Well as of late I've managed to pull an extra day at work due to one of my floor managers being short handed now. It's one extra night so not much but then again today they needed me to fill in for diswashers for a few hours and said I'd likely be needed to do so again on monday. So I'm makeing extra hours and pay now and it is a good time for that to come to me.
On the other end of the spectrum my land lady has been snooping around my living spaces again and feels she can now dictate what I can and cannot do with my rooms. So in an effort to avoid a conflict there it's time I started putting things in storage again. If I do it gradually and then sell some of my things in storage on the internet I should be down to a minimal living space.
Meanwhile I'll be looking for someplace else to live. I don't know that I'll find anything but I'm not waiting for the time when I no longer have a choice in the matter.
So all around a lot of little things gobbling up time and leaving me a lot less time to be myself. hopefully that won't be a regular thing.
Gotta hold it together for a bit. I know I can work with this, just wish change came gradually rather then all at once.
I'm not sure I'll have much time to post for the next four days, so it may be tuesday before you hear from me again.
take care of yourselves,
Roving jack
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
It was a white and snowy night...
Oh that driveway better be plowed when I get back, otherwise I'm gonna... well mostly just whine to myself quietly, but still...
I tell you this storm is something else. Mainly because of the number of people who get all worked up about it. I won't pretend the road weren't rough in some places on my way in, but seriously it's new england in winter. Maybe it's good though that some people don't drive, and risk the lives of everybody else.
Woo, that sounds a bit harsh. I think I'm just grumpy and tired from shoveling my land landies drive way to get out when the plow didn't show, and getting all worn out in time to get to work and find out they were closing early due to the storm... that would be over before regular closing time.
Oh well. Such is life.
Not much to say tonight. I'm still tinkering with comic ideas and procrastinating on a few of my goals. I'm also awaiting a check that goes toward rent... it should have arrived by now. Heres hoping.
I'll hopefully be more topic-y tomorrow.
take care of yourselves,
Rovingjack
I tell you this storm is something else. Mainly because of the number of people who get all worked up about it. I won't pretend the road weren't rough in some places on my way in, but seriously it's new england in winter. Maybe it's good though that some people don't drive, and risk the lives of everybody else.
Woo, that sounds a bit harsh. I think I'm just grumpy and tired from shoveling my land landies drive way to get out when the plow didn't show, and getting all worn out in time to get to work and find out they were closing early due to the storm... that would be over before regular closing time.
Oh well. Such is life.
Not much to say tonight. I'm still tinkering with comic ideas and procrastinating on a few of my goals. I'm also awaiting a check that goes toward rent... it should have arrived by now. Heres hoping.
I'll hopefully be more topic-y tomorrow.
take care of yourselves,
Rovingjack
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Happy day dreams
I've got to say that there is little in this world as pleasant as silly ideas wondering in and visiting the brain.
I practically couldn't breath for the chuckles I got for an idea for a part of the web comic I will be working on soon. I had just pulled into the parking lot and the child like fun and silliness tumbled together to create this simple three panel strip.
I've sort of had comic ideas on the brain lately with three of them fighting for brain time. Goober is the cutsey childlike one, then there is a bit of a steampunk comedy adventure calling itself Minions dilemma (it started as a simple working title but it's actually growing to suit it well), and then there is the nameless project which is as much an experimentation in art style as a story and comic. That one seems more serious though some recent ideas have allowed for some comic relief and lightening of the story.
So far I've only managed to do concept sketches for Goober and the nameless one thus far. The Minions Dilemma actually isn't drawn and requires some making of things before I start and then it's pretty much just start doing it. Because it has to do with photos and physical objects I need to get some test shots with a camera and start making the props and supplies for the story (where am I gonna keep all of this stuff?) before I can even begin.
Sigh, the extra day at work does change the schedual a bit, but hopefully it's just a matter of getting used to it and adapting some things.
There is supposedly a big storm coming tomorrow so I don't know if I'll be able to get to a computer, let alone work, but I will try. I'm going to run errands tonight just to be safe though.
If I don't write again tomorrow that at least I hope to be able to post by thursday night after work. Until then...
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
I practically couldn't breath for the chuckles I got for an idea for a part of the web comic I will be working on soon. I had just pulled into the parking lot and the child like fun and silliness tumbled together to create this simple three panel strip.
I've sort of had comic ideas on the brain lately with three of them fighting for brain time. Goober is the cutsey childlike one, then there is a bit of a steampunk comedy adventure calling itself Minions dilemma (it started as a simple working title but it's actually growing to suit it well), and then there is the nameless project which is as much an experimentation in art style as a story and comic. That one seems more serious though some recent ideas have allowed for some comic relief and lightening of the story.
