Earlier today I got an email about a possible boil water alert for the area. This is the second time this week that there've ‎been problems with the water around here. Last weekend, my mod couldn't use water (no cooking, cleaning, ‎showers, flushing the toilet, etc). This week, the whole town gets to boil its water. NOT COOL PEOPLE.‎ NOT COOL ( Read more... )

( Cut for rambling and pointlessness )

I have completed NaNoWriMo, as of roughly 9:30 this evening. I am feeling somewhat less victorious than I ought to about this, since what I was really hoping for was to actually finish a story this year and word count be damned. What I have so far is at best a very rough first draft of part one of at least two, if not more. Now I'm debating whether ( Read more... )

I've gotten into the habit of keeping things on as many different layers as possible in Photoshop, both so I can go back and fiddle with things later and so I have a better chance of figuring out what I did to get X effect later. When I'm painting something from scratch, multiple layers is less useful for both of these things. I mean, maybe you ( Read more... )