The new computer is set up. I'm still deciding which Linux distro I want to set up on here. I'm torn between Gentoo and Slackware. Debian is still a possibility, but the other two are in the lead for now. I am even wondering which window manager I want to use. I suppose I could experiment with all these variables, but I find research first means the experiments can be much more efficient.
Anyway enough about my new computer and on to a tiny rant. Recently a few people have been making some 'job proposals' to me. These 'jobs' tend to be more like free labor for a doomed project. Now I have no problem working on doomed projects, but not for free. I have heard so many people offer to pay me after the project takes off, or by giving me a percentage of the company itself.
I have said no every single time. It's hard enough getting people with money to pay me what they owe me sometimes. I do not want to deal with people who have no money, but 'the next (youtube, facebook, twitter, digg, etc.)'. Not that I wish for these people ill fortune. If they make it, awesome. I, however, have a desperate urge to eat on a fairly regular basis, and so I prefer to be paid when I am working or when I have finished my work.
If you are wondering what I mean when I say it's hard to get people with money to pay me sometimes, I have had a conversation pretty close to this several times over this past year:
Me: Hello, Kate here.
Employer w/ finished work: Yes hello..
(insert pleasantries and small talk)
Me: (Cutting past the attempt at small talk) So what can I do for you? Is there a problem with (the project)?
Employer: Well yes and no. Everything looks great and works just fine, but there's a small issue...(Pause)
Me: Yes?
Employer: I'm afraid we can't pay you what you're asking.
Now it's at this point I should tell you that any job that this is an issue for, I always give them an exact figure at the start. They have already agreed to pay me the amount in question, signed a contract to that extent, and now wish to cut down the costs. The conversation at this point varies quite a bit. But the jist of it is I try to be somewhat nice. I don't want my reputation to take a nosedive because my employers refused to pay. Still I remain firm on the cost, and if they keep trying to weasel out of it I inform them that they can either pay me in full or they can pay a lawyer to tell them they have to pay me in full, and then go ahead and pay me anyway. But I leave that only for the most stubborn of asshats.
Sometimes it feels good to rant about these things, although doing it at 2:30 am may not be the best time. I am sure my prose has suffered due to how tired I am. Is prose even appropriate there? I feel like it could be, but I'm not sure. Too lazy to look it up.
Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Seems unlikely, but who knows.
Have fun!
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
A new computer! Finally!
Well, not yet but soon. I have been a very busy girl lately. I lucked out and got a lot of work over the past month. This sadly meant that I haven't participated in either the /dev/null tournament or NaNoWriMo this month. I wasn't even able to make a costume for Halloween this year! My inner child cried. =(
My computer will be a tower of awesome. It could certainly be better, but I have every intention of upgrading the components as I go on. Naturally I build my own machine. I have build every non-laptop computer of mine since I was 14. (My first computer was an old dos box of unknown origin. Thrown out by someone else.)
Anywho, I'm sure that people have been expecting some scans! Well you shall have some! I promised and here they are:
I hope you all enjoyed those. I have several more, but I don't want to post them all at once.
Thanks for reading and have fun!
My computer will be a tower of awesome. It could certainly be better, but I have every intention of upgrading the components as I go on. Naturally I build my own machine. I have build every non-laptop computer of mine since I was 14. (My first computer was an old dos box of unknown origin. Thrown out by someone else.)
Anywho, I'm sure that people have been expecting some scans! Well you shall have some! I promised and here they are:
I hope you all enjoyed those. I have several more, but I don't want to post them all at once.
Thanks for reading and have fun!
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Learning How To Lose
I have yet to meet anyone who likes to lose. Be it an argument, a game of risk, or anything else the appeal of getting the better of your opponent is far greater than letting someone be dominant you. So I would like to appeal to anyone reading, that they learn How To Lose.
