diego Pride with me. As hard as we try to make things work out perfect, and to make sure everybody has a great time, there always seems to be something that will go wrong! I was all ready for CarolKitty (carolhiggy), scruff_e_coyote, furahivszuri, dexter_ykt_fox, albear972, and grizzlybear1138 to arrive and let the fun begin. But I woke up Saturday morning with one eye glued shut! Once I got it open, I saw that it was all swollen and blooshot...I have Pink-Eye! Great! Oh well, I will carry on as if nothing is wrong...it was tough. By the next morning both eyewere in dire strights! I still bore with it and we did have a great tine...Finally saw a doctor this morning and am on meds, so I am hoping I'll be all better by Thursday. Despite the Pink-Eye, I truly had a wonderful time with my friends. Having them here was a wonderful experiance and we all had fun watching the Parade and attending the Pride events in Balboa Park. Both Carol and I bought fuzzy colored balls that flash...had fun making jokes about that! This group of furs were checked out everywhere we went; some more than others, but I'm not gonna say who...My poor eyes are so bloodshot, the whites are gone!......I look like I was at a marathon of tear-jerking movies, but I feel confident I will be fully recoved by Thursday....More news as it happens! - CyberBear Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Silence (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
7:39 pm	Al & Dex Visit...Comic Con! Well, it has been a long time since I posted, So I thought I'd try out this new Widget for automatically posting to LJ just to see if it works. Unlike most of you folks out there, I am a Macintosh user. This new widget sits on my desktop and makes it easy to add my thoughts to LJ. I recently hosted a fur gathering centered around a visit from my good friends, Al Bear and Dex Fox. They came down the weekend before the 4th of July, and I invited a lot of local furs over to help party with us. We spent a lot of time in the Hot Tub, and we bar-b-qued and had cake and ice cream to celebrate the 21st birthday of Grizzly Bear. We also watched "Immortal" which was a cool film. All in all, it was a great time. Shortly after returning home, Al and Dex left for Anthrocon...(envy,envy) but I had the San Diego Comic Con to look forward to, and not only that, I was joined by 4 great furs; Kaysho, Karwood, Brophy, and Kenai. Needless to say, we had a BLAST! I really enjoyed hosting these 4 fine furs and their company just enhanced the con experiance. I did miss the furry Meet and Greet in favor of attending the Masqurade. I do wish they didn't happen at the same time. At least I got to see Cuddles, the Cuddlefish again! Well, I think I will stop here and see if this widget works. Everyfur out there; have a great summer! - CyberBear Current Mood: Happy Current Music: Hold On Loosely (Like, Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) [Disc 2]) by .38 Special (26 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
2:57 pm	The latest News... Well, once again, I have let way too much time pass since an update.Lots going on in my furry life, especially with Califur coming up. I am looking forward to seeing all my furry friends at the upcoming Con and, for those who can't make it, i will be video taping the festivities as always and can share latter. I will also have my laptop and can act as your roving reporter at the con. As far as my other life, lots to tell. I quit my job after a disagreement with my boss, and will soon join the ranks of the unemployed. I actually am glad because, not only do I not want to work for this guy any longer, I need a break! i have recently heard from more than one friend who have complained that they feel ignored by me. Man, that hurts, but I cannot deny that I have been lost in my own little world these past few weeks as I come to terms with my new situation. I am not covered by any health insurance, so I have to fix that on my own; I need to get a home equity loan and that entails a lot of work fixing up the old Bear Den. They send out inspectors and don't want a lot of brush around the house due to the fire risk, so I have been busy cleaning up the yard. Hate to not get my loan because I didn't mow the lawn! On top of all this, a certain Bear cub I'm a big fan of has graced my Den with his presence all the way from San Francisco twicw in the last month, and I hosted Flare StarFire on a southern visit he made to compete in a Card Competition...so life has been busy! But believe me, i still think of all my fi=urry friends! I have wanted to make it up to one of the Furry parties at the Prancing Skiltaire (sp?) but have yet to be able to do so...Hell, I just missed Daryl Exline's party and he lives only a couple miles away! But, the way things look now, after next week, I'll have plenty of time and will become more available to all me local friends...I really look forward to that! So, tonight my sons, my ex-wife and her new hubby, and my Cub, John are all going to see Joe Jackson and Todd Rundgren at an outdoor concert...then tomorrow drive up to the con...I look forward to getting off work today! (Yes, it is so slow I'm doing this at work....anyway, what are they gonna do? Fire me? HA!) Current Mood: excited Current Music: The sound of printing presses running... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