So far I've only managed to do concept sketches for Goober and the nameless one thus far. The Minions Dilemma actually isn't drawn and requires some making of things before I start and then it's pretty much just start doing it. Because it has to do with photos and physical objects I need to get some test shots with a camera and start making the props and supplies for the story (where am I gonna keep all of this stuff?) before I can even begin.
Sigh, the extra day at work does change the schedual a bit, but hopefully it's just a matter of getting used to it and adapting some things.
There is supposedly a big storm coming tomorrow so I don't know if I'll be able to get to a computer, let alone work, but I will try. I'm going to run errands tonight just to be safe though.
If I don't write again tomorrow that at least I hope to be able to post by thursday night after work. Until then...
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Monday, January 26, 2009
Okey Dokey
I gots me some pink frilly chidrens socks, yay. Now to start tinkering with that a wee bit and set that whole project up.
I hope it gets a bit more clear to you all what that is all about in the future. I've had some people misintterpret what it is and it will just be easier to show then to try to explain its about showing the absurdity of hatemongers by giving them a pink frilly sock as an award for their hate and at the same time helping others by donating to organisations for the victims of that hate.
But enough of that. I've yet to get my spork related stuff worked out, and that may just require me to do some asking around. I sort of get a good laugh out of the idea of walking into a restraunt, asking to see the manager and then just straight out asking if I might be able to order sporks through them.
There is a part of me that absolutely loves the look that shows up on peoples faces when I short out a few neurons with things like this.
I'm also trying to gear myself up to be ready for the start of next month when I hope to be starting to build up the comics that I plan to post on the web. The hardest part of that being to convince myself that I'm good enough to star doing it and stop avoiding the whole process for fear of failure.
I'm coming back tomorrow, so until then Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
I hope it gets a bit more clear to you all what that is all about in the future. I've had some people misintterpret what it is and it will just be easier to show then to try to explain its about showing the absurdity of hatemongers by giving them a pink frilly sock as an award for their hate and at the same time helping others by donating to organisations for the victims of that hate.
But enough of that. I've yet to get my spork related stuff worked out, and that may just require me to do some asking around. I sort of get a good laugh out of the idea of walking into a restraunt, asking to see the manager and then just straight out asking if I might be able to order sporks through them.
There is a part of me that absolutely loves the look that shows up on peoples faces when I short out a few neurons with things like this.
I'm also trying to gear myself up to be ready for the start of next month when I hope to be starting to build up the comics that I plan to post on the web. The hardest part of that being to convince myself that I'm good enough to star doing it and stop avoiding the whole process for fear of failure.
I'm coming back tomorrow, so until then Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Work more, less time.
well it would seem in the excitement of earning more money to persue some of my intrests I had sort of forgotten that it would mean less time to do some of those projects.
Not really a significant differance in time so much as forcing me to use the same time as everybody else for my tasks outside of work.
So now I'm faced with quick errands before or after work at stores that are open then, or getting out and about earlier on fridays to get stuff done, unless I want to deal with the weekend.
Which I don't. I was trying to get some things done today and because of traffic and inconsiderate people and crowds and such it took me three hours to come up with no success on five little errands. That simply won't do.
I'll just have to plan better.
Blast it all I still can't find a good sorce of cheap multipacks of PINK SOCKS. Should something like this really be so hard?
anyway, talk to yah on monday night,
take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Not really a significant differance in time so much as forcing me to use the same time as everybody else for my tasks outside of work.
So now I'm faced with quick errands before or after work at stores that are open then, or getting out and about earlier on fridays to get stuff done, unless I want to deal with the weekend.
Which I don't. I was trying to get some things done today and because of traffic and inconsiderate people and crowds and such it took me three hours to come up with no success on five little errands. That simply won't do.
I'll just have to plan better.
Blast it all I still can't find a good sorce of cheap multipacks of PINK SOCKS. Should something like this really be so hard?
anyway, talk to yah on monday night,
take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Thursday, January 22, 2009
21-26
Part of me wanted to discuss something else tonight but I did say I was going to cover the new goals.
It's important that I state that I cannot say for sure that I will do every goal on my list by I will be striving for at least 20 or more by years end. At that time I will reevaluate the goals I've listed and see if they are all still things I wish to persue. So while it would be awe inspiring to get the original list and these additions done it is not mandatory.
The additions are:
21) learn to play an instrument
22) sell a work of mine to a magazine or newspaper
23) design a game
24) make hand made paper
25) Pink socks of Hatred
26) Glamour bomb
To the explaining.
