I've been working lots of overtime. It's been very humid here in the Eastern USA so the regular overnight guy has been having a lot of trouble breathing. But then the emphysema and asthma and smoking a pack of cigarettes a day might have something to do with that.
So I've been doing lots of work on the comic because there's not much else to do at work. I can only make so many tours and the persons awake in the early morning are always the same ones.
I'm updated through the end of August. Now if I can finish editing the script for the first sequel and making up the shooting schedule. Makes me wish I was drawing the bloody thing. I don't need to build sets or set up shooting schedules when it's just me, a pen and a piece of paper. I can just scribble whatever's in my head. But then I don't get that tactile experience I do when building something I can hold in my hand. I guess I'm still a model builder at heart.
Some people hard of hearing use that as an excuse to not bother listening to what you're saying. Next time I'll save my breath and just move my mouth and not say anything.
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Rant, Moan and Rave - 2010 edition
Got my new comic plot down, i haven't seen any other webcomics like it yet, but it'll be a bit challenging to do. Definitely can't start on it until i get a new laptop. my desktop freezes when i open even small files ;-;
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everyone watching rap youtube videos or playing WOWLol. Welp i've got the rest of macross frontier to DL.
Just came back from my grandparents, I spent a day there. My grandmother, who is a nice woman, spends too much time talking. Most things discussed tend to be about people long gone or people I've never met.
My grandfather talks too little, making only remarks and jokes during the short periods of time that my grandma stops talking. I think that's a pity, my grandfather is a very interesting man, he used most his life gathering information, books and seeing as much of the world as possible. Since his life expectancy isn't all that great he'll never have the time to tell me about it.
A life full of memories lost. Cancer tends to strike those that least deserve it doesn't it?
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Seventy2, take it a little easier. instead of making long runs try running near your home so you can return if you start getting dizzy or get cramps. It'd be a friggin shame if you had to stop working out because you overdid it. I don't remember exactly when you had to do all those tests again but I reckon there aught to be enough time to train at a smart pace, instead of as fast as possible.
Maybe you have friends that could help?
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Canadians are like a better kind of americans. They're overall polite people, intelligent, and less angry than their american neighbors.
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Ryu, yay. That is all.
Thanks kroatz. It was supposed to be this week or next, but some other work things where they're not letting me do anything until october, got in the way. so i moved it to late september. I woke up fine, but for some reason, my body just didn't want to work. I'm not running again until thursday, so that should be plenty of time for proper rest for my body.
also, This. good day.
Canadians are like a better kind of americans. They're overall polite people, intelligent, and less angry than their american neighbors.Definitley, that's their international reputation… but as individuals out of ALL Americans and Canadians I've ever met there's been no difference in politeness, anger, or intelligence.
As people none seem overly angry, they're all pretty smart, and usually all are quite polite. -in my experience
The only things I can point to are that Canadians tend to wear less clothes, no matter HOW cold it is. And American tourists can sometimes be very arrogant and are often quite LOUD. -Canadians are pretty quiet.
Americans in their own country, as a group, tend to be friendly, helpful, polite, and out-going. -in my experience.
Never been to Canada so I couldn't say.
Earlier today, a woman from Virginia waved me down at a gas station asking me for directions to the George Washington Bridge. I didn't think much of it at the time, people are always asking for directions.
Then, I read this after work.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/police_search_for_woman_who_ju.html
Gonna hope this one is a coincidence and nothing more. It's not at all unheard of for jumpers to go to NY's bridges. Still, awkward.
For some insane reason I'm learning to play this song:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/a/andy_mckee/for_my_father_ver2_tab.htm
Ought to win me some respect as a guitar man.
My only other news at the moment is that one of my bands will be called the Assorted Fruits and that I'm doing something for Genejoke's Malefic Tales.
And hopefully neither will suck.
And American tourists can sometimes be very arrogant and are often quite LOUD.
From what I hear, this is one of the reasons why some other countries hate us… T_T
What's worse… they sometimes act like that here, even though we're as American as they are… though we are a U.S. Territory and we can't vote for President.
As for other countries, two bad Australians won't change my view of them as a pretty free and fun loving people. The two I know? One of them is a real b*tch and is married to my jerkass antisocial cousin, and another was drunk and tried to pick a fight with me at work. Luckily his friend pushed him away from me (if that hadn't happened, I would've had to explain to the Australian military why his arm was broken in two places)… :)
The two I know? One of them is a real b*tch and is married to my jerkass antisocial cousin, and another was drunk and tried to pick a fight with me at work.That's what they're like… or at least certain types ^_^
sooooooooo tired… Just passed out 3 times while sitting here in front of the work comp. Gah! Maybe the damn heat is too warm or there isn't enough O2 in here…? I had a decent sleep last night.
Ryu, yay. That is all.