7:32 am	I have met a Bear Cub of the "Gay Bear" variety online and I'm really falling for him. He lives in San Francisco and the two of us have been web camming and talking on the phone for some time now, so I invited him down. His name is John and he visited me weekend before last. It was so sweet! He is a really cute redhead and really into music like I am; we had a ball together. This was the same weekend as Rick and Tess's farwell party for furs and John insisted I go. Even though it meant taking time away from us, he knew it was important to me, so we went. Being the friendly Bear I am, I also offered a ride to 2 other San Diego furs, anominouswolf and grizzlybear1138. Before we all left to head up to Rick and Tess's party, I get an email from Ian Soulfox who is staying with his Aunt in Long Beach. He explains to me that, another fur and good artist who lives here in San Diego, Brian Wear (wolfgangcake), told him online that he could get him a job at Krispy Kreme Donuts if he can just figure out a way down here. He further explains that he knows I'm planning to attend the party tonight and that he will be there and wants to know if he can hitch a ride back to San Diego with me. I write him back and say sure; anyway, I've always admired his art and look forward to meeting him. Next he emails me back and asks if we can also stop by his aunts and pick up his stuff as he wants to bring it down as well. I write back and say sure again. Anyway, we go to the party and I'm trying to introduce my new "fur friendly" but not furry boyfriend to the nicest furs, and I have told my passengers that I want to leave the party around 10 since we have another hours drive to get to Ian's aunts house. All the while I'm kinda looking for Ian, but no luck. We generally have a good time; anominouswolf even runs into an old boyfriend he was dying to see. A bunch of us go to In and Out Burger around 9:30 to eat but we are back by 10 so I can pack it up and leave. I had promised Carol Kitty I would call her when we went so she could join us, but I forgot my cell phone, so I missed her, I really felt bad about that as I haven't seen her in a while. We return to the party and anominouswolf is nowhere to be found. I finally locate Ian Soulfox and introduce myself. He asks that I just tell him when I'm ready to go. I'm searching everywhere for anominouswolf! It was a surreal scene! I can't even imagine what my new boyfriend thought! Anominouswolf finally appears at midnight and he knows I'm pissed and feel taken advantage of...but we worked it out later. Anyway, we leave and go to Ian's Aunts house and we are finally on our way. We don't get home until after 3AM. As I'm driving home, it occurs to me that Brian Wear works the 3rd shift at Krispy Kreme so he won't be home for me to drop off Ian. I ask Ian what his plan was and he asks if he can crash at my place tonight. I say OK and then, the next morning, I wake before everyone else and go online where I see Brian on Yahoo IM, so I let him know I brought Ian Soulfox down for him. His response was not good. He asked me where Ian was going to stay. I said I thought with you...and he says no way. So now I have a real problem. About this time my sons arrive as well as my childhood friend, Glen, all wanting to meet John, my new Cub from San Francisco. We had plans that Sunday and now I have this situation to deal with. Well, after thinking it over hard, I decided I couldn't let another fur take advantage of me as I had with Joey Leafrunner and GoldenBear. Even though I like his art and he is basically a nice guy, I couldn't believe he would put me in this position. Plus, I was beginning to suspect that I might be getting a reputation within the furry community as an easy mark here to be taken advantage of. So, after discussing things with my friend Glen and my Cub John, it was decided that I must return Ian to his aunts house. It was tough, but I had no choice and I was pissed because this ruined my last day with John and it reflected badly on furs in general. Well, I took him home and gave him good advice all the way, but I don't think it did any good; he had already resigned himself to returning to Texas. If he had made any kind of effort, he could have worked things out; but no; he just wanted people to do stuff for him. As if to cap things off, just before we get to his aunts house, he asks if me or John are hungry...NO we say...would we mind going thru a drive thru for him? No I say as he says "Let me check my wallet" He checks his wallet 3 more times until I have to order...He tells me what he wants and says it again at which point I say never-mind; I'll pay for it! That was clearly what he wanted in the first place. The worst thing was, after we dropped him off and he had all his stuff...he just left. No Thank You or anything. Left a really bad impression with me and John and gave John reason to fear for me with furries. Oh well, fortunately there are many great furs out there. Don't worry, I'll win him over to furry fandom; I just need one good con! I hope for less drama and more fun in my furry life and I wish the same for all my furry friends! Enough for now! Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: none (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 21st, 2004