Games can be a great example of knowing how to lose being a beneficial thing. I mentioned the game of Risk because I just recently saw a game escalate into an argument and some raised voices. Anger over a board game. The reason the person sat down and began to play the game was that he intended to have some fun with his friends. His anger and yelling are probably good indicators that he has failed to achieve his goal of having fun. So when he began to lose he failed to remember his original goal of having fun and forfeited it for a new goal of winning the game. Thus he lost. Even if he turned it around, and began to win the game, his original goal of having fun has been diminished if not obliterated.
This applies to life as well. I avoid time consuming arguments by letting people win. You might recall me having a brief 'argument' with a co-worker in a sketch a while back. I avoided correcting him, didn't press any issues I had with what he said, I just made my best attempt to move along in order to get the job done. The goal was to repair his computer and get back to work quickly. I achieved that goal far faster than I had hoped, despite the holdup.
I don't think I did this topic the justice it deserves. Sometimes you have to bite your tongue. Hold back that urge to inform people of their own ignorance or even that your opinion differs from theirs. It will usually do very little but waste your time, given the inherent difficulty of changing anyone's opinion. I'd like to try and be more through, but sadly I must return to my work. But look forward to sketches soon, as I have ordered a new scanner out of a necessity. (I took a job that required one. Deductible!)
Games can be a great example of knowing how to lose being a beneficial thing. I mentioned the game of Risk because I just recently saw a game escalate into an argument and some raised voices. Anger over a board game. The reason the person sat down and began to play the game was that he intended to have some fun with his friends. His anger and yelling are probably good indicators that he has failed to achieve his goal of having fun. So when he began to lose he failed to remember his original goal of having fun and forfeited it for a new goal of winning the game. Thus he lost. Even if he turned it around, and began to win the game, his original goal of having fun has been diminished if not obliterated.
This applies to life as well. I avoid time consuming arguments by letting people win. You might recall me having a brief 'argument' with a co-worker in a sketch a while back. I avoided correcting him, didn't press any issues I had with what he said, I just made my best attempt to move along in order to get the job done. The goal was to repair his computer and get back to work quickly. I achieved that goal far faster than I had hoped, despite the holdup.
I don't think I did this topic the justice it deserves. Sometimes you have to bite your tongue. Hold back that urge to inform people of their own ignorance or even that your opinion differs from theirs. It will usually do very little but waste your time, given the inherent difficulty of changing anyone's opinion. I'd like to try and be more through, but sadly I must return to my work. But look forward to sketches soon, as I have ordered a new scanner out of a necessity. (I took a job that required one. Deductible!)
Saturday, September 4, 2010
On Dwarf Fortress
I admit,to pass the time I have been considering returning to Dwarf Fortress. The game sucked me in completely in years past. I had planned on playing it as soon as it was available for linux. Sadly, this did not happen. Several factors pushed me away from that time sink.
Recently, I decided to take a look back and see what bug fixes were in since my last peek. In doing so I had sealed my fate. So many things had been changed, it sounded amazing. I now feel like I've fallen behind. My knowledge of the game is outdated. So I'm taking a weekend to play it once again. I also decided that since I have time I might as well update this blog.
I plan to update this every so often, but it will continue to be irregular until likely January. When my financial situation will hopefully look a bit brighter.
Recently, I decided to take a look back and see what bug fixes were in since my last peek. In doing so I had sealed my fate. So many things had been changed, it sounded amazing. I now feel like I've fallen behind. My knowledge of the game is outdated. So I'm taking a weekend to play it once again. I also decided that since I have time I might as well update this blog.
I plan to update this every so often, but it will continue to be irregular until likely January. When my financial situation will hopefully look a bit brighter.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
More blogging
Well I was recently reminded of this blog, and so I thought I would share what has been going on.
I've been working, sleeping, eating, playing D&D, reading, drawing, and writing. There's a lot of work to do before my financial situation is completely stable, but medical bills always suck.
I suppose I could go into more detail about the individual things I've been doing, and I suppose I will later, along with a greater accounting of the past few months. For now, just know, I'm still alive, still planning to update this blog. Just not for a few more months. See you then.
