I just received a call from the top custodial guy for my district's Board of Ed and he wants to meet me before work today. I don't know why, either. Only that "there's going to be some changes going on we want to talk about with you and we'll still have a place for you".
Cleaners have been getting laid off lately due to the state enforcing a square footage per janitor rule, plus the union hasn't successfully negotiated a contract overdue since summer, and a new governor coming in has vowed to cut the budgets harshly. For me, there's a lot of directions this could go, but most of them are worrying.
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
Third day of heavy inking in a row. Three images today (four yesterday and three the day before that)…. I have enough sketches for tomorrow and that's it, then I have to finish few more and my sketchbook will be done, yay.
I was sick last night. Slightly upset stomach, terrible headache, dizzyness, nearly loss of balance. I couldn't sleep all night and I went to bed early EARLY morning. Fun…
Lemon juice is great for getting smells like garlic, onion, and fish off of hands… I'd give that a try :]In the end I lathered up and up and up with a whole heap of soap and then just rubbed it in without anymore water till it was pretty dry and absorbing into the skin like sun-cream or moisturiser…
Then washed it off quite a bit later. That finally worked :)
Nice hat BTW!
So yeah, I bought Rage Against the Machine in an effort to make it a Christmas No.1 here in the UK. Yeah.You know the UK No 1 is fixed.
I was sick last night. Slightly upset stomach, terrible headache, dizzyness, nearly loss of balance. I couldn't sleep all night and I went to bed early EARLY morning. Fun…Stop the heavy drinking?
"AQua_ng" Said:
So yeah, I bought Rage Against the Machine in an effort to make it a Christmas No.1 here in the UK. Yeah.
You know the UK No 1 is fixed.
Yeah, but selling the most and being kept at No.2 by fraudulent means is way cooler. Everyone remembers God Save The Queen, but WTF was actually No.1? All together now…
(X)Fac(tor) you, I won't do whatcha tell me,
(X)Fac(tor) you, I won't do whatcha tell me…
Stop drinking what? Tea, water or milk? Cause that's the only three things I've been drinking for the last few months (and there was also tomato/apple/orange juice when I could afford it but that was mooonths ago).I was sick last night. Slightly upset stomach, terrible headache, dizzyness, nearly loss of balance. I couldn't sleep all night and I went to bed early EARLY morning. Fun…Stop the heavy drinking?
Three nights, ten new inked drawings. I hope I can keep the tempo for two more days (and then two more to ink some older works for the bonus gallery at the end of the book).
Wow… I had no idea that the older Ford GT (called the GT40 MKII in Forza 3) was in the game. I saw the car as a child way back when I was around 5 or so years old. It also had those intakes on the hood that the 2005 Ford GT has and two large exhaust pipes sticking out of the back. Too bad it'll be hard for me to get it in the game though… 1,460,000 credits… that's a lot of racing. And no one's selling it in the auction house (at the price I set the search for anyway).
Ugh… first my timing belt, now my radiator. Luckily I've got something to seal off the hole, but I'm pretty sure before long I'll have to buy a brand new radiator anyway.
And it's still hot out here. And the humidity doesn't help much either. If these temperature changes weren't important to the balance of Earth's biosphere, I'd complain a lot more about it though… And if not for certain medical conditions I'd buy myself a 2 gallon tub of nepolitan ice cream and cool my innards with that… :)
I was thinking about getting another puppy…..but all the reputable breeders around here, require me to name the puppy with their name (ie: if i bought it from Florals Sibe Ranch, it'd be named Floral's Sibe Ranch ______) and i don't like that. a lot of them also required me to go to them for any procedure the dog needed. So even if there was an emergency, i'd have to have their permission, or they can confiscate the puppy. It's all in the contracts, which they wont sell, unless you sign….
I don't wanna risk buying from a puppy mill, and buying from someone's backyard only encourages wanton breeding…i looked for a puppy to adopt, but all the ones that are healthy, don't get along with other pets.
:(
So yeah, I bought Rage Against the Machine in an effort to make it a Christmas No.1 here in the UK. Yeah.
You did it! You actually went and did it! With our new No.1 blasting out, Christmas dinner is going to be a whole different ball game this year!
Some of those that wear jerseys
are the same that carve turkeys…
Stop drinking what?lol! You wrote about days of "heavy inking", I miss0read because they's something people don't normally write… :)
It's amazing!So yeah, I bought Rage Against the Machine in an effort to make it a Christmas No.1 here in the UK. Yeah.You did it! You actually went and did it! With our new No.1 blasting out, Christmas dinner is going to be a whole different ball game this year!
