Good news on the writing project front. I hit page 100 yesterday wheile writing, so I only have 50 more to go to reach my rough draft pae count target. Now, I also have three points left to cover in the main body of the story, so I'm thinking I'll be able to get it all done by my new deadline, if not sooner, depending on how well my draft sessions go this week. In fact I'm going to plug away at it some today after I post this. This is good news for the Pixia projects too, because I'll have some time to work on them too, but no promises on them yet.
Other than that, I do't really have a lot to talk about today, unless you want to know every little details of my making French Toast yesterday. I do have to whine about the cold though, it's still chilly here, but the temp is supposedto go up in the next few days, so hopefully things will be warmer sooner.
Comments:
scorchbird12:
I'm a lot closer to being done my writing project draft, and the Wallpapers, well I'll work on them in my spare time and hope to get them up soon.
Yeah, I can remember that kind of thing myself. It's liek the teachers get together and find out when everyone else is doing major projects so they swamp you with work. It was frustrating, but I managed to get through it then, so I will now too.
Since I'm not in school anymore, or I don't have a job, I don't have to worry about projects not getting done by a certain date. Still, I like to set deadlines for myself so that I can have a sense of accomplishment for getting something done by a set date.
In terms of cost the silver leaf (or silver foil) might be difficult to acquire, but finding it shouldn't be that hard. A good chef's supplier would have some of that (as well as the gold -I'm not even going near the stuff it's that far out of my budget- leaf). The white strawberries are the tricky things to get.
Mistee05
I try to resond as soon as I am able.
Since you're coming into the middle of things, I'll be glad to explain. Pixia is a freeware image manipulation program that I've used for three years now in place of Photoshop since I can't afford it. Recently I posted (linked in blog here) a couple projects Idid with Photoshop elements, and I showed them off on other sites too. Since then, every time I've mentioned Pixia, someone somewhere (not here on MyO) has implied that I'm either speaking ill of Pixia for being "inferior" to Photoshop (it can't do a lot of the higher end stuff, but it's a great tool), or that I'm telling tales about eing able to do decent graphic stuff with Pixia. I posted here that I was going to be proving that with a couple things, including the wallpapers I mentioned. It's just going to take me longer to get those things up here that I originally thought.
I promised Caprice that I wouldn't publically post the details of the scene that's my hook moment for Escaflowne until she sees the episode herself, but I can say it's in Episode 7, and it hooked me on anime in general. Being hooked on the music came later (It was "Change the World" from InuYasha that really hooked me on the whole Japanese Anime music scene), but the art and visual style of the animation was an early on thing for me.
I had that happen to me in a store once too. I went into one of my local Radio Shack stores to price a signal Amp for a TV antenna. Well, I went into the store and like they are supposed to do the guy asked me if he could help me with anything. I said "no" after that, they are supposed to leave you alone, this guy didn't, he followed me over to the amps. After he babbles on about one particular model, he gets quiet, I think he went to go help someone else, then he came back over to me. Anyway, As I'm looking over the amps I catch this shadow in the corner of my eye, so I said in a rather loud voice "That's why I like the other store, at least they leave you alone there." thinking the shadow was my Mom who'd come into the store with me. It was the store person, and he couldn't move fast enough to dive behind that counter and pretend to be busy as I left the store without buying. It's a shame they closed the other store, it was the better of the two.
That snow came and went like sneeze, I knew it wouldn't last because the forecast said an Inch, they always overshoot the mark. Are you using Celsius or Fahrenheit degrees for the temps? Cause -24° would be wicked cold if thats a Fahrenheit temp, if it's Celsius it converts to about -11.8°F which is still painfully cold. I'm not sure how low it's gotten here before, but I know it's gone below 0°F in the winter before, and I'm not even adding the wind chill in there. I love to shovel snow, I'm weird about it, but I doubt I'll be doing much of that, it hardly ever snows enough to need it here.
alphonse13:
Since I gave myself till my birthday, I'm sure I will get it done by then. The polish will come after a week's rest from it.
Well, I have to see the snow on the ground before I believe the weather forecast about it. It's sunny (I think that's what that big bright light in the sky is called, I'm used to being up after dark) and clear out there now.
I've seen those guys blow up, among other things, a log, a drainpipe, a toilet, a cement truck, an airplane, and a house. They test some of the weirdest stuff, and do it in a funny way too. It's a good show.
Ocean currents shift, and change the migration patterns of fish, and the food supply for the predators like sharks is altered, so they go looking for food elsewhere. They are attracted by the vibrations of swimmers in the water, that probably lures them closer to shore when food runs scarce further out.
I'll have to add Bessie to my list and keep an eye out for further info on it, that kind of thing is fascinating to me. New species of animals are being discovered all the time, so it's only a matter of time before these "myths" are exposed as real creatures.
Interesting, not something I would do (I don't have a car anyway), but interesting. There aren't any tales like that around here, but there might be a couple in WV somewhere, I'll have to do some digging on that.
Magnus Lensherr
I gave myself another month to get the draft done. With the holidays and all, that should be enough time for me. I don't like to have people read over my shoulders either, but they do sometimes. I only play Chess on the computer anymore since no one woill play with me in person and there's no Kibitzing in Chess.
I like the snow, but I'm weird that way.
I go by that to know who's updated in the last day, that tells me where to direct my comments.
It's a public forum thing here, so I assume that the comment responses are being read by others too. On a side note, Oedipus Tyrannos (or Oedipus Rex) is the first of three plays, the second being Oedipus at Colonus, and the third being Antigone. I haven't read the second one yet.
That's the name I couldn't find when I went to look it up. Anyway, if I could travel to England I would love to go just once to see some of the things I've only read about. The moors are still ther right?
