wheretheresawil

I like how this is the second time I've been stood up by the cat that's supposed to be taking the Triple Arcade off my hands. I told him to come by this morning to pick it up and it's now 3:00 in the afternoon. Of course, it's not like I have any other offers for it, but it's pretty annoying.

Finished up the characters' colors for page 21 just now. Gonna knock out the backgrounds a little later, maybe after work.

Turtles Forver kicked some major ass. Loved the old school black and white turtles, and the several panels and poses lifted directly from Vol. 1 #1. Although the end moment with the off-camera Eastman and Laird was decidedly bittersweet given current events.

I'm on the home stretch! I finished page 20 of The Redeemers #1 earlier, and I'm doing the thumbnail sketches for pages 21-24 tonight! With a little luck, the book should be out this time next month! Fingers crossed.

I love how the Fujitsu customer service person I talked to today claimed that they send me the email with the instructions for where to send my computer on the 12th. Right, lady, because clearly I'd be pissed off and talking to you right now if I had received the email. She said to give it two hours and I should have the email. If it's not here when I get back from grocery shopping I'm calling again and asking immediately to talk to a manager.

Side note: I think the canned laughter on these old episodes of Scooby Doo is funnier than any of the actual jokes in the show. Also, why would the bad guys leave out such obvious clues? The kids just found an oversized key with an easily solvable riddle on it.

Sending the Fujitsu Lifebook back and getting a Toshiba Portege instead.

It's not that it's a bad LAPTOP, it's just that the TABLET functionality sucks. A LOT.

Even down to the pen that they sent me. This thing may as well be the stylus out of my DS. It's a plastic stick. That being said, it's not so much a tablet PC as it is a touch-screen PC. Which makes coloring in Photoshop SUCH a delight! Before, on the Toshiba Satellite, if I made a mistake, it was on me 99% of the time, rather than a computer issue. On THIS, it's a computer issue closer to, oh, 70, 80% of the time. Also, because it doesn't register the pen as a pen, this little transparent picture of a mouse shows up and gets in the way

EVERY

SINGLE

TIME

I touch the pen to the screen. So say I'm using the Smudge tool. And I tend to work from left to right, top to bottom. Guess where the mouse shows up? To the right and slightly lower than where you touched. Oh, and the screen rotation only has 270 degrees of rotation, unlike my old Toshiba with all 360 degrees. And of course the one angle that it won't let come up is the one I prefer to work off of.

So, all in all, it's no one thing, but several little issues that just make it suck for digital artistry. The one thing I will miss is the wider screen on this one, but it's only a one-inch difference.

Just two simple backgrounds left to do for page 19 of Redeemers #1.  Unfortunately, I have to pull a double tomorrow, so it won't be done until late.  Applebee's is having some special promotion for Veteran's Day that they're expecting to bring people in in droves.  I hope they're wrong, a double is a big enough pain in the ass without it running extra long because they refuse to cut people.  I got called in for a server shift today that I should have just turned down- I only made $30 because just about every table I had tonight didn't leave more than 15% (10 more often than not), and my closer kept coming up with extra crap for me to do before she'd sign me out, so I was stuck there for a solid hour and a half after I was cut.

So yeah, sucky day at work is sucky.

At the moment, life is revolving around work, Redeemers, and Kim.  Speaking of, exceptionally happy about how we're doing.  We've been talking at length almost every single day, for what will be three months in a couple of days.  I've been saving up to make a trip down to see her, and I think I should have enough by early to mid January.

Too sleepy to type another coherent sentence.  Good night.

Note to self: never count on a day off staying a day off.  So much for finishing those colors tonight...

If Windows 7 doesn't make the tablet functionality on this thing work better, I'm sending it back to Fujitsu and getting another Toshiba.

I hate the first week of the month.  Credit card bill, student loan repayment.... it's even worse when I only made like, $90 this past week D:

Somebody come to the restaurant and leave me a $100 tip.

So, I'm going to try to get back into the habit of working out every morning.  But, with the treadmill's motor still burnt out, I'm going to try to play DDR for 10-15 minutes for cardio instead.  See if I can lose at least five more pounds by Christmas.

Work wouldn't let me wear my Rorschach mask, thinking it might be too scary for kids.  Good thing there wasn't a SINGLE kid that came in.  Gee, I wonder what small children were doing tonight?  Friggin' geniuses.

Rosey, if you read this, we need to be the D next year if you're around.  I'll be KG, you be JB.

Sappy ending note: Kim is freakin' amazing.  Very happy with the way this is going.

Don't forget to set your clocks back, people.

The 'rents are gone until December!

