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

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

Okay, so I'm gettin' a bunch of referrals from a facebook user, but I can't scope it out since I'm not a member of that evil, image-stealing, identity fraud accusin' conglomerate.

Anyone wanna be my spy?

What do you want done? I'm one of them there boomers who have taken over facebook from the teenagers. Heck I reconnected with a pile of HS friends. They're all married and successful (with teenaged children that they stole facebook from…) and I'm… a… security guard? WHERE DID I GO WRONG?????? lol!

Just wantin' a facebooker to check out that chick's page and figure out why I'm gettin' referrals from it. Just curious, I guess.

I was on facebook for a couple years before they booted me for havin' a "fake name"- because despite the fact that I write, exhibit art and get stuff published under the name "Hyena Hell", and that a good number of folk I know in real life know and address me by that name, it doesn't count.

Although I've decided that if I'm still usin' "Hyena Hell" in ten years, I'm changin' it legally. Then I'll show those jerks at facebook what's what!

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

I was on facebook for a couple years before they booted me for havin' a "fake name"- because despite the fact that I write, exhibit art and get stuff published under the name "Hyena Hell", and that a good number of folk I know in real life know and address me by that name, it doesn't count.

Although I've decided that if I'm still usin' "Hyena Hell" in ten years, I'm changin' it legally. Then I'll show those jerks at facebook what's what!

there you go, now I have an excuse for not going onto facebook. I'm using my pen name everywhere and I avoid places that tell you to use "real names only".

I'd change mine to Aurora Borealis, but any name ending with an a here is considered feminine and there'd be loads of complications because of that :P

- - - - - -

So, after looking at the script today… I'm basically done with the story itself? Now I just need an epilogue chapter (most likely a shorter one) to show what happened after. Tomorrow (or perhaps even tonight) I shall be done :D

Posted at 8:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

I'd change mine to Aurora Borealis, but any name ending with an a here is considered feminine and there'd be loads of complications because of that :P

So? Change yer sex too. Problem solved! :)

big ass

That's what I love.

——————–
Bad stomach ache tonight… Don't know why. Sort of feels like I'm REALLY hungry, and sick at the same time, Ah well, early to bed so I can put the dialogue on my comic page and actually post it for tomorrow.
Last page of the fantasy saga thingo! YAY I did it!!!
With the fine help of Aurora Moon and Katch of course ^__^

Posted at 9:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

Eliza only shares certain information with everyone. To learn more about Eliza, add her as a friend

that's all i can tell you Hyena.
==========

swam a mile today. it was fun. i'm running a 5k tomorrow (if it dont rain) and plan on getting no more than 22 minutes. the soreness from tuesdays work out is gone. and i'm ready for this evening to be here. i had to miss TKD tuesday for work early on wensday. yesterday. oh that was fun. too bad i can't tell you about all the stuff i did. that happened. god. sometimes i wish i could vent about work, so this is me venting about not venting. how did i get here. i think when i stretched i lost my train of thought. lol TKD tuesday reminds me of deployments. we had an event called MST3K Tuesdays. guess what we did on those days?

woot.

Posted at 9:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

Damn you, Eliza! Damn your secretive linkage! Well, either she's lauding my genius or exposing me as the talentless hack that I am. Either way. No such thing as bad publicity.

Thanks for the try, seventy2. :)

Posted at 10:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

It is done!!!!

The script is finished :D

The ending came out totally different than I originally planned but I think it's a pretty good ending anyway.

Total pagecount, 452 pages. The file that holds the script (and it's an .rtf file, not a word document, so it's not padded with useless formatting crap) is 299kb long
These 452 pages hold 2423 panels to draw.
It is the biggest and longest thing I ever wrote and it took me 17 days to do it (plus couple of years of making random notes on the idea).

Now I can rest for today :D

Tomorrow: script corrections and further reference search.

Posted at 11:06AM, Jun. 4, 2009

Blech. My gas powered mower is on the fritz again and now I have to mow my massive back yard with the crappy electric one.

I'd rather take half-an-hour to mow my back yard with a heavy, loud, clunky lawn mower than two-and-a-half-hours with an electric one that has an EXTENSION CORD THAT GETS IN THE WAY ALL THE TIME AUUGH.

If I keep putting it off, the grass will just get taller and taller and more and more difficult to mow….

Posted at 12:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

Damn this current page is a bitch! I guess I could've half assed it and not drawn each individual zombie with so much character, but I promised myself I was gonna push myself more artistically. Should have it done by tomorrow though.

I just feel bad when I don't get my pages out on time though. If I only didn't have to work, sleep or spend time with my family. :) I'd be all set.

Posted at 2:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

I'd rather take half-an-hour to mow my back yard with a heavy, loud, clunky lawn mower than two-and-a-half-hours with an electric one that has an EXTENSION CORD THAT GETS IN THE WAY ALL THE TIME AUUGH.

