Sorry for the delay. Got back Monday night and used yesterday to relax. But here's a rundown for those of you who were wondering how my time at TFF2015 went.

Before the convention -
I packed most of my things up Wednesday and left a few things to pack on Thursday just before I left for TFF. Once everything was packed and I was on my way, I stopped over at the San Antonio Grey Hound station and picked up DAQ and drove up to Dallas with him. Naturally we stopped a few places for fuel for the truck and food for ourselves. Also stopped by to see if my friend was home, since he lived somewhat along the way, but apparently he was at work. When we got to Dallas, I dropped DAQ off at the convention hotel, which was not too far from the hotel he was staying at since he wanted me to drop him off there to see if his friend he was rooming with had arrived yet. I got to my hotel room, took a nice hot bath, relaxed, and watched Big Bang Theory :p

Friday -
I gathered up my con stuff, which was more than last year, honestly... I had a bag of sketch books, a computer bag I kept my new laptop in so it wouldn't get damaged like my last two laptops did, a bag of cords and controllers for when I went down to the corral, my backpack. I also had my cooler of rations, meaning food and soda. I had a monitor to dual monitor my game play down in the corral with because a few people at TFF last year enjoyed seeing me play TF2 occasionally and draw! I also brought along the laptop that recently broke on me, which was in my backpack. Why did I bring it? Well, while I now have a wonderful and functional gaming laptop, the older laptop still works fine. Its break only made it where you cannot go online with it at all. Ethernet port's burnt out and the wireless line anchored to the inside of the frame snapped when the frame cracked clean through. So, this laptop that couldn't go online was actually perfect to show off the RPG I finished making for those that stopped by and wanted to try it out. I sat with DAQ at a table outside of the Dealer's Den and we both drew for awhile and were joined by Sinuke, SailorAnna, GoliathWildcat and Karno even stopped by the table for a moment. After a bit of drawing I went into the Dealer's Den when it opened and greeted Niis, Padunk, FredGDPerry, WolfKidd, Portzebie, and Luna-Starbright. I also meet and talked a bit with Miupix who was seated next to Gideon. While there I pointed out that I was the one that pointed out in his early Ask Jam strips that Jam was missing her little pink diamond on her forehead, jokingly asking if it fell off. Well, this became an unintentional meme for his characters since the answer was Jam explaining that sometimes that happens when her fur doesn't fluff up right. After this, a lot of people started asking if his other characters had hidden diamonds, too, if they brushed their fur a certain way, which is a bit... odd, but funny to think about. I also told him that I had thought of an interesting idea of Jam, Cream, and Peaches dressed as some of the female cast from BlazBlue. He admitted that he wasn't too familiar with the game, so I left it at that and he said he'd look it up sometime. I also found and talked to the guy that manages Furry Dakimakura since my friend, Zillford, was going to have mouse pads of his red mouse girl Krista made through the site, but something happened that halted that. So I talked with the guy in regards of this and got some information I could pass onto Zill to have this still be done. Afterwards, I went back to the table and drew some more along with the others, which during this time my phone's power got low and I had to turn it off. After another while, I decided it was high time for me to set up in the corral, especially since that was the only place I knew of with useable power outlets and my computer was getting low on power. I had to collect my backpack, bag of cords, and monitor, which I brought in a little while into the drawing earlier, then set up everything down in the corral to host a live play of my RPG, The Six Realms. It was sort of a promotional oppertunity for those that might want to buy it once it goes up on Steam for $10 to help fund my next game projects. A few of the people that did test play it pointed some things out to me that I quickly fixed in a tweak, which wasn't all that major, but more like minor annoyances, such as the text for finding items in the first dungeon being hard to read due to the light colored floors, or doors that were supposed to be locked and stationary until you found a key for them would change their look when they told you they were locked... which.... really bugs me... So, all that's fixed now! And guess what? Anyone wanting to playtest the RPG may still do so. I'm going to delay releasing the RPG to Steam for now until I get my business bank account up and running so I can keep my funds seperate from my personal money. Why am I doing this? Well, for one it'll keep me from being tempted to spending all my funds I gather on personal items, and for two, if I'm going to indeed sell this game for funding, I'd best treat it like a business rather than just personal. Anyway... I stayed down in the corral until around midnight, when I decided to head back to my hotel room and settle in for the night, so I packed up everything, got it into the truck and left.