3:01 pm	Catching up... Oh My God! A New Entry! It has been several weeks since my last holy confession, so it's catch-up time. A lot has been going on in my Furry life...a regular soap opera! I have made some new friends and even a newbie who I'm converting to a fur. Well, where to start...I guess the campout...I headed a group that went out to the desert to camp at Agua Caliente County park. A lot of Family members, and 2 other furs, Joey Leafrunner and Wolfjaguar_Spirit were there. We all had a blast and wanna do it again in the fall when the weather cools down. I went to another of Tess's parties and brought my new iBook to show off. Unfortunately, things turned out bad: I had given a ride to Wolfjaguar_spirit and his supposed new mate TP. Once we were at Tess's house it was quite clear to me that TP was trying to locate Static Cub, and had little interest in being with Wolfjag and wandered around, seemingly lost. Aloha wolf was asking me if that guy was TP and I when I said yes, Alohawolf seemed quite interested in talking with him.The next thing I know, Wolfjaguar comes outside where I am, highly agitated and obviously upset. I ask him what the problem is and he explains that TP has handed him his cell phone and on the other end is TP's mate from back east threatening Wolfjag if he continues to be friends with TP. Well, needless to say, this was very upsetting to Wolfjauar_spirit and his nite was ruined. I was saddened by this turn of events, but determined to try and understand what TP had been thinking when he set-up Wolfjaguar like that. But he could not be found. We searched everywhere and soon realized that both he and Aloha wolf had disappeared. So we looked on and off thru the nite, I took a break and set up my iBook and showed some footage from Further Confusion. Since Al Bear and Dex were not at this party, I just didn't really have anyone to talk to. So we continued to search on and off until 11:30 with no luck. I did not want to return to San Diego without TP, since I had driven him up, but finally had to leave. I realized he must have left with Aloha Wolf. Wolfjauar's dissapointment turned to anger as we drove home. The next morning, I was online and TP IMed me and asked why I had abandoned him at the party. I told him that he had abandoned us and speculated that he was at Alohawolf's place right then. He finally admitted he was. i told him I thought he had been a real jerk to Wolfjaguar_spirit and let it go at that. He had left some of his gear at my place, and we worked out a way he could get it back without me having to see him, which was OK with me. As I mentioned earlier, I met a new fur named BlueBear; a really nice fur. We have been exchanging links and introducing each other to new things. He is a hell of an artist and I've got him posting to some Yahoo groups and his work is being well received. I invited him to join me at Califur, and was happy to have him accept. NEXT: The Califur Report (better late .....) Current Mood: bored Current Music: Elvis Costello (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 16th, 2004
12:55 pm	Fur Parties and Road Trips Well, once again it has been way too long since my last update. Since then I have attended another great party at Tess's house and had a great time. I drove up from San Diego with Joey Leafrunner and stopped along the way in Temecula to pick up Wolfjaguar_Spirit. We then had to go to Pomona to pick up 2 rats, pets of Joey's; and load more of his stuff into the car. He is slowly moving into the Bear Cave. Then we headed to the party where I visited with Dex Fox and Al Bear and got to meet Trigger Happy Squirrel. Lots of TV Funhouse on in the living room, but I stayed out back visiting and meeting new furs. Wolfjaguar_Spirit drew and watched TV in the main room for the first half of the party. He also met a few new furs, unfortunately, a couple just as we were leaving! Trigger Happy Squirrel had some amazing video equipment with which he shared the history of his fursuit with us. It was fun getting to know him. He lives only about an hours drive from me. He asked to meet Joey Leafrunner, who I drove up, so I introduced them. Trigger Happy Squirrel wanted to enlist his help to act as handler and video