Friday, August 13, 2004
It’s been a looooong week. But at least I have my weekend free. Saturday afternoon will be spent working on Otherspace Productions animations. In fact, I assembled a rough version of one shot last night. It’s an odd emotional experience, assembling animation. I envisioned this thing months ago, and I saw it clearly in my mind, but that’s all that existed. Thoughts. But last night, I clicked “Render” in Premiere, and lain walked […]
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
I seem to be recovering, according to my normal schedule (fine on Monday, dive on Tuesday, plateau on Wednesday). My mortgage continues its rocky road; I now may need more money than I expected. I can’t really think about it enough to write about it, though. For now, here’s more VR story: Kino blinked at Karl, then looked back at the three old men. The silence was so heavy Kino had difficulty […]
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
I am exhausted. It’s day two of the customer audit at work. Half a dozen people are here, reviewing my documents. It’s hell, not because of their personalities (they’re great), but because I’m getting up at 7:00 a.m. every morning to get in here on time. On Monday, I had to get up at 5:00 a.m. to print off my materials, after discovering over the weekend that the print servers were down. And that’s all […]
August 6, 2004
In other news, The Register has an excellent article on the recent webloggers attending the Democratic National Convention. I’ll quote a bit of a thought-provoking post by Seth Finkelstein quoted in that article, which neatly sums up the problems of attending a conference of 15,000 journalists while thinking that you’re there to reinvent journalism: The blunt question of readers is always “Why should I read you”? They’re asking, what power and influence do you have, […]
Wednesday, August 4, 2004
More VR story. Too tired to write more about my own life. Extremely busy week. “We’re dead, aren’t we Kino?” said Karl. The two thugs stood before a pair of massive red doors, each door fifteen feet high and five feet wide. On either side stood guards, dressed in business suits just like the thugs were. The guards held Uzis. Casually. Karl nodded miserably and gulped. […]
August 3, 2004
In other news, DDR is tough. I’m at work at the moment, trying to finish a document and completely overwhelmed by it. I’d hoped to be able to finish it today, but it’s too big and I’m too tired. ANN‘s right. This is is the greatest online poll ever. If you’re not familiar with Tenchi Muyo!, you won’t get it.
Monday, August 2, 2004
Updating this journal has felt like a futile exercise lately. Writing well is rarely easy, but for the past few weeks it’s been a Herculean task. Problem is, I want to write journal entries that are well-formed and entertaining as well as revealing. I can splatter my life’s ephemera all over these pages, but do I do so in a way that’s clear and interesting to my readers? That may sound like […]
July 29, 2004
Here’s an attempt at describing my life for the next few weeks: Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 25 July 26 27 28 29Today 30Otakon 31Otakon morning, drive to Saalon‘s 1 AugustAt Saalon’s 2Drive back in morning 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18Sign townhouse contract 19Review townhouse 20 21Move clothing, pots, pans, […]
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Um. So. I don’t really have time to write an entry that fully describes my experiences today, but I did want to record this: I now own a townhouse. Well, I don’t exactly own it yet; we won’t close on it until mid-August. But I’ve signed the contract, and the seller’s signed the contract. Everything looks golden. I don’t really have an emotional reaction to this yet. I’m overwhelmed. It all happened […]
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Yes, yes, no updates. Much wailing and ululations of reprobation. I’m a baaad blogger. Much going on in my life. For one, I’m buying a townhouse, which scares me cold. I’m going to have to pay several thousand dollars just to perform the financial transaction. That’s without actually paying for the thing. And I feel bad when I spend more than a hundred bucks on anime. I know that this is the right thing for me to do […]