mousie
i got a new optical mouse at work! *does a happy dance*
no more cleaning the mouse for me! woo hoo!
3.12.2004
3.09.2004
to the dump!
dad's friend, marilyn, goes to florida to visit with her son, jay, and to go to the dump.
huh?
apparently, the dump is the rich folk's dump. every year they redecorate their houses because, God forbid anyone should visit their house and it look the same as last year. so, they just throw it all away: tables, sofas, etc. all sorts of stuff and it's barely used.
well, marilyn is going to florida again soon and she's hoping to bring back some major finds. i asked her to keep an eye out for a filing cabinet. i've discovered that i need one to organize my comic stuff and my finance stuff.
upon getting my request, marilyn commented, "just call me fred sanford." lol
addendum: 3-25-04 marilyn was not able to find a used filing cabinet. Ken and i may go flea marketing soon and chances are, we'll find one then.
dad's friend, marilyn, goes to florida to visit with her son, jay, and to go to the dump.
huh?
apparently, the dump is the rich folk's dump. every year they redecorate their houses because, God forbid anyone should visit their house and it look the same as last year. so, they just throw it all away: tables, sofas, etc. all sorts of stuff and it's barely used.
well, marilyn is going to florida again soon and she's hoping to bring back some major finds. i asked her to keep an eye out for a filing cabinet. i've discovered that i need one to organize my comic stuff and my finance stuff.
upon getting my request, marilyn commented, "just call me fred sanford." lol
addendum: 3-25-04 marilyn was not able to find a used filing cabinet. Ken and i may go flea marketing soon and chances are, we'll find one then.
3.06.2004
bark bark
ken and i went to the mall this evening.
as we walked through the parking lot, a white pick-up truck passed us with one dude hanging at the window and barking as people, like a little yappy dog or something. he did it at every person the truck passed.
"yap yap! yap yap yap yap yap yap! yap!"
the following conversation ensued between ken and myself as the truck circled the lot:
me: what is he on?
ken: scooby snacks.
me: *laughs* that guy needs his rabies shot.
ken: nah, he just needs to be fixed.
me: *laughs* well, i think we at least should contact animal control...
i don't know if they guy was fulfilling a dare or just stoned but it was quite bizarre.
just thought i'd share that before i forgot it.
ken and i went to the mall this evening.
as we walked through the parking lot, a white pick-up truck passed us with one dude hanging at the window and barking as people, like a little yappy dog or something. he did it at every person the truck passed.
"yap yap! yap yap yap yap yap yap! yap!"
the following conversation ensued between ken and myself as the truck circled the lot:
me: what is he on?
ken: scooby snacks.
me: *laughs* that guy needs his rabies shot.
ken: nah, he just needs to be fixed.
me: *laughs* well, i think we at least should contact animal control...
i don't know if they guy was fulfilling a dare or just stoned but it was quite bizarre.
just thought i'd share that before i forgot it.
3.02.2004
finally
i get the ok to distribute the new version of the employment application i designed to the other warehouses. what happens? conway warehouse finds two errors that spellcheck missed. 9.9 ah, well. such is life.
maybe now it's error-free. it does look much better than the old one, much, much better.
comic website is nearing completion. hopefully it'll go live before the end of march.
oh! and good news!
since i'm not going to draw a WCA comic this year i submitted a logo design to them and they liked it! you can see it on their site.
i'll also be posting links to the site on the proper day...
i'm not drawing a WCA comic because all last year, the majority of the few updates to Blue Canary that i made were filler. 8^P i'm going to work on real updates after this website thing and maybe next year i'll allow myself to participate.
same thing with group projects from the nice. i was part of the latest halloween comic, right? it was going to be a 3-day short story. then, i find out at last minute, i had to go to texarkana for work. i was without a computer or a scanner. at least i notified terrence and the others about this, but after i got home, i coulda put the last bit on there and finished the comic, but i was so embarrased that i would be updating a halloween comic after halloween. so, i thought, "hey, i finish a regular comic and upload that at the same time, so in the archives you'd see it," but i never got around to that either...i was ashammed for not working on my comic that i wouldn't start work on my comic and the cycle would repeat.
just like last year, when i kept saying i'd work on my website design but never did. then bry sent me two versions he had come up with and slowly, as the months passed...i started to get inspired. i've been working on the site for some time now...i'm proud of myself but i can't quit now. gotta pour that energy into drawing. the goal is to have 10 updates ready to go before i start the regular updating again.
ken tagged along with me on sunday when i met with jonathan stanley. we gave jon the full of our knowledge and advice on webcomics. his painted desert comic will be very good from what little i've seen. i hope he keeps working on it. i'm glad to see that he's thinking of starting one. 8^)
i'm gonna e-mail jo and see if she has any progress on the update blog design for Blue Canary. if she'd doesn't, that's ok. she's busy.
