Just wanted to put out the warning to those of you coming to the Furbowl tomorrow night!

There is a winter storm warning in effect so drive safe out there! I'm gonna feel uber bad if someone crashes trying to make it to the meet!

More info from weather.com.

http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/USDE0055?phenomena=WS&significance=W&areaid=DEZ001&office=KPHI&etn=0006

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ey folks!

You ever miss the days of meeting up with friends and staying up all night, playing and beating your favorite video games, and muching all pizza and junk food till you passed out from tiredness. Well relive those good memories every other week!

This meetup is a biweekly video game mashup of all ages! Modern gamers will be able to play classics that are timeless, while old skool gamers will be able to connect with the gamers today, and have a good time all while hanging out with fellow likeminded people.

THe meetups will have 3 diffrent sections.

Section 1 is the modern gaming room. This will house all the modern consoles (PS3, Xbox 360 and wii) and mor or less feature the largest area. This is the area where people will be able to compete or cooperate on various video games.

Section 2 is the classic game room. SNES, Genesis, NES and MAster System all rule this room. Wanna relive those days when you dropped the banana in front of your friend in Mario Kart? this is the place to do it! Show off your skills or challange other vets to achieve the top score!

Section 3 The video room. This is basicly the relaxation room. We show a movie, either a video game based one or a bad movie to let our Inner Mike, crow and Tom Servo out. Comfortable chairs and bags of popcorn await you in the room of cinema magic!

There will be a vote before the events to determine what games are going to be played in which room, and movies. HOWEVER, as time goes on, there might be a possibility for a theme night every once anda while.

Pizza and refreshments will be provided, though a donation of $5 would be much appreciated to help the cost of said refreshments. whatever is left over, we will give to the Child's play charity. For those of you who dont know what Child's play is, it is an organization that donates money and video game consoles to hospitals to put in their pediatrics department, letting children who are in long term care.

Our first meeting is on January 2nd, bring along your game consoles or snacks or whatever, Bring a friend even :3

The Meetings as i said are going to be biweekly, and the first few meetings will be held in Enola, PA. (more specific address will be shared closer to the date).

Anyway, If you are interested, just send me a PM or an email to Chrisrb007@gmail.com, and ill give you more information as to the meetings

It's only a few more short days until Delaware Furbowl 12 on Saturday Dec. 19th!

If you haven't RSVP'd yet be sure to do so at http://furbowl.surple.com

Or check out more details here: http://kitt3ns.livejournal.com/46313.html

Got a big turnout so far! Hope to see more of y'all there!

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Event: FURST NIGHT PITTSBURGH FURRY GATHERING!
When: 4:30pm, Thursday, December 31, 2009
Where: Inside the Wood Street “T” Station, Street Level
Wood and Liberty Avenues, Downtown Pittsburgh, PA

Join with us as we take in the festivities and revel in the events of Pittsburgh's First Night 2010 Celebrations and howl in the New Year with fireworks and furiends!

Furiends old and new are welcome to take part in this annual Pittsburgh furry event which is fast becoming a holiday favorite full of cozy warmth and friendly cheer.

Held on the coat tails of First Night Pittsburgh 2010, now in its 13th year, the event is a community- and family-oriented, alcohol-free celebration of the arts. Revelers enjoy - and in some cases, join in - the multiple, simultaneous and continuous performances of dance, music, song, mime, story telling, theater, poetry, film, video and multi-media presentations."

That’s only the beginning! There’s much, much more to see and do at this the last Western PA Furry event of 2009 and the first of 2010!

The First Night 2010 website has been updated and they now have a schedule of events listed so you may plan your evening. The buttons which get you into all the venues are still $8. They are available at the Box Office at Theater Square (655 Penn Avenue, Downtown), at participating Giant Eagle stores, and this year you can order them on-line from their website!

There are a few Vouchered Events as is normal. Sil and I are planning to get vouchers to attend the 7:30pm performance of "Johnny Angel & the Halos" and the 10pm performance by the "River City Brass Band." You don't have to follow around with us though. Check out the schedule, join in the excitement, and make your own experience.

Would you like to join the Parade? Great! Simply stop by the Parade Information table located outdoors on 10th Street at the Pittsburgh Convention Center no later than 7:30 p.m. The Parade is five blocks long starts at the Westin if you're interested in bringing your fursuit and joining in the fun.

This is a reminder! If you're interested in attending, please RSPV by replying here or e-mailing me at events AT swiftsden dot net with "First Night" in the subject line so I know who I should be looking for. Then, mark it down on your calendar to spend New Year's Eve with friends at the annual First Night Furry Gathering.

