Thread "The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

I feel like I'm overusing this thread, but I just got told that I have $780 worth of meals on my account with the school cafeteria that they won't refund me for and won't roll over to next year. The school year ends at the end of the week and the cafeteria closes this Friday. That means I have 156 meals on my account that I'll use maybe 20 of by the end of the week which leaves me with about $700 more or less being unwillingly donated to the school. That's enough for me to live for a month and half on.
"HEY, EVERYONE! YOUR LUNCHES ARE ON ME!"
:D

I was going to try that, until I found out I can only swipe the card once per meal. D:

We had two kinds of plans, one of which was like what you're saying. That one was like a meal "voucher" instead of a card, whereas the other plan operates like a debit card since you can use it at cafeterias, the convenience store or other on campus dining facilities.

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

We have the same.

You can either get 8 meals a week and 100 dollars
8 meals and 200 dollars
10 meals and 175
12 meals and 225
or just 1325 dollars.

Kinda sucks cause you really can't mix and match. I have a free plan as an RA, so the matter really doesn't concern me too much.

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

I finally got Combat Rock! :D The last time I found a copy it was all scratchy and had some weird doodle of an alien on the front.
Rant: The store where I got my hat totally sold out! They're closed all April because something is being filmed there(they like to film stuff here cos it's cheap). You know what's ridiculous about it, though? They turned it into a book store for the movie. There are like 5 other books stores within walking distance from there! There's honestly one half a block away from the place. Why the heck wouldn't they just use one of those? People are so silly sometimes.

Posted at 3:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

We had two kinds of plans, one of which was like what you're saying. That one was like a meal "voucher" instead of a card, whereas the other plan operates like a debit card since you can use it at cafeterias, the convenience store or other on campus dining facilities.

I'd prefer the option to use it elsewhere myself.

It turns out someone screwed up and they just gave me 150 extra meals when I changed the plan from 19 a week to 150 a semester and then didn't charge me for the extra meals. So it's kind of like I got free meals and a drop in price. The only part that sucks is that I can't really use any of them even to give to other students.

Posted at 3:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

my mom bought me the 3 meal a day plan and 2 a day on weekends. i told her it was pretty pointless, since i was still fresh out of highschool, and not eating much. i wanted to go with the 2 a day, and 1 a day. (it was about 900 less). but she didnt let me "you'll need it, when you dont have it" we were never warned about underspenditures or anything like that. but i definatly didnt use all of it.
it was all you can eat, and take out as well. so 1 a day would have been fine, i coulda ate one meal there, and take the rest back to my room. woulda saved a but ton of cash.

i started twitter. i dont know why. https://twitter.com/byronsego there's nothing for me to constantly talk about.

also, with current projections revamped with todays mile haul ass for time, i maybe ready to test for the new job by august.

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

Today was a good day creatively. 7 images inked, one pencilled an inked… and then 11 pages of script written (not to mention an outline of the rest of the chapter) = good day.

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

Today was a good day creatively. 7 images inked, one pencilled an inked… and then 11 pages of script written (not to mention an outline of the rest of the chapter) = good day.

Dang! Sounds really productive! Good job man.

My day = terrible.

First of all, I barely got ANY sleep last night, because I had two cups of hot tea last night, and couldn't sleep until like, 1.
And this one girl in my 5th hour was pissing me off. She was acting like such a bitch, for like, no reason. I honestly cannot wait for school to end. God.

And then I couldn't work out today because I was so tired.
At least I got a couple of pages of scripting done.
And I can do push-ups/sit-ups at least. Not as good as lifting, but whatever.

Edit: Those push-ups and sit-ups did the trick. That, and I'm penciling pages right now, so I'm in a better mood :3

Posted at 8:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

I kind of miss my uncles. I mean, as much stress as they caused in our lives, particularly my mother's, they always made things zany and particularly one of them is a really nice guy who I actually liked spending time with. He used to teach me card tricks and games all the time. And the other would always leave long, rambling, ridiculous messages on our answering machine. :P I know it would cause trouble, but I keep kind of hoping one of them will pop up on christmas or something.

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

Well I had a crap dream last night, which made me feel crap during the day. I hate mood affecting dreams, they really get you down. -_-

- It was about a war. My side was losing badly… We were down to our last people, holed up in a fortress. We were all doomed, done for. We didn't have long and there was no help coming.

At least you guys get to feel down for a real reason, not some stupid dream fantasy one T_T

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

Well I had a crap dream last night, which made me feel crap during the day. I hate mood affecting dreams, they really get you down. -_-

- It was about a war. My side was losing badly… We were down to our last people, holed up in a fortress. We were all doomed, done for. We didn't have long and there was no help coming.

