ALRIGHT FOLKS.

I'm leaving for Phoenix Arizona for Thanksgiving. I'll be back in town Friday.

I'll be sure to spam twitter every seven seconds.

WOOSH.

Genuine Fractals 6 vs Photoshop's Bicubic Smoother

I'm entirely convinced that I want, need, and would make extensive use of this plug-in.

Okay, if anybody hasn't read the Mutant Ninja Turtle Gaiden by Tigerfog yet... holy shit. You NEED to read the most recent chapter. It's kind of ridiculously long, over 80 pages so far, but it's totally worth it, genuinely good read. Here's a link: http://www.obscurezodiac.com/mntgchapter17.php

I like how this is the second time I've been stood up by the cat that's supposed to be taking the Triple Arcade off my hands. I told him to come by this morning to pick it up and it's now 3:00 in the afternoon. Of course, it's not like I have any other offers for it, but it's pretty annoying.

Finished up the characters' colors for page 21 just now. Gonna knock out the backgrounds a little later, maybe after work.

Turtles Forver kicked some major ass. Loved the old school black and white turtles, and the several panels and poses lifted directly from Vol. 1 #1. Although the end moment with the off-camera Eastman and Laird was decidedly bittersweet given current events.

Why do I never have "normal" dreams?

OK probably a really stupid question because dreams are never, by and large, normal. But rather than having fun, scary, or whatever dreams, I always have dreams that make me wake up thinking "what the bloody hell have I been smoking?"

Take what I just woke up from. I had two last night. The first involved me and my dad going on a jet that was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. On the outside it was one of those executive Lear jets...



...while on the inside it was like 747 huge. Anyway, I think we were going to America, and then the plane just stopped working in mid-air and it fell to the ground, then it hit the ground, BOUNCED, and landed on it's roof in a desert. Cut to outside where it's now me and my mum now, my dad has disappeared, the plane is the right side up and we're pushing it down a mountain (still in the desert, no snow or anything) in order for it to get enough speed so it can get in the air again. We then cling on to dear life until we fly past the Statue of Liberty.

So I wake up, think "what?" then go back to bed, only to have another dream.

This time it's about a cartoon tortoise, and he's in a race with other animals, and he's making quite good head way. Then of course being a tortoise he gets passed by another animal, a cheetah I believe, possibly a rabbit, the tortoise is obviously annoyed by this. Cut to a little later where the tortoise knocks on the door to his mother's home, hands a load of paper/money, and walks in. The rabbit/cheetah from earlier is saying "it's disappointing", the tortoises mum ask what is, when they're suddenly joined by a female mouse who is a journalist (I know this because she has a glasses and a notebook...apparently) says that the tortoise won the race, but because he's a tortoise everyone thinks he cheated unless he proves otherwise. Later the mother tortoise talks to her son, who is watching a film on TV, about it. He explains how he run, it was the swimming section of the race (why did it have a swimming section, was it a triathlon? why did I not dream about a bike bit!?) and the tortoise was using it's natural tears from it's eyes which they use in order to protect their eyes and see underwater, to...I dunno, lower the "water resistance" in the water and by creating a bubble of tears around it's entire body it was able to swim faster and win the entire race.

This made perfect sense.

Seriously, why do I always have these weird as fuck dreams that cause me to wake up and question my subconscious? Do tortoises even have fucking tear ducts? I DON'T KNOW!

EDIT: According to a quick google search they do.

I'm on the home stretch! I finished page 20 of The Redeemers #1 earlier, and I'm doing the thumbnail sketches for pages 21-24 tonight! With a little luck, the book should be out this time next month! Fingers crossed.

I love how the Fujitsu customer service person I talked to today claimed that they send me the email with the instructions for where to send my computer on the 12th. Right, lady, because clearly I'd be pissed off and talking to you right now if I had received the email. She said to give it two hours and I should have the email. If it's not here when I get back from grocery shopping I'm calling again and asking immediately to talk to a manager.

Side note: I think the canned laughter on these old episodes of Scooby Doo is funnier than any of the actual jokes in the show. Also, why would the bad guys leave out such obvious clues? The kids just found an oversized key with an easily solvable riddle on it.

I made myself a skirt And I love it :3

Will be making one for my "lil sis" for xmas.

Aside from that, nothing much.

Oh I'm looking for another job and then I'll quit the one I currently have :3

Story later if you're interested in what happened *awesomeface*


*prances*

This is so pretty, LOVE the song in this too.

Sending the Fujitsu Lifebook back and getting a Toshiba Portege instead.

It's not that it's a bad LAPTOP, it's just that the TABLET functionality sucks. A LOT.

Even down to the pen that they sent me. This thing may as well be the stylus out of my DS. It's a plastic stick. That being said, it's not so much a tablet PC as it is a touch-screen PC. Which makes coloring in Photoshop SUCH a delight! Before, on the Toshiba Satellite, if I made a mistake, it was on me 99% of the time, rather than a computer issue. On THIS, it's a computer issue closer to, oh, 70, 80% of the time. Also, because it doesn't register the pen as a pen, this little transparent picture of a mouse shows up and gets in the way

EVERY

SINGLE

TIME

I touch the pen to the screen. So say I'm using the Smudge tool. And I tend to work from left to right, top to bottom. Guess where the mouse shows up? To the right and slightly lower than where you touched. Oh, and the screen rotation only has 270 degrees of rotation, unlike my old Toshiba with all 360 degrees. And of course the one angle that it won't let come up is the one I prefer to work off of.

So, all in all, it's no one thing, but several little issues that just make it suck for digital artistry. The one thing I will miss is the wider screen on this one, but it's only a one-inch difference.

Just two simple backgrounds left to do for page 19 of Redeemers #1.  Unfortunately, I have to pull a double tomorrow, so it won't be done until late.  Applebee's is having some special promotion for Veteran's Day that they're expecting to bring people in in droves.  I hope they're wrong, a double is a big enough pain in the ass without it running extra long because they refuse to cut people.  I got called in for a server shift today that I should have just turned down- I only made $30 because just about every table I had tonight didn't leave more than 15% (10 more often than not), and my closer kept coming up with extra crap for me to do before she'd sign me out, so I was stuck there for a solid hour and a half after I was cut.

So yeah, sucky day at work is sucky.

At the moment, life is revolving around work, Redeemers, and Kim.  Speaking of, exceptionally happy about how we're doing.  We've been talking at length almost every single day, for what will be three months in a couple of days.  I've been saving up to make a trip down to see her, and I think I should have enough by early to mid January.

Too sleepy to type another coherent sentence.  Good night.