...and working on the Heroic Portrait request.
It's a fairly complex picture, with three major elements (one of which I'm not terribly good at drawing). I have one element completed to my satisfaction, and another element nearly completed, and I have to mesh the two elements together before starting on the third.
I'm trying to get it finished by tomorrow, so I need to keep plugging away at it.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
You Know You're Not Posting Often Enough When...
1. Even Dave Campbell himself is posting with greater frequency than you.
2. Your mom calls you and complains about your lack of posts.
(Actually, my mom was wondering if my eyes were giving me more trouble, leading me to not post. Nope; my laziness is giving me trouble.)
Not much of note has actually been happening anyway, but I do feel guilty about the irregularity of my posts (it's just so hard to get off the couch once I've settled in).
The most notable thing today was that it was a good week for comics, as my stack had both Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight and Fables in it (I was also pleased to see Justice Society of America, which has a been a consistently good series so far, though not at Buffy or Fables levels).
As I sifted through the stack I said, "It's a good week."
When I got my total, I said to the guy at the register, "Huh. A good week and a cheap week."
In response, he said, "Yeah, it's not a really big week, but there's a lot of good stuff out."
I said, "It's always a good week when you get Fables."
Work has been work, and I've been getting steadily busier, though today was thankfully light on conference calls (only one). I thought that I had another conference call, and was putting on my headset and pulling up the meeting information from my calendar to get the dial-in info when I noticed that it was an actual face-to-face meeting. I don't really have too many of those.
In any case, tomorrow night I should probably start work on that Heroic Portrait request, so I may not get a post in before the weekend, and I can't promise that I'll try to post, but I will promise that I'll try to try.
2. Your mom calls you and complains about your lack of posts.
(Actually, my mom was wondering if my eyes were giving me more trouble, leading me to not post. Nope; my laziness is giving me trouble.)
Not much of note has actually been happening anyway, but I do feel guilty about the irregularity of my posts (it's just so hard to get off the couch once I've settled in).
The most notable thing today was that it was a good week for comics, as my stack had both Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight and Fables in it (I was also pleased to see Justice Society of America, which has a been a consistently good series so far, though not at Buffy or Fables levels).
As I sifted through the stack I said, "It's a good week."
When I got my total, I said to the guy at the register, "Huh. A good week and a cheap week."
In response, he said, "Yeah, it's not a really big week, but there's a lot of good stuff out."
I said, "It's always a good week when you get Fables."
Work has been work, and I've been getting steadily busier, though today was thankfully light on conference calls (only one). I thought that I had another conference call, and was putting on my headset and pulling up the meeting information from my calendar to get the dial-in info when I noticed that it was an actual face-to-face meeting. I don't really have too many of those.
In any case, tomorrow night I should probably start work on that Heroic Portrait request, so I may not get a post in before the weekend, and I can't promise that I'll try to post, but I will promise that I'll try to try.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Too Bad I'm Not Giving Them A Reason To Stick Around
So my eyes were fine today – except for the fact that I have to wear my glasses, which I hate, even though on Friday Nita had said I look good in glasses and should wear them more often – but I know better than to try wearing the lenses again any time soon.
It was a pretty uneventful day for the most part. Not that many people asked me if I watched “the game,” which surprised me, and none of the people who did ask seemed especially offended/shocked that I hadn’t, which surprised me even more.
Usually when I tell people that I have zero interest in sports of any kind they look at me like I have a third arm growing out of my forehead.
I can’t help it; sports bore the living shit out of me and they pretty much always have.
The biggest event of the day was a conference call that I had to facilitate. I guess it went well. It’s a weekly call, so I have it to look forward to on every Monday.
The first time I was on the call Nita ran it as a sort of last official act before passing the torch on to me, and then we didn’t have it on the following Monday because it was MLK day.
Last week I was at urgent care for my eyes during the scheduled time, so I’d had to cancel it.
