Ikari Yalter

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I regularly change my desktop, this just happens to be it right now cause I just love the picture. (art by AyCee)

I havn't posted here in aaaaaaages. Guess I just havn't felt like it. Most of my news these days seems to go on my FA ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ikariyalter ).

Although I did want to post a video here that I have finally gotten around to uploading onto youtube. It's footage from Eurofurence 15. Gun Camera footage from my fursuit Shayzo:

Ok, now I'm home and settled I think it's about time I write a little thing about Anthrocon. I'm going to keep it relatively short otherwise it'll go on forever about everything I did.

Day 0 Wednesday - My flights from the UK to Philly and then down to Pittsburgh were ok, quicker than I'm used to but the crew on the planes seemed like they just didn't care. Oh well, got to the Westin hotel at about 7pm that evening and met up with my roommates as well as getting my new fursuit. Spent a few hours in suit before relaxing.

Day 1 Thursday - Spent most of the day being social and getting registered. I'm so glad I always pre-reg, the queue for at-con registration was HUGE. Went to the dance in the evening but it wasn't my kind of music so didn't stay long.

Day 2 Friday - Spent money in the dealers room, picked up my new fursuit head from Lacy and fursuited for a while before hitting the fursuiter meet and greet. Went to a photoshoot for Sapphire's creations, Shayzo being one of them, then went to the spotted hyena panel and enjoyed it. Spent the rest of the day hanging about.

Day 3 Saturday - Went to the dealers room again, did a photoshoot with Lacy with the new Ikari, saw some magic by Dex before taking part in the fursuit parade as Shayzo. Saw the Poink and Ezra show in the afternoon which was a lot of fun as I'm a big fan of the Funday Pawpet Show, then watched the Masquerade which had some excellent performances as usual (one of which I did some audio recording for). Finally I enjoyed 2's rant which was his usual top notch performance. Oh yeah, and I caught a watch of the fireworks too, good show.

Day 4 Sunday - Spent most of the day hanging about and fursuiting except for attending the Concession panel (of which I'm a big fan) and the Fursuit Dance Competition finals (which was amaaaaazing).

And that was pretty much it. I had a lot of fun, hung out with some great people, spent time with my mate (love you), got new fursuits and loved every second of it. Next stop, Eurofurence, then RBW, then back to FC.

Holy crap, Anthrocon is only like 4 days away and I'm getting so jittery. I'll be picking up a new head for my current fursuit as well as a whole new partial fursuit.

If anyone who's going wants to say hi then I'll be in fursuit like 80% of the con so look for either the six-tailed white kitsune in purple rave pants, or the steampunk looking hyena carrying a rifle and a sidearm. I may look mean sometimes but I've always got time for a hug.

I'll be sharing a room with my mate Arianna, her friend Darren and my close friend Heist and I've been told that two of those three will probably be following me around like my own personal group of fanboys.

I wont be putting on a stage performance at the masquerade this con, breaking my promise to myself to get on stage at every con I go to, but I couldn't get enough people together to put on the performance I wanted to. However I did lend my voice to another act, so I'll be up there in spirit. Although it someone decides they need and extra, I'll be volunteering my services because I do very much enjoy performing in suit.

Got a letter through at work a couple of days ago from our company management about our annual pay rise (I work as an airport baggage handler for those who don't know). Now last year the company wanted to give us a stupidly low pay raise until we threatened to strike and then our union negotiated a two year pay deal, with this year's pay raise being at maximum 5% and at minimum 2.75% depending on inflation. The company now don't want to to give us this 2.75% raise, saying in this letter that due to the current state of the economy it is "unreasonable to expect the company to pay 2.75% as a pay raise."

How on earth is is unreasonable for us to expect the company to follow through on a promise they made?

Today we found out the truth why the company don't want to give us a raise this year. After talking with our union representatives we discovered that after the negotiations last year the company made a budget of our pay raises and what they intended to offer the airlines as a handling fee so that they could project their earnings. Well it turns out that what they then went and did was use what was budgeted to be our pay raise to offer the airlines an even lower handling fee to increase business. So now essentially they don't want to give us a pay raise because it will eat into the company's projected profits.

.........cunts

Answer down below if ya feel like it:

1) Who are you?
2) Are we friends?
3) When and how did we meet?
4) Would you kiss me?
5) Give me a nickname and explain why.
6) Describe me in 1 word.
7) What was your first impression of me?
8) Do you still think the same?
9) What reminds you of me?
10) If you could give me anything, what would it be?
11) How well do you know me?
12) Are you gonna put this in your journal and see what I say about you?
13) Would you meet up with me?