Thanks man! :D
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Because I am ghetto and tend to take ideas from other artists (tools/workspace wise, anyway) I decided to start working from my kitchen table, located in the…kitchen (Rob Schrab did this for Scud). I've been drawing at my desk in my room for…4 or so years now. This may not seem like a big deal, but after not having penciled/inked a page in about a month, then penciling and inking a page in a matter of a few hours, it's a pretty big deal.
So now I have all my drawing stuff (including an iPod, portable DVD player, cell phone) and I am pumping out pages. By that I mean one page. Until I go work on another (which I plan to do after I post this).
Every extra little detail you add to a page helps. It could be so much as adding a sign on a store, or something, and it just makes that page that much better.
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Thing with my girl is going well. Now, she's not actually mine yet. But pretty much, next time we hang out (possibly this weekend, if she's not busy/feeling sick, etc) I am going to ask her out. I will be nervous, but I don't even care.
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On my way home from the gym, I was resting my arm on the window sill on the passenger's seat side, and had my hand lightly grasping the roof of the car. I was also wearing a wifebeater, because it was a pretty intense workout. This black jeep drives by, and this skinny presumably teenager sees my arm, speeds up, and cuts us (my brother and I) off.
I actually made someone jealous on accident.
:D
That's the only place I ever met a rude Canadian.
Quebec is beautiful but you may be right about people being a little more rude there.
I don't consider ourselves rude, but it's right that when I went to Ontario I couldn't believe how nice people were, which maybe means that we are indeed a little more rude. =P I don't think we can put everyone under the same category tho. There are awesome and shitty people everywhere
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I sent my transcripts and financial info((W2s, tax reform)) to the college I'm transferring to. I overnight it so it would get there on the deadline. That was a month ago and they still say they don't have it! Whats worst is that they send you and email 10 day after the died line telling you that you have 10 days to have it there or you may have your admin canceled. I call them and they say it may take a few weeks for them to get the info into its database and don't worry. So I wait another week((now equalling the few)) and no change! I go to the place that I overnighted it from and they tell me it was signed for so it is there. I call them and tell them this. They tell me, "good as long as you know it is here. It takes a few weeks to record all the stuff." I think, YAY I can finally relax now. A week later I get a call saying I should send my stuff in the next ten days or my admin will be canceled. I call them back and tell them I sent my stuff and don't have anymore copies and the transcripts would take at least that long to get again! I tell them the name of the guy who signed for it and My family moved out of our house recently so I had to change my phone number on they're website. It tells me it could take a few days to process. What if they are trying to contact me right now and failing! I'm worrying like crazy and I can't really concentrate on anything else right now! I just want to scream, "HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP ME!" to the sky right now.
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You guys wanna talk about stress, you wanna talk about stress?
I've stumbled onto a major company conspiracy, how about that for stress?
My company is being bled like a stuffed pig and I've got the paper trail to prove it. Check this out. Let us talk about the mail, can we talk about the mail please, Drunkduckers I've been dyin' to talk with you about mail all day. Pepe Silvia, this name keeps comin' up over and over and over again. Every day Pepe's mail is getting sent back to me, Pepe Silvia Pepe Silvia I look in the mail THIS WHOle BOX is PEPE SILiva! So i say to myself "i've gotta find this guy i've gotta go up to his office i've got to put this mail in the guy's goddamn hands otherwise he's never gonna get it its gonna keep comin back down here" so i got up to Pepe's office and what do I find out drunkduckers, what do I find out?
There is no Pepe Silvia. The man does not exist, ok? So i decide aaaaah shit i've gotta dig a little deeper, theres no Pepe Silvia? You've gotta me kidding me i'VE GOT BOXES FULL OF PEPE
alright so i start marchin my way down to carol in h.r. and i and i knock on the door and i say CAROL CAAAAAAAAAAAAROOOOOLi gotta talk to you about pepe, and when i open the door what do i find there is not a single god damn desk in that office.
there is no carol in hr
Drunkduck, half the employees in my building have been made up. this office is a goddamn ghost town
I think I fixed up my sleeping issue. :)
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OK, yesterday I went through my Comic-Con swag and sorted out what I have… quite a lump of stuff. In the pile were some small format comics. I thought they'd be great to read on the train!
Two were some cool little things I remember buying… little art books with some really cool pics in them by independent artists. The other four were these glossy coloured comics I didn't remember getting… but they looked ok.
So on reading the first one, purportedly about a gang revenge story, I found the art really wasn't that great… Then I found that the story really wasn't that great either… Then I got to the end and found that it was a Christian propaganda comic in disguise! Grrrrrrrr :gem:
I looked through the other 3 and they were ALL Christian propaganda comics. Bad ones.
What I want to know is when the ***k did they get with the rest of my stuff??????