You gotta work out a system for that, man. Run the cord up the side with the extension hub in the middle, and mow moving away from it, that's what I do. :]

Actually I gotta mow tomorrow. They collect grass clippings every 2 weeks so I try to save up mowing for that weekend, but the grass is growing too fast… I may have to start mowing every weekend. >:[

I put my car in for repairs the other day, today I called to check in and they said everything was fine and it should be done in an hour… which would have been good for my pocketbook too, as labor is what's expensive. Half an hour later they called back to tell me that when they went to replace a part, they found that whoever was messing with that part before stripped the bolts or something so they have to cut through some metal to get so they can replace the needed part. :[ :[ :[ So things sound like they are going to be more expensive than I hoped after all.

I am stalling doing my taxes even though I really need to do them tonight so I can mail them tomorrow.

Posted at 2:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

I ache SOOOO much… And I have a sunburn and poison ivy. o_0

I just got my certification to lead guided canoe tours. We trained for the past two days. I had never even been in a canoe before this (and am likely the least physically fit person I know – definitely the least physically fit person at the training). We trained on a lake (90 degrees and sunny) for 9 hours yesterday, pausing only for dinner. Today, we spent three hours padding down a river with the wind against us. Still, I passed, and I'm certified. I'll be guiding canoe tours this summer if my arms don't fall off in the next couple days.

Posted at 3:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

ugh.. I keep falling asleep when I'm really interested in something, yet I can't sleep when I'm bored…

I was just doing some programming last night when I closed my eyes a bit… but when I opened them next I found my face in my keyboard with the D and L keys right in front of my eyes! O_O

Posted at 5:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

So i posted that little comic i made on a lesbian forum, they got a hoot out of it lol, glad you liked it Hyena and Ozone :)

It funny since i used to have these little fantasies about her suddenly joining my gym and me impressing her(god i am so lame) and then she actually does so and it's just like FFFFFFFF-

My new comic is coming along awesome, i'm really proud of it but i have no clue what to do with it when it's done. Maybe i'll send it to some print anthologies or whatever.

Posted at 5:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

Girls are so confusing.
I cannot tell if this one likes me.
I guess I'll have to sit back, and wait.

Although, I have been able to work out the past 3 days! Woo!
I ran today, and I feel great.
I re-did my myspace.
And I just finished an awesome looking sketch.
*goes to sketch more*

Posted at 5:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

Girls are so confusing.
I cannot tell if this one likes me.
I guess I'll have to sit back, and wait.

i couldnt tell in high school, so what i would do, would be to ask one of the girls out, and then one of the other ones, would come up and confess their undying love for me (not quite that much). so it was a damned if you do, damned if you dont.

i dont suggest sitting back either, cause then there will be that one girl who was all like "i was waiting for you to man up!" and then you're all like FFFFFFF-
—————–

how does a master of his art prep himself for a 5k that starts in 12 hours? with a double whopper of course. with cheese, and no onions..
but all in all i'm trying to take my mind off it. my goal 22 minutes or less. or the pizza's free. mmm pizza.

TKD was fun, we did no pad sparring. learned real quick what worked and what didnt.

Posted at 5:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

I love it how when people try to counter my arguments in message boards, its assumed that I'm ALWAYS part of some group.

Some accusations against me:
- I'm a christian
- I'm an atheist
- I'm a right wing white supremacist (I'm not even white)
- I'm a black guy with some cop issues (I'm not even black)
- I'm a leftist hardcore liberal commie
- I'm a supporter of the communist New People's Army
- I'm a supporter of George Bush
- I'm a supporter of Obama
- I'm an anti-semitic conspiracy believing nutball who blames the jews for everything including a clogged toilet.

Its amazing. lol!

Girls are so confusing.
I cannot tell if this one likes me.
I guess I'll have to sit back, and wait.

I try to not think about it.

The best thing to do though is approach em and talk to them and see for yourself.

Remember that ANY mixed signal translates as a NO in my book.

Posted at 6:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

agh!! -__- This just happened:

Made me lol :P

So I just spent 9 and a half hours doing a math worksheet including a half hour break. It was so terrible, but now that I just finished I feel so satisfied. Especially because I've been talking with a friend, and we got all the same stuff.

Also in the life of Bocaj:
I broke up with my girlfriend. I find it interesting that the breakup was about as long as the get together (like about two weeks). It was good, and me and her, are still close friends, but I feel like because the break up was gradual it made it possible for us to maintain our close friendship.

Also, I've been listening to some Neil a lot lately. He is so good.

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

I was gonna say, "Hey, Neil Young- did anyone else think it was hilarious when they used to call him the "Godfather of Grunge"?" But then I started doubting whether or not that was something that happened, or something I convinced myself happened.

