So, I'm going to try and keep up with the weekly journal thing again. These entries won't be very interesting, though. But what better time to pick it back up than when the year is halfway over? Yes, 2014 is already more than half dead. I wonder what my highlight reel would look like thus far into the year? My car broke down back in January. I turned 27 in February. I visited Atlantic City with some friends in March right before they got slammed with a huge snow storm. I partied until 0600 hours one day in April. I baked Mom a cheesecake for Mothers' Day in May. And I baked Dad a carrot cake for Fathers' Day in June. There are other events, of course, but I don't want this entry to drag on for longer than it has to.
In any case, I think I will show you another game of Drawception I recently helped complete. It looks like I binge for a week or two and then let it recede into the recesses of my mind for awhile. Anyway, this game was completed on the same day as the game from my last entry. I didn't draw in this game, though, I provided a caption. So, I now present to you the game simply entitled "flying nun."
As far as black and white games go, this one isn't so great in terms of art except for, perhaps panels 4 and 12. However, it is a good example of consistency throughout the same game. Normally, it is perfectly acceptable and expectable for a game to fly off the handlebars with misunderstandings, missed details, and whatnot. But this game stayed focused like a beam of holy light... I guess...
What else is going on...? I've gotten back into online chess, now. I have an account at chess.com, and I've linked it to my facebook. So, if you'd like to challenge me, don't hesitate for a second. I don't care if you're a grandmaster looking for a punching bag; I will play against you! My screen name is
bwalsh137.
Soon, we at Scholastic will be switching to summer hours because Thursday the 19 was the final day for regular work. The part-timers, except for the machine operators, will be laid off until late August, early September. I'm looking forward to the unavoidably easy workload we'll have. And even if it's not necessarily easy, it will be a heck of a lot less physically intensive than the usual "lift box, lower box, open box, look in box, write on box, send box" routine that I could do in my sleep at this point. I will admit, though, that it has afforded me slight but noticeable gains in my upper body.
Other than that, I haven't really been contributing money to any kickstarter projects lately. I figure that I've got enough to keep track of. Why take on even more? Besides, now that I'm paying a monthly rent, bills, and groceries, I can't go throwing money around just because I really really want something. It's a shame, too, because I DEFINITELY would have loved to contribute money to the
Solar Roadways project on indiegogo (if I had an indiegogo account, but I'm pleased to hear that they exceeded their goal). And I'm still a bit distressed that I CAN but probably shouldn't contribute to
Levar Burton's Reading Rainbow project on kickstarter. When I say that I CAN, I mean that I certainly have enough money in the bank to soak up even a respectable contribution, but my current income to expenditure ratio leaves little wiggle room. Maybe next time.
I wish lightning bugs/fireflies were powered by real electricity/fire.-
Bryan
J - B17 - p. 80
F - B17 - p. 102
M - B17 - p. 122
A - B17 - p. 152
y - B17 - p. 166
u - B17 - p. 180