Though I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, today I checked out some of the more noteworthy commercials. Meh. There was nothing that really blew me away, though the Iron Man trailer did look pretty cool.
So did the trailer for Wanted. Honestly, it looks like it might be halfway decent, but I don’t know if I can bring myself to see it given how far it appears to stray from the source material. The producers very clearly and deliberately chose to distance the movie from its comic book roots, which is a pity, and is also annoying.
And it’s also a shame, given the tremendous opportunity they had to skewer the genre of comic book movies and turn them on their head in the way that the comic skewered the super-hero genre and turned it on its head.
But oh well.
When I got home and settled in I fired up the DVR to watch some shows that I’d recorded last night, only to discover that nothing had actually recorded.
I also noted that the DVR itself was acting kind of flaky. For example, if I hit the “Replay” button, rather than jumping back 10 seconds the way it’s supposed to, it would jump all the way back to the beginning of the show that was currently on. If I then hit “Skip,” it would jump ahead 30 seconds the way it’s supposed to, but would never jump past that point, and of course, if this followed on the heels of hitting “Replay,” it was skipping only 30 seconds from the beginning of the show. If I went back to watching live TV and then hit “Skip” again it would jump back to the point 30 seconds after the beginning of the current show.
I did a power cycle on the DVR and things seemed to go back to normal. Hopefully it will successfully record the shows I have it set to record tonight.
My entry on Spider-Girl has generated me some more traffic from When Fangirls Attack!
I like seeing the traffic, even though no one sticks around or comes back, but I kind of wish that I were writing something more canny and insightful about the issue of gender in comics that would make it more worthwhile for them to link to me.
But, again, oh well.
Speaking of comic book movies that won’t live up to the source material and attacking fangirls, I followed a link on When Fangirls Attack! to a blog post by writer Brad Meltzer, which features an interview with the lovely and talented Carla Gugino in which she discusses her role as Sally Jupiter in the Watchmen movie.
Check it out here.
And that’s pretty much al the excitement for today.
It was a pretty uneventful day for the most part. Not that many people asked me if I watched “the game,” which surprised me, and none of the people who did ask seemed especially offended/shocked that I hadn’t, which surprised me even more.
Usually when I tell people that I have zero interest in sports of any kind they look at me like I have a third arm growing out of my forehead.
I can’t help it; sports bore the living shit out of me and they pretty much always have.
The biggest event of the day was a conference call that I had to facilitate. I guess it went well. It’s a weekly call, so I have it to look forward to on every Monday.
The first time I was on the call Nita ran it as a sort of last official act before passing the torch on to me, and then we didn’t have it on the following Monday because it was MLK day.
Last week I was at urgent care for my eyes during the scheduled time, so I’d had to cancel it.
Though I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, today I checked out some of the more noteworthy commercials. Meh. There was nothing that really blew me away, though the Iron Man trailer did look pretty cool.
So did the trailer for Wanted. Honestly, it looks like it might be halfway decent, but I don’t know if I can bring myself to see it given how far it appears to stray from the source material. The producers very clearly and deliberately chose to distance the movie from its comic book roots, which is a pity, and is also annoying.
And it’s also a shame, given the tremendous opportunity they had to skewer the genre of comic book movies and turn them on their head in the way that the comic skewered the super-hero genre and turned it on its head.
But oh well.
When I got home and settled in I fired up the DVR to watch some shows that I’d recorded last night, only to discover that nothing had actually recorded.
I also noted that the DVR itself was acting kind of flaky. For example, if I hit the “Replay” button, rather than jumping back 10 seconds the way it’s supposed to, it would jump all the way back to the beginning of the show that was currently on. If I then hit “Skip,” it would jump ahead 30 seconds the way it’s supposed to, but would never jump past that point, and of course, if this followed on the heels of hitting “Replay,” it was skipping only 30 seconds from the beginning of the show. If I went back to watching live TV and then hit “Skip” again it would jump back to the point 30 seconds after the beginning of the current show.
I did a power cycle on the DVR and things seemed to go back to normal. Hopefully it will successfully record the shows I have it set to record tonight.
My entry on Spider-Girl has generated me some more traffic from When Fangirls Attack!
I like seeing the traffic, even though no one sticks around or comes back, but I kind of wish that I were writing something more canny and insightful about the issue of gender in comics that would make it more worthwhile for them to link to me.
But, again, oh well.
Speaking of comic book movies that won’t live up to the source material and attacking fangirls, I followed a link on When Fangirls Attack! to a blog post by writer Brad Meltzer, which features an interview with the lovely and talented Carla Gugino in which she discusses her role as Sally Jupiter in the Watchmen movie.
Check it out here.
And that’s pretty much al the excitement for today.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
So Much For That Idea
First of all, happy birthday to my niece Jourdan, who is 21 today.
Because it’s a milestone birthday – and because I’m a wonderful uncle – I sent her a check for $100.
Her reaction upon seeing this was to say, “Holy fuck!”
Class act, that niece of mine.
Of course, anyone who’s ever lived the poor college student lifestyle can understand her unrestrained excitement.
Las night, because my eyes have been fine for the past few days and I’d completed the course of antibiotic eye drops, I decided I would give the Gentle Molding lenses another shot, figuring that if they bothered me it wouldn’t be a big deal because it’s the weekend.
When I woke up this morning (inexplicably at around 7:30), I took them out and everything seemed fine, but within an hour my left eye was burning and watering and sensitive to light (though not nearly so bad as last Monday).
So I guess I won’t be trying that again soon.
Hopefully this isn’t an indication of some permanent problem that will prevent me from using the lenses.
Presumably it’s the fact that I have a head cold/sinus infection thing going on causing the problems, but I haven’t really been experiencing any symptoms of that in the past few days.
In fact, it wasn’t until my eyes started bugging me (my right eye doesn’t seem to be irritated, but rather responding in sympathy to the left’s plight) that my nose started running. Is it some sort of allergen? The symptoms feel a lot like an allergic reaction.
In any case, I’ll give the lenses a rest for the week and maybe try to set up an eye appointment for Friday evening to get them checked out.
Not much else is going on, and my vision is kind of hazy right now, so I guess I’ll bring this entry to a close.
I may be back later with a Keyword Kraziness entry.
Because it’s a milestone birthday – and because I’m a wonderful uncle – I sent her a check for $100.
Her reaction upon seeing this was to say, “Holy fuck!”
Class act, that niece of mine.
Of course, anyone who’s ever lived the poor college student lifestyle can understand her unrestrained excitement.
Las night, because my eyes have been fine for the past few days and I’d completed the course of antibiotic eye drops, I decided I would give the Gentle Molding lenses another shot, figuring that if they bothered me it wouldn’t be a big deal because it’s the weekend.
When I woke up this morning (inexplicably at around 7:30), I took them out and everything seemed fine, but within an hour my left eye was burning and watering and sensitive to light (though not nearly so bad as last Monday).
So I guess I won’t be trying that again soon.
Hopefully this isn’t an indication of some permanent problem that will prevent me from using the lenses.
Presumably it’s the fact that I have a head cold/sinus infection thing going on causing the problems, but I haven’t really been experiencing any symptoms of that in the past few days.
In fact, it wasn’t until my eyes started bugging me (my right eye doesn’t seem to be irritated, but rather responding in sympathy to the left’s plight) that my nose started running. Is it some sort of allergen? The symptoms feel a lot like an allergic reaction.
In any case, I’ll give the lenses a rest for the week and maybe try to set up an eye appointment for Friday evening to get them checked out.
Not much else is going on, and my vision is kind of hazy right now, so I guess I’ll bring this entry to a close.
I may be back later with a Keyword Kraziness entry.
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