Grr. Argh. Art Geekery.
So at work, we've had these lock boxes from some company called Vaultz that were all fancy looking and pencil box sized. One of the styles was a red glitter with a skull and cross bones on it. I was waiting for them to drop to clearance, as I wanted one but I wasn't sure I wanted it at full price. Well, apparently they didn't buy that many, and there were selling well enough that the display was pretty much empty this week, and it hadn't been restocked in a long while. So I gave in and bought my red sparkley pirate box. I wasn't even sure what I wanted to put into it, I just though it would be cool to have.
I'd bought it yesterday, and since then I'd been pondering what would be suited for such a box. It occurred to me this morning, the tin my watercolor pencils came in had gotten damaged from being carried around in an overfilled backpack when I was still wasting time at the community college, so why not see if they'd fit in the box? Well, I just gave that a go right now, and they fit beautifully. I can even include a couple of my sketch pencils, a kneaded eraser, a pair of paint brushes and my ultra-fine clickie sharpies in the pocket in the lid of the box. All I need is a collapsible container for water, so that I can make this box the ultimate in water color pencil portability. I'll look into my options for the water cup eventually. Right now I'm happy to have an easily portable box for these tools of artistic awesomeness.
Now, I just need to start doing artwork with them again. I still haven't finished the semi-dark piece I started while watching Ren and Stimpy at Geoff's last year. I'm worried I'll frell it up if I do though, change the mood of the piece if I do what I intended for it. Right now it's dark and mildly creepy, but if I put the dramatic sunset into the sky I planned for it, it'll be a totally different mood. I'm wondering if I should just call it done and leave it as it is, or if I should take the plunge and hope it doesn't come out as horrible as I worry about. I suppose even if I don't like how it comes out, my mom will still like it, and I can always frame it for her and let her hang it somewhere I'll wince at it every time I see it, but will make her happy. *shrugs* Regardless of what I do, I really do need to be playing with my artwork again.
In other news, as much as I love the improvement in performance in Firefox 3, I am really starting to get pissy to have no access to my favorite extensions. All else aside, I need my Deepest Sender, Gmail Manager, and FireFTP. I really dislike the post an entry page on livejournal.com, but at least it'll do the job needed. Gmail, I can leave open in a tab all the time, but sometimes it doesn't auto refresh for me and other times I close the tab with the gmail while being over efficient in tab closing. As for FireFTP, I suppose I could install an FTP program in the Kubuntu, but I really like how easy to use and lightweight FireFTP is. I've been using the Web FTP that dreamhost offers while I've been without the FireFTP, but I don't like that as much. Also, I thought I'd set the Disable Auto-Formatting thing to always be selected on the LJ, via the command console thingie or something, but I keep having to remember to tick that gorram box whenever I post using the web page, as I so like my formatting better when I use the paragraph tag and my css puts the auto-indent on the paragraphs.