I hate having "memories" like that. Like, one day a couple years ago I had this vivid recollection of bein' at an Ozzy Ozbourne concert. I hadn't remembered or thought about that in years. Which happens a lot, because I've seen hundreds of bands and probably couldn't list 'em all in one sitting if I had a gun to my head. But for some reason, I couldn't piece together any of the details of this Ozzy concert- when and where it was, who I went with, who paid, how I got there, who the opening act was… and I started to think that maybe I imagined it. I mean, I might have been utterly shitfaced- that's been known to happen- but I don't think that would have completely obliterated all memory of this event, and the events prior to and following. I seriously researched Ozzy tour dates going back five or six years, tryin' to figure out which show it might have been. Still don't know.

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

Hey, you guys know where Neil Young came from? That's right, Hippie Van Town! Him and Winnie the Pooh(well…he's named after us) are our famous thingies.

Oh, and apparently Hyena is right!

In recent years, Young has adopted elements from newer styles like industrial, alternative country and grunge. Young's profound influence on the latter caused some to dub him "the godfather of grunge".

Btw, I do that too, with the fake memories and whatnot. Sometimes I'm not sure if something happened when I was younger or if I just dreamed it up. It's kind of neat if I find out that it really happened.

———-

Driving lesson again today. I think I'm getting better, but I hate sitting through my partner's driving! It's so scary. D:

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

Stomach hurts -__- fucking period. I couldn't do more than 3 reps of anything at the gym today either, blagh.

According to the scale i've lost 5lbs, it would read more if i wasn't also gaining muscle, but i'm pretty damn happy with how slim my waist looks now :) I'll start doing ab work once i've lost another 2lbs.

…..goddamn i want some ice cream -__-

Posted at 11:06PM, Jun. 4, 2009

Skool and freegurt-
I use one of those hand pushed lawnmowers… the kind with no motor. It works well, it's light and there's barely any noise. They're not that hard to use really.

I seriously researched Ozzy tour dates going back five or six years, tryin' to figure out which show it might have been. Still don't know.

I've done that with concerts before and I haven't even BEEN to that many over the years… Memory is a pain sometimes.

Great steaming bastard of a headache today -_-

Posted at 2:06AM, Jun. 5, 2009

Skool and freegurt-
I use one of those hand pushed lawnmowers… the kind with no motor. It works well, it's light and there's barely any noise. They're not that hard to use really.

I've used those before, the annoying part was keeping them sharp :] And if the grass was long you'd end up with too many clippings rotting all over your lawn.

I do have skoolmunkee-powered hedge scissors though, every couple of weeks I wear my arms out with those. The hedge in the front (which is a border between me and a neighbor) is all uneven in density and wobbly height, when I hedge it I am trying to level it out and let parts grow up taller. But the next weekend the neighbor comes out with her electric hedger and mows it all down uneven again. >:[ Even though it's clear the top of the hedge is neat and tidy and doesn't need trimming.

Posted at 2:06AM, Jun. 5, 2009

Lawn mowing is the most terrible torture ever inflicted on mankind. Especially when you get hayfever and simply stepping outside during Spring causes your sinuses to inflate to the size of weather balloons.

And then someone always suggests taking those stupid tablets which don't work, or in the case of the stronger ones, make it much worse.

Posted at 4:06AM, Jun. 5, 2009

Lawn mowing is the most terrible torture ever inflicted on mankind.

I hate lawns. I hate having one at all. I'm the last damn person that needs a damn lawn. And all my neighbors take ridiculous pride in maintaining their lawns- like, every weekend something's got to be mowed, or watered, or planted, or weeded.

And my house is the one with the dead grass that never gets mowed, and garbage and felled limbs and pink flamingos and giant steel sculptures just kinda lying around. Not even displayed. Just chillin' there, like wreckage. I've overheard neighbors complaining. It brings me great joy. I like being that guy.

Every time we get a meter reader or a census guy or whatever, they're shocked to find out we own the place. "What? You… own a house… and you're not even worried about… your precious lawn!? BLASPHEMY!"

I swear they're all gonna throw a party when they see the "For Sale" sign. Fine by me. I can't wait to move back to the city.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 5, 2009

I hate lawns. I hate having one at all. I'm the last damn person that needs a damn lawn. And all my neighbors take ridiculous pride in maintaining their lawns- like, every weekend something's got to be mowed, or watered, or planted, or weeded.

I've overheard neighbors complaining. It brings me great joy. I like being that guy.

Haha, yeah. The guy living across from us actually threatened to kill us unless someone mowed the lawn. I'm not too worried about that though, since he's eighty six.

- - - - -

For the love of god England, stop voting for the Tories! Ok, so Labour aren't doing a very good job right now, but what do you expect from the government? The Tories are the ones who fucked it all up in the first place with their privatising and fund abusing.

What's even more hilarious is that every council that's voted the Tories in so far has immediately wanted them out again. Why? Because they raised the council tax as soon as they got in! I guess the Tories are all money grubbing wankers, huh? Who'd have thought? It's not as if they have a history of doing exactly this, or anything. . . oh wait.

It's like letting a wolf loose on your farm and being surprised when it eats your sheep.

Posted at 8:06AM, Jun. 5, 2009

Do what my father-in-law did, and pave/concrete over the entire yard. :) Lawn issues gone. :D

>Net