Terraluna the Fruit Bat's Journal

Last Weeks RARing good time
!!!RAR!!!

Kingsford and Helvetica RAR

This week Kingsford was invited to this teeny tiny but big hearted renaissance fair called the Scottish Renaissance's fair in the hills of Santa Cruse. With the help of the fearless dragon sitter extraordinare, Helvetica

foofers, who kept the kids form eating the dragon.

Kingsford had a blast in a half, eating peoples hats, whacking knights and man at arms, with his tail when he walked by (by accident of course). He even made ladies go into full giggle mode when the he would steal them away from their partners.

Heck, Kingsford even got a kiss on the nose from Mairy Queen of Scots.

Kingsford did tell me that he helvetica was a poop head when Kingsford wasn't allowed to steal this candy apple chopped up in wiping cream and M&Ms in a bowl, from this little girl. Also how he made Kingsford take naps.

{{Momma dragon thanks you helvetica.}} :)

Current Mood: satisfied

Bathroom Stage Fright
Unless you are one of those brave souls who can just pull down your pants in front of God and Country, and pitch one off ( or a bum on Market Street in San Francisco), I would think a person would have a heck of a time using one of these public toilets.

The irony is, of all the wild and crazy places in the world, these public toilets are located in Texas.

You got to love irony. :)

The outside of the Toilet:

The inside of the Toilet:

Current Mood: amused

A Great day to ride the Mustang
Sunday was my burthday and a hot day at that, in the San Francisco Bay Area. So around the middle of the day, I got an urge to just take off to the beach. I'm am a true belever that, like in life, the enjoyment in a trip is not the being there, but the getting there. I don't think I truly reached the beach, but I had a great time in the redwoods.

I jumped into my 1966 Mustang Convertible, that I fully restored in 1980 when I was a grease monkey in high school, and just enjoyed the outside. Man, I've had that car for 29 years, That's a long relationship. :)

Life is good. :)

Current Mood: mellow

Birthday as "The -Silly- dragon of Vacaville." :)
This weekend was a great Birthday weekend for me. This Saturday, I got to RAR with Kingsford, and we made people laugh and smile. He played games with the children like cabbage bowling where he tried to get away with cheating by knocking down the pins with his tail.

He even made some great young friends. The picture below was drawn and given to Kingsford from a 5 year old little girl, who just though Kingsford was the coolest. She even helped other littler kids get over their fear of Kingsford the dragon, by holding their hand, walk up with them to the big dragon, and tell them, “He’s not a scary dragon, he’s a silly dragon.”

I couldn’t help but grin inside the head. You just can’t beat a birthday like that. :D

Does this picture make him look fat. ;)

Also, on Friday, There just happened to be a scheduled lecture on Dragons, and Quests at the local Vacaville Library. So we thought, what better person to bring to a serious lecture about dragons, than a dragon, Kingsford to be precise. So, before the lecture, Kingsford popped his head into the lecture hall and the main speakers could do nothing but smile. Everybody in the lecture hall loved it.

Thanks for the Pics Ultra_Gor

A special thanks goes to Helvetica for letting me play the -Silly- fat black dragon.

Current Mood: happy

The Great Staring Contest of fc 2009
They told me it was imposable.

They told me that no mortal has out stared Hazmat.

In my own belligerence and self pomposity, I felt I had a chance.

I guess they were right. ****Dramatic music climax****

These pictures are a testament to my failure. Learn from them to who ever crosses this LJ.

Hour 14 and a few beers under my belt:
The Great Stair down of 2006 -001

Hour 37 and the final defeat:
The end of the stairing

God help us all. ;)

Current Mood: silly

Against the Emotional rocks
At this moment, I am feeling emotionally smashed up against the rocks.

For the past few days, I have been continually ridiculed at work on my lack of intelligence about multiple project I am working on, and how I should put a little more "thinking" into them. Then, Last evening, I headed over to Thursday Furry Chicken to console with my friends, and with a little pride, show off my new $20,000 dolor new toy. The first thing that anybody says to me, when I mention my new car, is 'how would anyone think of getting something like that.' Then some more time was spent telling me how "stupid" I am for doing what I did.

