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Lack of Recent Updates

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Site News

I know I’ve kind of been in the habit of updat­ing mus­ings most every­day and in the last few; I’ve been slack­ing off, but I have a pretty, good excuse. I’ve pur­chased a new domain name for this web­site and I’m busy work­ing away at a new theme to fit the new name. I hope to have to ready in the next week or so (and then I need to get back to work­ing on some tem­plates for a friend’s new site).

In other news, I once again suc­cumbed to the lure of buy­ing a new sketch­pad. I don’t know why I do this because if I look around my apart­ment I know I can find at least 4 sketch­books that I haven’t used all the pages in yet. *sigh* Oh well, this one’s a lot nicer than my pre­vi­ous one. which was a cheap­ish clear­ance item from a book­store, hard­cover but with a stan­dard spin so pages are not really remov­able and one can’t really scan the sketches either. The new one is roughly 6“x8”, has a cover made of a dark cork­board, the pages are bright, white acid-free paper and the book is spi­ral bound; so I can actu­ally scan the draw­ings from it with­out killing the book. I was think­ing I would save this sketch­book for my Japan trip later this sum­mer, but last night as I was lay­ing down try­ing to go to sleep, an idea came to me and the new sketch­book was the first one I could find. So, it won’t be blank for trip but that’s prob­a­bly just as well; since I only want to take one sketch­book with me and it wouldn’t hurt to have some art in it to show peo­ple in the class I’ll be taking.

Umm, what else can I write about to pacify my non-existant audi­ence.…. Oh, I know. Last night after I got home from work, Ariesna and I walked down to the local Farmer’s Mar­ket. On the way down, we stopped in the library and I picked up a copy of Neil Gaimen’s Amer­i­can Gods to read. Some friends of mine (Bryon & Aizuchi) have been talk­ing about the book in rela­tion to the new RPG that we’ll be start­ing up soon. From our group’s last dis­cus­sion, it doesn’t sound like we’re going to be fol­low­ing the premise of the book as closely as per­haps was orig­i­nally thought but I still thought it would be worth read­ing through and so there you go. I hope to have the book fin­ished in a week or so and I’ll let you know what I think then.

Err, the last thing I can think of is that I’ve been think­ing about get­ting a dig­i­tal cam­era again. The one that I’m cur­rently lean­ing towards is the Canon Pow­er­Shot S 500 Dig­i­tal Elph. My main con­cern is that I’ve got no real money to speak of and plenty of bills to pay. To com­pound the prob­lem, I see that Best Buy is cur­rently offer­ing 10% of all their dig­i­tal cam­eras (only when you order online) and I know I could get at least 6 months 0% financ­ing. But I also know that I should replace the fol­low­ing bits on my car:

• Tim­ing belt & water pump: The esti­mates I’ve got­ten on this tell me it’ll cost between $600 & $800. Ouch!
• Air bag sen­sor: $500
• Front brakes: They still work, but are get­ting really damn soft and I’ve not checked into this yet.
• Speedome­ter: Some­times when I first start up the car in the morn­ing, I’ve notice it takes it a while before it actu­ally starts reg­is­ter­ing my speed. For­tu­nately, my morn­ing drive is all in town, on 25 MPH roads, so it’s pretty easy to gues­ti­mate my speed to keep it under the limit.

*sigh* Some days I really hate being an adult and long for those golden days of yes­ter­year when my par­ents han­dled all this sort of thing.