At least you guys get to feel down for a real reason, not some stupid dream fantasy one T_T

Ach, I hate that! Having a bad dream and then waking up feeling bad is awful, but you know what I actually hate more? Having a wonderful, very vivid dream and then waking up feeling all fuzzy and happy…and then that sudden realization that it wasn't real, and spending the day all confused and depressed because you were so content and so sure that it was real life. :(

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

[spoiler]Eggs give me the worst gas ever FFFFFFFFUUUU—
rrrrrrrrrrrttttt [/spoiler]

I'm thinking of getting an appetite suppressant and using it for the next 2 weeks, I can see a definite improvement already but i think a little less intake would help.

I got kicked out of my english class along with the guy next to me for not having our essays, we went down to the cafeteria and then played pool in the dorms(he kicked my ass, i mean i haven't played since 07, but goddamn) He's easy to talk to though and seemed to understand my shit-awful hearing.

Then nick asked me to go see terminator 3 with him, i haven't seen the first two so he's bringing them for me on weds. These films aren't too violent right? Aw fuck -_-

Well that's more social activity then i usually have lately, hopefully it'll build up and i won't become like that moron in NHK.

Posted at 11:04PM, Apr. 27, 2009

Dog was barking for two hours. She got her lead wrapped around the tree. While I was fixing it, she got loose (the collar came free from the lead for the second time). I hope she finds herself a new home while she's gone. If she comes back, I think I need to get a new lead. She's been at my house just two days, so I doubt she'll come back.

Just a wandering hound dog.

EDIT:
Dog came back. I was sorta hoping she would run off and find a new home. I suck at this dog parenting thing. I'm not cut out for it. -_- And I don't have the know-how or supplies.

Posted at 1:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

I'm thinking of getting an appetite suppressant and using it for the next 2 weeks, I can see a definite improvement already but i think a little less intake would help.

Geez, slow down. Your body is more hungry because it's doing more work than usual and having to adjust a lot. Eating less is just going to put your body into 'stress' mode where it puts everything you eat into reserves and instead starts burning the muscle you're trying to improve. You have to fuel that kind of change, not starve it. An appetite suppressant isn't actually removing the body's need for more food, just the brain signals telling you so.

Eat more food if you're more hungry, just stuff like fruits and vegetables. Apples and melons are fantastic and easy, and pretty much any vegetable (except potatoes and corn) will fill you up without adding any significant calories. They are quickly broken down by your body and will be a ready fuel for workouts. If you are worried about eating other stuff and really want to take pills or something, take a fat absorption inhibitor like Alli/Xenical (although you can accomplish the same thing without pills by eating low fat food).

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

I'm thinking of getting an appetite suppressant and using it for the next 2 weeks, I can see a definite improvement already but i think a little less intake would help.
Geez, slow down. Your body is more hungry because it's doing more work than usual and having to adjust a lot. Eating less is just going to put your body into 'stress' mode where it puts everything you eat into reserves and instead starts burning the muscle you're trying to improve. You have to fuel that kind of change, not starve it. An appetite suppressant isn't actually removing the body's need for more food, just the brain signals telling you so.

Eat more food if you're more hungry, just stuff like fruits and vegetables. Apples and melons are fantastic and easy, and pretty much any vegetable (except potatoes and corn) will fill you up without adding any significant calories. They are quickly broken down by your body and will be a ready fuel for workouts.

I echo skool's sentiments.
the more muscle built the more calories will be burned.
You need to turn your body into a fat burning factory but you have to continue to fuel it to keep it going. So keep eating but eat healthy foods.

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

I got up this morning. And the internet wouldn't work. But, I could get onto my university's home page. In my experience, that is not a good thing. I called home and asked if they could get on my university's home page. Mom couldn't (don't know if she was the be resource cause I kept hearing "oops" in the background.) This has happened before. Two years ago some idiot cut the ethernet cable that fed into my campus. The intranet worked, but the internet didn't. No one on my floor has internet. Strangely office based ethernet lines are working. I went to class one hour and a half early so I can take advantage of the Wi-Fi. If my internet doesn't work again I'm hanging out in the lounge. They have Wi-Fi.

Posted at 8:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

Last night I talked to my famous and very successful sister and helped her through a bad bout of depression. She used her support network. Which is something I have not been doing.

This morning I finally mowed the lawn and put down the weed killer. My lawn was so overgrown with clover I was considering inviting over some horses and goats.

May 7th is a reunion of my old army buddies. After seeing each other at my father's viewing we decided to keep the momentum going and get together as often as we could schedule it.