I've been working, sleeping, eating, playing D&D, reading, drawing, and writing. There's a lot of work to do before my financial situation is completely stable, but medical bills always suck.
I suppose I could go into more detail about the individual things I've been doing, and I suppose I will later, along with a greater accounting of the past few months. For now, just know, I'm still alive, still planning to update this blog. Just not for a few more months. See you then.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The ACTA
A treaty in the works called ACTA had a small portion of it leaked a while back. The treaty itself is confidential, but these things have a way of getting out there. Thankfully it did.
To make a long story short I am rather unhappy with it. I am no news reporter, nor am I a lawyer. So rather than muddle through and tell you all about it I figured I would give you an appropriate link or two.
This is an inconvenience to all, not just pirates. After all it seems that mere accusations can cause you some trouble. So in truth I would like to see it fail horribly, or at least change dramatically. I doubt either one will come to pass. So I make preparations for the laws of the world to change again.
I have made plans to use this for evil. The irony that few realize is that the law applies to everyone. If you dislike a group or organization? Accuse them of infringement! 'The CEO of the RIAA seems to have recently downloaded (insert copyrighted material). Please take action against this individual immediately!" "The members of Congress seems to have recently downloaded..." You get the picture. Accuse everyone. It costs you practically nothing.
Yes, this presents a problem for everyone. Just remember that EVERYONE includes people you would like to get a point across to and/or dislike. =)
(Insert Maniacal Laughter Here)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Doomsday Book
Still no scanner sadly, so no art up for this month.
In other news I have been rereading a book, I wanted to share with you. I read the book due to hearing a filk song about it. The song, 'In a Gown Too Blue' by Brenda Sutton and performed by Three Weird Sisters, was good enough to pick up my interest. The song is about "Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis. Both the song and the book are worth picking up. If you don't want spoilers, read the book before listening to the song. For me I still enjoyed the book with what spoilers I had already heard. The fact that I am rereading a book means that I give it a very high recommendation. I'm looking into getting the other books from Connie Willis that run in the book's continuity.
I've rambled on long enough. Have fun everyone. I'll be reading. =)
Sunday, June 27, 2010
A return from the hospital
Another wonderful visit to the hospital for me has finally ended. It actually ended about a week ago, but when I returned home I found my computer missing. I'm beginning to suspect that this may not be the most friendly neighbourhood. Then again, the large amount of uncollected mail pretty much announced "Noone's here, you could get away with it!" apparently.
So I had to run to buy a new computer. Sadly with an impending bill from the hospital I don't have alot of cash to mess with. So in comes the aspire one. Yep I bought a cheap netbook. I'm just glad I hadn't bought the computer that I had been saving up for before all this. I would have had alot more panic over the bill coming up and would have lost the computer. Perhaps investing in some security system would be worth it at this point as well.
Either way I had alot of time to draw, sadly my scanner is also gone... I am so glad my comp was having issues. It prompted me to do some backups of my more critical data. Sadly it wasn't a full backup... I think I'll start up a monthly backup routine... or bi-monthly. That seems more likely. =P
Well that's all for now. The netbook is overheating like there is no tommorow. Time to give it a rest. Thanks for reading.
So I had to run to buy a new computer. Sadly with an impending bill from the hospital I don't have alot of cash to mess with. So in comes the aspire one. Yep I bought a cheap netbook. I'm just glad I hadn't bought the computer that I had been saving up for before all this. I would have had alot more panic over the bill coming up and would have lost the computer. Perhaps investing in some security system would be worth it at this point as well.
Either way I had alot of time to draw, sadly my scanner is also gone... I am so glad my comp was having issues. It prompted me to do some backups of my more critical data. Sadly it wasn't a full backup... I think I'll start up a monthly backup routine... or bi-monthly. That seems more likely. =P
Well that's all for now. The netbook is overheating like there is no tommorow. Time to give it a rest. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Sorry about the lateness. I wanted to make sure I could post this. Now with her permission I introduce Static! It's from her screenname, if you were wondering. By the way, this might seem offensive, it's only the tip of the iceberg. For the next few days you will hear some Static. I had to say it.
