Sorry I haven't been around much lately, but I wasn't telling a lie in my painting story. I really am moving to do a different house at this time and I still don't have Internets at my new dwelling. I've also been involved with a couple of projects outside of the site recently, so please excuse my absence. Perhaps when I can establish connections with Tass again, I can submit to him the stepfiles I've made so they can go in the game and make people happy all over again.

Before I go: Why do people put items like catsup and maple syrup in the refrigerator? It doesn't say on the bottle you have to and a cold condiment just leads to your food getting cold faster.

In case you missed it the million other times we've mentioned it, tomorrow and Saturday mark the duration of our second official FFR gathering for Animarathon in Bowling Green, OH. If you live anywhere near Ann Arbor, MI, get your ass to Pinball Pete's somewhere around 7 p.m. EST (even though I will hit town roughly at the 5 p.m. area). We're going to play Golden Axe until we puke up Bubble Island tapioca pearls so don't you dare miss it. And then, of course, on Saturday, the bad boy OG FFR gathering event arises once again as the site will have room 205 all to itself at Bowling Green State University's Olscamp Hall for Animarathon VI. The event starts at 10 a.m. and runs until midnight (we'll probably pack up a tad before then though) so if you live in the area, I'd advise you make plans posthaste. If you're interested and starving for information, grab your mouse and direct it toward the forums link and look at the three threads we have there for your convenience. I better see you there or else I'm going to mail a McDonald's Big & Tasty sandwich to your house.

-nestlekwik

For one week, I'm going to town to do some jobs and housesitting for my parents while they escape to luxurious Florida, so here's a heads up that I may not be around on certain days up until Friday. It's not like you guys will miss me or anything ;) so keep on trucking and enjoying everything FFR has to offer.

I haven't forgotten about the site, don't worry. I know no one missed me any way. XP

Yeah, I've been seriously busy lately and when I haven't been busy, I've been severely distracted. Just know that a new avatar is a mere 3 days away and perhaps we can wrangle a contest out of the matter. Who knows. Oh, wait, that's right: I KNOW!!! Mwahahaha!

On a side note, I would like to thank CAFK for meh banner. Thank you.

MixMasterLar and I just did a beastly piece on Street Fighter IV so if you love me like you say you do, visit Rithum.com and check out the goods at http://www.rithum.com/?p=1795. If you're not smart enough to read, there's lots of pictures with pretty colors and flashing lights. Hopefully, soon, Rithum will be more than just full of content, but it will look good too ... I hope ... so just bare with me.

That is all for now. Fractions and percentages await me. Where did I put my sword and shield ...

So, yeah, with my Internet being all kinds of suck this week, I fell super behind with a lot of items this week. One of those items are my FFR greetings to the new members. I've gone back a slight distance to greet the absolute newest members, but, I know people often give me a complaint if they do not receive a greeting and see one on a new member's profile. So, if you are such a member, go ahead and let me know and I'll welcome you with open hooves. Don't try to trick me though - if you claim you didn't get a greeting and I find out you did, you will be forced to eat a McDonald's Big and Tasty sandwich.

In other news, you should help me out and check out all of our potential FFR convention appearances in the FFR Events forum, play Spin It Up (new song to be added tonight) and visit www.rithum.com and chill with some of the FFR crew and talk about video games.