Couple bits of bad luck to talk about today. The other morning my internet connection wnet down and it was out for most of the morning. Obviously it's back on now or I'd be really mad. My optical mouse also finally died, and it tried to open everything on my desktop before it went. Good thing I kept the computer's original mouse. Those things really need to be built better.
I'm sure some of you remember my mentioning AnimeFF, the con that was last weekend, the one featuring the Breast Cancer Awareness artwork. Well, I'm a little worried about
Adam(the site's founder), since he got back from that con he hasn't been himself. His latest posts seem to be filled with much more stress than usual, and he's avoided mentioning the con in any detail as well. I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure it had to be something pretty big to rattle him. I hope someone posts what happened soon, because I'd like to know why he's not himself.
Comments:
KanuckGrrl
I know, it's so hard to get them looking just right sometimes. I'm taking my time with it so it comes out as good as I can get it.
The delay won't really affect my wirting too much, I have 99% of it done, I just need to wrap the end a little tighter so the readers know that's the end of the story. Currently it kind of just hangs, like there's more to come. I was never as expressive in school with my leterary works, I kept things close to the vest. I have had my sister tell me I wrote well, along with others on various message boards where I've role played. I did do one really good story for the sixth grade, and believe it or not in looking back it was a Star Trek Fanfic. I can't find that story, I think the teacher kept it. I don't consider that gloating. Gloating is making someone else feel inferior to your skill in some obvious, demeaning way. To me it is anyway.
I will try, and if I take my time with them, I will get them done in due time.
scorchbird12:
I haven't set a specific deadline for publishing yet, I do want to have the polish done by later this year. I think publishing is going to have to wait till I can investigate some writing grants first.
Sushi isn't a dish for everyone, I just like weird things. Yeah, the lamp is a normal floor lamp, but the bulb is a specially designed fluorescent bulb. The light it puts out is similar in wavelengths to that of natural sunlight, which is good for people with certain types of depression anyway. You might try just looking around a hardware store for a "compact fluorescent sunlight bulb" or something to that effect. They screw right into a normal lamp socket. I should warn you thought that if you burn easily like me, you might want to be careful, thos bulbs do put out a lot of UV radiation.
Yeah, I've gota conservative estimate of $700, I added all the figures myself, for self publishing which would probably be the way I'd go if I could. I would like to be able to design my own cover, only because I wouldn't want it too elaborate for a first book.
Emotion isn't a communication of words, it's feelings underlying the words. Being good at subtext, I can listen to almost any song in any language and appreciate it for the emotion that's in it. I happen to like a lot of the musical arrangments in Japanese music along with that emotional underlay, so I'm hooked. The people who won't listen at all just becuase it's not in their native language, well, they just prove their own cultural ignorance.
I think it's quarterly because it's a free thing, if they had more sponsors and stuff, they could probably offer it monthly. Actually, that whole program went downhill after the second issue. It used to be about the anga, now it's packed full of other "articles" annd things that waste page space. Looks like they're not too interested in giving away much for free, but I can't complain, you get what you pay for they say.
That whole "turn based" system frustrates me, I know how I want to do things like that, let me do it my way. I'm not really into that whole "group dynamic" when it comes to playing games, I'm a lone hero kind of player. Needless to say I don't do many multiplayer games either, and I don't game online at all.
Yensid:
The tequila came later, I had green tea in the sushi bar, come to think of it, it tasted a lot like Oolong tea, but they called it Japanese Green tea, it was good. Generally I don't drink when I'm out with people, mostly because I don't really know my limits with such a thing yet (I like to be able to remember what I did the night before thank you). I think if I get up to that sushi bar again, I'll try the sake though. It was nice of my sister to take me up there.
I used to joke that I lost it a long time ago, but I guess I found it again since I'm finding it easyer to take my time with things.
That's certainly the truth. Art is one of the easiest things in the world to do, it just takes a lot of time to get it right.
Kiki-tink
Ooh, that sounds good, but I'll take it on the rocks myself (or in a good Irish Coffee). It is good, not too minty, not too chocolatly and all Bailey's. I know, I give people adivce like that and don't practice what I preach which reflects badly upon me. I am trying to be more in line with how I advice others.
light shadow
There's an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying "The Hurrier I go, the Behinder I get" so don't rush too fast. Glad you could stop by, even for a moment.
Shireishou
Sushi is expensive, my sister paid about $65.00 for the three of us (herself, her friend and me), but she wanted to do it. I was glad to go for the opportunity because that's not something that people offer to do everyday. If I lived by the ocean though, (My mom is from a coastal state) it would be less costly than inland where I am now.
Funny thing, I wass actually having connection troubles with my internet the other morning, it was strange. That seems to be fixed now, so I'll certainly try to help you out wiht that. Actually I've been meaning to get me one of them MP3 recorders (the physical ones, not just the software) for a project or two I'd like to get underway sometime in the near future.
You might want to be sitting down for this. If we're talking about the same software, Manga Studio, the full version is about $300. They do have a reduced function version $50.00 though, which I might entertain buying if it's sold in stores. I hate buying "download" software, I like to have a physical disc, that and I can't pay online for things like that anyway. There's a couple different versions and they all cost different.
