Monitor Hell and other annoyances

[crowdog66]

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!

Comments

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

See, that's just the problem tho... people in winnipeg are idiots.. and don't know the correct way to do much of anything *Grumbles* the only time i don't care if people stand in the exit well is if the bus is packed to the brim and standing room only, then there isn't much of a choice... and that gets extra annoying right there.... even more so when young tarts (i.e. teens) don't let the elderly sit down.. *Grrrr*