It’s the beginning of another week… This week promises to be a bit less hellish than the last as I’m not ill, the project from hell has abated for the nonce, and I get to start working on a new project.
I enjoy the first few weeks of a new project because, well, it’s new.
Other than that, not a lot to report here… There may be more once I get to work.
Have a great day out there!
I’m still ill, but I have to go into work… It sucks being the only person around who can do what needs to be done before tomorrow afternoon.
I’ll probably run these two remaining tests, and then head back home. Not that that means I’ll be leaving early, it just means I won’t be staying late.
Also, this is officially the sickest I’ve been in a long, long time… For example, the Advil cold and sinus I dug out of the medicine cabinet expired 09/04 and the Tylenol I almost took yesterday had been expired for over two years. Joy.
I’m going to assume the level of illness is due, in part, to living in “the big city”. It also has some to do with children I think… See, those of us at work without kids were the last ones to get sick, while the folks with children have already been out for 2-3 days with whatever this flu is, then happily brought it in for us. Bleh.
Oh well, have to keep that immune system up to speed I suppose.
And with that, I’m off to work. Have a great day out there folks.
Just got back from Aryntha’s new place… It’s out there, but not too bad. At least it’s easy to get away from people there. I also met the new roommate, though I can’t remember her name, but she’s pretty cool.
It’s a 70’s style place, kinda like mine, though with more wood and less open area, and a much better view.
Tonight’s theme was “the 1970’s” in honor of the house, and the festivities included listening to old 70’s records like Alan Parsons’ “Eye In The Sky”, Yes’ “Fragile”, and others; and a few movies on Aryntha’s *huge* TV.
A discussion ensued as to what the worst movie –ever- is, and several suggestions were bandied about – Great bad movies like “Ice Pirates” and “Logan’s Run” were tossed out, but I trumped them all with “Zardoz”… 😉
So we watched “Ice Pirates” followed by “Zardoz”, and yes, it is the –worst- movie ever.
Aryntha and I have seen “Zardoz” before and therefore have developed a resistance to it, but Rai and the roommate simply weren’t prepared for it: Rai started moaning in pain and clutching her skull after the first hour, and ultimately her brain got sprained which resulted in a blank stare towards the vicinity of the TV. The roommate was heard to say that if Aryntha or I ever pulled something like “Zardoz” on her again, she’d kick our collective asses.
Score one for us I guess…
For those of you who have somehow missed this cinematic masterpiece and are curious about it, know first off that it has Sean Connery and giant floating stone heads in it… Now take “Brazil” and mix it with equal portions of “Clockwork Orange” and “Mad Max”, toss in some “Logan’s Run” and a pinch of “Flesh Gordon”, bake well in 1974-era acid culture and you get something close to “Zardoz”… It’s special.
So now it’s a chapter in the current book I’m reading, then off to bed with me…
kungpaodragon, aka Aryntha, just called and it sounds like it has been decided that we are going out and about today… So now I get to traverse the mountains a ways to find their new place up in Evergreen.
I hope my POS Toyota can make it.
Anyways, I’ll most likely be gone the rest of the day. Local folks; if you need me, call me.
Later…
With things around Chateau D’Isaster coming back into sync, I was thinking this morning that I might try kick-starting my art again.
With the call from ZeZe out in Virginia the other day and the inevitable “are you doing art again yet?” question, and the fact I’ve got several pieces that other folks are wanting me to do, from back in ’02 when I hung up my pens to pursue this thing called “a life”… Well, I think it’s high time I dug out the my art box, set up my drafting table, and commenced to commence…
I know it’s going to be tricky getting back into it again… The amount of time consumed by even a simple pen and ink will pretty much mean my weekends are over. See, I’m not the world’s fastest artist – it takes me a solid day of just sketching to get a design down that I want to do, another 3-4 hours of ink work to transfer the sketch to Bristol and do all of my line weighting, and a day, sometimes two, to get the color done in the computer. That and I am a very sequential person; I only do one project at a time… I can’t have a room full of half painted canvases, even though with the drying times was telling me about with real paints it becomes essential… I’d go crazy.
Then there’s the fact I haven’t done much more than the very occasional loose doodle in over two years… I foresee a large mountain of crumpled newsprint and much “why the hell am I doing this?” over the next few weeks.
See, the main reason I stopped, and why I may not even get going again, is that producing art has never been a fun thing for me. Its work – and hard work at that and I personally just don’t get all that much out of it… Sure, it’s nice to be able to take things that live in people’s heads and put them on paper for the whole world to see, but damn, why does it have to be so time consuming?
So that coupled with the rather insane hours I tend to work, the software projects I do on the side, the traveling I like to do, and the 1×10^32 other hobbies I have such as writing, photography, drumming, music, tinkering with my car, computers, etc, etc…
See, I’m already talking myself out of it…
Well, before I can really get going I need to get another scanner. I gave my last one away to along with the computer and monitor, and haven’t really done much since. I still have my Wacom though, so there’s $500 I don’t have to spend. 😉
So, by way of getting started, I’ll be working on the colors for a piece I started back in ’02 for a really great person who goes by “Shira Ses’kai” online and lives over in Germany:
And with that I guess I’ll get some breakfast and get to work.
Have a great day out there folks!
Well, I have finally christened the kitchen here at Chateu D’Isaster. After three and a half months of only occasional microwave use, last night I spent a few hours cleaning the dust off of everything in the kitchen and making my world famous chili – and it was good.
See, Carl moved out over the weekend, which was complete with the required amount of drama of course, and now Jae and I get to eat at home.
Last night after work I stopped by King Soopers and picked up about $150 in groceries, utility items (like the big stock pot for the chili), and other sundry items we’d been needing around here to make life easier. See, I had decreed that as long as Carl was unemployed I wasn’t buying anything that wasn’t a basic essential or requirement to try and prod him into doing –something-… Well, it didn’t work.
So now a few of the zillion cabinets in the kitchen have something in them and there are a few items in the refrigerator. I figure it’ll take a few months to get the kitchen fully stocked to where it’s useable without running out to the store every night for some missing item.
I’ll also have to go around and cut dowels for all of the windows and figure out better locking systems… Since we’ve been living here Jae has forgot his keys and broke into the house through a second story window one night (I almost beat him to death as I was here and thought it was an actual burglary), and now Carl broke into the house through a basement window yesterday while Jae and I were at work… And no one saw anything on either occasion. So now I’m worried that just anyone can walk up to the house, pry open a window, and load up on a few thousand dollars in electronics without anyone noticing.
I also have to change the locks too… Not because of Carl though, but because we weren’t given the keys to a few of them when we moved in.
So, other than those items, all is switching to a more sedate and relaxed atmosphere here at the house. Jae wants to do some cleaning of Carl’s old room tonight in preparation for it becoming Jae’s new room… I took a look in there late last night and… damn… I was wondering where a few of my plates and glasses went, and we need to call a recycler for all of the empty soda bottles and cans down there. But there’s nothing that a little cleaning won’t fix… Unlike the hole in the dining room wall Carl installed that I have to un-install here this week.
Well, I have to get my glass of OJ and head for work. Have a great day out there!
Well, winter is here again for a day or two and the roads are quite nasty out there. As Jae and I were leaving at 7am this morning, the traffic guy on the radio said there were something like 50 accidents around Denver… Just getting out of our little housing complex here was a nightmare and we made it as far as the gas station just north of here before deciding that we preferred living to getting killed on the way to work. So we called in and said we’d be at a minimum late and possibly not make it today…
Colorado used to be known for its multi-lane snow plows and having the roads clear within minutes of a snow storm… Now a days they wait till there’s a few inches of snow, then spray that car eating goop on the road and hope for the best.
It’s not working.
So, anyways, here I am at the computer here at home. I think I’ll try and get some writing done today.
Be careful out there if you have to be out there…