Saturday -
I got up pretty early compared to my normal time. It was around 8 AM. So I got myself ready and headed out with my con supplies again. Sinuke, DAQ, and Sailor Anna are already there, so I joined them and drew a bit into my sketch book, trying to get some of the Exhibition Fighters cast drawn into the book as references for the artists that might be drawing in the sketch book, though I also realized that I forgotten to charge my phone last night. While I didn't get the first 10 of the cast in like I hoped, I went ahead and asked WolfKidd if he had any open slots for sketch book drawings and he said that today he was all filled, but if I got to him tomorrow morning, he should have a slot open. So I agreed to try to get to him then. This also gave me enough time to put more references into the sketch book. Though before leaving I went ahead and showed Rei Morisan, the snow leopard girl who couldn't be peirced by blades to Fred Perry. Being a spotted feline girl sort of made me think somewhat of his Gold Diggers cheetah girl, Brittany. I asked him if he'd be willing to do a sketch of Rei, and surprisingly he did a sketch of her in the sketch book right there in the book at that moment. Wasn't a full sketch, but it was still a good one. I do feel like I owe him some money just for what he did draw, personally. I'll see if he's up to accepting the money for it. I talked to Seppel again while here about his Furotica card game, which admittedly I had bought a deck of last year. But this time I talked to him because I remembered that Chalodillo had made some cards for them and Chalo and I have a mutual friend who'd a very good artist, much better than myself, Jessica Elwood. And so I thought maybe I could see if she'd have the time and the desire to make some art for this, too. So I got a card from Seppel to give Jessica the information from in case she was keen on doing this. Anyway, I went back to the table and drew more into the sketch book for awhile until my laptop's power again got low (using the laptop for music and references of my own characters, FYI), so I gathered my things, headed down to the corral, had someone playing pool watch my things while I got the rest of my con supplies from the truck and brought them down to the corral and hosted another live play of The Six Realms while I played a few games from my Steam collection. Now that I think of it... I only had about 20 games last year I was at TFF2014 and this time I had 101 games on my Steam... How time... and money... flies when you don't pay attention. An attendee going by Hound Dog joined me down there and asked a bit about the RPG and the watched me play a bit of Borderlands. After a little while he set up his own laptop and played some WoW on it. While I knew about the Taurens, Worgens, and Pandarians on WoW, I didn't know they made a feline race. Though, being an old EverQuest player, I rather miss my Vashir thief, Mitago, and my Iksar shadow knight, Xeirokos Banescales. Anyway, since Saturday's my anime night, I packed up my things when it got close to 10 PM, went back to my hotel room, and watched Toonami until it the shows I wanted to watch were over. I was drawing more in the sketch book while Toonami was on as well. When it became 3 AM, I went ahead and called it a night.

