FIRST AND FOREMOST...

HELP A FELLOW ARTIST TODAY!!! (or if you're not an artist, just HELP AN ARTIST, hot dammit!!!)

is a dA friend of mine who has done a couple really amazing commissions for me, including the one shown here, which is all colors of kickass and stuff. CHECK IT OUT!

She is in some bad need of help to cover some rising medical bills, so if you can spare a few bucks, why not think about getting a commish from her? It's money for a good cause, and it will get you some hawt artwork!  See RR's journal for details.

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Shhh. Don't tell anyone I'm not in there today. After a week and a half of freezing myself in the cooler, my brain operations were starting to consist of A) basic survival and B) wondering if fry-slinging at McDonald's was really that bad, which means I was probably getting pretty close to terminal. So once my nards began looking into co-signing a six-month lease in my stomach, I decided I had to get out of there for a little while, so today I've kept myself on the fringes, going inside every so often and mostly staying out in beautiful 70 degree comfort. If anyone asks, I'm in the cooler, playing good little soldier.

No news yet on the computer. This is a case of no news being a little on the expected side, however. I'm fortunate enough to game (tabletop-real-interaction like game, I mean) with my computer tech, so I learned early on that he's moving his store from its current location to one a little more west, where it will actually be more convenient to me, and a little less hassling and a helluva lot cheaper, rentwise, for him.

My desktop computer just happened to have its issues leading into this move, so it's been sort of put on the backburner while things like, say, boxing equipment, signing lease agreements, changing business cards and the like have taken the forefront of his mind. And since he pretty much works on his own, it's not as though he can have a bunch of lackeys continue to work on other things, such as the desktop of a friend that he generally lets off with a heinous discount, anyway. That's totally understandable. And since we game together, he tends to keep me up to date weekly. On the whole, this would probably be a much bigger issue if I didn't have my laptop, or if I wasn't working 50+ hour weeks.

Speaking of which, it looks like the heavy work weeks are going to continue unabated for some time. There was some suggestion going around that we would be going back to 8 hour days soon and forgoing weekends, but it was later discovered that was nothing but a vicious rumor, right alongside the one where it was understood that President Obama was going to visit and grant us all a tax break. We can barely keep up without working weekends when we're pulling 10 hours a day/5 days a week. How are we somehow supposed to magically keep up working 18 less hours a week? What genie are they going to unleash to make up the extra time we're not there?

Oh wait... yeah, that would probably be the team leads. As a team lead, I am quietly insulted by that thought. *Sigh* But at any rate, life is still good. Can't complain too much.... TWO WEEKS TO GEN-CON, BABYYY!!!!

Shit. That was too loud. And now they've caught me outside my frigid home. Alas, poor heat, I KNEW YOU WELL!

<sub>"Your moment of Zen:
This is the sound of one hand
not giving a fuck."

- Me, Haiku</sub>