Well in the case of 21, I've had the goal in mind for a while, but lately it's come more to the surface. I've been rather obsessed with some of the music from a song called The Highwayman, that I think would be hauntingly wonderful just to be able to twiddle out from time to time. Then there is the whole hobbit theme that might be fun, or The red Poppies dance, or a few others.
22 is fairly straight forward, it's really just about getting past the writing and into the being read, and being a writer.
23 this goes along with my creative need, my recent intrest in board games and such, and some ideas that have been nagging at the back of my min. I figured it was going to happen anyway I might as well make it part of the list.
24 I'm a paper man living in a paper world. I practice origami, and am exploring kirigami, and make paper jewelry designs, and am studying clligraphy, and so on and so fourth, it just seemed logical that I should consider making some of my own for some of my projects.
25 Well this one is a bit odd and hard to explain but if all goes well in the next few weeks I should be starting up another blog where this could be followed. Just to reassure you, the idea at this time involves benefitting differant charities each month.
26 along with the one above this might have some of you a bit worried about me. Don't be, look it up. It's intent is to do something secret and mysterious (without recognition) that fosters a destruction of negative and restrictive prescepts and awakens a sense of mystiscism in the world. In other words it's a sort of secret sant kind of thing that instead of being a store bought present is something that reawakens that inner part of people that believe in magic (the word glamourie means a sort of magic from old folk tales and mythologies). So being the puckish lad that I can sometimes be, it doth intrigue me. I've actually had ideas about this sort of thing for a long time, I just didn't know what people called it and that it was still being done.
Well there you have it, Hope that is at least somewhat intresting, I've got some things to do so I can't say for sure outside of Monday night when my next post will be, and I won't restrict myself to a topic just yet.
Take Care of yourselves,
Rovingjack
It's important that I state that I cannot say for sure that I will do every goal on my list by I will be striving for at least 20 or more by years end. At that time I will reevaluate the goals I've listed and see if they are all still things I wish to persue. So while it would be awe inspiring to get the original list and these additions done it is not mandatory.
The additions are:
21) learn to play an instrument
22) sell a work of mine to a magazine or newspaper
23) design a game
24) make hand made paper
25) Pink socks of Hatred
26) Glamour bomb
To the explaining.
Well in the case of 21, I've had the goal in mind for a while, but lately it's come more to the surface. I've been rather obsessed with some of the music from a song called The Highwayman, that I think would be hauntingly wonderful just to be able to twiddle out from time to time. Then there is the whole hobbit theme that might be fun, or The red Poppies dance, or a few others.
22 is fairly straight forward, it's really just about getting past the writing and into the being read, and being a writer.
23 this goes along with my creative need, my recent intrest in board games and such, and some ideas that have been nagging at the back of my min. I figured it was going to happen anyway I might as well make it part of the list.
24 I'm a paper man living in a paper world. I practice origami, and am exploring kirigami, and make paper jewelry designs, and am studying clligraphy, and so on and so fourth, it just seemed logical that I should consider making some of my own for some of my projects.
25 Well this one is a bit odd and hard to explain but if all goes well in the next few weeks I should be starting up another blog where this could be followed. Just to reassure you, the idea at this time involves benefitting differant charities each month.
26 along with the one above this might have some of you a bit worried about me. Don't be, look it up. It's intent is to do something secret and mysterious (without recognition) that fosters a destruction of negative and restrictive prescepts and awakens a sense of mystiscism in the world. In other words it's a sort of secret sant kind of thing that instead of being a store bought present is something that reawakens that inner part of people that believe in magic (the word glamourie means a sort of magic from old folk tales and mythologies). So being the puckish lad that I can sometimes be, it doth intrigue me. I've actually had ideas about this sort of thing for a long time, I just didn't know what people called it and that it was still being done.
Well there you have it, Hope that is at least somewhat intresting, I've got some things to do so I can't say for sure outside of Monday night when my next post will be, and I won't restrict myself to a topic just yet.
Take Care of yourselves,
Rovingjack
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Things and stuff.
Yeah that was informative and all. Eh, it won't be up for long I'll post another entry tomorrow after a bonus day at work.
Why am I excited about that? Well the extra money is something I can invest in some of my goals and projects and possably get a return on in the future. But also because this may be a perminant addition to my schedual. Which mean a perminant adition to my income.
Could be being the operative term.
I've got some free days coming up to get some goal binging done on and I submitted my superhero Runcible story for viewing. I've got another project idea that was rather vauge that has just gelled in my head today and I'm setting myself up to do some very big things in the next few weeks.
So there is a lot going on, a lot to do, and I'm going to go with excited rather then nervous or tired (though the latter is a factor too).
Oh also I tacked on a few new goals to my twenty for this year. I'll discuss them more tomorrow.
