2005-03-02

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Fuck it... three hours of looking at monitors on eBay and various retail sites (after our good ol' Hansol 900P "went with God" in the dead of the night last week), and I've got a miserable headache and a bad temper to match. The urge to scream like a monkey with a thorn in its ass and throw my own excrement at the screen is nigh-overpowering -- but that would hardly be fair to the ViewSonic PF775, which has never given us a moment of trouble for all that we've had it longer than the Hansol that has gone on to join the choir invisible. Oh, well, soon it might have a nice LaCie to play with, or maybe a Sony Trinitron.

Good news today for George: he's got a job inking a six-issue miniseries for WildStorm. Bad news for us: in this industry, it's famine or feast, and right now both George and I have editors clamoring to cram stuff down our throats. After three years and more of scraping just to get by this is a nice change. However, does there have to be so fucking MUCH of it?

... *sigh*.

So. Girl Genius, The Hardy Boys, and flatting all Doug Wheatley's future color work for me. Breakout (color) and Albion (inks) for George. Congratulations! We're back in the comics industry again.

Okay, just one minor annoyance: people who stand in the rear exit well of the kneeling buses here in Winnipeg. It's a fucking EXIT WELL, people! How many of your obviously few brain cells would it TAKE to realize that by standing there, you're BLOCKING THE WAY OFF THE BUS? Meaning that people have to say "Excuse me" and physically push past you just to take their leave? Grrrrr... fucking morons, I have no patience left... or worse, the people who use the FRONT door of the bus to exit, when they're perfectly capable of using the back door, thus preventing people from getting ON the bus and holding everyone up. Like there wasn't huge publicity campaign last year and the year before that to educate bus riders that the back door (unless you have a physical disability, of course) is quicker and easier for everyone concerned?

*beats head against desk*

That was actually two minor annoyances, one set of mixed blessings, and five gratuitous uses of the word "fuck". Time to start painting again or go to bed!
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To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Yahoo! is giving away coupons for free scoops of Baskin-Robbins ice cream:

http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday/

If this link stops working (high traffic flow and all), you can go via the main Yahoo page and click the free ice cream image link:

http://www.yahoo.com

EDITTED: to repair broken link. Sorry, folks -- I was coming off an all-night work shift when I wrote this post, and was very fuzzy in the head.
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*assumes the crash position*

Sorry, folks -- usually I'm able to carve a couple of hours free a night to chew over RP stuff on AIM, but until Monday, I'm effectively chained to the Hardy Boys deadline from NBM Papercuts. I'll be painting my brains out until sometime Monday or Tuesday. No GMing for me! *soft sob*

On the other hand, you're all having fun playing amongst yourselves in the DegSep sandbox, so by all means, go nuts in my absence! If you have a really pressing question in play, email me -- I usually check it relatively frequently, and can jot you back an answer. And as always, please send Your Friendly Neighborhood GM a copy of any pertinent chat logs that result.

*curls up into a ball again, except for the hand that's painting like crazy*
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And on a completely unrelated note to my previous entry, I'll announce that in celebration of some regular comic work coming in, our household will soon have two new items. One of them is a gorgeous LaCie 19" Electron Blue monitor, complete with spiffy light-blocking hood. This monitor is one of the best out there, and we were able to get it from someone else in Winnipeg via the classified section on the Mantek site. $310 dollars, delivered. Bonus!



The second purchase is more personal. I've been looking for a nice, plain athame (the Wiccan ritual knife which lies on the altar, representing the male principle for what should be fairly obvious reasons) for some time now, to supplement the small, delicate curved one I use for private ritual. In public/group work, I needed something a little more substantial, something that would be easily visible across a circle of one hundred people. And on eBay, I found it:



The auction info read: "Simple stainless steel knife. Blade length is 5 1/2" The perfect everyday athame - with a simple and traditional style - a lovely addition to a traditional altar. Overall length is 9". Comes with black sheath. Double edged blade."

Absolutely perfect.

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