person at the SD Comic Con coming up. Speaking of which, I got my reservations for CaliFur, SD Comic Con and AnthroCon. I'm really looking forward to AnthroCon; I've met another Bear online and we have similar tastes in music and are around the same age. He lives in Kansas City and is a talented artist. I'm trying to talk him into coming to AC so we can meet in person. His name is Golden Bear. I have had such a great time visiting with furs online. Particularly Wolfjaguar_Spirit, Grizz, GoldenBear, Erraticwolfn and Flare. Great guys, I feel I can tell them anything, and often do! Other news, I wanted to buy a DVD player, a portable, so I could share video with folks to fur gatherings. Anyway, I settled on a Toshiba with a 10 inch screen, but I was unhappy with the cost and Al Bear wisely pointed out that I could have gotten a laptop computer for a little more, and had both a DVD player with a bigger screen, (yes, I am a size queen) and a computer all in one. This was such a good idea that I felt dumb not to have thought of it. The good news is that I took it back and then bought an iBook. I love it! Plays movies nice and on a 12 inch screen! So, at the next party, I will finally be able to show anyone who wants to see it, my footage from Further Confusion. I also have some cool comedy bits. Should be fun...I actually made a DVD of FC for my Bear friend Grizz in NY; he got it and seems to like it. So last night, I had to return to Pomona to help Joey pick-up his dog, Shadow.On the way we picked up Wolfjaguar_Spirit who wanted to go along for the ride. We stopped at Nicks and had dinner and talked with Al Bear on the cell phone. We had hoped to visit him, but time didn't permit. So, after dinner, I showed off my new iBook by playing some of Kill Bill for the two of them. I had it in the back of my Toyota Fourunner, so here were 3 guys in a parking lot, hanging over the tailgate, staring into the back... it must have looked odd. I showed them the animation segment; they were duly impressed. We then resumed our trip and visited and listened to music all the way there. Picked up Shadow and headed back south. Wolfjag and I had a very pleasent visit on the way down and I was sad to drop him off, but it was late and I had to remember work the next day. Joey and I got to the Bear Cave around 11 PM...not bad. We introduced his dog, Shadow, to my 2 girls, Willow and Lucy; one guy and 2 girls; sounds like a good living situation to me! I'm going to see YES in concert Sunday nite; I will let you know how it was in my next report! Oh, saw Hellboy and loved it...and got my DVD of Brother Bear....can you wear out a DVD? Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Skating On Thin Ice...Jethro Tull (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
9:35 am	Finally, something new! Well, I have been a bad Live Journal participant, since I haven't made an entry in a very long time... sometimes life just carries you away on a wave. Well, I finally touched down long enough to make this entry. My last entries were just before the Fur party at Tess' house. That was a great time for all, I got to visit with a lot of great furs and was even asked to help edit the program for CaliFur 0. Since I do electronic prepress for a living, it seems natural enough. I've sent Robert, the fur in charge, some bids to give him an idea of costs involved. I guess we shall see how that goes; since I work for someone else, I cannot do it for free as I would like. Joey Leafrunner is still staying at the Bearcave and we picked up fur artists Brian Wear (wolfgang_cake) and Mike Rivera (Wolfjaguar_spirit) and headed up to Rick and Tess' house. The gathering was fun and it was great to see Dex and Al Bear. Ben Raccon had asked for a ride home with me, but he had made other plans. We mostly watched "Futurama" and "The Critic" and visited. There sure was a lot of love in that room! Some real heavy petting and a lot of cuddling... it was sweet. When it came time to leave, I looked for Al Bear to say goodbye and found him asleep against Dex. It was so cute! I decided to let sleeping bears lay, since he looked like he needed it. As I found out later, Al is having some challenges in his life and dealing with stuff like that would bring anyfur down a bit. My situation with my exwife has resolved to the point where she pulls up across the street and honks when it is time to pick up the boys. Fine with me. Obviously, nothing she was worried about has or will happen so I'm letting time heal things. In the meantime Joey Leafrunner had to return home in order to meet up with his friend, Tippi, the BlueSnowAngel. This was a good excuse to do a fur road-trip, so Brian joined us and we picked up wolfjag on the way. We all ate in Temecula at Red Robin and both Brian and Mike favored us with some napkin art. Joey had just received his new hooves made for him by Bain, a texas fur, and he did a great job! Joey wore them during the trip and got lots of