Well I'm back home again now and depressed for having to leave my mate alone until Anthrocon. At least we get to talk every day over MSN and Second Life.

Ok so I've been out of the loop for like 2 weeks now and I'm sure I've missed something, so come on tell, what's been going on in the furry world that I might have missed?

I write this journal while sat on the floor in Philladelphia airport USA. I'm just waiting for my connecting flight taking me up to Reagan Internation in DC where I'll be met by my new mate Arriana and taken up to Silver Spring, Maryland. I'll be staying with her for the next 10 days (cause that's all I can get off work right now) and then heading home.

Anyone in the area that I know? If so gimme a shout and I might be able to swing a meeting

I might post a few times while I'm here, but if not then I'll post when I get home.

Yep, today I turn 25. I wake up to an empty house, no-one's coming round today, I have a fish pond to drain and repair, I'm thousands of miles away from the person I care about.

*slaps myself* No emo!

Hey, I've got great friends (I don't get to see them often but enough to make me happy), I have someone who loves me, I'm going to a furmeet tomorrow. I have no reason to be down.

Oh yeah, and I'm going to see Watchmen this afternoon

Alrighty, yesterday (as my clock has just ticked over midnight) I went to my local furmeet up in London and had a blast. Got to see all my UK fur friends and tagged along on the fursuit walk as I decided not to fursuit at this meet again. It was a great walk full of fun things and silly adventures.

For those of you who are interested to see us furries in London, here are the photos I took:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23344136@N07/sets/72157614570993220/

Ok, sleep time now I believe

I got an e-mail back sooner than expected.......I "didn't meet the required standard", so they wont be asking me for an interview.

Better get looking elsewhere

I won a full colour commission auction from the furry artist Inuki and she just finished work on it this evening. You'll need an FA account to see it (which I'm sure most of you do)

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2006306/

For all of those who are interested, the brand new trailer for the new Transformers movie has just been released on to the official website.
Looks exciting.

http://www.transformersmovie.com/

And is that Ravage I see in there? (the animal type one)

Bleh, today I had to go up to London to do a series of exams in connection to my interest in becoming and Air Traffic Controller. The exams decide if you are worthy of an interview and go on from there, and I have to say......they were savage. Spatial Awareness, Object Recognition, Memory and Knowledge tests made up most of it along with a Q and A session with a current ATC student.

I only got to the end of one of the exams within the allotted time, and that was the one testing you knowledge of general ATC facts. But then from what I was hearing, not many people did finish the exams in full so I don't know how to feel about how well I did.

Oh well, I'll find in 14 working days if I passed or not.

I was at my local furmeet on this saturday past up in London and it was a good good time. Right off the role of FC was a great way to break through that post-con-depression. I decided not to go in fursuit this time and so I took my camera and joined the fursuit walk to take photos and have a laugh at others being entertaining. You can all see the photos I took over at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23344136@N07/sets/72157613479366110/

Finally getting around to doing a con report for Further Confusion 2009.

( Con Report -> )

Random stuff - Spent a lot of money at Spunky's art table getting sketches and a badge. Spent money in the art auction getting some very nice artwork. Grabbed this year's fursuit calender from Sofawolf Press's dealer table. Grapped some random prints from around the dealers room. Managed to miss doing sunookitsune  and paws_wolfymutt 's photoshoots; hoping to get them at Anthrocon.

Overall the con was great fun and I got a lot done, including getting off my ass and doing important things for Hot Tails Magazine. I'm hoping for an Anthrocon2009 launch for the first issue of the magazine, so here's hoping.

Bleh, I'm home right now from FC, a little depressed to be away from the furs and from friends again. I'm also a little tired from not sleep too well on the plane journey home so I'll do a post-con report with photos when I'm feeling more alive

Tomorrow morning I'll be leaving for San Jose, arriving at 5pm local time and then going to the overflow hotel (missed a room at the main hotel) and meeting my roommate there.

I'm excited as usual for a con. I've set times for meeting folks for the fursuit photoshoot I'll be doing for my magazine. I have recorded and burnt my CD for my FNL stage performance. I'm all ready.

Just back in from a furmeet in London, will have some photos to post once they become available. I wanted to go as a Sith for this meet so my original plan was to design a costume based on The Force Unleashed, but it came out looking nothing like how it should, but still have a decent effect.

Also:
http://www.klisoura.com/furrypoll.php
Go do it now

Thanks to kathrishali I've now noticed that the official videos from Anthrocon 2008 masquerade have been submitted to youtube. For anyone interested in what I did, here it is (I'm the singer):




Oh and my favourite act was: