Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck my work laptop just up and died. It just won't start at all. No battery indicator lights or anything. Not only does this keep me from doing work, I've also lost everything I've done since Feb 27th (my last backup) unless I can recover those files off the hard drive. I did work on the laptop but used it as my main computer, so all my other projects, comics, etc were on it too. I really don't want to have to redo pages. It also means I can't work on any of my comics til I get a new or repaired work laptop. :[
I do have this spare laptop, but it has major issues due to some nvidia graphics driver problem I can't fix (I can fix it by installing a new driver, but the driver problem prevents me from installing it. Awesome.) So I can only do a minimal amount of stuff on it… certainly not any comic work, and only about half the stuff I'd usually need to do for work. :[
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Maybe the battery died of old age some laptops have ones that expire.
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I had a very restless sleep, kept waking up every two hours for dumb shit. My eyes feel dry and icky blah. Also i keep writing short story ideas that sound awesome and then i start doing a page and it gets stale making me not want to finish…
Maybe the battery died of old age some laptops have ones that expire.
I doubt it, this laptop is only about 6 months old. I should at least get the indicator lights for wall power or something. Troubleshooting sites are telling me it's probably the motherboard. :[
I don't care about the computer, I just want my damn files. I was gonna back them up next weekend too.
Edit: OK, time to quit freaking out. I'll either get the files back or I won't. I'm gonna go play fallout or something. :[
Sorry Skool, but I'm not diggin the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. Maybe if I got more practice with it, and the cartridges weren't so damn hard to find.
But I realize that a rollerball pen, that I got from the dollar store, actually worked better, and did probably some of the best ink work I've ever done. I want to finish inking it so I can post it and see what you all think.
But seriously…damn.
I waste time making all these lame lists in comic discussion and like…only 10 people are ever going to view the thread. I dunno where else to make them though.
Hmm i guess i could make a website, and then have like 'manga suggestions' 'best yuri mangas' 'best awful manga' 'best color webcomics' 'best story webcomics' etc on it…
My own website for my own belated opinions…yeess 
a;slkdfa;lsdfhkahfkdnv,lmcvnl,jhiudyhfpejfakdfl;akjvnkcnnbHaha. I feel ya. lol!
i have 40 different things i truly want to say….and the above is them all comingout at once.
My hand's been actin' up the past few days. I don't know why it should be hurting this badly. I think it's arthritis-type hurt, and not 'cause I punched something. At least I don't remember punching anything. And if I did, I'm usually pretty good about remembering to use my left hand. And it's not so much that, because I can always work through the pain. It's the shaking that scares me. Like I said before, I've started noticing that a lot more since I've been penciling lighter. Uhg. I've really been struggling to draw at all this past week. It's depressing. I mean, honestly- I've got no friends or family anywhere near me, I don't work or go to school, I never leave my house, I don't have any "hobbies"- all I've got is the drawing. If I can't do that… well, I guess I can always just get shitfaced and punch stuff, right? ;)
I have some arthritis in my hands and legs. Doesn't always bother me, but the weather has been wet lately. I couldn't draw any pages a couple of weeks ago because of the pain. So far so good however. (Hyena, did you get my PQ? Some others have been having trouble receiving them.)
Haha. I feel ya. lol!
My hand's been actin' up the past few days. I don't know why it should be hurting this badly. I think it's arthritis-type hurt, and not 'cause I punched something. At least I don't remember punching anything. And if I did, I'm usually pretty good about remembering to use my left hand. And it's not so much that, because I can always work through the pain. It's the shaking that scares me. Like I said before, I've started noticing that a lot more since I've been penciling lighter. Uhg. I've really been struggling to draw at all this past week. It's depressing. I mean, honestly- I've got no friends or family anywhere near me, I don't work or go to school, I never leave my house, I don't have any "hobbies"- all I've got is the drawing. If I can't do that… well, I guess I can always just get shitfaced and punch stuff, right? ;)
Well, you could do what I do when I'm too messed up or hurting to draw and grab a book or find something online you want to learn about. I've found that learning how to do something new really helped me distract myself after surgery when I couldn't do anything much lay there and hurt.
I've finally finished enough quickly enough that I think I can go to sleep! I'm not done, but I'm at the point I don't even give a damn about it any more. I've been plenty productive for the last couple days. Besides, I keep drawing weird stuff that seems to scare people around here.
So amazon.com has been de-ranking(as in doesn't show up in charts or browse section) glbt books since February classifying them as 'adult' content…when they have books like 'A Stripper's Tail: Confessions Of A Vegas Stripper' and 'Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds' that are not de-ranked lol! (most gay books in question are not anywhere near adult content)
I just thought it was cool that i signed the petition when it was at 5k sigs only a few hours ago, and now it's almost 9000 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy
Hmm i'm not sure if a petition will even legitimately do anything, but it's nice seeing people band together for something they believe in.
Edit: oh there was already something in d&d
that petition IS OVER 9000. and in refrence to aforementioned meme, i recently found out that in the manga, he was "over 8,ooo". in in refrence to manga, i recently got the 3 newest manga for naruto. (you shut your dirty whore mouths and let me speak) i'm going to read them when i'm not working this week. in refrence to working this week, i'm going to be putting in close to 90 hours this week. in refrence as to why so much time, i'm getting my bailout from obama, and the rest of the taxpayers….but i gotta work for it.