It hurts a great deal when a friend smacks you down in public, for something you put real time and money into doing.

I guess there has to be something real about my stupidity when people all around me keeps mentioning it.

Current Mood: depressed

WOW!! I know what cake I would like for my birthday. :D
I was buzzing around the internet at work today, for some mental pressure relief. I fell upon this flicker picture of one of the most impressive birthday cakes I have seen.

Here it is:

Dragon cake

click to see more pictures:

BTW.. Happy Birthday John, You lucky ~~dog~~ dragon. :D

--I wonder if they make bats?

Current Mood: envious

A hardy RAR to all you out there in LJ land.
On Feb 14th, I headed up with

foofers to San Francisco, Chinese New Year Parade. At the celebration in China Town, there had to be at least a billion. There were so many people that if you passed out, I swear you wouldn’t hit the ground. It’s very nerving when swimming through a sea of people. Although I got to say, I love the exotic feel and smell of China Town. If you have never been there, and you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, take a tip, spend a day and visit it. You won’t be disappointed.

The parade is truly a San Francisco jewel that should be seen once in your life. The most fun I had, was the staging area of the parade. The staging area filled Market Street (One of the major arteries of the city) for a good 4 to 8 blocks. I had a GREAT time getting up close to these breath taking costumes, Lion Dancers, and [of course] Asian Dragons. :D

I got to hang out with some of my Asian Dragon Bro's and got a few dragon pointer on how to !!RAR!!. :D

It's something RARing down a major metropolitan street, with 100,000+ people cheering you on, expecting your favor. ;) </a>

Dragon Swimming

One of the dragons did tell me that he found it quit annoying when he kept getting distracted with that shiny pearl some guy was holding, while running away from him. He just want to gobble then up. :P

Lion Dancer on bus

You got to love what comes out of buses on Market Street, in San Francisco. :)

Current Mood: bouncy

Scailies get all the girls
Gamara1

This Weekend was just great, and an ego booster also.

Friday night:

I headed over to the Costume Con keeping *dramatic pause* missunderstandings from happening between Scabrous the dragon and humans at the con. :) I was in my Renaissance fair gear being an agent of dragon affairs for her Majesty, under Torchwood. (Got to have a hook in the cons.) I had a blast and even had some ladies thrown my way from my buddy Scab. :)

Saturday:

I had a blast handling the Critter by the Bay characters at and after the Mountain View parade. It's really something to witness the magic that I see being created between the Critters and the kids and grownups alike.

Sunday was my day to play.

Sunday in the morning:

In the morning, I got to bring out Gamara. {How many people get to play a Japanese Toho Monster *BIG GIGGLY GRIN* }. The con went nuts with picture taking. :)

Heck, Barberilla even ask Gamara out.

Gamara1

Man, what is it with Turtles and their sex appeal ?
I guess I'm just going to have to ask

kinkyturtle one of these days ;)

I tell you one thing. That is one HOT and Hard to see out of costume I have ever worn. I also wouldn't have missed it for the world. :)

Sunday in the afternoon:

I finally got to bring out Noodles the dragon. At the end of the performance SIG at Costume Con 26, the costume fursuits had a little parade through the Con. (About 20 costumes in all). We were given an amazingly warm welcome. Of course Noodles was heading up the back of the parade at the speed of 1 Terraluna (not fast at all), while the rest of the parade was zipping along.

Well you know how Noodles believes in 'Equal Opportunity Bugging'. :)

Gamara1

After the wave of amazing costumes went by the con crowds, Noodles had a great time filling in the wake. He was warmly welcomed even if he was a little butthead. I also understand that

foofers kept Noodles from eating a girl dressed up as a fairy.

Well, ask any dragon. They'll all tell you that fairies are very tasty ;)

It really helped boost up my ego realizing I haven't lost that spark of magic, to make people smile and laugh, and to create that suspension of disbelieve everyone can enjoy.

I have been told by a few people in the furry fandom that Noodles as a costume is not all that good, but I sure have fun with him, and I think people around me do also.

Thanks Mr. Dinosaur (Dennis Lancaster) for letting me borrow Gamara, and Thank you the reader for coming and visiting.