Some of those that wear jerseys
are the same that carve turkeys…
Good to know it's not like back in the 70's where they manipulate those lists…
But WOW, I just read. You guys had FOUR years of X-factor number 1s? o_O
I stopped listening to commercial radio years ago because of the crap music and the ads, I image that after 4 years of that a few more of you guys would've quit too, if it wasn't that you have at least 3 or four out of the milluion or so BBC radio stations there that would've been playing the same rubbish. :(
The Rage song is pretty good. The last part is a bit too Kuypol, but I've always enjoyed it. :)
Wow… won the Lamgorghini Reventon in the Forza Motorsport 3 auction house. And for a fraction of what the game would sell it to me too (2 million in game, but got it for 90k at auction). Did some research on it too… apparently only 20 of the things were made, so the vehicle is ultra rare in real life. However, that doesn't cover up the one sad fact about Lamborghinis in general…
They're hugely fuel inefficient outrageously overpriced machines that have yet to win a formula 1 race…
Now I guess I'll sit here and drool at its cool aircraft inspired design while I try to figure out how I want to paint the thing (stealth fighters come to mind)…
*drool*
The Rage song is pretty good. The last part is a bit too Kuypol, but I've always enjoyed it. :)Kyupol always struck me as a bit more of an Anti-Flag fan anyway. It always seemed to fit his particular brand of railing against government without going too in-depth on why they're against it. Only Anti-Flag almost has a valid point. So I just switch that part to say "Reptoids" repeatedly in my head.
This is kinda random I guess but it's kind of amazing how much a difference in the amount of snow there is once you get out of the city center. The area around my place has nothing on the ground and it looks all gray and dead, but as soon as you're out of the downtown, it's six inches and getting deeper. It makes me really wish it would snow more in town. For whatever reason, between the snow and old Stephen King books, I've been getting into writing a lot of late. My figure drawing is still at that stage where I can draw beautifully if I have a model, but for crap straight out of my head, so I can't do much with the stories, but it's been a rewarding challenge just to write them. I haven't had a headache like the one I did after finishing the last one for a while. But it's a good kind of headache, if that even makes any sense.
Haha, ok makes sense now.Stop drinking what?lol! You wrote about days of "heavy inking", I miss0read because they's something people don't normally write… :)
As for inking. I've finished all the FORTY pieces for the sketchbook, inking the last five of them in an all day marathon. At this point I'm not stumbling in the dark as much with how to ink this part or that one, what kind of shading to use (and consequently lose 2-3 hours per piece due to redoing that again and again), mostly I just load the scanned pencils, do the outlines/basic details of everything and then start filling up spaces with whatever seems appropriate.
Meanwhile Moon Jade Angel (The color sketchbook/short comic collection thingie) is basically done (got the cover inside and out, all the interior pages laid out, everything's nicely placed where it's meant to go, text typed in etc) just waiting for proofreading.
Whereas Inkbook (the b&w sketchbook with nothing but full page art) is assembled but I still need to type in all the titles, do the introduction and cover design…. and then find money to order my proof copies from Ka-Blam.
Edit: Ohh, and my NaNoWriMo novel is doing fine too. It should return from proofreading/editing within couple of weeks :D
On the night of the blizzard of 2009 I got up early for my midnight shift and made certain that everything was in readiness. Had food, my insulated cover-alls, water, laptop; yes I was ready to go to work at the height of the snowstorm. Every road was awful and I never got above 25mph. It was almost a whiteout, Like driving inside of a snowglobe.
I got there only to get stuck in a snow drift while trying to park. Out came the shovel and ease forward and ease back and I got out and parked on the side of the street.
The guy from the 4-midnight shift that I relieved was plowed in so he slept in the longe of the Senior apartment building where we work. Cursing the whole time he arranged to work the following shift at 8-4 and then he'd try to get home. So I had no worries about getting relieved at the end of my shift. I posted all the "hazardous weather condiditons: go out at own risk" and "door blocked by snow signs" and settled in munching on all the cookies and candy residents had left the office staff.
At eight I leave coffee for the dead tired guy who slept there all night. What an awful day for him.
I made it through the first few stages of my trip home slipping and sliding because under the packed snow was a sheet of ice. Drive on the snow. I was having more trouble than I should but I didn't think anything was wrong. Until I got on the parkway.
After exit 109 I just couldn't drive and the car was all over the place. But the road was clear! I stopped, put on the hazards and my right front tire was blown. It was shredded. There I was on the highway, in the snow and now I needed to change the tire.
I couldn't get the jack out. It was screwed into the side of the trunk. The screws wouldn't move. I couldn't find the jack handle. It was hidden in the top of the cover for the spare. You'd think the manual would have a diagram? No because it's for four different models including the sedan so there was just a vague sketch. I got it out. Now to place the jack in the snow. It slides everywhere. Dig a nice hole for it. You think the jack handle was easy to use? Guess again. On level dry terrain, but not on a snowy roadside. Now I felt where to place the jack on the underside of car covered in snow sitting in several inches of snow. Can't really do that with gloves. Up goes the car. Those little jacks in a car take forever to jack up. I dug another little hole to turn the jack handle in. Has to be parallel with the jack which is at ground level. The people who design this stuff always assume you'll be using the jack in a garage or a driveway or a nice flat roadside shoulder rather than dirt or mud, in the rain or in inches of snow. Icy snow.
Off came the shredded tire, on went the spare. It looked a little wilted. It wasn't inflated. It's supposed to be at 60 psi. That's why I have a little electric pump.