I'm out of photos again. You think I'd have used my week hiatus to shot more pictures. lol! You're kidding right? Instead I've been watching the Thin Man series and 1930's "old dark house" mysteries. Pre-code sexual innuendo jokes were great and the dresses that the women barely wore back then…

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

this brings back memories…

The old dragon ball ending.

I was 10 years old when I watched that show on TV.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

Thank God this MFA crap is done with. Now maybe I can get back to my lovely life of bein' left the hell alone (for the most part) and drawin'.

Although now my partner's depressed because his parents no-showed the opening, so I bet he'll want me to pay attention to him or some nonsense today. His mom's in the hospital for some knee surgery, but she didn't even know when the show was, or that it was happening (even though he told her 50 times), and even if she did she wouldn't have come anyway. She's pissed at him for hidin' the fact I dropped out of school from her… that's a long story. And honestly, she doesn't really appreciate or respect what he does at all. She was more impressed with the fact that he installed track lighting in our house than she was with any of the sculptures.

It makes me so angry that she doesn't care about his art. It really bothers him that she's not proud of anything he does, unless it's like, home improvement crap or building cabnitry or some "functional" kind of skill.

Their relationship is so f**ked up it's not even funny. I'm so thankful my family's not like that with me.

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

I hate computers.

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

I hate computers.

Look out Custard! There's one right in front of you! lol!

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 28, 2009

I am eating healthy midge and skool but my intake was a lot higher then planned. The main reason i wanted a suppressant was that they're cheap and non-committal, fat binders sound nice but damned if i have 50-80$ to spend on the good ones. >.>
I have a banana and some outmeal w/ blackberries an hour before i go the gym though so i have plenty of energy for it. I mean i crush the banana in as a "liquid" for the outs, it's good though you should try it before on of your workouts Ryu :)

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 28, 2009

I am eating healthy midge and skool but my intake was a lot higher then planned. The main reason i wanted a suppressant was that they're cheap and non-committal, fat binders sound nice but damned if i have 50-80$ to spend on the good ones. >.>
I have a banana and some outmeal w/ blackberries an hour before i go the gym though so i have plenty of energy for it. I mean i crush the banana in as a "liquid" for the outs, it's good though you should try it before on of your workouts Ryu :)

Hmm…I like bananas…I like oatmeal. Okay! Thanks Skullbie! :3

Today was a pretty good day. I'm not tired like I was yesterday, so I can work out.
Um. I penciled a page in my 1st hour.
I have no homework.
And my Algebra teacher looked at my comic.
She liked it. But didn't really like the swearing. But she liked it nonetheless.

I also had a test in my first two hours.
I'm confident I did decent in both.

But I'm almost halfway done with penciling Part 1. It's about 40 or so pages (a little less than that), but it's basically the part of the comic that explains just about everything. Parts 2 and 3 are basically just action.
And Chapter 3….well…who knows.

I like Hyena's way of drawing. Doing the pencils first, then inks, blah blah blah. Because it just seems a lot easier that way, instead of penciling a page, then inking, then toning. I won't have to pencil anymore until the next Chapter or whatever. It's hard to explain, but I like it :3

Anywho, I'd better have anohter one of these "Super C" energy thingies. I have to make sure I'm not tired. I want to get a lot done today!

Thanks again Skullbie <3

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 28, 2009

I'm super happy!!
I just got my computer back from the shop.

..I had to use my psp for internet :(

just got back and wanted to say hi

Posted at 1:04PM, Apr. 28, 2009

for the past 6 months, i was able to get by with 1 or 2 meals a day due to lazyness and not waking up early enough to cook breakfast and get to class.

now i'm hungry all the time. it feels like i want to eat a meal every hour. :/

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 28, 2009

I feel like stabbing people…

So I went to this tourfonts.com site thingie, read the instructions and thought "ok, this might be nice". Ended up taking couple of days to do my font on paper and all… since I have no printer and I'm not that good at drawing from scratch using my tablet, I ended up scanning my hand drawn font, then scaling and pasting it letter by letter into the template in photoshop. Since it's for comics, I did only the uppercase and then copied and pasted them all into lowercase.

I go upload the template, wait for the font to be generated, test it. Ok, looks good. Not sure if it'd scale well enough as I used rather narrow, pointy letters. Guess I'll have to download to see how it works in use, right? BEEEP WRONG!

I have to pay almost 15$ to download it :(

Well, I'm sorry, but I can buy a pack of 10k professional fonts for 20$ (assuming I have 20$ to spend).

Guess I'll have to dig around for some free font editor or something.

Edit: it appears yourfonts was free only while in beta stage.