![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
sigtrent's Friends PageLog in Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more
| You are viewing sigtrent's Friends Page Log in Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more | Explore LJ: Life Entertainment Music Culture News & Politics Technology |
 |
|
| sigtrent's Friends 20 most recent entries |
|
 "Awk!" Yeah ... really, I don't know what to say about this one. "Awk!" seems to cover it. post a comment
No, nothing's wrong. The Lovely Bride took her mom to Greece for a long-anticipated tour. Nardi (short for Leonarda) has been wanting to visit Greece forever, and as she's had more problems with her hips in recent years, this might to be the last chance. So the two of them went on a church-sponsored tour titled "In the Footsteps of St. Paul". Given that the LB is pretty militantly ex-Catholic, it promised to be an interesting sojourn. But more on that later, perhaps. What we're talking about is, of of course, me. I find I like solitude, in general, and it takes a couple days of no human contact before I start roaming the house looking for things to do. I picked up the other half of the house duties (laundry, dishes) without too much pain or unnecessary adventure. I did my own cooking, which resulted in me eating less in the evenings (since the beginning of October, I've lost 15 pounds, but most of that was due to a three-day bout with food poisoning). On the other hand, I was nowhere as culinarily active I wanted to be - I never made bread (which I often do when I'm bored), nor tried any new recipes. By the same token, I avoided breaking out the mac and cheese, so I guess that's a victory. Oh, and I made omelets, which I never do when the LB is in the house (allergies). My greatest challenge was dealing with the Lovely Bride's Fortress of Technology - otherwise known are the downstairs TV, where she records a lot of SciFi (sorry, Syfy) and crime shows. She has two separate VCRs hooked up that needed tapes changed at particular times, along with the fact that Comcast, in upgrading the system, has added some additional bells and whistles into the system. Oh, and right after she left, we had the time change from Daylight Savings. End result was about seven little yellow sticky notes with copious instructions on how to handle various situations. If all goes well, she gets her shows. If not, we will never speak of this again. Also in a big pending pile is the mail. I separated it into four piles - Bills (which I paid in her absence), Bills and important stuff (due after her return), unimportant mail that MAY be important, and catalogs. Yeah, she's going to have fun. On the lawn, I was spared any major personal effort by the fact it has rained almost every day since she left. I did manage to take down the dead and rotting tomato plants she had, pulling the last of the viable crop. Severed those up in the omelets. The cats of course, viewed me suspiciously for the first three days, as if I were some invader in their quiet lives of following the LB from room to room throughout the day. By the end of the fourth day, Harley decided to switch allegiances and become my new BFF, following me everywhere, in hopes that I would suddenly go mad and feed her again. Victoria remained cool and imperious, condoning to sit on my lap only in the past few days. Of course, when the LB returns, they will go running back to her. Traitors. All in all, I think I can survive being on my own, but its not nearly as much fun (The Lovely Bride, reporting from Greece, wishes I was there, since she could drag ME into climbing various Greek peaks and finding restaurants down dimly-lit alleys). I was ill this week, knocked out with what I think was a flu bug - temperature of 101. And that was no fun at all to facing alone. But, the LB returns tomorrow, and life returns to what approximates normal around here. But for the moment, I haven't destroyed too much, and still know I can shift for myself, if I have to. More later, 
 From time to time I find myself doodling masks. Often they have an African-esque flavor. (I added the "esque" because I've never ACTUALLY done any kind of research into REAL African masks ... so these are just my visual musings based solely on the wholly unreliable sources of TV and movies.) And while this one does have a little of that feeling, it mostly seems like an alien artifact ... or, since "alien" has a very sci-fi connotation, an artifact from a shamanistic fantasy setting. I look at this doodle and find myself wondering what the creatures who made it look like. Maybe one day I'll make a point of coming back to this doodle and using it as the starting point for developing some new creature. post a comment
boooom.....blip 1 comment | post a comment
"Coooooooooore!"
The level of suck in this article is enraging. Why do I link to it? Because I can't help but to cathartically point out the colossal amount of awful and rage that things like this are actually published.
I spotted a pamphlet detailing government part-time census jobs for $17.50/hour. Website HERE. Or call toll-free 1-866-861-2010.
 "Holy bananas! THIS is some kind of weird science!" Wall St. Journal First of all, since I've invoked politics in the subject line for this doodle, let me say that I DO support the general course of action that has been taken by the U.S. government in response to the economic catastrophe we (and the world) find ourselves in. I am in favor of the general principles behind the bail outs, the extended unemployment benefits, and the stimulus packages. Sure, I think some individual decisions have been off base, frustratingly unmeasurable, and aimed in places I personally would rather not have gone ... but overall I think they are a good idea and DID prevent the world from sliding into another great depression. (Whether or not we'll stay out of that quagmire remains to be seen.) Having said that, like everyone else, I am sometimes just agog at some of the economic news that comes out. How companies that were on the verge of collapse less than 18 months ago can manage to have record-breaking profits now. How despite our near-economic-death experience, the movers and shakers on Wall St. and on the conservative side of Congress seem ready to dive right back into business as usual. How a few weeks of up-ticks on the stock market seems to make so many people think the troubles are over. Troubles that build up over the course of a decade cannot be fixed in a handful of months. Even a MONKEY knows that! 1 comment | post a comment
 "You only have two eyes and NEITHER of them glow ... how can I tell when you're being earnest?" "Ummm ..." Russ Curtis (Reporter of the Future) has another interaction that highlights the difficulty in inter-species communication. I may never have succeeded in making a whole story featuring Russ ... but he stays in my brain and on my doodle pads pretty constantly. In the end, he may never appear anywhere but in these cartoons ... but that in itself is turning into a fairly strong body of work. post a comment
“What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7…is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphic.”Full story. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! 2 comments | post a comment
So instead, I provide the link about Kobold Quarterly's Adopt-a-Soldier promotion. Small but Fierce, indeed. More later, 
 "Word on the street is Aztechnology is up to no good!" "Squeek!" It's Game Night tonight ... though, in truth, there will be no gaming. At first it seemed like I would be the only one missing the game (because tonight there's the last SCCS meeting for the year) ... but now it seems like others, and particularly the GM, can't make it either. I guess the showdown between our group of Shadowrunners and the unknown and well-armed force that was threatening us at the cliffhanger of last week's session will have to wait until NEXT Wednesday. In the meanwhile, here is the first doodle I did for the campaign ... my initial drawing of my troll street shaman. I thought this was a funny image because my troll seems so earnest and yet, as any good Shadowrunner knows, Aztechnology is ALWAYS up to no good. It reminds me of something I used to find amusing on Miami Vice. Every time I watched the show (which, admittedly, wasn't very often at all) the tough, streetwise Lt. Castillo (played by Edward James Olmos) would walk on screen and growl something about something being wrong on "the street." "The street's all messed up over this!" "The street can't take this kind of violence!" "The street will never be the same again!" Man, did I feel SORRY for that street! However, no one else seemed to find that as amusing as I did (both on the TV show and in my doodle) ... but at least I got a laugh and a character sketch out of it. post a comment
To all American veterans, as well as those serving active duty: thank you.
Last night we ran but did not finish ToC 10. Therein we did the Faction Champions battle in Trial of the Crusader which has prompted me—for a variety of reasons—to name it my most hated encounter in all of World of Warcraft by a margin so wide I can scarcely think of another encounter supplanting it. |
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
