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Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 10:30 pm Two years
So it's been two years since my father passed away on Thanksgiving. I've lost a lot of things since then, friends, time, a cat... but I've also gained a lot of things, and for that I am thankful. My dad didn't leaving me with everything I would want, but he left enough of everything I will ever need both physically and mentally. I'm happy for the strengthened bonds of the friends I have and the new friends I have gained. I'm grateful for the new kittens I got, despite how they prevent me from sleeping, for teaching me what unconditional love is and for teaching me how to me more affectionate. I'm glad for the relative good fortune and health of everyone I know.

It feels like my life is slowly recovering, all the despair and confusion is fading away and though things still don't make 100% sense, I'm starting to see a path in the fog. I worry that I've wasted a lot of the time I was given but I realize now more than ever that it's not about the time I've used, it's about what I do with the time left.

Where does that leave me? I'm not sure, but I think I can figure it out now.

I hope everyone had a safe holiday and will stay warm during this cold season!
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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 11:34 pm (no subject)
Wow, I don't think I updated this in forever. Nothing has really been happening, so I suppose that's a good thing :) I've been struggling with learning how to draw in a new style and talking with Amanda, it makes me realize I've been drawing anime for so long, I've forgotten how to draw the basics. So now I wonder what I should do.

Should I focus on relearning the basics and proceed forward to a new style or should I simply take my anime style farther than it currently is? There are still things I can do to improve my anime works, but I think my strengthening my core skills, it would benefit everything.

*sigh* So many things I want to do, so little time.
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Sep. 25th, 2009 @ 09:40 am Sometimes I feel like this...
Life has been good and bad. I feel like a broken record, unable to start over, but unable to reach the end. There are a lot of days I feel like this poor dude:


But then my boss sends me this and I'm happy again.
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Sep. 13th, 2009 @ 08:42 pm Fascinating
I've always known I have my father's hot temper. Not quite sure how it would amass itself, but I think part of it is the way I respond to threat. I'm quite logical and mostly sane, so for the most part, I'm rarely angry about things. If I am upset, it's usually because I'm a chemical machine and I'm either hungry or tired. As long as I'm aware of it, I can keep my anger in check.

I realized today how it's been coming out. My anger comes out in my fight or flight reflex. When I'm threatened, I become irrationally angry and respond in a very angry way. Is this common? Is this where the concept of "the Hulk" comes from?

This occurs to me because I was on a forum where a person was being a idiot, so I was stupid responding back at them... but after the insults, the person had some very good logical points. That's when I realized they weren't being a troll, they were just being a dick... a dick with good logical points, but still a dick.

That's when I realized even people with aggressive attitudes and general disdain for my communication style can still be rational, whereas when I'm angry, it's very difficult for me to remain logical.

This thread is mainly for my own sorting out of data, I'm sure many of you who read this will simply go "Duh!" :) I just never really thought about this before.
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Sep. 10th, 2009 @ 11:31 pm Things to do this weekend
Travis' face plates
Okami keychain
Clean up back patio
Research brick smoker

I think that's enough. :)
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Sep. 1st, 2009 @ 11:07 pm Bayonetta art contest!
I haven't posted here in a while, been so busy... but I recently submitted a piece to the Bayonetta art contest at Wizard!
Bayonetta Art contest

Go vote! You don't have to vote for me, but I would appreciate if you did!
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Aug. 14th, 2009 @ 09:59 pm Aion beta!
I'm on Vaizel server, for anyone who's in Aion :)
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Aug. 7th, 2009 @ 11:54 pm Character in Aion and Champions
So in part 2 of my MMORPG diary, here's the characters I made in Aion and Champions so far.

I spend way more time making characters in Champions than actually playing. :)

Images under cut! )
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Aug. 2nd, 2009 @ 01:24 am MMORPGs
So over this weekend, I was able to play two of the newest MMOs that are coming down the pipeline and I do not regret reserving both. They are both really awesome and fun. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to split my time between the two, but here's the rundown so far. I hope I'm not completely breaking NDAs just talking about them :) If so, forgive me! I have nothing to say but glowing praise!

-Aion-
World )
Characters )
Gameplay )
Story )

Champions:
World )
Characters )
Gameplay )
Story )

Overall, I enjoyed both but for different reasons. I think I'll be spending more time on Aion only because the world is much more immerse though I will be getting both and Champions will do just fine to tide me over for 3 weeks until Aion comes out. :)
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Jul. 28th, 2009 @ 04:04 pm Games!
Well, I haven't been around much lately... been playing a lot of games and doing a lot of art! I made a prop gun for a pic I'm working on since I couldn't figure out how it looked in real life. In the coming weeks though, I'm going to be playing Aion and Champions in the beta (hopefully) stages! I thought I'd drop a line on the off chance any of my online friends are interested in joining me in these new MMO adventures when they come out.

Neither game officially hits until September, but if you preorder now, you can get into the closed beta to try it out.