Someone at the con is a real dickhead. >:[
Ugh.. I wish I could've gone. But going to conventions takes a LOT of MONEY. If only I was rich enough to do that…
Some people around me think if I put an intense amount of effort into my comics I probably would end up like some webcomic artists who make money from their comics *coughFredGallaghercough*. Fat chance of that… you need a huge readership who's willing to worship you and buy all your merchandise. And having a huge worshipping readership has its own problems that the idea less than tasteful to me. It's one thing to do something you do for fun, but when it starts turning into work, everything related to it suffers…
or maybe I'm just randomly rambling again… ugh…
i often complain about my life on here. But honestly, i don't have the right.
I have come from a poor background. one that normally causes an awesome back story for someone who works hard and becomes someone/something important.
But to get to where i am, from where i was, i simply just got here. There was no hard work. I didn't want to be with my abusive step father and then one day, i wasn't. I wanted to go graduate high school, and i did. i didn't spend countless nights studying for tests, i just walked out with a diploma.
i wanted to go to college, and i was accepted to all 3 i applied to. i did run out of money. but i said meh. i enlisted. i said i wanted an easy job, and i got one. my wife crashed the car, insurance said we didn't have any coverage. i said we did, and we did. (no joke). whenever we're running low on money, and i won't be able to make a bill payment, something comes up and i have a few extra bucks. while i did study a little for this promotion, it was all history, and that wasn't on the test.
I wanted to be in better shape, and i was.
I do have a few stumbling blocks here and there, but honestly, everything i want i get. so i don't like when i complain, and i'm going to do my best to stop complaining.
My insanity deepends:
I'm not only quite seriously pondering the bi-weekly 20-page chapter model for one of my titles, I'm also pondering trying to challenge Cerebus lenghtwise. I mean, what is Cerebus? It's 300 issues, each 20 pages long, thus giving you 6000 pages. Well, all I'd have to do then is cross 300 chapters, right?
Seeing a year has 52 weeks, that's 26 chapters per year and a total of 600 weeks gives me 11.5 years approximately. And I know I have enough plotlines and characters to last me 300 chapters.
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In other (movie) news:
Finally saw the first Futurama movie, enjoyed it, going to see the next one soon. I must say it wasn't as funny as the older episodes, but it was still quite hilarious at times and some of the bits were really good. Here's hoping the new series don't suck :D
Probably won't get to see Scott Pilgrim at the cinema. Why? IT'S NOT HERE YET FOR AT LEAST A MONTH OR TWO! IF AT ALL!
Bastards! Bring these things on time when I want to see them!
Saw Tokyo Gore Police. Felt like a Go Nagai manga mixed with Robocop mixed with Kill Bill mixed with Ichii the Killer mixed with whatever else and generously sprinkled with blood. Really generously. In fact, there are FOUNTAINS of it spraying from wounds. And there's the human-chair peeing at viewers in a fetish club… and a crocodile vagina.
When's the second part coming? :D
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Meanwhile my buffer is running low and I'm stuck unable to work on any short comics. Stuff just doesn't want to gel together, too much distraction from the big idea (see top of this post)… Argh. Is the Feature Curse catching up to me finally?
i often complain about my life on here. But honestly, i don't have the right.In terms of "Malcolm In The Middle", you're a floater.
I have come from a poor background. one that normally causes an awesome back story for someone who works hard and becomes someone/something important.
But to get to where i am, from where i was, i simply just got here. There was no hard work. I didn't want to be with my abusive step father and then one day, i wasn't. I wanted to go graduate high school, and i did. i didn't spend countless nights studying for tests, i just walked out with a diploma.
i wanted to go to college, and i was accepted to all 3 i applied to. i did run out of money. but i said meh. i enlisted. i said i wanted an easy job, and i got one. my wife crashed the car, insurance said we didn't have any coverage. i said we did, and we did. (no joke). whenever we're running low on money, and i won't be able to make a bill payment, something comes up and i have a few extra bucks. while i did study a little for this promotion, it was all history, and that wasn't on the test.
I wanted to be in better shape, and i was.
I do have a few stumbling blocks here and there, but honestly, everything i want i get. so i don't like when i complain, and i'm going to do my best to stop complaining.
I was supposed to move into an apartment with a friend of mine last week, after his old roommate moved out, but now he won't be moving out for another week. Meanwhile, I have all my stuff packed up and waiting to move, and school starts in about a week (next week for my would-be roommate, since he's a law student, which means I'm going to be hard-pressed to get help moving all my stuff in between locations).
I finally heard back about possibly working for Orkin as a pest control technician after have been unemployed for the better part of Summer, after having sent them my resume and class schedule, only to be told that I may have to get technician certification before I can start working for them (which I can't get anyway until I'm employed by them- WTF?!).
And finally, I recently applied for and accepted a Stafford loan since it's become impossible to get an apprenticeship with any of the professors at my school due to massive, ongoing budget cuts, and I've become so paranoid about it that I got an extension on my tuition payment to make sure that the college gets paid in time so that they don't purge all my classes.
And on an unrelated note, I've really got to lay off of Tekken 6. Seriously, that game's going to give me a stroke.
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