I was playing the sound file I have, "Welcome to Christmas" from Di Gi Charat (I got it from a group I'm signed up with that has sort of drifted away from Yahoo! now), and there's something about hearing a medley of familiar songs done in another language that puts me closer to the spirit of the holidays. I've heard Silent Night done in Gernman, French, English, Japanese, and Spanish, and I like every single version of them. I guess there are truly some universal things, because I never realize when I'm hearing the song, that I'm hearing it in another language.
Anyway, with the holidays looming closer, I think I'm starting to get the feeling. My family put up our tree today (I should have helped, but I wasn't really feeling well), and we've got one of those lighted villages that sits underneath it. (I should get a train set with the bright blue Conrail engine to replace the one my Grandfather gave my mother, he was an Engineer). It's a pretty sight, I'll take some pictures if the camera will stand it (It eats batteries).
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Outlaw Melfina
I shop when people in my family hand me money and say "here, get me something."
Actually I'm joking. My family is very tolerant of my being unemployed and helps me out, knowing I would feel terrible if I didn't do anything for them at all. I drew them all pictures last year, but I got the sense that many of them thought I was being "cheap". My sister is the only one who asked me if I was going to draw everyone pictures again this year. I'll probably draw one for her, but no one else, she's one of the two most supportive people of my art in my family, the others just humor it.
Caprice
Back in 2003 when my family got DSL, I had to install the NIC in my Windows 98 computer myself, and that was a hassle.
Installing the card is kind of complicated. You have to have a free PCI slot on the motherboard, and that slot has to be a "Master" slot, not a "Slave" slot (who names those things anyway?), and of course the computer case has to have an available spot that lines up with the correct PCI slot. Once that's in and the computer recognizes it's there (that was the problem I had, I couldn't get it to recognize the card at first, but it took it after a while, I think some of the network stuff has to be installed and enabled for it to see the network card the first time), you're all set.
The card itself ran somewhere around $25-30 (may have been a little more, I don't remember now), not too much considering what I was expecting it to cost, and if you have a router, you won't need the crossover cable, you just connect it to that, and if all is right with the network, it should see the Windows 98 computer and say "Hello, come join the network!" I have to use a crossover cable because I don't have the money to set up a home network right now. I'll warn you the audio files might not want to go by way of e-mail. I tried that once, and couldn't save the file to my computer. It may have been the e-mail host's doing to "protect" the content, but since I had the song on CD, I just re-ripped it (:P).
I'm weird about learning things, so complex or simple doens't really matter to me (except in Origami, still can't get that x_x paper dragon to come out right). I'll be able to use those resources you provided for me as well as
whtdragon's reference sheets, and any tips from any other dragon artists out there who'd be willing to share them. So I don't keep referring to them surreptitiously as "the resources" here's the links:
Dee Dreslough's Art Gallery
I would have put his banner up, but the way he's got his link code written is horrible! It would never have worked anyway.
I have read through them briefly, and I do believe I will find them extremely useful. The one with the banner link even has line art ot practice coloring with, so I know I'll be all right.
Escaflowne is the series that hooked me on animé, so I love to talk about it and get more people to see it. I had to go a whole hour out of my way to the nearest Best Buy to find the box set (Perfect Collection, it has the eight discs of the series, and Disc Nine is the movie - One of the discs has the FMV sequences from the playstaion game on it as an extra) I've got, but it was worth it.
I'm trying to learn to stick to the point of things, but I'm a textbook example of the Psychology concept called "Stream of Consciousness" where my mind flows from one idea to the next seemingly randomly without any kind of rhyme or reason to it. That makes it hard to really stay on task though.
Anime Dreams