Sunday -
I got to the convention and it started sprinkling. It was a light drizzle at the time, so I thought nothing of it, but I brought the umbrella I took with me inside anyway. Also brought in only my computer bag holding my laptop and my bag of sketch books so I wouldn't bog myself down with the weight of the other things. I went ahead and got Lucie York, my shy mouse mage girl of the Exhibition Fighters into the sketch book, because I figured while she's not a rat, WolfKidd, who's fond of rat girls, might like Lucie if I asked him to draw her. Of the Exhibiton Fighters, only James Myst, the illusionist, is a rat, and I hadn't gotten him into the sketch book yet. I decided to go into the Dealer's Den, especially since I didn't want my laptop to get low on power just yet since I had to show Padunk a screenshot of Lady Aurelia from Borderlands the Pre-Sequel since I mentioned how Lady Aurelia had a fur collar on her dress and Padunk's fursona has a natural fur collar around her neck, so it sort of looked like Aurelia was meant for Padunk. I had taken a screenshot of Aurelia the previous night and also took one of Aurelia in an alternate hairstyle I figured Padunk would like as well. When I got there, though, Padunk was distracted and had to go somewhere for a little, so I showed Niis the screenshots to see if she thought Padunk would like to see them and she agreed that Padunk would want to see it. So since Padunk wasn't there yet, I went to show Miu some screenshots, old and new, from BlazBlue, because I mentioned to him how I thought it'd be interesting to see Jam, Cream, and Peaches dressed up as characters from BlazBlue. Miu didn't know the game, but Gideon did. But when I showed him the screenshots he immediately recognized Taokaka since there's been so many drawings of her. For those curious, I was thinking Cream could be dressed as Litchi Fang Ling, since they're both rather busty. Peaches could be dressed as Taokaka, because while Tao has a nice bust on her, she's not as big as Litchi, plus Tao and Litchi are friends, and ironically, Tao tends to fondle Litchi's breasts... often without asking. And Jam could be dressed as Noel Vermillion, who like Jam, isn't all that big in the chest area, but is still cute. So, after showing him the screenshots I went back to Niis and Padunk's table and Padunk finally showed back up, to which I showed her Aurelia and she did seem to like Lady Aurelia, but she admitted that most of her game time has been going to BioShock recently. Funny considering I have all three BioShocks, but been spending most of my time on the three Borderlands, even though they're by the same company. After wishing Niis luck on finishing up all the commissions she's gotten I headed over to WolfKidd's table, who wasn't there for a good while, doing something important I imagine. I asked if he still had the spot open, which he confirmed he still did, and so I opened my sketch book to Lucie York's reference and handed the sketch book to Wolf for him to work on it whenever he could since he was swamped in commissions. I let him know that if he does get it completed, I'd probably be out and about or down in the corral. After that I went back to the table and decided to draw a little on my clip board on some paper I brought with me. I drew sort of a character concept of an new Exhibition Fighters character I had in mind for awhile, but I might need to revise it later on. I also drew two characters from the second game of Exhibition Fighters together. While they're friends with each other, it's an uneasy friendship. You'll see why in the future. But after that I found myself having a little difficulty finding ideas of other things to draw, so I decided to head down to the corral early. I set the things I brought in on the table I had been setting up on before, though this time someone left a bunch of glow stick rings that were connected together on the table, so I moved it to the other table, then got someone to watch my things while I got the rest of my stuff from the truck. That's when I found out that little drizzle... became heavier. It wasn't light anymore. I had to use my umbrella and even then my coat got wet on certain places. I gathered what I could, trying to make sure the monitor didn't get too wet while I brought it and everything else inside. Just wished I recalled at that point that my truck does have some bad seals around the doors so it leaks behind the driver's seat. Luckily it wasn't leaking yet when I got the things out of there. Once I carried everything down to the corral, I dried off the monitor with some napkins left on a nearby table. I connected everything up and got The Six Realms up and running for anyone that wanted to play it, which a few people did, including KitStar, someone that has made a few games on RPG Maker, though honestly The Six Realms is probably my first and only RPG Maker game. He was kind enough to give me a 3D modeling program, much like 3D Studio, which I seemed to have misplaced my copy of... But he and his roomie, Drasmir, came down and talked to each other while we waited for the supposed 3 hour download time to go through. I tried playing Cave Story+ on my laptop, which I have on Steam and have beaten, but for some reason I couldn't get the controller to work with it, and I'm sure I beat it