Current Mood: satisfied

I finally got to !!!!!!!RAR!!!!!!! and on my birthday to boot.
This last Saturday (April 19, 2008) I went over to a little Scottish Fest able with my friends

aaron_raccoon{Photographer, Dragon and Dog handler},

foofers {friend of Scabrous},

diadexxus {friend of Ace McFluff the border collie},

griffinwolf {Handler Extraordinaire), and

jumell {handler and Defender of the faith (<-- Always wanted to say that :) )}.
At the beginning of the day, as always, I was having a blast being the strait man (a.k.a. B.S. Artist) for Scab. Basically B.Sing for him, snapping pictures for visitors with Scab, and keeping ravenous virgins from eating him. It's a hard job, but someone has to do it. :)

The Second part of the day of the day, everyone, especially

foofers and

diadexxus, Gave me a very special birthday gift. They let me RAR with Kingsford. I RARed to my hearts content.

Just plain !!RAR!!

just plain !!!RAR!!!

Like always, Kingsford was just tenacious. He got a mess of hugs, and whacked a teenage girl who wouldn't hug him with his tail. By accident of course *giggle*. He then had a golfing lesson with a bunch of little kids who were baffled at how to teach a dragon as silly as Kingsford, how to play. They would giggle and give him all these suggestions when he would place the golf club head in the front of the golf ball before he swung. He even tried to eat the golf ball, but as he told me later,

aaron_raccoon was a poop head and wouldn't let him eat it. Oh well. Momma-dragon thanks you Aaron. :)

--> Dragons just can't play golf. Of course no one is crazy enough to tell a dragon that. :) <--

After that, he tried to do Caber Tossing (pool noodles) with lots of help from his little friends. Luckily

diadexxus was there to keep any body including one tenacious dragon form getting killed from falling pool noodles.

Then after the gig We all went out for a great B-day dinner with a massive chunk of chocolate cake.

It's been a long time since I was allowed to perform since my motorcycle accident, for that, I couldn't have asked for a better day. :)

Thank you guys

** BIG DRAGON SIZE HUG**

Current Mood: excited

Don't you wander what dragons think.
I was just sitting on the john browsing through a few picture, pondering on the great questions of the world. As I'm sure, many of the great questions have been pondered by our great thinkers on the john. Anyway, all of a sudden, one of the great questions in the world seem to get answered.

((( NOT MUCH ))) :)
Thinking of Helvetica.<<Sort of>>

Current Mood: silly

Down off of an FC !!RARing!! high
I am finally coming down off of my RAR high from FC. I had a Fantastic time hobnobbing with everyone. I wasn't allowed to costume out in the public because of my still healing left arm, so that was a little bit of a bummer. Because of that, I was worried that I might get a little board, but after being a back stage ninja at the masquerade, actually performing in the FNL and basically B.S.ing up a storm with everybody, Tuesday morning showed up in lightning speed time with no voice coming out of my mouth. You would think I talked for 5 days strait. :)

The best part, I finally Got to RAR with Noodles. MAN, It has been over a year since I was well enough to RAR or even SQUEEK. I have to thank my local costuming pusher

diasexxus for letting Noodles play in her FNL skit. I can't believe how much {{FUN}} I had getting out there in front of everyone and acting like a complete goof ball. So I guess Noodles didn't loose his RAR.

It was GREAT. Thanks for all of my friends welcoming me back with open arms, after a year + of coming back to the fandom.

THANKS :)

**BIG GOOBERY DRAGON SMOOCH on the head** from Noodles

Oh yeah............................... !!RAR!!

Current Mood: ecstatic

Deaths final visit for this year
In this past year, I have personally been visited by Death many times. First, in October 2, I had a serious motorcycle accident. In this accident I broke both arms, my right leg, many ribs, and had major trauma. Next, on December 23, with a 911 call from Smith Ranch Rehabilitee Center, where I had a major blood clot and the collapse of my left lung. The doctor at the emergency ward of Marin General Hospital told me later that I came within an hour of not being able of making it back. Through all of this, My Sister with her family, and my Dad helped me make it back from the brink, and make sure Death’s visits were strictly to have it show me how short and precious life is.

