[LAFF] Looking for a fur I met at the LAFF New Year's Eve Party

[Daniel Keller]

Hi everyone!  I hope that your new year has been going great so far!

         Even though Sema Jayhawk didn't mention me as being part of the 
list of furs who attended the LAFF New Year's eve party up at Gurnee last 
week, I (Hoagiebot) indeed was there and have the conbadge and the hotel 
room receipt to prove it!  The New Year's Eve party was the first LAFF 
sponsored event that I have ever attended, and I have to say that I had a 
really good time!  Meeting some other local furry artists was a neat 
experience, and I ended up drawing a nice sketch of my own while I was 
there.  Perhaps when I finish penciling the details of the sketch I will 
post it up to the list.  While nearly every aspect of the outing was a 
fantastic success, one thing that was really a bummer is that the hotel 
staff sprung the nasty surprise on us that they were kicking us out of both 
of our party rooms by 1AM.  As far as I know that was in no way the LAFF 
event organizers' fault because I have been told that the hotel allowed 
them to use the rooms for longer last year, but that is probably an issue 
that should be addressed.  I don't know how much it costs per day to rent 
those conference rooms, but I for one would be willing to pay a few more 
bucks to attend the party if it meant that we could have the conference 
rooms reserved past midnight so that we can party in the rooms as long as 
we want.   Once again I don't have any idea how feasible that would be for 
the organizers to do-- I am just making a friendly suggestion.

         While I was down in the party rooms I met this absolutely 
fascinating fur that I would love to keep in contact with.  Unfortunately, 
I was suffering from a bit of a sinus infection on New Year's Eve and had 
been taking cold medicine, so I have to admit that I wasn't in my sharpest 
mental capacity that night.  With that said, I have to embarrassingly admit 
that I have forgotten the fur's name, and I was wondering if someone on 
this list knows him and can pass his badge name and contact information 
along to me so that I can write to him.  He is a head engineer for four FM 
radio stations down in the Champagne-Urbana area, has a Technician Class 
amateur radio license, and wears a black wolf fursuit with a Hawaiian 
lei.  If anyone knows who this is, please contact me off-list and let me 
know.  I am an amateur radio operator as well, and would love to keep 
talking with this guy because he gets to play with bigger and cooler pieces 
of radio transmitter equipment than I could ever dream of having access to!

         Thanks to all of the LAFF organizers for throwing such a wonderful 
New Year's Eve party-- the food was great, the people were great, and I had 
an absolutely wonderful time!  I am looking forward to attending again next 
year, and hopefully I will be able to attend more LAFF events before then!

Sincerely,
Dan "Hoagiebot" Keller
(Amateur Radio Station KB9MFT)


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