@ Niccea: Yes! I did get it and it look wunderful! :D I'm just an ass about responding to messages in a timely fashion- I'll get back to ya later today.
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@lba: That's a good idear. I could always reread "Making Comics" or dig through the Comic Tools archive. Or finally get through Plastic Farm's massive frickin' archives. That said, I'm still gonna try to draw today. But I've gotten behind on my schedule… I really want to have #3 finished by the time #2 ends. It's not like I'm gonna run out of buffer, but I like t' stay a full chapter ahead of myself.
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I forgot that my stats always "suck the large one" (as my good ol' Dad would say) over holidays. I always get unreasonably irritated when my rank goes up and then down. I'm pretty sure it's like an addiction or something; ya just keep needin' more and more to feel satisfied.(I am resisting the urge here to quote "Mr. Brownstone". I've been on a G'n'R binge.)
OK, I may have fixed a small bit of my troubles. Although I probably won't know til later in the week whether I'll get my files back. (I can scrounge some work ones back from email, but a good chunk of my work files for the last month and a half may be gone…) I didn't actually maybe-lose that many art files, and I still have the gifs for them so they're re-createable if I need the psds.
Anyway the problem I fixed was getting my old laptop to work a bit better. For a long time it has had a problem with not being able to install anything- any time an installation wizard came up, my nvidia graphics driver would shut it down. And I couldn't install the driver update I needed because the old driver would shut it down. I've tried all kinds of things in the past but just resigned myself to never being able to install anything. As this old computer was my backup, that was okay, because I just used it for email and stuff downstairs. But, with the work computer kaput, I need a computer to do work on… and hopefully art… and I'd need to install programs to do that on this one. Which I couldn't do.
Anyway I figured out how to manually uninstall the old graphics driver without breaking anything, and now it seems I can install stuff again. Soooooo hopefully I will be able to use this old laptop (even though it won't connect to my wireless router) to do work and maybe even comics, if I'm deprived of a properly working newer work laptop for long.
Phew! Long explanation. :]
What the old laptop really needs is an XP reinstall, I have the OEM code but no discs :[ Which might still work, because apparently I have a copy of some i386 something which means it's on my computer anyway? But I wouldn't have any of my drivers or anything either. I don't know any computery people to advise me on whether this is a good idea or whether it will be useless after I try and wipe it out. :[
speaking of hand problems:
I'm pretty disorganized with my stuff so couple ofyears ago I started to make lists of everything. Music, movies, books, comics, etc. described in as much detail as possible (in case of comics I even retyped the back cover blurb or found some review for a description, accompanied by a cover thumbnail, heh) + I wsa retyping on the pc a stack of about 2000-3000 pages of various handwritten/typewriter notes. that, plus I used to play FPS games (keyboard plus mouse) and additionally I had a bad habit of twisting my wrists to press the shift key with whatever other key using only one hand (so A was with left shift while K was with right shift)… well, all of that started to wreck my wrists after 16 years of typing (I have really bad handwriting due to dysgraphia so I got a typewriter as a kid).
Luckily it doesn't seem to affect my drawing, not yet anyway (I'm left handed and most "damage" is in the right one).
A day with lots of typing = some pain.
A week of typing = OMG IT HURTS! (and then the next day is spent with elastic bandage around either one or both wrists).
Two days of rest and not touching the keyboard longer than half hour total = ALL GONE BABY!
So it's not a big problem, but I'm scared what will be going on in 12 years, when I hit 40 :P
But like I said, drawing is not a problem yet, especially if I draw in a loose fashion. Which I usually do :D
Oh yeah, and my script is at 44 pages right now :)
I'm scared of this new feature. It's a choose-your-own-adventure. And I always end up dying.
Also, I found a random video on youtube, and this guy posted a comment on it, bragging about how good he is at some video game (it was about a video game. I forgot which one though) and I replied by saying, "You really need to learn grammar." Or something along those lines. He replied back, with a paragraph long flame fest. He/she used the f-word 4 times.
People need to stop being so damn immature, and acting like they are so amazing. Because they aren't…most of the time.
And I've decided to try out some of those Pilot Precise pens. They don't cost much at all, and I'm actually really liking how it's working for me. I can actually do line weights and stuff. I seriously should post a thread in T&T about it.
Edit: And look who ended up dead, reading the feature. D8
People need to stop being so damn immature, and acting like they are so amazing. Because they aren't…most of the time.Dude, I'm pretty amazing.
[spoiler]As in, "I'm amazed you're such an arrogant asshole, Hyena."[/spoiler]
Well, I don't mean you :P
Or anyone else from DD for that matter.
In fact, I'm sure I'd get along with about 90% of DD.
It's just people outside of here.
I'm not really sure what, in fact, would make you (not specifically anybody, just in general) cool about arguing and swearing at somebody over the internet.
The way I see it, that's just incredibly lame.
But at the moment, I am both excited, and sad.
Excited: I'm going to get some more art supplies in a little bit, and I'm gonna work out later on since I skipped yesterday. With it being Easter and all. Ate way too much candy.
Sad: It's the last day of Spring Break.
But that also means I get to see all the girls again. :)
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