Christmas vacation was nice. I went home for 3 weeks, although I had originally only planned 2. Time seems to run out no matter how I divvy it. I saw all my siblings this time and we hung out and played XBox* together for the 4-5 days we were all home. I tried emptying out my room, getting figures painted, watchin’ movies, bloggin’ … hah.
My desktop hard drive failed. I broke down and bought a portable HD after not being able to access any data for two days. Mostly it’s a bunch of PDFs, pix and movies I’ve collected since 2003 - and more importantly the music. I have maybe 4 dozen playlists (and then some), one of which automatically groups all my newly added music. By the time I got home it was empty and needing more, but before I could add new music and sync my ‘Pod the HD crashed. I’m pretty co-dependent on my music, and with two days to contemplate all my lost Photoshop projects,
et cetera, it really wasn’t an option. Not to buy. Y’know.
I tried to get some 40K done, but no luck. My paints haven’t been used in at least 2 years, and they’re water-based, so I wasn’t expecting much. Most of them were fine, some were almost unchanged since I last used them. There was a casualty, and, alas, that color is one they don’t make anymore. I was able to finish 5 figures from the
Descent games, though even those were pretty taxing. I listened to my entire Opeth collection twice (2ce?) while painting.
Last night while taking out the trash and recycling I ran into a squirrel stealing a piece of bread out of the dumpster, which reminded me that I got pictures of an albino squirrel a few months back. On 3 November 2009 to be precise. I was walking to the
LRT when I saw it. I’ve been carrying my camera more often of late and was able to whip it out and catch a few pix, but that rodent scampered well and quickly away, so I only got these 3:
Also this camera’s not a quality thing, so enjoy what you can outta those.
I finished a background for the blog too, but it’s 1920x1200 and unless I upgrade, which I’m considering, I can’t use its full glory. Speaking of glory, behold my gingerbread house, the first one I’ve ever made. I named it Katrina:
Happy belated New Year!
I tried to get some 40K done, but no luck. My paints haven’t been used in at least 2 years, and they’re water-based, so I wasn’t expecting much. Most of them were fine, some were almost unchanged since I last used them. There was a casualty, and, alas, that color is one they don’t make anymore. I was able to finish 5 figures from the Descent games, though even those were pretty taxing. I listened to my entire Opeth collection twice (2ce?) while painting.
Last night while taking out the trash and recycling I ran into a squirrel stealing a piece of bread out of the dumpster, which reminded me that I got pictures of an albino squirrel a few months back. On 3 November 2009 to be precise. I was walking to the LRT when I saw it. I’ve been carrying my camera more often of late and was able to whip it out and catch a few pix, but that rodent scampered well and quickly away, so I only got these 3:
