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Quite a storm. No real damage here. 5 or 10 large trees went down without hitting anything important. Roughly 100 branches all around the treehouse that I have mostly picked up. Power knocked out Saturday evening and off until Wednesday evening. It didn't effect me too much. Couldn't bathe (used the stream yesterday) or fix my usual meals as easy but other than that it was okay. I ate a lot of my hiking and exercise food that is ready to eat or mix with water and get 2523879742 protein and vitamins. I was glad I had charged my laptop, iPod and some batteries. I set aside 3 or 4 gallons of water but ran out but I thought we might not even lose power and for no more than 2 days. So i read a bit less of my laptop and more paper books and I probably drew more than I would have if we had power so that was good.
I'm currently working on about 6 or 7 different drawings and it seems to be working. I draw 3 or 4 times a day and switch to another as soon as I start getting frustrated. I usually plan to draw for 20 minutes if I barely feel motivated but then once I get into it and start enjoying it and singing along to my iPod I might go an hour and 20 minutes and it doesn't feel like a struggle. Nothing I'm working on will be some great masterpiece but I can already tell I'll be happy with the end result even if not quite satisfied. I plan to scan some stuff soon. My main inspiration lately has been Tiny Titans and Batgirl. Cartoony Titans type stuff is good for when I don;t feel up to drawing so realistically and any model forma magazine can be turned into a decent Stephanie Brown Batgirl. I'm also working on a Fung and Us drawing I pencilled 4 years ago... I have quite a few drawings I've never inked. I think only 3 or 4 are even worth going ahead with now. The rest I might as well start over becasue 80 percent would need to be erased and reworked anyway.
September already. I thought I'd be getting back into Legos soon but I think I'll stick with drawing for now. I have no room to display what I build right now and not many ideas. I would like to work on or finish my iPod dock/media center/storage box Lego creation that I couldn't do shit on last winter because of my broken wrist. It's hard to remember what it was like when I could just barely squeeze tight enough to use a toe nail clipper...and it hurt like shit. There was no way in hell I had the dexterity to handle legos. My fingers are already too big for them to begin with.
I bought Richard Pryor's autobiography from the library for 50 cents a while ago. I'm not a huge Pryor fan, I just have one of his lps, but I like a quick read about almost anyone's life. I finished it yesterday and it was going to the trash or goodwill but luckily some comics on a podcast I listened to today recommended it and that it was out of print, try ebay so I checked amazon and the cheapest was listed at 34 bucks. Mine is in rough shape with library cover and stickers etc but it should still be worth something.
I didn't think it was very good. It was just a mess of time he spent doing drugs and cycling through the same wives and other women. He grew up in a whore house run by his grandmother, had ms, got married like 7 times... any of those segments of his life could have been a fascinating book if he had any details or narrative. He had a co-author, I don;t know why the guy didn't help to make it interesting.
I forget which issue I found this in:
Batman isn't fooled by that little stand under the monitor either, he knows it's a shitscreen. I don't miss crt. They were always ugly, huge, heavy. At least the old ones in the wood cabinets had a flat surface on top so you could use it as a table. I gutted my old one and it's in my basement with 3 toolboxes stacked on top of it. Already had casters on it so it works great.
My scanner doesn't seem to want to work unless everything is just right with the print cartridges. Lame. The printer was out of ink years ago. I only kept it for the scanner. Now I feel determined to use it to justify the space it has taken up these last 3 or 4 years. I've spent at least an hour and a half over the past couple of weeks trying to get it to reset or or something so the light will stop blinking and i can just use the scanner option. No Luck. I remember going through this kind of crap with every single device on my computer ten years ago...I think that was just standard back then but now I guess I;ve grown spoiled byt eh plug and play I've been enjoying the past 3 years.
I'm currently working on about 6 or 7 different drawings and it seems to be working. I draw 3 or 4 times a day and switch to another as soon as I start getting frustrated. I usually plan to draw for 20 minutes if I barely feel motivated but then once I get into it and start enjoying it and singing along to my iPod I might go an hour and 20 minutes and it doesn't feel like a struggle. Nothing I'm working on will be some great masterpiece but I can already tell I'll be happy with the end result even if not quite satisfied. I plan to scan some stuff soon. My main inspiration lately has been Tiny Titans and Batgirl. Cartoony Titans type stuff is good for when I don;t feel up to drawing so realistically and any model forma magazine can be turned into a decent Stephanie Brown Batgirl. I'm also working on a Fung and Us drawing I pencilled 4 years ago... I have quite a few drawings I've never inked. I think only 3 or 4 are even worth going ahead with now. The rest I might as well start over becasue 80 percent would need to be erased and reworked anyway.
September already. I thought I'd be getting back into Legos soon but I think I'll stick with drawing for now. I have no room to display what I build right now and not many ideas. I would like to work on or finish my iPod dock/media center/storage box Lego creation that I couldn't do shit on last winter because of my broken wrist. It's hard to remember what it was like when I could just barely squeeze tight enough to use a toe nail clipper...and it hurt like shit. There was no way in hell I had the dexterity to handle legos. My fingers are already too big for them to begin with.
I bought Richard Pryor's autobiography from the library for 50 cents a while ago. I'm not a huge Pryor fan, I just have one of his lps, but I like a quick read about almost anyone's life. I finished it yesterday and it was going to the trash or goodwill but luckily some comics on a podcast I listened to today recommended it and that it was out of print, try ebay so I checked amazon and the cheapest was listed at 34 bucks. Mine is in rough shape with library cover and stickers etc but it should still be worth something.
I didn't think it was very good. It was just a mess of time he spent doing drugs and cycling through the same wives and other women. He grew up in a whore house run by his grandmother, had ms, got married like 7 times... any of those segments of his life could have been a fascinating book if he had any details or narrative. He had a co-author, I don;t know why the guy didn't help to make it interesting.
I forget which issue I found this in:
Batman isn't fooled by that little stand under the monitor either, he knows it's a shitscreen. I don't miss crt. They were always ugly, huge, heavy. At least the old ones in the wood cabinets had a flat surface on top so you could use it as a table. I gutted my old one and it's in my basement with 3 toolboxes stacked on top of it. Already had casters on it so it works great.
My scanner doesn't seem to want to work unless everything is just right with the print cartridges. Lame. The printer was out of ink years ago. I only kept it for the scanner. Now I feel determined to use it to justify the space it has taken up these last 3 or 4 years. I've spent at least an hour and a half over the past couple of weeks trying to get it to reset or or something so the light will stop blinking and i can just use the scanner option. No Luck. I remember going through this kind of crap with every single device on my computer ten years ago...I think that was just standard back then but now I guess I;ve grown spoiled byt eh plug and play I've been enjoying the past 3 years.