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I wasn't originally planning on it, but I'll be in Chicago ACen weekend. For those there, you can either rejoice or prepare for whatever you want to prepare for, since my presence always makes for an interesting time. I'll take whatever either way though. With the semester being over and no school happening again until the Fall, I can take some time off and still get all my work hours in.

I'll have to do some serious eating while there too. Nothing "real" out here much. Miller's Pub will be a must. As well as some flavor of Chicago Style pizza. I'm sure there will be other things. I'll be out there Thursday (arriving in the evening) and returning on Monday (in the morning). It'll be nice to have a break.

Also, now that things are slowing down a bit, I'm looking to get @anime! [link] going again. Not sure what the timing will be like there though. Hopefully soon.

More when I have it.

So, I spent New Year's Eve doing something rather unexpected. I spent most of the day up at the Apple Store in Salt Lake. Late Saturday night my hard drive on the MacBook mysteriously crashed. And it crashed hard. Usually when a hard drive crashes, the computer still knows there's a hard drive there, it just doesn't want to work. This crash was so bad that the hardware wasn't even detectable to the computer. Totally hosed. I lost 4 months of emails and the last 3 weeks of projects. I hate when I lose things like this. It's taken me a couple of days to get the machine usable again. Email setup is still gimped. I'm still installing apps. And then I have the last 3 weeks of projects to redo. Not looking forward to that. At least it happened in 2007.

Hope everyone else's New Year's was a bit better than mine.

Finals are finished. Semester is over. Now it's sit back and wait time.

1) Wait for the first anime con staff meeting that I've been to in 4 years.
Meeting went really well. It'll be nice to be back doing con work again. Doing what I do best, designing things.

2) Wait for grades. Should be ok overall.
Got an "A" in 3-D Design, a "B" in Figure Drawing and a "C+" in Illustrative Media (Oil Painting) and History of Art to the Renaissance. Just about as I figured.

3) Wait for my Associates degree diploma.

4) Wait for the Las Vegas Bowl between BYU and UCLA. Go Cougs!
Game just ended. Was a really tough game. It came down to UCLA on the BYU 28 yard line with 0:03 left and UCLA trying for a field goal. BYU Defensive Lineman, #55 Eathyn Manumaleuna blocked the field goal attempt. Final score: BYU 17, UCLA 16. COUGARS WIN! BYU ends the season at 11-2. Going to be a happy day in Provo.

5) Wait for Christmas. (New Wacom tablet is going to be under the tree. Woo!)
Graphics tablet and some movies. Low key Christmas.

6) Wait for New Years, where I'll prolly be at home doing nothing much.

7) Wait for time to sleep between items 1 though 6. -_-;;

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8) Wait for the next semester to start on January 3rd.



Sometimes I hate waiting.

Oh, and dA's servers are still being broken for me. That doth suck.

So I've been having some severe issues with dA's server for the last few weeks. Almost every time I try to go to a page, I get a "connection was reset by server" error. It's gotten to the point where I can't even look at messages properly, not to mention not being able to submit art, reply to messages and add things to my favorites list... I submitted something to the help desk about it, but that was almost a week ago and I haven't heard ANYTHING about what's going on yet.

Until things get fixed, you prolly won't see too much from me here. Seeing as they're having issues and the fact that my subscription just expired yesterday, I have less reason to be around (let alone pay these guys) when things aren't working.

Just wanted to say so in case anyone was wondering why things were dead around my place here.

I guess I see that there's little want, need or demand for any of my art. To be honest, I'm not actually surprised. I don't think my stuff sucks THAT badly, but then again, it's not anything stellar, so yeah, no surprise. I'll go back into "just doing art for me" mode. Granted I figured that there wouldn't be much if any response to anything that I said in that last journal entry, (but then again, I don't ever get much response on anything usually, so hey, why should anyone start now?

Artstuffs have been slow lately. I haven't had time or energy to do anything. Last week was kinda a nasty funk for class stuff too. I only had one decent drawing from class last week. I didn't get to post it cause my camera was in Southern California with my parents. I've got the camera back now and I'll take some picts after class today.

My Oni Link painting is coming along. I've got to post an update there too.

Other than that, just kinda slow blah.

At least there's only 2 days of class this week.

I was very fortunate to get a commission set up with the very excellent . Tama did an EXCELLENT job doing a rendition of my Luna from Beyond Neverwonder. Please check it out here:




I love how her wings turned out. Very cute! Thanks a bunch for the commission, Tama! You totally rock!

Now if I could just get to the point where I could draw my characters like that...

Some day... some day...

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On the topic of commissions, I've been pondering starting doing some, but I'm not sure if there's much of anyone out that that would want to actually pay for me to do artstuffs. Dunno. Thoughts anyone? Would you pay me a little pittance to draw you something? I'd love to know.

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Oh, and I just noticed... I'm dangerously close to 6000 pageviews... if someone is paying attention enough here and can catch the 6000th page view with a screen cap, I'll do a drawing for them. Have at it folks!

Life has been kinda funky since starting school again, so things have been kinda out of sorts...

So, since things haven't been rather noteworthy around here, here's an iKit Shuffle for the month of October.

• It's been a rough month for drawing external stuff. All the drawing I've had time and energy for has been for classes, with a few rare exceptions. Most times I don't even have time to do "homework" because of how much time work takes up. As a result, poor Alice and the Neverwonder crew have been neglected. I really need to find time to get that going again.
• Got tired of all the channels disappearing on Comcast's Basic Cable TV lineup, so we got the DirecTV turned back on. It's nice having all the old channels back. And the TiVo.
• After getting said DirecTV turned back on, come to find out that they're trying to charge me for 7 Adult channel pay-per-view things that they say were done in 2000. Quite a feat considering that, 1) I don't use the Pay-Per-View, 2) I wasn't living in Utah in 2000 when they claim that they were done and 3) that my service at the Utah address was turned off in October 1999 and wasn't turned back on until 2003. I first called them on October 1st and today, October 31st, it's still not resolved. And I've spent at least 3 total hours on the phone on 3 different occasions to try and get this straightened out. I was assured by the last person that I talked to, a supervisor, that someone would call me back and tell me what the story was by the 30th. And it's now the 31st and no call. I get to play hardball with them now.
• I hate charcoal. Drawing in charcoal is icky.
• I like conte crayon. Much better for doing my figure drawings.
• I also hate oil paints. While they have their appeal at times, things the last few weeks have just been frustrating... like curdling White... it's not liking the turpentine that I've been using I suppose... but it's the same as everyone else, so I'm not sure what's up there.
• Today is my Dad's birthday and it's Halloween. The family is doing the usual setup, with Pirates of the Caribbean as the theme. Little bro is dressed up as Jack Sparrow and went to his Dance class dress up this morning. I'd love to have seen the reaction...
• Since is it my Dad's birthday and there's little time for cooking because of the festivities of the day, that means it's Brick Oven pizza night. Best pizza outside Chicago.
• And finally, got a copy of Mac OS X Leopard installed on the laptop. All in all, good stuff. There have been a few little glitchy things with 3rd party stuff, like having to do some manual configuration on my PHP installation and things like Xjournal not working (switched to iJournal, which I'm using right now), but the OS is really slick. Very nice.

I think that's it for now. More babbling when I have it.

Who said it could snow?

And it was 80 degrees just the other day...

This semester is proving to be more time-comsuming that I had originally thought. I guess that's the pain of having three different art classes. It's interesting that each teacher gives assignments like they're under the assumption that they're the only class that each person has and that there's NOTHING else that can possibly compete with the work for their class. Kind of a pain when you think about it, but very little I can do. I need these classes, so I just have to deal. It would probably be better if I didn't have work competing, but I need that too, so I'm kinda stuck.

It's hard too cause it looks like little is going on since I haven't had time to work on Neverwonder for a while and there's definitely not been any time for a Foxtails update... I have been doing all sorts of stuff for classes. I'll have to get the camera out and take some pictures as proof. I just need to find a way to get some more time open. It's sad cause I'm a bit behind on one assignment for my Illustrative Media class too. (I hate painting.) It'll be more sad if I'm actually able to transfer up to BYU too cause that class won't transfer up.

Just been a tiring, generally blah time here the last month.

A few good things did happen though. I finally got my bills caught up after five months of being behind. Family was finally able to find a Wii console. Metroid and Zelda will be had. Oh yes they will. (Of course, with my track record with video games, I prolly won't play it much after the first week of getting those games. Yes, I still haven't gotten past things like Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, X, X-2 and XII, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2... I'm horrible about playing games.) And I was able to get my DirecTV turned back on. Comcast basic cable really sucks.

So all in all, it had been an interesting September. Tiring, but ok overall. I'll be happy when I'm done with all the "art" type classes. I want to get into the animation classes already. And I'm tired of lugging art supplies all over campus too.

Not that much of anyone is paying attention here, but....

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