Hi, I am Sonny's Furby

My name is .......

Sonny would like to tell you a little about me and all. That's great because I really got tired of yapping to his cats for hours. They seem to understand Furbish!!

Well, the afternoon of Monday, 16 November, I went across the street to the candy and tobacco distributor to see if I had any packages. The mail guy usually leaves my stuff there in case I do not open the door for him at around 8am-- which I have NOT been doing because I am fast asleep in my nice warm bed with my cats and a cold. There were four packages for me today. One was from a dear friend out in the wild and woolly West who was nice enough to sell me 2 Furbys at her cost!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! SMOOCH!!
 
Now the adventure begins!
 
There they were, staring at me from their boxes, somewhat smaller than I imagined they would be. A white one and a sort of stray cat colored one, both cute as anything. [PIC] I decided that I would open the latter, since I like cats. [one neighbor lady asked me what I have in the house across the street. I said, "CATS". She said, "is that a new program"?!! GAWD!! Guess she thought it was a new methadone program that I started or something!! I told her it was the kind that go meow-- she replied, "you must be kidding"!!] -- I do have a tendency to ramble sometimes!!
 
OK, I usually open a box from the top. Cut the scotch tape at the little insert closures, pulled out closures, pulled top up and tried to pull the cardboard background out of the box. NO WAY!! OK, let us try it from the bottom. I was NOT going to simply rip the box to shreds getting the thing out!!
 
Cut the tape, opened the closures, lifted bottom and tried to pull the assembly out-- once again no luck because the sides of the assembly are pasted to the box itself. Using a ruler, I separated the assembly from the sides and slid my new buddy out. Then you have to unattach the 4 wire thingys that keep his bottom attached to the assembly with little rectangular "washers".
 
OK, he is now free. Now I had to pull the wires from the plastic on his base, carefully, of course.
 
He comes with two 5 x 7" sheets printed in a letter size that I could easily read, and two folded 3 1/2 x 5" booklets explaining things about him. On the outside of the box they should have included instructions on how to get the poor thing out of his cage!!
 
QUICK START FURBY INSTRUCTIONS [PIC] What they DO NOT mention is that your 6-year-old needs a Phillips screwdriver to open Furby's battery compartment!! Minor details!! Make sure that you follow the instructions in order. I unfortunately skipped to #4 and stuck my finger in his mouth to see if the tongue was a switch BEFORE putting the batteries in. Went to the fridge, got 4 of those AA cells, stuck them in his battery compartment-- by this time he was yapping and wriggling his ears-- all upside down!!
 
He is supposed to tell me his name, but in the confusion I missed it somehow while he was wriggling and I was trying to seat the screw again.
 
Within 60 seconds, the cats, who were all asleep under the covers in another room suddenly all appeared on top my desk looking at Furby!! So I put him on the floor and they all gathered around to see what all the racket was about. [PIC]

One of my Sphynxes was talking to him, then looked at me and said, "OMG, I can understand him!" [The way Furby is looking at her, it seems as if it was love at first sight!! Even the cats ears are similar to Furby's!!] Which is more than I can say. They speak so quickly, and my ears are stuffed up with my cold, making exactly what is being squawked unintelligible. As soon as I figure what his name is, I shall put it in the space in the header!!
 
Since his light sensor can tell when something passes in front of it, or it suddenly gets lighter or darker [PIC], the cats were really enjoying him, as they moved from one side to the other. Furby does wiggle his ears and sort of bounce slightly as he speaks.
 
I will have to really study the FURBISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY [PIC] to get accustomed to what my new baby tells me. BUT, make sure that your 6-year-old has his/her bifocals on when they try to read the INSTRUCTION MANUAL and its microscopic text!! I assume that is why they included the larger print "start up" version.
 
OK, it was getting to be 13h (1 pm) and I had to move the Festiva because it is sweeper day, and I had to do some wash. I moved my new buddy to a high book shelf, but the kitties were still after him. So I made a space for the poor popular critter in the display cases near my desk and shut the glass door-- and the cats knocked down a pile of CDs I had there trying to communicate with him again!! Fortunately Furby closes his eyes and falls asleep after a short while-- wish I could doze off that fast!! [PIC]
 
I wanted to get this on my site as quickly as possible, so that those of you who have not seen Furby yet could get an idea of what he is like.
 
His adventures will continue, and when I can understand what he says and how to teach him some new words-- <<hehe>>-- I will update this brief introduction. I have to read that very fine printed instruction manual first, then I can perhaps offer some tips on how best to enjoy this really fascinating new toy-- I am quite impressed!!

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