nice comments. The trip was basically uneventful, but, on the way back, Wolfjag and Wolfgang sat in back together in order to get to know each other better. From what I was hearing, it sounded like they enjoyed each other's company. We droped wolfjag off at home in Temecula and were off to Spring Valley and home. The next Fur event was when Donkey drove up to meet Tippi and see Joey. They all returned to the BearCave that night, so I got to meet Tippi too. She changed her departure point to San Diego which gave her an extra day here. We went to Horton Plaza and, the next night, went to dinner with Brian at BJ's. It was fun and nice to meet Tippi. She is also a great furry artist with a lot of her work out on the web. After Tippi left, Joey has started seeking a job in ernest. So far, no bites, but it has only been a week. Meanwhile Joey's fur friend, Flare, has let me know that he plans to come out to Calif. from the Boston area and live at the Bearcave and get his life started here. He and Joey are real good friends, so I see no problems with that. Fact is, however, (and I don't wanna say too much here as it is really not any of my business) there are things these two horse furs have to fully resolve. Until that happens, I'm not really certain Flare is coming or not. I hope he does, he sounds like a cool fur. We shall see.....maybe in my next post.... Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Hooray for Tuesday - The Minders (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 11th, 2004
11:51 pm	Get with The Program....... This was so good, I just had to share it... INSTALLING LOVE Tech Support: Yes, ... how can I help you? Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install Love. Can you guide me though the process? Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed? Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready. What do I do first? Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart? Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running? Tech Support: What programs are running ? Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now. Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed. Can you turn those off ? Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how? Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and Resentment have been completely erased. Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal? Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades. Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error - Program not run on external components ." What should I do? Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others. Customer: So, what should I do? Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations. Customer: Okay, done. Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back. Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal? Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you. Customer: Thank you. -- Author Unknown Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Green Shirt - Elvis Costello (1 Comment |Comment on this)
11:14 am	The Latest A Mid-Week Report Things have resolved themselves as far as my difficulty with my exwife and her fears that the furs that visit or live at my house might molest my children. it wasn't sane conversation that did it , but, rather, the threat of a custody battle, which she knows would end with her losing since nothing of this kind has or will happen. She just got an earful from a supposed friend who has only heard the worst about furs. My ex knows she would lose because she is a Child custody attorney herself. Instead, she told my 15 year old how to defend himself against such things. I can't imagine what he must think, but at 15 there is little kids don't already know on the subject. My sons and I have talked since she created this false crisis, and they are cool with Dads unusual friends. In fact, they admit they like them, and why not, they are all great people. Other than that concern, it has been a slow week at work. Have been doing a lot of computer work transfering Ali-G Comedy shows to DVD from VHS. Funny stuff. I also got a request from the fur who runs the Auido/Visual at the Memphis Fur Meet to provide him with a copy of my Amimalympics DVD copy made from the VHS. I emailed him back for an address to send it to and am awaiting a reply. Last night, Joey Leafrunner, Brian Wear, Steve Du, and I went bowling...that was fun; we talked about becoming the first furry bowling team in the local San Diego league...might be fun...Well, I'm getting ready for the upcoming party at Tess's house. Lots of driving involved...gotta get wolfjaguar_spirit on the way up, and swing by Joey's house on our way home to pick up Rhonda, his rabbit, and his Rat. I also got a request from a racoon in San Diego to hitch a ride back with us, so I get to meet yet another local fur; can't wait! I know the party will be a blast...Full report on Sunday. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: 10CC - "I'm Not In Love" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 5th, 2004
