1 Aug 07
I started drawing my next comic today. Knowing how this goes, I spent the day waiting for the dramatic event that would keep me from moving forward creatively. There’s always something to dissuade one from a creative project. I shouldn’t have been surprised. There was no dramatic event, but I have had trouble drawing. Because […]
31 Jul 07
Hot today. Full-scale summer hot. Not brutally oppressive, not yet; that’s for August. But when there’s a good twenty degree difference between outside and outside, you don’t stay out much. Which is a shame. If I were still a kid, I’d love this weather. You can work up a good sweat when it’s hot. Run […]
30 Jul 07
A grey, drizzly, London-by-Foglight morning. I felt subdued as I drove in to work, my radio silent in deference to this week’s Media Fast. Ah! The Media Fast. This is my second in as many years. I spend a week avoiding all broadcast media: TV, DVDs, movies, newspapers, magazines, books, the world wide web, and […]
29 Jul 07
A quiet day of heat and rain. It began with a jog in the dense mugginess of a D.C. area summer. A few clouds provided scant, thin cover for the sun. But they muscled in and eventually obliterated it. By mid-afternoon, I was back from church and my parents had come over with the dogs, […]
28 Jul 07
This morning, a trip to the farmer’s market. In My Neighbor Totoro, Satsuki compares her neighbor’s vegetable garden to “a mountain of treasure.” It’s a childish, overwrought sentiment, but when confronted with thousands of vegetables in a rainbow of deep, rich color, I have to agree. So, I came home with several plastic bags of […]
27 Jul 07
I’ve been getting mediocre, bland, cheap-American-beer sleep all week. I’ve been getting up late as a result, which means no time to exercise in the morning. So I’ll get in a brisk walk here and there, but nothing really solid. Which may explain my mediocre sleep. Plus, it’s been hot. Well, duh; it’s late July. […]
26 Jul 07
I left work early today to attend a Toastmasters meeting. This is my second time at a Toastmasters event; the first was at a small club that couldn’t really find members; this is a larger club (about six regular members) that’s been going for months. Good people, interesting topics, and some really great speeches. I’m […]
25 Jul 07
Today, I began work in earnest on my new project at RC/STS: RCVA. It’s a desktop, instruments-only flight simulator aimed at small training facilities. We build an application that contains all the panels you’d find on a given aircraft (throttle, airspeed, etc.), and sell it off. The application development process involves copying a lot of […]
22 Jul 07
And I’m back. And I’m exhausted. I had a great weekend with Saalon and Nick at Otakon; the con is always much more fun with friends. We had a pretty standard experience. Watched some anime, bought some fun stuff at the dealer’s room (little figurines, Gundam model kits, bags, etc.), and went to a few […]
19 Jul 07
Leaving today for Otakon. Probably won’t blog again until at least Sunday. Do something really cool this weekend, okay?