=)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Time to hire a good Sys Admin
You may or may not have heard about the SEC's "porn scandal". Honestly in business it's not that surprising that employees are surfing porn. That's pretty common place. What I find surprising is that this is not regularly snuffed out by the system administrator(s). Same thing with the National Science Foundation, a guy surfing porn over 331 days?
Just so you know NSF and SEC, I am ready and willing to take a sys admin job that will make sure your employees stay on task, and keep your systems running smooth. =)
Another sketchblog tommorow, look forward to it!
Just so you know NSF and SEC, I am ready and willing to take a sys admin job that will make sure your employees stay on task, and keep your systems running smooth. =)
Another sketchblog tommorow, look forward to it!
Monday, April 26, 2010
To read more about it the original blog entry is here. You can find more specific information about the claim in this news article. I made this one specific for today, it had very little impact on my life, so may not be the best for a sketchblog entry. Expect more journal type entries later on.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Ah technology, you never cease to amuse me. Today I found out that on the 23rd someone from Australia googled me. Sadly I'm not informed of this every time I'm googled, but I have been informed on this specific occasion. I am very curious as to who did it.
I went shopping today and bought some more books... Alot more books. I spent way too much. So it's time for me to find more work to make up for the loss. Oops, that money was supposed to go to my new computer. On the plus side I got a scanner today, so it's time to commence uploading!
Look forward to my random scribbles from here on out.
=)
I went shopping today and bought some more books... Alot more books. I spent way too much. So it's time for me to find more work to make up for the loss. Oops, that money was supposed to go to my new computer. On the plus side I got a scanner today, so it's time to commence uploading!
Look forward to my random scribbles from here on out.
=)
Monday, April 19, 2010
My birthday!
Today I turned 25. I would have forgotten it, had I not gotten a call from my sister saying happy birthday. So today continues on like any other, but perhaps some gifts will arrive. Who knows. =)
I decided to pick up Dragons of Autumn Twilight. So far I am amused. The book is part of a series however, so I'll have pick up the rest of it later on. That's really all there is to report. I hope to have a scanner before the end of the month, but so far I've had to send one back due to a huge crack in the scanning plate.
That's all for now, thanks for reading.
I decided to pick up Dragons of Autumn Twilight. So far I am amused. The book is part of a series however, so I'll have pick up the rest of it later on. That's really all there is to report. I hope to have a scanner before the end of the month, but so far I've had to send one back due to a huge crack in the scanning plate.
That's all for now, thanks for reading.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Soon, soon
I know that most of the people who read this, if there are any who indeed remain, are hoping for some sketches. I am glad to say I have plenty to scan as soon as my scanner arrives. I suppose I should ask any out there to comment, just to let me know that I'm not just talking to myself.
I hope you all had a good spring break. That is if you indeed did have a spring break. I have recently finished some programming projects, and I hope to get permission to talk about them from my employers. Because honestly they are currently the things that are taking up most of my time.
On another note I've been working on gaming worlds. I've been really enjoying coming up with NPCs and adventures for them. Honestly I hope kind of wish that I had a local gaming group. I'm tempted to put up fliers at the university and the local 'gaming' shop. In reality the closest thing to a local gaming shop is in fact a comic shop. It's quite a nice place, but sadly I've gotten to go there only once. I really should go and see if any gaming groups are recruiting rather than wining about it online. =P
Also if there is anything in particular you want to see in my sketches or hear about from me please feel free to leave that in a comment too.
I hope you all had a good spring break. That is if you indeed did have a spring break. I have recently finished some programming projects, and I hope to get permission to talk about them from my employers. Because honestly they are currently the things that are taking up most of my time.
On another note I've been working on gaming worlds. I've been really enjoying coming up with NPCs and adventures for them. Honestly I hope kind of wish that I had a local gaming group. I'm tempted to put up fliers at the university and the local 'gaming' shop. In reality the closest thing to a local gaming shop is in fact a comic shop. It's quite a nice place, but sadly I've gotten to go there only once. I really should go and see if any gaming groups are recruiting rather than wining about it online. =P
Also if there is anything in particular you want to see in my sketches or hear about from me please feel free to leave that in a comment too.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
A week of boredom
Well I guess it's about time for me to update here again. My life is sadly very boring. I am still scanner-less although that will hopefully change soon. And you'll start seeing updates in graphical form.
I've decided I needed to get back into gaming. Not just computer gaming, that's never really stopped. No I'm talking D&D, shadowrun, GURPS, anything really. The game has never really mattered, I can throw myself into a character and have fun. Yes the pen and paper are calling. Unfortunately all my friends in the local area have either graduated or moved away recently. So I found another way,
rpg.net has a play by post forum and it seems that people also recruit for games over IRC and skype there as well. I just signed up to be either the player or DM in a 3.5 game. I've been making worlds in my free time. I guess I had been hoping for this kind of opportunity. Either way I'll be happy to have some kind of gaming going on. I might even join in another game. I'm in the middle of a few projects right now so I don't want to stretch myself too thin, but I still have plenty of free time. Once I'm finished with the biggest job I should have plenty of money and all the free time I could want.
Well that's my boring life for this week, hopefully within a week or two you'll see the return of the comic journal. I'll try to be more interesting as well.
I've decided I needed to get back into gaming. Not just computer gaming, that's never really stopped. No I'm talking D&D, shadowrun, GURPS, anything really. The game has never really mattered, I can throw myself into a character and have fun. Yes the pen and paper are calling. Unfortunately all my friends in the local area have either graduated or moved away recently. So I found another way,
rpg.net has a play by post forum and it seems that people also recruit for games over IRC and skype there as well. I just signed up to be either the player or DM in a 3.5 game. I've been making worlds in my free time. I guess I had been hoping for this kind of opportunity. Either way I'll be happy to have some kind of gaming going on. I might even join in another game. I'm in the middle of a few projects right now so I don't want to stretch myself too thin, but I still have plenty of free time. Once I'm finished with the biggest job I should have plenty of money and all the free time I could want.
Well that's my boring life for this week, hopefully within a week or two you'll see the return of the comic journal. I'll try to be more interesting as well.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Gaming distractions
Well it's a little late this week but here's an update.
So as far as MUDs go I decided to try out two of the larger ones out there. RetroMUD and Achaea. So far Achaea has won me over to at least keeping a regular appearance there. The people are friendly and the world is wonderfully indepth. Sometimes I wish there was more possibility for out of character discussion but the role playing aspect of it keeps the game interesting. RetroMUD has yet to really suck me in. It seems like most of the people on there are just idling or really busy. There is some discussion going on but sadly it seems that the mud has seen some hard times recently. I give everything a fair shot though and I admit that I have only been on RetroMUD for about an hour and a half. So I'll try it again soon and find out if I just caught it at a bad time.
On other gaming fronts I am glad to hear of the arrival of the newest version of Dwarf Fortress! Honestly though the April 1st release date along with website overhaul had me skeptical. But I could afford to be since there still isn't a release out for linux. I suppose that it's also good to note here that I have switched to linux fulltime. It's just more comfortable. Sadly it means I must wait even longer for my sweet sweet dwarf fortress, but in the end I can deal with that.
Moving away from games I am doing freelance programming work once again. If you want some programming work done feel free to email me! Katewissen AT gmail. I'll work with your budget. So that's going fairly. I'm not making as much as I would like, but I'm also free to work on my own projects. Recently I started working on a MUD client. I'm going to try to get some feedback from some devoted mud players as to what features they like to have in a client.
I don't know where this will lead to, but it's always nice to have some little extra projects in your portfolio. And who knows, maybe people will like it. I'd love to follow in Toady's footsteps and develop things for a living on a strictly donation based setup. Provide things for free and rely on the kindness of your fans. Ah well a girl can dream...
So as far as MUDs go I decided to try out two of the larger ones out there. RetroMUD and Achaea. So far Achaea has won me over to at least keeping a regular appearance there. The people are friendly and the world is wonderfully indepth. Sometimes I wish there was more possibility for out of character discussion but the role playing aspect of it keeps the game interesting. RetroMUD has yet to really suck me in. It seems like most of the people on there are just idling or really busy. There is some discussion going on but sadly it seems that the mud has seen some hard times recently. I give everything a fair shot though and I admit that I have only been on RetroMUD for about an hour and a half. So I'll try it again soon and find out if I just caught it at a bad time.
On other gaming fronts I am glad to hear of the arrival of the newest version of Dwarf Fortress! Honestly though the April 1st release date along with website overhaul had me skeptical. But I could afford to be since there still isn't a release out for linux. I suppose that it's also good to note here that I have switched to linux fulltime. It's just more comfortable. Sadly it means I must wait even longer for my sweet sweet dwarf fortress, but in the end I can deal with that.
Moving away from games I am doing freelance programming work once again. If you want some programming work done feel free to email me! Katewissen AT gmail. I'll work with your budget. So that's going fairly. I'm not making as much as I would like, but I'm also free to work on my own projects. Recently I started working on a MUD client. I'm going to try to get some feedback from some devoted mud players as to what features they like to have in a client.
I don't know where this will lead to, but it's always nice to have some little extra projects in your portfolio. And who knows, maybe people will like it. I'd love to follow in Toady's footsteps and develop things for a living on a strictly donation based setup. Provide things for free and rely on the kindness of your fans. Ah well a girl can dream...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Well maybe not 3 times a week. I kept putting it off and here it is one week later. So perhaps at least once a week with sporadic updates in-between. Anyway, what I've been up to this past week, well I've been reading. I may end up giving some book reviews after I finish each book. As of right now I'm reading two: Evil Genius and Code Complete. One fiction one technical manual.
Another thing I've recently rebooted was nethack, where I recently got my first ascention! This was spurred on by a friend of mine recently getting his. I was always closer to doing it than he was so I teased him about it, but never actually did ascend. So in order to not be left behind I stared an account on NAO the nethack.alt.org server, and proceeded to prove my superiority. After this I started to feel nostalgic toward some of the games of my past so I decided to pick up MUDs again. Sadly I have not found a MUD that suits me just yet, but I have not tried a few of the big names yet either, I like to give some of the smaller MUDs a chance. If you know a good one please share.
A little programming here and there, but nothing worth sharing at the moment. If anything comes of it I will start posting progress reports as well.
Another thing I've recently rebooted was nethack, where I recently got my first ascention! This was spurred on by a friend of mine recently getting his. I was always closer to doing it than he was so I teased him about it, but never actually did ascend. So in order to not be left behind I stared an account on NAO the nethack.alt.org server, and proceeded to prove my superiority. After this I started to feel nostalgic toward some of the games of my past so I decided to pick up MUDs again. Sadly I have not found a MUD that suits me just yet, but I have not tried a few of the big names yet either, I like to give some of the smaller MUDs a chance. If you know a good one please share.
A little programming here and there, but nothing worth sharing at the moment. If anything comes of it I will start posting progress reports as well.
Friday, March 19, 2010
An update!
Yep, I'm back. I know I said that before, however I underestimated the amount of work I had to do when I got back to school. Well I'm taking a semester or so off to take care of some debts that have arisen. There are other reasons but paying for stuff is the primary reason. I do plan to be back next semester, and if nothing else I'll be there 1 year from now. But I'm sure noone comes to read about my financial woes so I'll skip that and get right on to what I've been up to the past eight months.
School went pretty well. I didn't have much time for socializing, sadly. Between grading undergrad's programming projects to my own projects I was too busy to meet up with anyone. I may have lost a few friends that way. I wasn't ignoring anyone, but it may have seemed that way. I need to learn to turn on my IM client every so often. Either way that was pretty much my life up to December. After which I joined family for the holidays. It's awkward around most of my family most of the time. December is particularly off putting. To put it in the most mild way I am still quite atheistic, and they are quite devout catholic. We differ on most opinions. My sister is also atheistic but manages not to talk about it. She always was smarter than me.
So that went as you might figure. Then of course I returned to my apartment to find it had been broken into. Yay! My computer equipment that wasn't stashed away was gone. Even my favorite monitor. I will miss that thing. But of course worst of all my latest work was on there. I have backups but they are at least a month old. So if nothing else you now know some of the things I am currently paying for. It's a sticky situation, and sadly insurance doesn't appear to cover the full costs. Mainly I'm missing a scanner that wasn't even mine, and my nice shiny computer. Plans to rebuild my computer are underway. I can make it stronger, faster, better. But data lost is harder to replace. Oh they did leave one thing that made me laugh. My beloved Model M keyboard. It apparently was too old for them to bother or they just didn't have room for it. Either way I am glad to have one thing left. Oh I suppose my mousepad was also spared. =)
All drama aside the rest of my life has been rather relaxing. It's nice to sit back and take some time off. I got to do alot of reading recently. Managed to do some programming for myself for a change. That's pretty much it. The last few months have been work and relax, with empahsis on relaxing. I've even ignored the news specifically to avoid getting riled up over things I can realistically do nothing about.
This seems to be rambling on a tad so I'll end it here, I hope to have a new scanner for some new art to go up here soon. I'll even take questions or topics to discuss. I think this blog needs to be more active so I am making sure I do something on it at least three times a week. I will probably run out of stuff to say though. So please feel free to ask about anything.
School went pretty well. I didn't have much time for socializing, sadly. Between grading undergrad's programming projects to my own projects I was too busy to meet up with anyone. I may have lost a few friends that way. I wasn't ignoring anyone, but it may have seemed that way. I need to learn to turn on my IM client every so often. Either way that was pretty much my life up to December. After which I joined family for the holidays. It's awkward around most of my family most of the time. December is particularly off putting. To put it in the most mild way I am still quite atheistic, and they are quite devout catholic. We differ on most opinions. My sister is also atheistic but manages not to talk about it. She always was smarter than me.
So that went as you might figure. Then of course I returned to my apartment to find it had been broken into. Yay! My computer equipment that wasn't stashed away was gone. Even my favorite monitor. I will miss that thing. But of course worst of all my latest work was on there. I have backups but they are at least a month old. So if nothing else you now know some of the things I am currently paying for. It's a sticky situation, and sadly insurance doesn't appear to cover the full costs. Mainly I'm missing a scanner that wasn't even mine, and my nice shiny computer. Plans to rebuild my computer are underway. I can make it stronger, faster, better. But data lost is harder to replace. Oh they did leave one thing that made me laugh. My beloved Model M keyboard. It apparently was too old for them to bother or they just didn't have room for it. Either way I am glad to have one thing left. Oh I suppose my mousepad was also spared. =)
All drama aside the rest of my life has been rather relaxing. It's nice to sit back and take some time off. I got to do alot of reading recently. Managed to do some programming for myself for a change. That's pretty much it. The last few months have been work and relax, with empahsis on relaxing. I've even ignored the news specifically to avoid getting riled up over things I can realistically do nothing about.
This seems to be rambling on a tad so I'll end it here, I hope to have a new scanner for some new art to go up here soon. I'll even take questions or topics to discuss. I think this blog needs to be more active so I am making sure I do something on it at least three times a week. I will probably run out of stuff to say though. So please feel free to ask about anything.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