Finally, On December 25 at 6:00 am, Death took my Dad from this Earth. He passed away from battling 3 months of terminal cancer. At the end, I could see that Death was there for mercy sake, but that didn’t make it any easer. My dad’s condition deteriorated to where he was barely a shadow of what he once was. To where, all that was left to him, was suffering and decay. I would never wish death on any one, especially my own dad, but Death was there to do its brutal job, too give my dad the peace he deserves.

I am beyond words, on how distraught I am at this moment. A piece of my world has ended. I will never get to BS with him, while drinking Gin and Tonics to the wee hours of the morning. Where in case of terrible trouble, I could give him one phone call, and then he would move heaven and earth to help me. To receive his opinions whether I want it or not, but know in my heart that he wanted me to do better.

I have had battles with him in the past. I still do love him and I will miss him.

As I heard from a song of Laurie Anderson, “When my father died, we put him in the ground. When my father died, it was like a whole library burning down.”

John Halliday

Thank you, for being my friends and for helping me to keep it together over this past year, especially this past 3 months. I want to thank you for being my friends and, in a broad since, my family.

Thank you.

Current Mood: sad

Fan Boy for Creature Feature
If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, you would remember a local TV show that would broadcast on Saturday night, called Creature Feature. When I was quite young, I would sneak down stairs and quietly turn on the TV and tune in to the show, where I would then have the greatest time laughing, crying, even screaming while the host Bob Wilkins and his over sized cigar became our tour guide into the genera of B-horror films and Toho Japanese monster movies. In some films, I would have the crap scared out of me with having the only reason for not running up stairs to hide in my bed, was that Bob Wilkins would be there at the station break with some witty yet dry joke about the whole moment.

The below picture with Bob in Creature Feature, in 1981:

Bob on Creature Feature

In Silicon 2005, I walked up to this table and saw the one guy who truly had an effect on me in my youth. There was Bob Wilkins where I completely fan Boyd out. I lost my ability to speak which, if any body ever met me, is not normal. So what I do, with the help of Kiteless dragon, I take Noodles the dragon out to meet Bob Wilkins. Heck, even Scab was there to back Noodles up. :)

Noodles, Bob Wilkins, and Scab

That was a really great day.

1 year ago, I reproved((Force = Mass * Acceleration (or Deceleration) )) with my motorcycle crash
"You can na' change the laws of physics" quote from Scotty (Chief engineer, USS Enterprise)

Well I proofed that with flying colors (Especially the colors all over my body).

Just one year ago, I had a serious motorcycle crash on Highway 4, 3 miles east of Angels Camp, California. At the time, I have broken my left and right arm in multiple places, my right leg and multiple ribs. I have had a blood clot in the lower right leg (Bad but not too bad), and a blood clot in the left lung while the lung collapsed (Very bad, and I almost died). I have had a total of 5- operations, 3- 911 ambulance rides, 1-Helicopter medavac ride (I finally get to ride a helicopter and I don't remember :( ), and 1- 'Code Blue' in the hospital (Very bad also). All in all I have had a very busy and unfun year.

Today I am doing much better. Pretty much most things on my body are healing up well. I'm still weak in the Right arm with a bit of shoulder movement limitations. The Left arm, especially the bone, is half way through the healing process, thought the Radial nerve to the left hand hasn't shown much improvement yet.

Still, without the help from you guys, I don't know how difficult this year would have been.

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

**BIG WORLD WIDE BAT WING HUG**

Current Mood: thankful

Updating the past.
Hay there,

It has been a bit of time since my last LJ and good things and ,,,,, not so good things have been flying my way.

For the good stuff, my bone doc has been happy with the way my left bone has been healing. <> the two parts of the Humorous have been fusing into 1 peace. I will still be able to set off metal detectors at the Air port though (See Last Picture Below) :).

Some other good stuff, I have been taken off of the blood thinners. So this means I get to now enjoy !!!!BEER!!!! with my friends. *BIG TOOTHY GRIN*

On the not good stuff, My Radial nerve, which control the muscles that open my dominant left hand, is not showing any improvment. It is true that nerves take a long time to heal, but my nerve doc is not happy with what he sees. He said that if the nerve does not show any improvement in the near future, he will have to re open the arm. ((((That I don't Want))))

I guess, all in all, I am moving forward on the road of recovery. I just want to say Thank You all out there that have helped guide me along this long argues road.