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Why am I excited about that? Well the extra money is something I can invest in some of my goals and projects and possably get a return on in the future. But also because this may be a perminant addition to my schedual. Which mean a perminant adition to my income.
Could be being the operative term.
I've got some free days coming up to get some goal binging done on and I submitted my superhero Runcible story for viewing. I've got another project idea that was rather vauge that has just gelled in my head today and I'm setting myself up to do some very big things in the next few weeks.
So there is a lot going on, a lot to do, and I'm going to go with excited rather then nervous or tired (though the latter is a factor too).
Oh also I tacked on a few new goals to my twenty for this year. I'll discuss them more tomorrow.
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Being strange is difficult sometimes.
I'm all cool with the bemused head shaking and puzzled looks I can get from time to time with some of my weird ways of thinking and a few of my eccentric projects. I sort of take it with pride, because that means I'm exploring the less traveled parts of my world. Right where I what to be.
But there are times when I feel like I've gone into the store to buy supplies for my roads less traveled and they just don't carry supplies for that sort of thing. I mean seriously I don't think plastic sporks and pink sock (in bulk) are that absurd a request.
But after the last few shopping trips I can tell you that nobody carries plastic sporks (I may have to make arangments with a KFC or Taco Bel manager, for the few I need to try out the project they are intended for, after that I know where I can order them by the thousand or more), and While I can buy some bundle of colored socks that contain a pair of pink sock I'd rather get just the twelve pair I'm looking for to last the first year (I would take thirteen though as there is some appeal to doing it as a sort of lunar arrangement, there being 13 full moons in a given calender year).
Sure people find the idea of spork art strange and angry pink socks odd, some of them are entertained when I explain them but the hurdle of finding the supplies nessecary to maintain my strange ideas sometimes is the end of a perfectly good adventure in weird.
But I a stubborn weirdo, so I shan't surrender this quickly,
Back again tomorrow,
Take care of yourselves;
Roving Jack
But there are times when I feel like I've gone into the store to buy supplies for my roads less traveled and they just don't carry supplies for that sort of thing. I mean seriously I don't think plastic sporks and pink sock (in bulk) are that absurd a request.
But after the last few shopping trips I can tell you that nobody carries plastic sporks (I may have to make arangments with a KFC or Taco Bel manager, for the few I need to try out the project they are intended for, after that I know where I can order them by the thousand or more), and While I can buy some bundle of colored socks that contain a pair of pink sock I'd rather get just the twelve pair I'm looking for to last the first year (I would take thirteen though as there is some appeal to doing it as a sort of lunar arrangement, there being 13 full moons in a given calender year).
Sure people find the idea of spork art strange and angry pink socks odd, some of them are entertained when I explain them but the hurdle of finding the supplies nessecary to maintain my strange ideas sometimes is the end of a perfectly good adventure in weird.
But I a stubborn weirdo, so I shan't surrender this quickly,
Back again tomorrow,
Take care of yourselves;
Roving Jack
Monday, January 19, 2009
Okay that wasn't so bad
Accepting maybe the OW!
Yeah the strained shoulder and lightly sprained wrist bit seemed all completely better and the whiplash was a fading memory, untile I spent four hours hunched over a counter repeatedly chopping veggies by the twenty pound box full that I carried in from the back.
plus the hauling seventy and eight pounds of food off the salad bar at the end of the night and the empty steel pans in stacks to the dish room.
I feel a little like I rolled down stairs... pointy stairs. Sorry I don't know why that comes to mind and I'm aware it doesn't make a great deal of sense but *shrug* meh it works for me.
It was actually kind of nice to be back today. It feels a bit like getting back to normal. So as paradoxical as it sounds it might be a help in getting some more of my master list goals underway and a few other side projects.
There won't be as much reading time as there once was, but maybe I should try to finish up that Nietzsche so I can mark that read and done. I've not even looked at it for a while, and while it's not really bad, it wasn't really something I'd go out of my way to find again.
Back tomorrow,
take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Yeah the strained shoulder and lightly sprained wrist bit seemed all completely better and the whiplash was a fading memory, untile I spent four hours hunched over a counter repeatedly chopping veggies by the twenty pound box full that I carried in from the back.
plus the hauling seventy and eight pounds of food off the salad bar at the end of the night and the empty steel pans in stacks to the dish room.
I feel a little like I rolled down stairs... pointy stairs. Sorry I don't know why that comes to mind and I'm aware it doesn't make a great deal of sense but *shrug* meh it works for me.
It was actually kind of nice to be back today. It feels a bit like getting back to normal. So as paradoxical as it sounds it might be a help in getting some more of my master list goals underway and a few other side projects.
There won't be as much reading time as there once was, but maybe I should try to finish up that Nietzsche so I can mark that read and done. I've not even looked at it for a while, and while it's not really bad, it wasn't really something I'd go out of my way to find again.
Back tomorrow,
take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Saturday, January 17, 2009
I don wanna
It looks Like I gotta go back to work on monday. I don't really suppose as that is really all that bad (though with all the kids back it does tend to be one of the bussyest times of the year), it's just I'd like have a bit more time so that I could feel like I actually been away for some time. It feels like last week.
I don't really know if that is due to post nano and BFSC time dilation, Time flies when you're having fun, or doing so many things that I didn't feel like I had a spare moment to get wonderfully bored.
I'm also hoping that this most recent bout of illness settles out by tomorrow, Because I'm not terribly intrested in feeling queesy if I don't eat, queesy if I do eat and the like sombody scraping the inside of my digestive tract with a spoon (be it a runcible spoon or not).
Bah, just goes to show that I should get a move on with the whole world domination thing soon if I expect to get any peon to do the annoying stuff for me. Wait, you didn't hear me say that... -shifty eyes-
I've had some great reading lately though, the amber spy glass was decent and Diamond Age was awesome, and in the last day a book called tinker was rather enjoyable, enough so that I thing it might be worth seeking the sequel. I rather like some of the shinto aspects of some of the story, and the scifi tech mixed with the fantasy elves and their magic. All sort of slapped onto the quirky mad scientist girl from Pittsburgh.
I won't be quite as able to indulge my reading impulse when work hit on monday but maybe on the weekends. I do have a rather lot of projects to work on though.
Write you again on monday night
take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
I don't really know if that is due to post nano and BFSC time dilation, Time flies when you're having fun, or doing so many things that I didn't feel like I had a spare moment to get wonderfully bored.
I'm also hoping that this most recent bout of illness settles out by tomorrow, Because I'm not terribly intrested in feeling queesy if I don't eat, queesy if I do eat and the like sombody scraping the inside of my digestive tract with a spoon (be it a runcible spoon or not).
Bah, just goes to show that I should get a move on with the whole world domination thing soon if I expect to get any peon to do the annoying stuff for me. Wait, you didn't hear me say that... -shifty eyes-
I've had some great reading lately though, the amber spy glass was decent and Diamond Age was awesome, and in the last day a book called tinker was rather enjoyable, enough so that I thing it might be worth seeking the sequel. I rather like some of the shinto aspects of some of the story, and the scifi tech mixed with the fantasy elves and their magic. All sort of slapped onto the quirky mad scientist girl from Pittsburgh.
I won't be quite as able to indulge my reading impulse when work hit on monday but maybe on the weekends. I do have a rather lot of projects to work on though.
Write you again on monday night
take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Caught sleeping
Sorry, I feel pretty bad about missing that deadline.
I was doing fairly well saturday and only drove a few miles in my sleep... kidding. I wasn't as super tired as I would have expected though. Then even after 8 hours sleep I ended up getting an unschedualed nap (read fell asleep sitting up) in the afternoon and eneded up doing it again at 10pm. So I sort of missed some of my daily goals but luckily I phrased them to get done on a 7 per week total so I just did double the next day.
I started the amber spyglass on sunday and finished yesterday afternoon. Pretty decent work. The setting is wonderful. I'll give it one of my highest praises: I inspired some intresting ideas of my own.
Any story that causes me to come up with something of my own gets a thumbs up, this series gave me at least three ideas.
Now I'm half way through The Diamond age, by the author of Snow Crash. I'm sort of enjoying it. I alwasy find his first chapter or two very hard to read. But I was especially tickled by the neovictorian themes and 'project runcible'. Imagine finding a book that talks about things a steampunk can appreciate and also having it use the word runcible; which I have many things going on with. I will be making a runcible hat and a mechanical runcible device, and I've written the first chapter of my runcible super hero story, and I will be making runcible crafts eventually and maybe a game or two. I have a lot of runcible projects to come.
The trip to connecticut was sort of fun and is a decent idea for me, because it will allow me to participate in some of the gaming that I can't always get to at the con in summer. And I can network with other gamers who might be intrested in or have ideas for my maps and such.
I've got a boat load of things I'm handling right now and some of them want me to get going on them. I figured I'd start a web comic in the later part of winter but now it's looking like one of them has given me the goahead to start asap. And another is itching to get going.
I figure why not. The worst I can do is fail. and with six web comic ideas to work with the failure of one only teaches me how to succeed with the others.
It will be a few weeks before I build a supply to start with and then maybe another week before I figure out how to do it all. By then I should update once a week. I'll let you know when I get it off the ground.
Gotta go I've a few things to take care of before I have to leave tonight.
Take Care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
I was doing fairly well saturday and only drove a few miles in my sleep... kidding. I wasn't as super tired as I would have expected though. Then even after 8 hours sleep I ended up getting an unschedualed nap (read fell asleep sitting up) in the afternoon and eneded up doing it again at 10pm. So I sort of missed some of my daily goals but luckily I phrased them to get done on a 7 per week total so I just did double the next day.
I started the amber spyglass on sunday and finished yesterday afternoon. Pretty decent work. The setting is wonderful. I'll give it one of my highest praises: I inspired some intresting ideas of my own.
Any story that causes me to come up with something of my own gets a thumbs up, this series gave me at least three ideas.
Now I'm half way through The Diamond age, by the author of Snow Crash. I'm sort of enjoying it. I alwasy find his first chapter or two very hard to read. But I was especially tickled by the neovictorian themes and 'project runcible'. Imagine finding a book that talks about things a steampunk can appreciate and also having it use the word runcible; which I have many things going on with. I will be making a runcible hat and a mechanical runcible device, and I've written the first chapter of my runcible super hero story, and I will be making runcible crafts eventually and maybe a game or two. I have a lot of runcible projects to come.
The trip to connecticut was sort of fun and is a decent idea for me, because it will allow me to participate in some of the gaming that I can't always get to at the con in summer. And I can network with other gamers who might be intrested in or have ideas for my maps and such.
I've got a boat load of things I'm handling right now and some of them want me to get going on them. I figured I'd start a web comic in the later part of winter but now it's looking like one of them has given me the goahead to start asap. And another is itching to get going.
I figure why not. The worst I can do is fail. and with six web comic ideas to work with the failure of one only teaches me how to succeed with the others.
It will be a few weeks before I build a supply to start with and then maybe another week before I figure out how to do it all. By then I should update once a week. I'll let you know when I get it off the ground.
Gotta go I've a few things to take care of before I have to leave tonight.
Take Care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Friday, January 9, 2009
Nervous
It seems silly that over the last few years I've done so many new and difficult things and yet Waking up early tomorrow and driving down to connecticut gets me nervous.
Connecticon does monthly member appreciation days, that I've never take the advantage of. I figured it was time to give it a whirl. I'm bringing a few board games but mostly going to connect with some of the people and figure a few things out for what I'm doing this summer.
Don't worry I'll play, after all ... all work and no play makes Jack... well it makes me burn out and sometimes physiacally sick as it upsets the delicate equalibrium I mange to keep my illness in.
Ah well. It will be intresting to see what I get done tomorrow. I already took care of something my cars has been telling me needed attantion. And I did it all by myself. I think I can manage the drive to a place two states away and which I've never been to for an event I've never attended.
So why does it get me all tense? It's only for six or seven hours (well tewlve if you count travel time), then I'm due back up here for a group meeting with freinds that I rarely miss, and that will help me figure out some things for an up coming project or two that are not on my master list but still worth persuing.
I will settle back into my life this coming week and get some things that need doing done.
I'll be in contact by monday night.
Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Connecticon does monthly member appreciation days, that I've never take the advantage of. I figured it was time to give it a whirl. I'm bringing a few board games but mostly going to connect with some of the people and figure a few things out for what I'm doing this summer.
Don't worry I'll play, after all ... all work and no play makes Jack... well it makes me burn out and sometimes physiacally sick as it upsets the delicate equalibrium I mange to keep my illness in.
Ah well. It will be intresting to see what I get done tomorrow. I already took care of something my cars has been telling me needed attantion. And I did it all by myself. I think I can manage the drive to a place two states away and which I've never been to for an event I've never attended.
So why does it get me all tense? It's only for six or seven hours (well tewlve if you count travel time), then I'm due back up here for a group meeting with freinds that I rarely miss, and that will help me figure out some things for an up coming project or two that are not on my master list but still worth persuing.
I will settle back into my life this coming week and get some things that need doing done.
I'll be in contact by monday night.
Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Oh the weather outside is...
Yicky, that's whst it is and there aint no other way of saying it. So while I would very much like to walk back in on my life from this wee lil vacation It has to wait another night.
I've had the opportunity to watch a few movies over the last few Nights, Superman returns and Dark Knight. I'm not so much of an S man fan, though some of the incarnations of the past have appeal the movie didn't do much for me.
The Dark Night was brilliantly traumatic. I think the preformance of the Joker and the deeply thought out patterns of behaviour for him wereawe inspiring. The vision of this remaking is wonderful. I only object to there having been two trend that occur in the movie that I wish we could do without. There always being two villians and the killing off of one of the bad guys. Batmans villians didn't die right after introduction, and batman wasn't trying to murder the bad guys.
It's too much of the warrior cult that brings in this pattern of the only victory is death to our enemies.
Please if you do another movie don't repeat the pattern. Have three villians or one for a change, and also Let them live to fight another day.
I would love to see the Riddler, done for this style. I can invisage him now and even feel his motivation, but if you make him one more one shot in a criminal duo I will not watch any more.
I know it was a silly thing to talk about but well there it is.
I'ma gonna be a bussy Jack for a bit so I can't make many promises about the time of my next post but It will be less then a week off. Until then, Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack.
I've had the opportunity to watch a few movies over the last few Nights, Superman returns and Dark Knight. I'm not so much of an S man fan, though some of the incarnations of the past have appeal the movie didn't do much for me.
The Dark Night was brilliantly traumatic. I think the preformance of the Joker and the deeply thought out patterns of behaviour for him wereawe inspiring. The vision of this remaking is wonderful. I only object to there having been two trend that occur in the movie that I wish we could do without. There always being two villians and the killing off of one of the bad guys. Batmans villians didn't die right after introduction, and batman wasn't trying to murder the bad guys.
It's too much of the warrior cult that brings in this pattern of the only victory is death to our enemies.
Please if you do another movie don't repeat the pattern. Have three villians or one for a change, and also Let them live to fight another day.
I would love to see the Riddler, done for this style. I can invisage him now and even feel his motivation, but if you make him one more one shot in a criminal duo I will not watch any more.
I know it was a silly thing to talk about but well there it is.
I'ma gonna be a bussy Jack for a bit so I can't make many promises about the time of my next post but It will be less then a week off. Until then, Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Intentions
I was intending on discussing a few of my other goals but over the last few days I've had some... well I've just been a bit more muse ridden then I know what to do with.
I've finished the first chapter of my super hero story for Runcible. And that seems to be a point to which I can trace some of this to.
You see the idea first came about when I was discussing the Girl Genius web comic that contains a recent incident with a hand cranked runcible gun. Well the discussion is too much to go into here, but suffice to say between debates about it's inventors meaning and the relationship to the spork somebody said it'd be great if there were a super hero named Runcible in an online superhero web fiction series.
This is often times where my muses get the giggle fits that cause so much trouble. Because instantly my mind likes funny or unusual ideas, and say 'Oh wait I know how I can make that work.'
So I asked if they really would like me to do that and then started to come up with ideas, only it didn't stop with the story. Looking into the word runcible turned into a game of link chase... eventually I came up with the fact that the word is used before many words as a sort of nonsense add on. There are runcible cats and runcible spoons and runcible hats and runcible this's and runcible that's. And so based on the idea that it is nonsense, or a corruption of rouncival or that it's a style of pickle fork ect. I started wonding if I could make some of these nonsense things real.
My notebook has an entire page of runcible ideas now, including jewelry and goggles. But it didn't stop there. See I found a way to hint at all the possable meanings of runcible in the character of Runcible, but also in the course of the story something happened. Well someone was invented that has increadible potential.
And so a new web comic idea was invented. I will have to do some research involving gummi bears and water balloons (you know the usual stuff). But this web comic idea revived an older web comic idea, while encouraging me to plan out my two existing web comic ideas.
Sigh, then I was talking with some people about my ideas and it came up that I tend to prefer to do my arts as hand made works and then copy them into computers, I was in the middle of saying that some day I might come up with an idea for a completely computer created web comic when an idea came to me for one.
In the mean time I'd been following a lead with a contact and making my first Query letter for my goals when I noticed a call for a comic, I didn't think much of it at first because it's for something that my ideas thus far are not really meant for. And so was born a new comic idea, that involves hand crafts and cameras... but not in the same style as one of my other photo minature comic ideas.
And that's all just in the last few days, some times I wonder that my head hasn't just sort of popped.
Ah well, I'll just have to see what I can make of some of this.
I'll try and send off another post tomorrow.
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
I've finished the first chapter of my super hero story for Runcible. And that seems to be a point to which I can trace some of this to.
You see the idea first came about when I was discussing the Girl Genius web comic that contains a recent incident with a hand cranked runcible gun. Well the discussion is too much to go into here, but suffice to say between debates about it's inventors meaning and the relationship to the spork somebody said it'd be great if there were a super hero named Runcible in an online superhero web fiction series.
This is often times where my muses get the giggle fits that cause so much trouble. Because instantly my mind likes funny or unusual ideas, and say 'Oh wait I know how I can make that work.'
