BlazerRaccoon's furry den

just won this guy, he's identical to my two discovery store polar bears, except that this one
is tagged specially as a display peice for bath & body works
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170415009780
he needs work, probably a bit of cleaning, and his face needs the usual resculpting, but these bears are wonderful cuddlers, especially for those of us that like realistic teddies :)

a major storm front moved through central florida last night, I video'd a bit of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xwzgqs3QM
this vid is exactly ten minutes long, lots of flashy-boomey, so sit back and enjoy :)

The 10th discovery grizzly came, and I'm kindof pissed about the condition he's in....most of his fur is in perfect shape, but the seller never bothered to mention that he had a patch of burned up fur on the top of his head....I don't have matching fur in stock, so I had to improvise for the time being-

eventually I'll find the right fur and make him factory original again, but for now I think the mohawk looks good on him :)

P.S. according to my photobucket stats, the pic I posted of the hamm's bears has been viewed more than 3000 times! WTF?!?!

The seller has had this bear listed for 8 months already, no one bit because, honestly, $600 is WAY too much for him considering that he isn't in "new" condition. The lowest she would go is $500, I waited for months for her to change her mind to no avail, so I finally relented under condition that I could make payments.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120378001183&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
$500 is still kindof steep, really $300 is fair for him, but he's ultra rare (only 250 made) so it's probably now or never, and I've been looking for one of these for 10 years now.
just put down a downpayment on him, hopefully I'll ahve the whole enchilada paid off in time to have his chilly polar bear butt home for christmas :)

Probably the only place on earth you will see three of these in the same room.....

the one that arrived today is less than prefect, he was obviously in a bar for many years, his muzzle is yellow from cigarrette smoke, and he has a couple of bad patches that need to be redone properly, but as rare as these are I won't complain.

Firstly, I'm going to stop blowing the whistle on people when I see them fucking up...said individuals are far too in love with their pity parties and piss pots to accept objective observations about their indesputable written and social histories....I'm the bad guy for pointing out the obvious. So crash and burn, oh, yea proud...I'll just step out of the way so I don't catch any flames.

on to happier things....I finally got my certification, and written transcripts from PTEC. it's finally done! I posted my official resume on monster, and worknet.com, let's see who bites.

I just snagged ANOTHER of these fuzzies on ebay-
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=280423328989&view=all&tid=0
I think that makes 9 now....he looks horrible in the pic, but they groom out nicely.

my own auctions came out well, $190 on this round, and another to go up tonight.I have a couple of nice things planned with the $$$$

and one last bit of minutia....
accomplished so far on the yard project-


lotta work still to be done, but it's a good start, it's on hold for the time being, till I have better income coming in.

I recently did a complete cleaning job on one of the two wonderful six foot polar bears that sleep next to me every night, he's the one I usually have my arms around and although I always make it a point to go to bed just out of the shower, and in full pajamas, he still managed to get just a bit grey around his neck where I hug him, and on the tips of his paws. So to prevent this problem in the future, I made them both a nice sleeping bag, so I can hug them all I want and they'll stay perfectly snow white :)

Both bags have a silk rope drawstring so their paws and ears can be tucked in.

I'm also doing a restoration on an 80 year old teddy bear that unfortunately had his leg ripped halfway off and the joint pretty badly torn up, I'm about halfway through and taking pix as I go, I'll share all that when I'm done.

I for one am happy that ALL the smurfs are finally dead. Viva la Gargamel!!!!!!
Something just isn't right with 100 guys living in a village with a single female, who is STILL a virgin (with a little sister that came from a STORK....WTF?)

P.S. Long Live Audible Chocolate!!!!!!!!

.....That is all, end transmission.

I spent all afternoon planning, measuring, researching and drawing....the result is an exact scale diagram of what my yard will look like down to eactly what plants will be in the ground.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/blazerraccoon/DSCN1050.jpg
Mind you, most of the stuff in the diagram is already in, the wall and bed on the far left is in, all the plants in the far right bed are in, as are the twin junipers on the front walk-
I still have the wall on the far right to put in, the Koi pond island on the left, and the rock garden on the right.

I was laying on my front lanai watching the low wispy clouds roll by, when I saw one of the coolest things ever. A meteorite shot down over the top of my house from the north with a nice blue-white flame behind it, and cut a 'V' right through a passing cloud.
I've seen hundreds of meteorites before, but never seen one cut a cloud.... I wish I'd had my camera at the ready , but it was gone after a few seconds anyway :(

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P.S. There's a story on the news about some 17 year old macho fuck that was trying to kill a polar bear, and ended up adrift on an ice flow....good, at least an innocent bear's life was saved (apparently this ass was hunting a mother with cubs) I wish he had drowned....slowly. F*ck him.

After being pretty much absent from the world for the last year, I had some catching up to do on the music scene, including (stealing on P2P) the most recent albums from my 3 favorite artists of all time. Honestly, it was a mixed bag. I must be getting old-

The Good- The Cure "4:13 Dream": After a threatened retirement,a "farewell" album that reeked of emotional burnout, and an obscure and almost clandestined tour, Rob Smith is back with a shocking vengeance. Considering that he has just hit 50, he is back to singing like he is still 20, and with only a couple of exceptions, every track on the new album is a lyrical masterpeice that recalls his skill at mixing macabre with magical. I beleive he still has a few good albums in him yet.