using a controller... Well, either way I played it some by keyboard and I lost to Misery, the witch :/ I know I beaten her before... Bleh... Anyway, I asked Kit if he knew about the MineCraft room in Borderlands 2 since he seemed so fond of it, and surprisingly he did not. Seeing that it's in the Causic Caverns and I had already reached the Bunker, I was sure I could go back and find it to show him, but sadly that's when I found out that something was wrong with my Borderlands 2 game files because everytime I tried to play it, it'll freeze as soon as Zero went through the respawner at the Bunker. Even been doing that today, but I digress. Because of BL2 freezing, I was forced to find a way to close BL2, which the task manager wasn't doing its job for... So I had to log out of my computer, then log back in, which had closed everything. But thankfully when BL2 froze and I was trying to close it without logging out beforehand, the 3D modeling program that was downloading finished. So I didn't need to worry about that, even opened it up to make sure it worked and take a look at it, too. Kit gave me a very quick rundown of the program, which I don't remember how to do... curse this memory... So I might need to mess with the program sometime in the future. That's how I learned RPG Maker after all. Messed with it and made The Six Realms with it. But I tried Borderlands 2 some more times, which all failed, so I decided... to kill some things on Skyrim. I booted it up on my Steam and just played some. When I got bored of it, though, I went on to play Starbound. Basically bouncing around on games I had on my Steam until I got even bored of that and so played some videos, both music and otherwise from what I had on my hard drive until 1 AM and the corral was getting to be... dead from lack of people. Even the DJ that was down there had already called it a night early and left. So I packed up, and carried EVERYTHING to the door, but my shoulders were aching a lot telling me to stop and I quickly got out of breath. While I enjoyed the convention, all the lugging around things was not so good on me physically. After sitting down and trying to think of how I was going to get through the freezing wind and wet terrain out there to get the things to the truck, someone asked if I was alright and even complimented my goatee ^^; I told him about my situation of having to get all these things, being a computer bag, a heavy backpack, a monitor, a cooler, and two plastic bags with things inside them out into the cold and into my truck which was parked in the reserve parking across the street. He offered to help carry some of the things for me and I thought with how cold it was out there, it'd be best if he just watch my things while I ran to the truck and brought it to the hotel. Less of a distance to go to put it up meant less time out in the cold. He agreed, so I went and actually ran to my truck. I was just happy it was no longer raining. But it was apparently extremely cold because when I got to the truck, the driver's side door was frozen shut and I had to pull multiple times to break the ice to allow me to get into the truck and drive it to the hotel. Once there I had to pry the other door open so I could get the things in there, though sadly since the rain was going for awhile the truck had already got water leaked inside. So I had to be careful with how I put everything in there. It was surprising how cold it was, too, because the truck had a pool of ice in the back from sitting out there in the rain. Once I got everything in I thanked the guy and his friends for helping me with my things while they headed out themselves. I went back into the hotel to let DAQ know the situation of the outside. It was so cold that I was sure it'd be painful to walk in that wind even for him. So I gave him a ride over to his hotel, which since most of the people had already left from the reserve parking, gave me enough room to cut through there since the hotel he was staying at was just on the other side of the reserve parking. Once I dropped him off at his hotel I let him know I'd probably take my chances and get up in the morning and leave then even though they were predicting it was going to freeze over night and the roads were going to be iced. He told me that if I do get up in the morning I could go ahead and give him a ride back to at least San Antonio so he could head home. I agreed to do so and I headed back to the hotel, which was pretty was easy since hardly anyone was on the road now. So I got to the hotel, got my things out of the truck and before I let myself go to bed, I laid down some paper towel sheets from the paper towel roll I had brought along with me to the convention. The paper towel sheets would soak up the water that seeped inside and easily dry up compared to if I just let it sit there on the cold floor. Once that was done, I made sure all but the needed things were already packed up then I went to bed. And it was 3 AM when I did this... joy... Also found out something before I went to bed. I was so worried about my phone being dead that I had to make sure I put it on the charger before I headed to bed. It was then I recalled the charger was in my backpack that whole time... The very backpack I would bring down to the corral with me every single night... D'OH!