i get the ok to distribute the new version of the employment application i designed to the other warehouses. what happens? conway warehouse finds two errors that spellcheck missed. 9.9 ah, well. such is life.
maybe now it's error-free. it does look much better than the old one, much, much better.
comic website is nearing completion. hopefully it'll go live before the end of march.
oh! and good news!
since i'm not going to draw a WCA comic this year i submitted a logo design to them and they liked it! you can see it on their site.
i'll also be posting links to the site on the proper day...
i'm not drawing a WCA comic because all last year, the majority of the few updates to Blue Canary that i made were filler. 8^P i'm going to work on real updates after this website thing and maybe next year i'll allow myself to participate.
same thing with group projects from the nice. i was part of the latest halloween comic, right? it was going to be a 3-day short story. then, i find out at last minute, i had to go to texarkana for work. i was without a computer or a scanner. at least i notified terrence and the others about this, but after i got home, i coulda put the last bit on there and finished the comic, but i was so embarrased that i would be updating a halloween comic after halloween. so, i thought, "hey, i finish a regular comic and upload that at the same time, so in the archives you'd see it," but i never got around to that either...i was ashammed for not working on my comic that i wouldn't start work on my comic and the cycle would repeat.
just like last year, when i kept saying i'd work on my website design but never did. then bry sent me two versions he had come up with and slowly, as the months passed...i started to get inspired. i've been working on the site for some time now...i'm proud of myself but i can't quit now. gotta pour that energy into drawing. the goal is to have 10 updates ready to go before i start the regular updating again.
ken tagged along with me on sunday when i met with jonathan stanley. we gave jon the full of our knowledge and advice on webcomics. his painted desert comic will be very good from what little i've seen. i hope he keeps working on it. i'm glad to see that he's thinking of starting one. 8^)
i'm gonna e-mail jo and see if she has any progress on the update blog design for Blue Canary. if she'd doesn't, that's ok. she's busy.
2.27.2004
prayer request
i could use some prayers for my mother...she having transient ischemic attacks due to high blood pressure/cholesterol. she hadn't been taking her blood pressure meds due to the costs. she currently has about 7 drugs she is prescribed so it ads up quick with bills and insurance costs. she's also stressed since her work didn't take federal taxes out of her paychecks this year and stress causes more T.I.A.s. it's her birthday on monday, so my brother and i are giving her money this year to help her out financially and i'm getting her cake, the last one before she goes on a low cholestrol diet.
in the good news, i finally got a hold of jonathan stanley, fellow former herald cartoonist. he's trying to start up a webcomic. i'll be meeting with him on sunday morning to see what his fledgling strip looks like.
i could use some prayers for my mother...she having transient ischemic attacks due to high blood pressure/cholesterol. she hadn't been taking her blood pressure meds due to the costs. she currently has about 7 drugs she is prescribed so it ads up quick with bills and insurance costs. she's also stressed since her work didn't take federal taxes out of her paychecks this year and stress causes more T.I.A.s. it's her birthday on monday, so my brother and i are giving her money this year to help her out financially and i'm getting her cake, the last one before she goes on a low cholestrol diet.
in the good news, i finally got a hold of jonathan stanley, fellow former herald cartoonist. he's trying to start up a webcomic. i'll be meeting with him on sunday morning to see what his fledgling strip looks like.
2.23.2004
dreamweaver
i've been redesigning my blue canary site over the past two weeks! it's coming along nicely. jo's going to help me with designing a blog for it. i'm terrible at getting the blogger tags correct. i made some illustrator portraits of the main character and of me. they turned out great, but i don't think i'll be switching to an illustrator comic like scary-do-round.
ken's been taking 4 day weekends to use up the last of his vacation time. if he didn't, he's lose it at the end of the month.
i'm redesigning the job application at work. so far, it's looking good.
now, i just need some progress on the create!from projects...they go so slow and when i ask steve whether it needs any changes, i never hear from him. with that new computer system, it will not be a smooth transistion and i'm only trying to make sure there are no flaws on my end. but even when i asked for the monster invoice, i first got told that he'd do it and then he didn't. >8^(
heck, i even asked for other projects to work on he hasn't responded.
i'm just gonna work. nothing else i can do and if it all goes wonky, i will have washed my hands of it long ago. i have a feeling that i'd still get the blame, though. 9.9
otherwise, work is going well.
yeah! jo still blogs, even at grad school. 8^) hi jo!
i've been redesigning my blue canary site over the past two weeks! it's coming along nicely. jo's going to help me with designing a blog for it. i'm terrible at getting the blogger tags correct. i made some illustrator portraits of the main character and of me. they turned out great, but i don't think i'll be switching to an illustrator comic like scary-do-round.