I'm more excited over the graphics of Aion but more excited over the gameplay for Champions. Honestly, I hope neither really disappoints me.
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Jul. 16th, 2009 @ 04:46 pm Computer bullets
So I finally bit the bullet and bought a new machine. It should be here in a few days, hopefully trouble free. What I ended up getting, spec wise:

Core i7 920 2.66 GHz
6 gigs DDR3 ram at 1333MHz
GeForce 295 with 1792 megs of video memory
1 TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Liquid cooling + acoustic dampening
21.5 inch 1920x1080 resolution, 2ms refresh, 80000:1 contrast

That should last me a couple years, right? :)

I'm just tired of not being able to have pretty games, so I decided it was a one time thing to give it a shot. I look forwards to being able to run things at higher than "low" resolution. Grass in Fallout 3 would be nice!

Actual conversation:
"Yeah, Fallout 3 is a bit too easy, the first mission where you had to go through the mine field was simple... I actually went back and gathered all the stray mines I could and sold them for lots of money."
"How did you do that without dying?"
"I dunno, I just... picked up the mines."
"Wait, did you have grass turned on?"
"There's grass?!"

So excited! :)
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Jul. 10th, 2009 @ 10:02 am Princesses
Ever notice Princess Daphne looks remarkably like Princess Peach? It's the swoopy hair, I think.
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Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 09:12 pm Computers, oh my!
So with a new slew of games coming out and my current computer clocking in at over 4 years old, possibly going on 6... I figure it's time to get a new one. I've played with the idea of buying one from scratch and poked around numbers wise. On mid or low grade computers, the price difference between buying a new computer and buying the parts to build it is about $500. I figured that was worth the hassle for me. Then I figured, oh what the hey, might as well go all out and get high end everything. Pricing out all the parts, the price difference is less than $100... but the machine is obviously a lot more expensive. :)

So I'm now weighing my options. My midgrade computer I bought 4-6 years ago is still doing OK, but it now more or less worthless. I wonder if I bought a high end computer if it would fare any longer, or if it would just work better for the same amount of time. Hmm.
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Jun. 30th, 2009 @ 08:31 am Rage!
Sometimes I wonder what the point of being good is. First Crunchy Roll and now Pirate Bay has been bought by a company for 8 millionish. Looks like in this day and age, it's better to break the law and then get paid for it than it is to do stuff the good old fashioned way. Anyone got some illegal schemes they want to try? Wonder what's the flavor of the month.
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Jun. 23rd, 2009 @ 10:03 am Personal responsibility
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After yesterdays jury duty, I couldn't help but ponder how people think ahead in regards to themselves or others. I'm not even talking years or months but even minutes ahead. The types who don't buckle up because they aren't going far or don't signal when changing lanes.

Yesterdays case as far as I can figure was a symantic argument about being legally drunk. The driver drank a lot of alcohol before driving but was only driving a few minutes away because of some emergency to pick someone up. They argued she wasn't drunk when she was arrested but by the time she got to the station to take the breath test she had become drunk.

Does anyone else find that stupid? What else could she become? She drank alcohol but between getting arrested be being brought to the station she developed mutant powers instead of being drunk so now she can shoot lasers from her eyes so she wasn't drunk at the moment of her arrest so it was a wrongful arrest. Duh no?

Logistically she might not have been drunk at the exact moment of her arrest but if she was to become drunk at some future unknown time I'm glad the cop arrested her. Symantics won't help if she became drunk and killed someone. Some people are stupid. :(

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Jun. 18th, 2009 @ 10:19 am Copyright and Trademark
So I'm pretty good with the concepts of copyright and trademark, having sold fanart and researched the concepts for years.

You can't copyright a character design, only specific pictures of an existing character. You can trademark a character to represent your company, but it has to be defended to mean anything.

Most characters aren't trademarked, often only mascots for a company are.

So that makes me wonder, if I were to take a picture of a cosplayer in costume of a character and sold the picture, I'm technically legally safe, right? Any copyright or trademark specialists out there who can clarify?
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Jun. 14th, 2009 @ 09:06 pm Rock!
Well, I've been making steady progress on my back yard. I plan to do one chunk of it per week until at least half of it is no longer lawn.

In progress shots with my new camera! I bought a FujiFilm Z30. I needed a tiny portable travel camera so I can take pictures of things without lugging around my giant camera :)

My general plan:
1) finish planting shrubs near shed
2) finish rocks around shrubs
3) make a stone path over to the wishing well
4) make a brick smoker/BBQ cooker on side of patio
5) make waterfall pond in the middle of the back yard
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Jun. 7th, 2009 @ 09:13 pm More Pocky girls!
Another white mage with glasses :)


White Mage Cat Girl by *HoiHoiSan on deviantART
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Jun. 5th, 2009 @ 01:14 pm Letters!
Well, my fortune cookie today said someone was waiting for a letter from me. So if anyone wants a letter from me with a little doodle in it, send me your address! I'll screen this post so your address is not seen by the world. :) Make no assumptions, if I had your address at one point, I don't anymore since my palm pilot died, so send it again!
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Jun. 2nd, 2009 @ 04:46 pm Ups and downs!
So May was awesome. Vacation, my birthday, yummy dim sum, good friends, paintball, can't complain, best month ever.

2 days into June my toilet valve broke, and had to replace it and the bath tub seals busted, leaking water into hallway. Both easy enough to fix.

Now my water heater is leaking, have to get a new one installed for about $1500 and I also go jury summons for the 22nd!

Crazy days ahead.
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