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.

I found a handful of conventions in my area that I will most likely be making my way to as long as I can afford to:

**Maybe** - February - Anime & Games Ohio (Akron, Ohio) Feb. 8-10 http://www.aandgohio.com/ - This one depends on how much money I have, what's going on in school and whether or not it is too short of a notice.

February - BASHCon XXIII (Toledo, Ohio) Feb. 22-24 http://www.bashcon.com/

March - Animarathon (Bowling Green, Ohio) March 29 http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/orga...e/animarathon/

Arpil - Anime Punch (Columbus, Ohio) April 11-13 http://www.animepunch.org/

May - Anime Central (Rosemont, Illinois) May 16-18 http://www.acen.org/

June - ColossalCon (Beachwood, Ohio) June 26-29 http://www.colossalcon.com/2008/

July - Ikasucon (Fort Wayne, Indiana) July 18-20 http://www.ikasucon.org/index.php

Animarathon and possibly Anime Central are going to be the big deal cons for us, but I'll be looking to promote the site at these events. If you can, come out and join me and help spread the word. As more details become available, I will be posting threads for them.

Starting tomorrow, I'll be hitting the books again with Japanese, a little programming and a bunch of business classes. This means I won't be found in the profile chat at 4 a.m. and I won't be around anymore on Mondays or most of Wednesday. If you see me online past 1 a.m. during the week, make sure you yell at me. May everyone else have fun with their education, and don't forget to start planning for Animarathon (Saturday, March 29).

I'm back from getting my teeth worked on and everything is 110% cool. The process was far less painful and agitating than I expected and now I'm just waiting to be able to feel my face again. No food until 2:15 p.m. though. *cry*

And for all those wondering about the gift sub from the New Year's contest, the winner of the prediction segment has until the end of Tuesday to contact me or else I will move on to the next eligible entry. Check your private messages people!

Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do for the remainder of the day since I'm not supposed to be active.