*hugs*

Swift Fox

hello fellow tri-area furries. Was anyone interested in going skiing/snowboarding this season? I have a season pass to Bear Creek and don't want to go alone. (only child thing sucks) But anyway also In January and March Preston and Steve will be holding the "Day off on the Slopes" at JFBB if anyone would be interested in going to that please tell me. tickets are only $9.33 that day. That really all I have to say. If ya wanna try any other mountains hit me up. I"ll see what I can do because I can ski and board and rather well at that. If you want to just try it i'm cool with that, take a lesson and I"ll stay with ya for the day. But anyway hit me up if interested.

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**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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Pittsburgh's Monthly Fur Meet!
When: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Time: 7-9pm
Where: Panera Bread (Oakland), 3401 Boulevard of the Allies, Pgh, PA 15213
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PITTSBURGH'S ROBINSON TWP. FURMEET!
DATE: Saturday, December 19, 2009
PLACE: Niko's Coffee House (http://nikoscoffee.com)
TIME: 6:30pm-9:30pm at Niko's; then 9:45-whenever for some late night eats at Denny's. (6408 Steubenville Pike, Pgh., PA 15205)
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KIYARA'S (PITTSBURGH) SOUTH HILLS FURMEET!
When: Saturday, December 26, 2009
Where: Kiyara's House, Brentwood, PA
Time: 6:30pm - 2am
Contact Info: KiyaraSabel, aka The Furry1337Otaku. Message her here, on DA at http://kiyarasabel.deviantart.com/, on FA at http://www.furaffinity.net/user/kiyarasabel/, on Furspace at http://www.furspace.com/KiyaraSabel, on Furry4Life at http://furry4life.ning.com/profile/KimForrest.
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FIRST NIGHT PITTSBURGH FURRY GATHERING!
When: 4:30pm, Thursday, December 31, 2009
Where: Inside the Wood Street “T” Station, Street Level
Wood and Liberty Avenues, Downtown Pittsburgh, PA

Join with us as we take in the festivities and revel in the events of Pittsburgh's First Night 2010 Celebrations and howl in the New Year with fireworks and furiends!

Click the link for more information: http://swift-fox.livejournal.com/673920.html

Sending everyone wishes for a happy and safe holidays and we hope to see you at a few of these exciting events!

Swift Fox

Hey everyone! With two weeks to go, details have been finalized for a meet in December to see James Cameron's newest feature AVATAR, www.avatarmovie.com/, in the best format of IMAX 3D, www.imax.com/.

When: Saturday, December 19th @ 4 PM. Plan to arrive at theater like 3 - 3:15 so everyone may get together and get a reasonable seat.

Where: R/C Reading Movies 11 & IMAX
30 North Second Street
Reading, PA 19601
www.rctheatres.com/loc_reading.asp

Cost: $14
Tickets are available now - www.fandango.com/rcreadingmovies1126imax_aauyp/theaterpage
Choose the 4 PM showing and follow directions to purchase. If interested I'd purchase ASAP since this is the opening weekend of a heavily hyped movie so I don't know how fast the showing will sell out.

After the movie, we'll be heading to The Works gearedforfun.com/ @ ~7 PM for dinner and games. :)

Limited crash space is available at our house for any that need it. Contact me or sunil1 ahead of time to make arrangements. Thanks.
See you all there.

Alright so everything is finally taken care of! It was a difficult endeavor because we aren't established anywhere yet. It really came down to which places where returning my phone calls. But here we go!

What: PA/NJ Pre-Holiday Dinner & Fursuit Bowling Meet
When: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 5:30pm - 10pm
Where: McCarthy's Bar & Grill, Tenpin Lanes, Manville, NJ
RSVP: http://mustache.twitter.chicken.surple.com/

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If all goes well and our hosts are happy to have us return, I'll would be happy to continue this every month if possible. Then, with this, the Delaware, New Brunswick, and Lupine meets your life can be filled with furry goodness all month long!

I hope to see you all there!

Thank you to kookyfox for co-hosting and kitt3ns for all the help and page outline!

I'm not going to write a long post this time. Seriously. The new years' furry ball is coming up, and you should come - it's gonna be awesome! Last year we had a ton of people, we're expecting more this year. There's cheap booze, food, and good times for all. If you're not registered now, please do. That'll help us get an idea of how much we need of certain things. Registration online is free, and then it's just $10 at the door to get in (plus $5 for booze.)

I've spammed a lot of the info out over and over, and you can read everything you need to at http://www.furrynewyear.com/.

Looking forward to seeing you there!