The Bad- REM, "accelerate"....F*ck! What happened Mike? Aside from the fact that the title you chose for this snooze-fest could not have been more ironically inaproriate, what the hell happened to your default predisposition for experimentalism?!??!? This all-bum is like Muzak for dying gen-x college hippies :( I never dreamed that REM could be this flat and lifeless, as shakey as the very uncomfortable and stylistically awkward "Monster" was, it shines in comparison to this. Please, for the love of god, Stipe....do some f*cking drugs or something!!!!

The Ugly- Nine Inch Nails, "Year Zero" While not up to par on the whole with past albums, this disc does have a few good tracks- "Capitol G" and "Survivalism" possess the political brutality that makes Reznor such a badass, while "Me, I'm Not" and "The Day The Whole World Went Away" have a nice hard hook despite being lyrically simplistic. He seems to be loosing his drive and his anger, and sliding into a subjective piss-pot. As with REM, I think Trent needs some more Heroin, or at least he needs to beat the fuck out of a riot-cop or two so he can feel his oats again.

Derp. that is all.

I got the modification done so the klondike bar can be completely detached or reattached at will, and the base pretty much deflates completely flat and folds under his butt, so here's what he looks like without all the shit attached to him-

he's a bit over five feet without the base, so a nice BIG bear, and built very sturdy ;)

I still have a second one on the way, I'll leave it sealed up in the original factory box
and just put it in storage.

I've been working on a powerpoint "tour" of my teddy bear artistry, I'm about 1/2 way through, and it's coming along really well, It's a very polished presentation so far...
but I was wondering, since I'm not a PP expert, could a powerpoint slide show be adapted for web publication? Any ideas?

the first klondike bear arrived, he's huge! five feet tall NOT including the base.
Definitely gotta post a pic or two once I have the modification done :)

Ive won two of these guys on ebay, here's a better pic from the second auction-

I still haven't gotten the first one I won on the 19th...I know for a fact it was shipped on the 20th, I have a tracking # for it, but between canada and u.s. posts they are taking their sweet freaking time with it. I bought "expedited" service, if the first one doesn't come tomorrow, I'll be at the post office ripping some new assholes >:(

Should be a fun inflate, I hope the base and the klondike bar parts inflate separately, if not I can modify them to, and if the klondike bar is fused to the paws, I'll modify that to attach on velcro so I can remove it when I feel like.

...was actually fun...before I got too inebriated, I banged out a good bit of the Powerpoint presentation I'm working on for my studio (I'll post it as soon as I finish, and figure out how to post it to photobucket) I'm 12 slides in so far.
Then I helped my neighbor scare the shit out of the kiddies....he was doing a wacko Jacko theme, so I volunteered to be Mikey in a casket(and pop out screaming when the kids come up the walk) while he and his boyfriend posed as his doctor (in bloody scrubs) and his pet chimp (in full body monkey suit) all in all, very successful, more than one kid left crying....mission accomplished :)

Bonus: I pissed on the neighbors cat (revenge for all the sandy footprints it's left on my car and all the dead reptiles I keep finding on my porch...it felt good, next time I'm drunk enough I'll do it again :)

...Yes, I'm a bad person....deal, bitches!

this is super short notice, I know (sorry) but Where The Wild Things Are is playing at the silver moon drive in tomorrow night (the 29th) at 7:30
http://www.silvermoondrivein.com/home.html
anyone who might be able to make it speak up!

My stepbrother is getting divorced....I'll skip the reasons why, since it's irrelevant to my post, but sufficed to say after 23 years of marriage, his entire reality has changed. Now, this is of great interest to me because, for the longest time he and his wife have been rubbing my nose in their idea of how perfect and superior their little barbie and ken doll family is, since I never married or had kids and I don't wear a tie behind a desk, they have always made constant and overt inference that I don't measure up to them....now sh*t changes.

She gets the house, and full custody of his daughter, his boat and his porsche are sold off.
at the age of 50, he's starting over, he'll be living in an apartment, driving a 10 year old SUV. This puts me in the unique position of being his superior...I have my house, and both of my sportscars, and no one can take them from me, and of course my ass isn't stinging from baby-mama drama.
I'll admit it would be satisfying to return the favor and shove his face in the irony of his situation, but I'd actually like the oportunity to see what it's like to have a brother, now that he's been knocked down a few pegs and he'll have to eat his pride and treat me as his equal.

He'll probably be moving in with my mom untill he decides where he wants to live permanently, so I'll be seeing a lot of him, We'll see what we can work out.

My mom surprised me today, she told me she wanted to give me a graduation present, she took me to best buy and bought me a 36 inch flat panel TV. Dont get me wrong, it's truly awesome, and maybe I do deserve a grad pressie for the hell I went through in the last year, but it just feels weird, since I'm watching my pennies right now, amd my mom goes and blows $400 on a TV ( I don't even have Cable TV service right now, so it's hooked up to rabbit ears)

well, whatever, I guess :/