Already moved my computer desk, drafting table, game consoles... pretty much the whole grid into the living room.  Pleased about that.

Whether I'll move it all back before Christmas, I don't know...  I don't think they'll be hacked.  Moderately annoyed for the week that they're back, but whatever.  One week out of six months?  They can deal.  Work at 5:30, wearing my Rorschach costume.  Bringing a TMNT mask just in case visibility becomes an issue, and I can be Raphael incognito.



Moving furniture is tough when you're flabby with very little upper body strength.  *collapse*

Woop, I was meaning to do the pencils on page 18 today, and instead I tinkered with the new lappy all day...  I'll try to get some roughs down before bed, anyway.

Day off tomorrow, whoo!  Ben and Tina are coming down for a bit, and Ben says he'll hook up the new laptop with the Microsoft Office Suite :D  Couldn't get that torrent of CS4 to install, and I deleted my install files for CS3 to make room.  Good job, me.  I think I found a good torrent of the CS3 install, and even if I didn't, Zack can hook me up with it again, so overall, good times.  I'll try to install that on the new lappy tomorrow and test out Photoshop in it.

Speaking of, not thrilled with the tablet functionality on it so far :/  It feels more cumbersome than even my four-year-old Toshiba.  Maybe I should have sprung for the T5010 series, eh?  Should still work fine, just won't be as luxurious as the tablet functionality on the old one.  And the pros of the new one far outweigh the cons, so I have very little to complain about.

Gonna try to pencil page 18 of Redeemers #1 tomorrow, and I'll ink it on Thursday.  I also wanna try to catch Zombieland on one of my days off, here.  Maybe I'll go on Friday before work...

Sup guys?

Not much new to report.  I ordered my new laptop.  I'm getting a Fujitsu Lifebook this time.  It's still a tablet PC, and Fujitsu's supposed to be one of the best tablet PC-makers out there.  The one bummer is that it's not coming preloaded with Windows 7.  I have to wait for the upgrade package to come in the mail next week.  The awesome thing is that I got $100 off- they were having a special- and a free printer- they were having ANOTHER special!  Going to Office Depot tomorrow and picking up one of those external cooling units, too.  I have a coupon for $10 off any purchase over $30.

My parents are leaving for Florida in six more days, and then I'll have the house all to myself for six months (save for the few days they're coming back over Christmas).  Think I'm going to move my drafting table, game consoles, DVDs, and computer desk out to the living room for while they're gone.  Have a nice little office setup while they're gone with the big-screen TV.

I also need to remember to call the businesses I interviewed at tomorrow to follow up.  Max and Erma's... I doubt I got it if they haven't called back by now, but I'm not thrilled at the prospect of driving clear out to Great Lakes Crossing every time I have to work anyway.  I really hope I get Trillium, though.  I gotta call GameStop, too.

Almost through with Redeemers #1!  I'm on page 17 right now, which means counting this one, I have 8 pages left, plus the official cover.  And holy crap.  I never admitted it, but I wasn't thrilled with how pages 9-16 came out, but 17 is coming out GREAT.  Wil got his groove back.  After I finish issue one, I think I'm gonna take a break and do a dozen or so Cowabunga! pages.

That's all from me for now, party people.  Later.

Sick of all this "close til open" nonsense at work.  Four weeks in a row now.  Kill me.

• Finish pencils and ink The Redeemers #1 page 16
• Go to the bank
• See Zombieland?

I really should finish up those rough pencils for Redeemers tonight... but I'm just so tired, and it's not even midnight yet... doing it tomorrow.

Had an interview at Trillium Theaters the other day.  The guy who was interviewing me told me that there were 13 other applicants that they had interviewed, so my odds aren't great.  Though, I did get a decent rapport going with the guy- it turned into less of an interview and more of a conversation.  So maybe he'll remember that.  He made it sound like he was one of the higher ups, like the guy that did work for several theaters in the general area owned by the same company.  So we'll see.  Expecting to hear from Max and Erma's and Sweet Factory this week, too.

Ordering my new laptop in four more days, stoked about that :D

So, Justin just pointed out to me that the Nostalgia Critic had posted two videos forming his top 20 favorite films of all time. I didn't notice them when they went up last month, so I just watched them a few minutes ago.

And wouldn't you know it, now I want to write up my own.

( Wil's Top 20 Favorite Movies )

So that's my top 20 movies of all time. Any thoughts? What are yours?

Okay, for all his faults, George Lucas does have his funny moments.  I'm watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and I just noticed that the club that the opening sequence takes place in is called "Club Obi Wan".

Why yes, I did just buy The Sandlot.

I love this movie...