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.