Since I'm doing the whole Thanksgiving thing early this year because my family works on Thursday, I thought I'd take the time to share with you one of my other passions, cooking. I don't have much for you today, but I will share with you how to make a wonderful sparkling strawberry lemonade that's sure to please the palate, and impress that hard to please relative.
If the camera hasn't eaten it's batteries again, I'll have a picture of the finished product up for you later today if I can make it.
All right, the camera loved me today, here's a picture of the finished product, as promised.
Comments:
Magnus Lensherr
We each handle things in our own way. Panda, one of the staffers here, used the format long before I did, and between her and James, another staffer doing it, I somehow convinced myself I should try, and it works for me. I like to keep organized that way.
I never could get into one like that, either anime, comic book, or whatever. I have to build the whole concept from the ground up myself, it allows me more freedom with my characters. A lot of times, I don't even reveal full plot details right away, I like to drop hints throughout the project. I don't like to leave an RP unfinshed, but the process is a fun pastime.
There are no rose bushes up front for them to destroy, a few ugly shrubs that won't really be missed when they're gone, but no rose bushes.
Actually, they do, if you read them right. If I were to put the text of your comment in the right sequence with my replies, this would read a lot like an IM chat, or normal conversation. I actually used to do an RP skit which I argued with myself. I had some people thinking I was totally nuts. I ocassionally miss a spelling snafu, but no one's perfect.
As the shirt my sister gave me says "I live in my own little world. But it's okay, they know me here." o_O
I still don't think it's the right caliber for MyO, but I will try to get it scanned and on the Photobucket in the next few days. I've got a lot of stuff coming at me this week (my family's Thanksgiving dinner is on Tuesday because everyone works on Thanksgiving), so it may be a whle before I get it up. If this place isn't here in 10 years, I'll personally kick Adam's butt. I need the community I've got here.
You take care as well.
sikaurai
You have a certain knack for writing that I think would make you great at RP. If you ever want to give it a try, you can find me on the Dragon's Den(Skip back down). It's not my message board, I didn't name it. My handle there is the same one I used back on the Tech TV message boards cosmictraveller. I'm usually on late at night, just so you know. You would have to create and post a character bio and post it with the Character Profiles before you start role playing, but I can, or there are others there who could help you out with any questions you might have. Not to plug, but you can also see a couple of my short stories there, on the Fan Fiction board too.
Using the anchors to bounce between content areas? Yeah, that's one of my favorite HTML tricks. I pop offsite links in new windows for the convenience of being able to come back to me easier too.
Hold your ears.NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS?! ARE THEY OUT OF THIER MINDS?! That's a lot of money to put out for publishing. If you do go with Xlibris, copyright your manuscript yourself before you turn it over to them, the US Copyright Office fee is only $45.00 as opposed to the $249.00 that Xlibris would charge you as an "additional service" (it would be on top of the *cringe* nine hundred dollars).
Successful or not, I'll owe a lot to my friends here, and on the message board I linked previously, and if I do happen to succeed, I'll be able to do whatever I can to help others' creative endeavors along, and you can count that as a promise.
scorchbird12:
You'll begin to see more of what makes me tick as time goes by, but not all at once. I'm a dragon, not a miracle worker. :P
I know, that's why I still do it. It's fun, and it's a great outlet for pent up creative energies.
They've actually impressed me in terms of doing their job. I'm still sore about the rose bush, but I'll be glad to have the roof not leaking and the porch roof shored up, and all that noise over and done with.
I used to hate the idea of reading novels myself, till I read an excerpt from one in the Sixth grade. I liked the story that I read, and had to know what came next, so I picked up the novel and read it through in about four days (I was a slow reader at the time). The book was Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman. It's one of those stories that you can't really put down because you always want to know what comes next, and even the ending is a surprise. I'm honored that you would make an exception like that, and since I'm an artist as well as writer, maybe I'll put a nice picture at the end if I can draw one that looks right to me.
alphonse13:
He's impressed me before with some really out there stuff, so I know we'll get everything set right so we can put that project to bed (my way of saying finish it). Though, usually I'm the one pulling the really weird stuff out of my hat.
Well, we had to go with a "pro" this time, I don't do heights well, and my Dad's in his 80's so neither of us would really do well trying to do it ourselves (parts of the roof are incredibly steep). Anyway, things are getting done right and that's the important thing.
In the end, those were the colors that worked best for me. I wanted bright for the inks, and soft for the text, I think I got that very well. Thank you for the compliment.
Really?! What was your username there? Basically what happened was: When Tech TV was taken over by G4, the really nice forums that the Tech TV web staff actually built by hand were scrapped for the G4 "message board out of a box" thing. I guess those losers at G4 couldn't figure out how to work the good board after they fired all the Tech TV mods. I think it was May 1 in 2004 that the real Tech TV boards started to redirect to G4, and it was in December of 2004 that cut my ties with G4TechTV (they have since dropped the TechTV part as I understand it) after G4 butchered, and I mean butchered, the wonderfully handled Tech TV episodes of Last Exile (first 13 episodes). I lived on the Tech TV Anime Unleashed boards from the day I started posting in late 2003 till they were shut down, that was my first online message board ever.
Yensid:
So far the roofers are doing a good job, wish it wasn't so noisey though.
Not enough sleep and too much caffeine will make a person miss the obvious. I still say the government should test Mountain Dew for hallucinogenic drug properties, that stuff is brutal. Yeah, "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop" so I keep my hands busy as much as I can, creating anything gives me a sense that I am doing something with my time, I don't like to laze about all day doing nothing.
I can and do bow to the absurd. The idiot staff assistant for my Senator who tried to make the Workforce West Virginia issue my fault, that was insanely absurd. Paying (well, actually a family member who took me out for lunch) $3.99 for pink lemonade with strawberry chunks in it at Ruby Tuesday, that's absurd, cause I know I can make a better one for a fraction of that. It's not absuridties I'm currently having to deal with. There's nothing ridiculously amusingly illogical about $1000.00 in debt, no income, no job, no prospects for jobs, being the only person in my family who isn't employed, the holidays coming up, and if I go on I'll give myself a monster headache. There's nothing funny about those things, whether I'm 25 or 205, they'll still be serious problems that need to be solved.
I'm certainly trying, in little steps. Dragons don't learn to fly without falling a few times first.
kout3uka
The future, is not yet written, I look forward to it as well.
I'll be even happier when they're done, no more noise!