Monday -
I woke up at 8:30 AM because of someone going by my hotel room door with their luggage on wheels loudly clicking on the concrete. Joy... But I decided to get up, get ready, then pack up my things and go get DAQ for the trip home. After getting ready, I text DAQ that I was already up and just needed to pack now and I'd be over. As soon as I get out to pack up things into the truck, I find... ice... everywhere. On the road, all over my truck... Sheesh. So I pry the doors open... again. And pack a few things into it, then decide to turn on the vehicle and put the heater on max for the defrost. Once I got just about everything of mine into the truck there was still... no dent in the ice on the windshield... So I went last resort... Because we were dealing with my personal schedule here. So I used up all the water from a squirt bottle I had with me which I used to attach my GPS to the inside of the windshield. I would've been using the windshield wipers along with the spray bottle, but they were frozen in place... While the ice discolored, there was no obvious sign of it coming off. So I went back into my hotel room, got the little plastic cup I had used to rinse my mouth out after I brushed my teeth each morning there at the hotel and gathered some hot water into it and the now empty squirt bottle. I slowly poured the water from the cup onto the driver's side windshield, which quickly ate away the ice, leaving a bit of a gap in the ice, allowing me to see through. To make it more clear, I squirt some of the water from the bottle onto it to clear away some more ice. After that I pulled the wipers up out of the ice enough to get them unstuck, then used the windshield wiper fluid to eat through the ice, though it had to go through the ice on the hood first... Once I could see well enough, I kept the defrost going and turned in the room keycard to the front desk since everything was now out of there. After that I tried to leave the hotel parking lot. I say "tried" because they had a slight incline out of the hotel parking lot. And since I had to wait for traffic, once I got a clearing I tried to move into the road, but would either stay in place or slide back a little. So I made my way back around the parking lot to try to give myself enough momentum to get over the incline which was the only exit... Luckily there was still no traffic coming by the time I got back to and over the incline out of the parking lot. So I carefully made my way back to the hotel DAQ was staying at. When I got there I went up to the room DAQ told me he was staying at through a text. When I got there he let me know he had to finish up a drawing for rick2tails before leaving. So I patiently waited but soon realized I better move the truck out from the front of the hotel and into a parking spot. So I did that and got back to the room. I waited while DAQ did his work. Of course being a fellow artist, I knew the importance of doing such work. When he was all ready to leave I helped him with one of his bags as we went back to the first floor and packed his things into the truck. It was honestly a bit scary leaving Dallas considering that some of the roads were still iced. Hell, the truck was still iced as were the windshield wipers! But soon we were out of Dallas and even Fort Worth, thankfully. I was already down to half a tank, so to keep us going I stopped at a decently priced gas station and since they had a Subway there, I figured DAQ and I could get something to eat here before heading our way back on the road. This would also let us get out of this bad weather for a little while. When we got back on the road there was a little occasional slides, but I quickly got the truck back in control, which is better than some, considering we actually had someone spin out completely a bit further down the road from us. I was usually careful with my driving. The rest of the way was pretty uneventful other than one more slide and correction and when the windows were starting to fog up DAQ suggested we turn on the defrost setting on the heater and when I went to do that, a sudden curve in the road came up and the barrier next to us curved with it, making us tap it hard enough to bounce the truck off of it and we both felt it. Thankfully I didn't panic like some people would causing them to swerve into another lane. I kept driving in the lane we were in, never lost speed or anything and even got the defrost going without another incident. When we finally got to another gas station because we were low on fuel for the truck, while the truck had no change in how it drove, we wanted to make sure there was no damage to it either way. When we looked, we were surprised to see no scratch whatsoever to the truck. It's like the ice that covered the front of the truck protected my truck from harm. Naturally this isn't always the case. It's possible that we only scrapped the barrier slightly and my fast reflexes to the feeling saved the truck from the possible damage that it could've been. Anyway, once we got near Austin, I considered if I should drop DAQ at the Grey Hound station in San Antonio or just drive all the way to Laredo and drop him off at home. Well, since we were on a long stretch of highway I knew we'd be on for awhile I took my GPS, told it to cancel the destination, and told DAQ to put in the address to drop him off at in Laredo. I knew my mother would freak out though. I felt like me just going to the convention was using up a lot of money that could be used for better things and since I was in no rush to go home like I was to get to the convention, might as well drop him off at home. So, yes, I drop through San Antonio and straight down to Laredo. Once I got him home I got gas at the Walmart there, which thankfully was at $2.04 a gallon, there. You'd be surprised how many gas stations were trying to sell gas at $2.19 along the way. There was even one we saw that had it at $2.55! But I went on and headed back towards San Antonio and went on home. By the time I got there it was about 10:30 PM and both of my parents were already asleep. I decided to go to bed, too, not only because it was a really long trip, but also because I didn't wish to disturb them.

Anyway, I'm here and safe :p I'm ready to get back to my art, too.