ken's been taking 4 day weekends to use up the last of his vacation time. if he didn't, he's lose it at the end of the month.
i'm redesigning the job application at work. so far, it's looking good.
now, i just need some progress on the create!from projects...they go so slow and when i ask steve whether it needs any changes, i never hear from him. with that new computer system, it will not be a smooth transistion and i'm only trying to make sure there are no flaws on my end. but even when i asked for the monster invoice, i first got told that he'd do it and then he didn't. >8^(
heck, i even asked for other projects to work on he hasn't responded.
i'm just gonna work. nothing else i can do and if it all goes wonky, i will have washed my hands of it long ago. i have a feeling that i'd still get the blame, though. 9.9
otherwise, work is going well.
yeah! jo still blogs, even at grad school. 8^) hi jo!
2.17.2004
Which HP Kid Are You?
which is appropreiate since my nose is always in a book. and i liked history in high school and college. 8^)
12.02.2003
sick, flats & reading
sick. i hate being sick.
but that was yesterday, around mid-morning to afternoon.
so i left work early so i could be sick at home.
what happens?
i'm driving along-all i care about is getting home.
i don't see anything on the road, but i run over something that sounds like some gravel scattered on the road...except i keep hearing one rock hit the same place on my rear left side. it stops after a few seconds, so i continue on, but slowly.
i don't live far from work, thank God.
i'm almost home when i hear another noise, this one i've never heard before, but i've got a good idea what it means: my rear left tire is flat.
great. well, only 2 stoplights until i'm home and no way was i going to be sick, on the side of the road with a flat tire, when i could be at home, sick, with a flat tire.
the sound got worse.
luckily, i get home. i was right, the tire was flat, but not as bad as i'd pictured (imagine a tire falling off the rim type of bad. that is what i thought was happening as the sound got worse.)
i called dad and he came and took my tire to be fixed and brought me some medicine. 8^)
later i called mom on advice on what to eat (and what you can eat,) when you're sick. dad's well-meaning, but somethings he doesn't have the same experience with as mom does.
i'm much better this morning. *knocks on wood*
i went back to work this morning.
i did feel better by yesterday evening when ken called, so i finished reading Reaper Man to him. 8^)
i also spoke with jo! she and kellie are giving me a ticket to go see phantom for christmas! it'll be down in n'awlins where kellie is. jo and i will prolly drive down there and we'll have a good ol' time. i'm looking forward to it. 8^)
back to work.
sick. i hate being sick.
but that was yesterday, around mid-morning to afternoon.
so i left work early so i could be sick at home.
what happens?
i'm driving along-all i care about is getting home.
i don't see anything on the road, but i run over something that sounds like some gravel scattered on the road...except i keep hearing one rock hit the same place on my rear left side. it stops after a few seconds, so i continue on, but slowly.
i don't live far from work, thank God.
i'm almost home when i hear another noise, this one i've never heard before, but i've got a good idea what it means: my rear left tire is flat.
great. well, only 2 stoplights until i'm home and no way was i going to be sick, on the side of the road with a flat tire, when i could be at home, sick, with a flat tire.
the sound got worse.
luckily, i get home. i was right, the tire was flat, but not as bad as i'd pictured (imagine a tire falling off the rim type of bad. that is what i thought was happening as the sound got worse.)
i called dad and he came and took my tire to be fixed and brought me some medicine. 8^)
later i called mom on advice on what to eat (and what you can eat,) when you're sick. dad's well-meaning, but somethings he doesn't have the same experience with as mom does.
i'm much better this morning. *knocks on wood*
i went back to work this morning.
i did feel better by yesterday evening when ken called, so i finished reading Reaper Man to him. 8^)
i also spoke with jo! she and kellie are giving me a ticket to go see phantom for christmas! it'll be down in n'awlins where kellie is. jo and i will prolly drive down there and we'll have a good ol' time. i'm looking forward to it. 8^)
back to work.
12.01.2003
reading aloud
last weekend, i started to read Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett to my boyfriend.
we were on our way to lake nofork and i needed something to do besides keep an eye on the gps. this weekend i resumed the reading. we're almost done. 8^)
he's enjoying the story so far. he stayed at my apartment until 10 last night as i read to him. he drew a mech a he listened.
i just wish my throat wouldn't get so scratchy as i read out loud!
i'm glad i had plenty of water and throat drops around.
last weekend, i started to read Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett to my boyfriend.
we were on our way to lake nofork and i needed something to do besides keep an eye on the gps. this weekend i resumed the reading. we're almost done. 8^)
he's enjoying the story so far. he stayed at my apartment until 10 last night as i read to him. he drew a mech a he listened.
i just wish my throat wouldn't get so scratchy as i read out loud!
i'm glad i had plenty of water and throat drops around.