7:54 am	Joey's In Da House Crazy day at work. I had intended on leaving early, after all, it has been slow all week, but I got in a hot large format job that had to be done by morning...So I couldn't leave to go pick-up Joey Leafrunner until 7 PM! Why does this always happen? Any other day this week, I was bored at work. Oh well, due to the late hour I was unable to get wolfjaguar or wolfgang to accompany me, so I made the 2 hour drive all alone. It is great to visit with Joey again. This time I hope to spend some quality time getting to know him. Whatever we do with other furs will be posted for your enjoyment....heh. Tomorrow I am hosting a memorial to my recently deceased Mom here at my Bear Cave. Afterward, I will be having some fun with my fellow furs...We are all looking forward to the next fur party at Tess' house next weekend. I want to meet as many as I can! Every fur I've met so far has been a joy to know. Well, gotta go to work...more news as it happens! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
11:14 am	Another Day, a Better mood I have received some warm and thoughtful wishes from several furs about my Mom’s recent passing, and I thank you all; couldn’t ask for a better bunch of furiends. It helped that I had a house full of folks, including two furs, Brian Wear (wolfgang_cake http://www.furnation.com/wolfgang/) and Steve Du (DJ Stripes http://www.furryloops.com/) when I got the dreaded phone call…they all gave me a lot of support. Add to that my excitement over watching the Academy Awards show, and I’m sure you will know why it was so surreal to me. My Mom’s funeral was today in Virgina with my older brother in attendance. That will be all I have to say on that subject; time to move on, as I’m sure she would want me to. I have been looking forward to visiting furs at Tess’ party on the 13th. I am once again playing bus driver for several furs in the area. I spoke with Joey and he decided he would like to come back to the Bear Cave for a while down here in San Diego, and I told him I would be delighted to have his company. Which leads me to a mini rant; One thing I find a lot of Furs have in common (besides not having a drivers license) is low self-esteem. I don’t understand this as all the ones I’ve met so far are great people whom I feel privileged to know! If anyone treated them like they treat themselves, I would be angry with that person! There is nothing wrong with being modest, but don’t short-change yourselves! There ends my rant. I am picking up Joey again on Thursday and look forward to actually getting to visit with him this time round. On the way up, I hope to pick up wolfjaguar_spirit so we can visit also. I’ll have a full report in Friday’s LJ. Tonight I am hosting a live concert by Andrew Calhoun at my house and expect a big turnout. I had better go start getting ready! More latter! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Wendy Carlos-Switched on Bach (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 1st, 2004
9:21 pm	From highest high to lowest low... Playing catch-up in my Live Journal pages…lots going on. Had a house full for a few days, but things have calmed down…Joey awoke to Andrew singing; Andrew having to prepare for Concerts he would be giving during the Convention. He forgot that Joey was asleep in the next room, but Joey kinda liked being awakened that way. I was at work all day Friday awaiting for Joey to decide if he wanted to stay at my Cave longer or head home so he could join his Dad and go to the Winternationals. Finally, in the late afternoon, I Imed him from work and he explained that he had been talking to his Dad and they decided to go to the races together, so he did want to go back to Pomona tonight… At about the same time, I was chatting with my good furiend, wolfjaguar_spirit, and he checked to get permission to join us…it seemed unlikely so we were both very pleased when he was allowed to join us. That meant I wouldn’t have to drive most of the way alone, but instead would be able to enjoy the company of a good furend. So, I left work at 2 PM, picked up Joey from my house, and headed North. We talked about furry fandom, Yiffy art, Furs we both know and how great they are, and about the future when Joey and his pal Flare may be moving in to get established in San Diego. I’ve offered them a place to stay and I think they may just take me up on it. Traffic was not really as bad as I thought, and we were at Jaggy’s house by a little after 5 PM. He joined us and we all went to get some fast food where wolfjaguar realized he had forgotten his cel phone, so slight detour and we were off to Joey’s home in Pomona. On the way we laughed at some Garrison Keller “Prairie Home Companion”- the annual joke show…and later, some Weird Al-Poodle Hat…that got us to Joey’s where we bid him a fond farewell and headed south