This is when I see some guy walking by. This is a highway, no pededtrians are supposed to be around. That's when the State Trooper shows up. The jack is put away and I'm inflating the spare. The work is nearly done. The Trooper asks if I need a tow truck, but all I have left to do is inflate the tire so I say no. I figure out that the pump will go faster if I turn the car on and the trooper turns to the mysterious pedestrian.
I slowly make my way back on the highway, flashers on and the next exit is the one for home. That's why I didn't need a tow truck. I was only two miles away from my exit. Of course I miss the turn off to get onto the road for home and plow into a snow bank. My little All wheel drive Subaru just plows through and keeps going. Nothing will stop me now! (insert manical laughter here)
Except there was a foot and a half of snow in my driveway… No happy ending as I had to shovel that. Then get stuck in the snow bank trying to get into the driveway… all wheel drive…
Hardcore.
So we've not only found water on the moon but also another planet that seems to be composed of entirely water from just one months use of the new telescope for finding earth-like planets.
What if water covered planets are extremely common? We've just started to find extrasolar planets in this last 10 years, what if we find alien life in this lifetime?? God the thought is so incredible i hope it happens before i die :( (since virtual reality will apparently not be invented until i'm dead)
snow drivingEw. That will never, ever happen here, but I think I'd still like it if it did :)
what if we find alien life in this lifetime??How? I can't imagine a telescope being that good… Maybe if we had a transmission then we'd have a sort of proof. Or maybe if they came to us? But I don't know how we could find them otherwise, unless we have some new fantastic unimagined technology coming along to help us. I hope we do though ^_^
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Two things-
Today I had a severe headache, but I still went to work anyway. The pills weren't killing it, they just made me tired and a little floaty. A bit too floaty probably since when the ladies in the office were gossiping for the 1 billionth time about Tiger Woods and his innumerable marital infidelities and happened to ask me whether I honestly thought that sort of bad behaviour was justified I just burst out laughing and said that it was really no body's business but his own, that Tiger Woods was just a stupid sporting celeb and I couldn't care less about anything to do with him, especially whether he sleeps around or not. And then laughed and laughed. T_T
I just couldn't help it. That all just burst out. Between the crazy pills and the terrible head pain it's hard to be tactful. Thank heavens I go on holiday soon!
Second thing-
So I love my two hussar jackets, all black with silver lace. They're great and I've got most of the rest of the uniform for them. But I've been searching around the net for some reason, trying to find other hussar jackets for sale. Alarmingly it seems there are crappier, cheaper, simplified versions for sale as fashion items at the moment. Most alarmingly of ALL is that an Emo band called "My Chemical Romance" wore black and sliver versions similar to my own jackets (except cheaper looking)!
Emo of all things Gah!
At least I know mine aren't just mockups like those.
Alarmingly it seems there are crappier, cheaper, simplified versions for sale as fashion items at the moment.
If you'd been chewing on fashiontoast as I recommended, you'd have known that all kinds of faux military and band jackets have been doing the rounds for some time. Why do you think my new character Emily is wearing one?
Honestly, it doesn't take long to polish off a slice of fashiontoastover breakfast: you owe it to yourself.
That's the thing though, that earth-finding telescope was launched only a month ago and it's already found a water planet 40 lightyears away. And the first extrasolar planet was discovered barely a decade ago. Technology is getting so insane and powerful who knows what it'll be capable of doing in 2030 *foams at mouth*snow drivingEw. That will never, ever happen here, but I think I'd still like it if it did :)what if we find alien life in this lifetime??How? I can't imagine a telescope being that good… Maybe if we had a transmission then we'd have a sort of proof. Or maybe if they came to us? But I don't know how we could find them otherwise, unless we have some new fantastic unimagined technology coming along to help us. I hope we do though ^_^
fashiontoastVERY interesting stuff! ^^
Technology is getting so insane and powerfulLess the tech and more the clever people working out new ways to interpret the data in a way that'll show if there's a planet or not.
But yep, you're right. ^_^
At the rate they're going they could indeed work out a way to see if there's life or not out there, depending on how they look at the data.
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ARGH! Had to edit this post something like 3 times so it wouldn't sound so arrogant and dickish -_-
We've already began the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
This is a program which uses any home computer to process the incredible amount of data constantly being received from outer space.
In 2004, there were 2 unexplained spikes in the RF….however, scientists did a mathmetical calculation of the trajectory of the signal….and it came from a binary star system with "No possible chance of an occupied planet."
On top of that, the government is hiding something…
We've already began the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.That's true… But it's based on the assumption that there's "intelligent" life somewhere that will be using that particular kind of EM radiation to communicate with and that it will intercept earth during our lifetimes. That's all pretty chancy really :(
It's passive detection based on hope. Whereas what Skull is imagining is a more active search. If there was any possible way to factor in signs of life to the current planet searching methods, I'd be pretty amazed because I've no conception of how they'd do it… But if they could, it'd be pretty bloody amazing. And even if all the planets we've detected so far didn't have any life (and most of them wouldn't), at least we could cross them off the list.
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