Talk about being out of touch! Sorry for not posting for quite a while there. Guess I just needed a bit of a sabbatical from the world of writing.

The weeks between posts have been busy with work-related nonsense…and uhm…video games XD

I’m pretty addicted to Rock Band right now, not that it helps that J got me a guitar for Christmas. I returned the favour by getting him drums, so now we have a full band set. Anyhoo, I hope you all had a good Christmas and got some pretty excellent gifts. I know I’ll be busy with reading and playing now till I have to go back to school after New Years.

Tags: random

Thanksgiving went off well, I’d say. We went to two houses for it, and plenty of food was there at both. The evening commenced with staying up playing Rock Band 2 until we left at 2:30 to go stand in line at Best Buy. This is the first Black Friday I’ve been to in about 8 years, and the only one J’s been to.

Our plan was to only hit up Best Buy, he wanted a new monitor, I wanted a few seasons of The Simpsons. That was all, no clothes shopping or anything else. Then go home and sleep. Since the last Black Friday I went to, (coincidently a Best Buy), was <span style=”font-style:italic;”>packed</span>, with lines travelling deep into the store, I expected the same madness. But really, we didn’t know what was in store for us, which is why we stood outside for over 2 hours in the cold in a line that reached past the large Kohls set up right next to Best Buy.

Of course, we weren’t that hardcore, we saw several tents set up outside a few stores. That’s crazy to me. The time went by fairly slowly, but just seemed to crawl for the last 10 minutes before the store opened at 5 a.m. It was so much more civil though than the last time I attempted Black Friday! Everyone shuffled inside in an orderly manner, the store was set up with several different lines that separated sections, and everyone was handed a map detailed what lines led to which product group beforehand. Since there was a line for computers, J made his way there to ask for his monitor and I made a beeline to the DVDs. The stock was great too, I was able to pick out all the seasons I wanted, with no crowding or pushing of anybody else.

After that, I met J at the computer line. The lines had little fences made of products. We stood there for a half hour, before the line snaked around and we noticed something. The monitor J was looking for was one of those products fencing us in. Which a quick slap to our foreheads and a jump, we grabbed one of the monitors and rushed to the check-out line. Surely, the line would be horrible, since everyone wanted to rush out and get to their next stop, right?

Wrong again. The line moved quickly and it was no longer than a typical weekend line at this Best Buy. Another fabulous surprise I’d say. We finally arrived home at 6 a.m., and after some badgering from my cat to feed him, fell into bed and slept until 3 p.m.

I’m pretty sure we could have gotten out earlier, if we hadn’t stood in that silly line, but overall I was happily surprised with that Black Friday adventure.

Not that I really want to do it again. Not for several years.

Tags: random

I got a friend request on Myspace for Big Boned Cats.

I’m rarely online and never update my profile, but oh my god, what an appropriate friend request XD
This is so much better than some pornstar sending out spam friend requests.I just had to add this profile because…well…look!

Go ahead and tell me you can’t laugh at that. Good god, fat furry small mammals are so my Achille’s heel.

Tags: random

I didn’t realize this because I’ve been out of the state for so long, but apparently our old Epson printer was on its last legs. My father has been shopping around for multifunction printers and finally decided on the Canon MP260. We picked one up from Best Buy today, because it had the lowest price of $109.

I think the main selling point for my dad is that it’s wireless. After some fiddling around today on both of our laptop, we were able to get it to work perfectly. This makes me quite excited, since now I can just print from anywhere! It’s also got some pretty cool scanner/copier features. Pretty nice early family holiday present I’d say.

Tags: geeky

And so, 3 months later, another quarter comes to an end…next Thursday. Close enough.

I’m looking forward to having my HP back in my arms. This Dell has been lovely and much better to use than the old HP that just runs on batteries, but…I’ll have bloody CS4 on the other machine…and it’s bigger!

I’m going to miss my major when I graduate. It’s so much fun and I couldn’t be happier with the major I chose. I doubt I’ll look back on my life and regret choosing Sequential Art to study. It’s just way to much fun, and I’m glad I followed my childhood dream. Even if I get a craptacular career because I’m doodling comics, at least I fulfilled my dream.

Tags: Schoolish

And so, 3 months later, another quarter comes to an end…next Thursday. Close enough.

I’m looking forward to having my HP back in my arms. This Dell has been lovely and much better to use than the old HP that just runs on batteries, but…I’ll have bloody CS4 on the other machine…and it’s bigger!

I’m going to miss my major when I graduate. It’s so much fun and I couldn’t be happier with the major I chose. I doubt I’ll look back on my life and regret choosing Sequential Art to study. It’s just way to much fun, and I’m glad I followed my childhood dream. Even if I get a craptacular career because I’m doodling comics, at least I fulfilled my dream.

Here’s some stuff I’ve been working on for colouring:

It’s…alright, not too great but I’m still working on building my portfolio.

This was actually our first assignment in the computer colouring class, and I only dislike the first image. The other two I had fun colouring. The man in the moon wasn’t actually in the original lineart. But I love The Mighty Boosh too much to pass up that opportunity.

Okay, for our midterm, we have to colour two sequential comic pages, a pin-up and whatever we want. I chose to colour one of my most favourite comics, Kabuki. I absolutely love the painted style, it’s the kind of style I’d ideally want to create. Which I still strive for, traditionally. But I think I can pull it off well digitally. David Mack’s black and white pages are far more open to fancy colouring, which is why I chose this page:

And ran with it. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten to the page after this, that’s for another update.

Tags: artsy

Today’s my birthday and I was woken up at 8 a.m. by a tree falling. Awesome! It wasn’t so bad, just because it was a short loud “CRACK” noise. And I don’t think it did too much damage to the car it fell on. It was later, at 9 a.m., when the chainsaw started, that I quite disliked Nature’s way of telling me happy birthday.

Oh well, the day is dark and dreary and the tree has been cut up and moved. I’m looking towards a pretty good birthday day now. Nice and quiet, spent with the man I love.

We’re working on our midterms right now in my computer colouring class, which means that I have about 4 pages to colour (and some to draw) before next Thursday. I’ll be pretty busy getting that stuff up and done, but I’m planning on posting some recent work this weekend.

Now, off to class to doodle and colour for 2 1/2 hours!

Tags: Art Love

After going to a Rock Band party this weekend, I think J and I are determined to get it. However, while it’s a fun game and all, I don’t think you can consider screaming as loud as you can as you fumble the words singing.

My ears hurt that night. Nonetheless, the game shall be purchased, played and replayed over and over again until some other music game comes out that’s as good.

Tags: gaming