again. I was glad to get some time to visit with jaggy; I let him know what a talented artist I think he is and how glad I was that we met. I’m really looking forward to being at jaggys first con! We stopped at a place nears his house and visited for a bit more, then it was time to finish my drive home alone. I actually drove to Ramona and picked up one of my sons right at midnight…he wanted to come to my house for the weekend. The weekend started out usual enough, but I had no idea how seriously it would end. Saturday I putzed around the house, visited a friend, and ended up going to the Town & Country Hotel at 10:00 at night to hear my brother-in-law perform. His name is Andrew Calhoun, and he is very good; (http://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/artist/card/0,,411072,00.html) he has a number of CD’s out, all wonderful. Anyway, he is in town for a folk convention and his performance was great, as were several artists we saw. Didn’t get home until late and slept in on Sunday…did some yardwork and late in the afternoon, the house started to fill with people; Brian Wear and Steve Du came by, Andrew was home, as were my boys and Lara, my sons girlfriend…It was nice…then came the phone call…My mother had died from a massive heart attack. It shouldn’t really be a surprise as she was 84, but it still shocked me, it seemed like something that couldn’t be true. Thanks to all the guests in the house, I got a ton of support. The phone rang every minute with business that needed to be dealt with. My eldest brother finally decided he could fly to Virgina, where Mom lived, and be there Monday night, so that took a load off my mind. Despite all this I managed to see a lot of the Academy awards show…Yea! LOTR! All in all, it was a very surreal evening. It is now Monday evening and things are quite…I’m going to bed early! Goodnight…more later. -CB Current Mood: tired Current Music: none (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 26th, 2004
1:54 pm	Getting Joey Leafrunner Thursday already! Wednesday was killer at work, but we cranked out a ton of film for Sony. It is just like when you want it to rain, all you must do is wash your car...I really wanted to get off work a couple hours early, so naturally we were swamped. I didn't get out until 4 PM and I had a long drive to make; but I'm getting ahead of myself. Last Tuesday, I was IMing with Joey Leafrunner and Flare, when it came up that Joey would like to get away from his environment for a while, so I invited him down. He doesn’t drive yet, so I offered to come get him...we settled on Wednesday night. That evening, Brian Wear and I went to see Eurotrip...It was not bad, about what one would expect. Lots of T&A...When we got home, I discovered a message on the ol' phone machine from my ex telling me to expect her brother, Folk singer Andrew Calhoun, to be dropping in to stay with me thru the weekend! This was unexpected, but welcome news. No sooner than I had hung the phone up, Andrew arrived. He was very tired after driving all the way from Portland, Oregon, so I introduced Brian Wear (wolfgang) to Andrew and soon Steve Du (djstripes) showed up and visited for a while, eventually taking Brian home. So, on Wednesday, things at work go nuts, but I deal with it knowing that I will have to face a ton of traffic and a rainstorm on my way to get Joey. Then, late in the afternoon, wolfjaguar_spirit IM's the Bear and says he would like to join me on the drive and maybe we can go bowling on the way back...his folks said it was OK! Well, of course I was delighted to do that, it is always great to have company on a long drive, plus I really like being with wolfjaguar_spirit. So I left at 4 PM and picked up wolfjaguar_spirit in Temecula around 5:30 PM. Traffic wasn't unbearable, and the rain held off, so I made better time than I thought I would. We picked up Joey and some of his stuff, and headed south towards San Diego with a stop in Temecula to drop off wolfjaguar_spirit. We hit the local bowling alley, but it was league night, so we decided to hit the local arcade. We played some airhocky (wolfjaguar_spirit kicked my ass) and some other stuff...then took wolfjaguar_spirit home and continued to my house. I got hungry, so I took Joey to my favorite Mexican restaurant and we chowed down. Finally got home and unloaded the car, I showed joey around and we watched a bit of my video shot at FC, and I shared some of my Anthro comics with him...Finally hit the sack, cause I had to be in early to work. Before I left this morning, I got an IM from wolfjaguar_spirit that made it clear to me that I had leftn him feeling dissapointed, and I regret that I wasn't more considerate of his feelings and I really hope I can make it up to him somehow; he is a great fur and a pleasure to call a friend. Well, that's all I can do from here at work...Tonight I get to show Joey around and that will be fun. Current Mood: discontent (9 Comments |Comment on this)