Below are before and after my last operation X-rays of my left humorous. See if you can see the slight kink in the arm which the x-ray technician gasped at, when he saw the picture. Have fun.

Here is a link to my latest X-rays, Enjoy.

Before Operation:

After Operation:

Current Mood: hopeful

Once more into the light ((of the operating room))
Thursday, June 7th at 12:30, I was once more opened up to straighten out my Left Humorous bone. I had both my bone doc and my nerve doc busy under the hood, working on my arm. The operation was expected to take about 4 hours. The final tally on time was 7 hours.

After the operation, my bone doc told me it was a real mess when they opened the arm up. It was analogues to having a knock coming from your car's engine, so you open the hood and discover the engine is on fire. The bone was of course not setting right and a real mess, but the worse problem was the Radial nerve to my left hand was being surrounded and compressed by new bone and scar tissue. This could eventually kill the nerve if not repaired. Not good.

It took them a good amount of time to clean up the mess around the nerve, while the bone doc needed to splice bone from my pelvis along with more screws and plates to make the bone one again.

At this time I have lost movement and use out of my left hand because of all the work around the nerve, although, my nerve doc told me this not unexpected. He said there is a 90% chance of getting use out of my hand again. He said it will take time though. :(

I am also put back on blood thinners until at least August, which means no beer until then :(

I wanted to thank you guys for your help through this LONG ordeal. I don't know what I would have done without your support. I will still need to depend on your help for the coming near future.

Thanks again,

Current Mood: distressed

Two steps forward, one step back
It is very hard from getting depressed when I feel I have gotten over the hump for being healed, I find out I am wrong.

Friday, I went up to my bone Doc to check on my progress. When He pulled up the freshly taken X-ray of my left arm, hopes of me getting better soon were dashed. My left arm has become rebroken. This will require the Doctor to reopen up my arm, scrape the bones for better setting, and then graft on some more bone. The Doctor will also place a permanent plate in the arm to hopefully cause the bone to grow strait and heal.

The worse complication is that the rehealed nerve to my dominant left hand will be right in the way of the bone repair. There is a possibility of permanently damaging the nerve, causing my left hand to become useless.

Some times it just doesn't seem fair. I know getting depressed doesn't seem to heal anything, but sitting here at 3:00 am in the morning I can do nothing but feel alone and depressed.

Sorry for the rant.

Current Mood: gloomy

Comming full circle.
Hay out there in LJ Land. I have finally made it back to work after my 2 day motorcycle trip. (((Only 7 months late))) :P

My wounds are slowly healing. My right arm is getting stronger with limitations in the shoulder movement and strength. My leg is basically healed with slight problems with the knee, climbing stairs. My left arm finally got the pins pulled out, although its strength is limited to only 10 pounds max.

The bone doc told me the left arm is as delicate as an eggshell. He told me that I can easily rebrake it. So that means, I have to be a really good boy and not go out and play with my costumed friends. :(

That truly has to be the hardest thing about this crash thing. Not being able to go out with my buddy to perform in costume, or even be the plucky sidekick handler. I know, eventually, I will be well enough to perform, but the waiting has to be very much like, sitting as a good dog with a treat on your nose, going nuts waiting for your master to tell you to go for it. :P

For some fun, Below is the x-ray of my left arm, just before they pulled out the pins:

You can click this link to look at my other x-rays

Thanks,

I am getting tired of pain
This Sunday, I had ANOTHER ambulance ride back to Marin General Hospital Emergency. I had a cramping pain attack in my belly. On a scale of 1 to 10 it was a 15. The nurse called 911 because I was not able to breath through the cramping.

The hospital put me through the CAT scan machine, and all other sorts of tests, but at the end, they were not sure what caused the attack. So they pumped me full of heavy meds and sent me on my way after the pain subsided.

Today I feel fine, though a bit sluggish. The good part, I will still be heading back to my house on Wednesday.

See you all.

Current Mood: drained

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