I'm not dead
I had a great time at Nan Desu Kon. One of my sisters came and revealed that she's doing art again (yay! Both my sisters are artisticly gifted, but both have ignored their talents!). I didn't cross paths with Jenn & Chris, which was the only disappointing thing about the weekend.
Another disappointment came when I got home to a dead computer, and the internet was down. Stupid Time Warner has only one hub to serve the base, and when it gets flaky (like every time the wind blows or it gets hot...), the internet goes down. Not only does it go down for us, but since MWR uses Time Warner too, the library and wi-fi all go down too. The internet is back up again as of yesterday, having been out for a little over two weeks (it would come on sporatically, but rarely stayed up for more than ten minutes). Better yet, my new motherboard has arrived, so I should have a working computer again later today. Well. If it turns out that the motherboard was the only problem!
One good thing about the internet and computer being down is that I've had no electronics to entice me away from painting. I finished two paintings and am nearly done with a third. Today my neighboor has agreed to come over and pose for the next painting. I really hope it turns out well, so she'll model for me again; she has a beautiful, exotic sort of look. Her husband is really into Frazetta and Boris and that sort of classic fantasy art, so I suspect he's going to be disappointed--my pose for her is a re-working of "The Consort," which involves lots of gracefully draped fabric and no watermellon boobies.
Another disappointment came when I got home to a dead computer, and the internet was down. Stupid Time Warner has only one hub to serve the base, and when it gets flaky (like every time the wind blows or it gets hot...), the internet goes down. Not only does it go down for us, but since MWR uses Time Warner too, the library and wi-fi all go down too. The internet is back up again as of yesterday, having been out for a little over two weeks (it would come on sporatically, but rarely stayed up for more than ten minutes). Better yet, my new motherboard has arrived, so I should have a working computer again later today. Well. If it turns out that the motherboard was the only problem!
One good thing about the internet and computer being down is that I've had no electronics to entice me away from painting. I finished two paintings and am nearly done with a third. Today my neighboor has agreed to come over and pose for the next painting. I really hope it turns out well, so she'll model for me again; she has a beautiful, exotic sort of look. Her husband is really into Frazetta and Boris and that sort of classic fantasy art, so I suspect he's going to be disappointed--my pose for her is a re-working of "The Consort," which involves lots of gracefully draped fabric and no watermellon boobies.