So I asked if they really would like me to do that and then started to come up with ideas, only it didn't stop with the story. Looking into the word runcible turned into a game of link chase... eventually I came up with the fact that the word is used before many words as a sort of nonsense add on. There are runcible cats and runcible spoons and runcible hats and runcible this's and runcible that's. And so based on the idea that it is nonsense, or a corruption of rouncival or that it's a style of pickle fork ect. I started wonding if I could make some of these nonsense things real.
My notebook has an entire page of runcible ideas now, including jewelry and goggles. But it didn't stop there. See I found a way to hint at all the possable meanings of runcible in the character of Runcible, but also in the course of the story something happened. Well someone was invented that has increadible potential.
And so a new web comic idea was invented. I will have to do some research involving gummi bears and water balloons (you know the usual stuff). But this web comic idea revived an older web comic idea, while encouraging me to plan out my two existing web comic ideas.
Sigh, then I was talking with some people about my ideas and it came up that I tend to prefer to do my arts as hand made works and then copy them into computers, I was in the middle of saying that some day I might come up with an idea for a completely computer created web comic when an idea came to me for one.
In the mean time I'd been following a lead with a contact and making my first Query letter for my goals when I noticed a call for a comic, I didn't think much of it at first because it's for something that my ideas thus far are not really meant for. And so was born a new comic idea, that involves hand crafts and cameras... but not in the same style as one of my other photo minature comic ideas.
And that's all just in the last few days, some times I wonder that my head hasn't just sort of popped.
Ah well, I'll just have to see what I can make of some of this.
I'll try and send off another post tomorrow.
Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack
Friday, January 2, 2009
Here we are in our new Year
How are you all doing with your resolutions?
I thought I'd elaborate a bit on my master list, some are secret mission which you don't have clearance for but some I can discuss.
You should try that by the way, make a few goals secret projects. By a little bit of the mad scientist or the secret agent. It seems like a silly childs game but that's sort of the fun of it. Think about when you were little how exited by something like this you might be. To have a secret project and be the top secret person. Likewise it could be for to try some other make believe games that might be silly seeming.
Right the list:
1) Tesseract
This one is based on the fourth dimensional analog of a cube, aka a tesseract. I'd had an idea for a sort of toy box/treasure chest that was a cube and opened on all sides to hold objects and maybe even had a secret compartment in the center. I'd come up with ways of making it look really neat and decorating it, things I would keep in it. All this was before I knew what to call it, before I'd learned to think about the fourth dimension (not up/down, left/righ or forward/back but refered to as the blue/red directions, and ninty degrees off of the third dimension the same way that the third is 90 degrees off of the second dimension). Anyway it's had many permutations and ideas for years and I figure it's time to try to realise one in the real world. I'll see if I can post pictures when it's done.
9) Carve gourds
for the holidays I was given a couple books on gourd carving, which appeals to me in the same way that some of my other natural material arts and craft do. I remember commenting that I just needed to find a good source of gourds to try some things out on, only to open another box a bit later to find several large gourds. Yay Mum. I've got some projects in mind for those babies. I figure there are enough gourds that If I use every scrap and make several projects from each I will have more then enough to last me the year. It also seems that the seeds and the pulp from the interior can be used for paper and a few other things.
Gotta love that sort of thing.
14) make one doll house object a month
I'm a big fan of tiny things. Always seemed a bit odd, being as big as I am/was. But fairy houses and doll houses have some appeal to me, the idea of making mini hand crafted versions of thing appeals to me as does coming up with home and furniture designs of my own and not having to worry about where to keep wrought iron bed frames or such. So I thought I'd try to do a little bit of that too.
20) Send one query letter a week (for selling stories, novels, puzzles, get prospectus on funds, get info on realestate...)
This ones going to be a bit tricky for me but I have these stories and novels and puzzles I make and yet never find out if someone might take them, I have info that might allow me to start investing for my future and maybe find a better place to live, but again I don't aske anybody about these opportunities until I have no other choice. That's just foolish. I need to act on these things, and so that is why this goal is here. If I run out of leads It will be insentive to find new leads. What will it hurt, it might even get me into a better situation.
That's a bit about some of my projects, I'll get back to you on the rest.
take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
I thought I'd elaborate a bit on my master list, some are secret mission which you don't have clearance for but some I can discuss.
You should try that by the way, make a few goals secret projects. By a little bit of the mad scientist or the secret agent. It seems like a silly childs game but that's sort of the fun of it. Think about when you were little how exited by something like this you might be. To have a secret project and be the top secret person. Likewise it could be for to try some other make believe games that might be silly seeming.
Right the list:
1) Tesseract
This one is based on the fourth dimensional analog of a cube, aka a tesseract. I'd had an idea for a sort of toy box/treasure chest that was a cube and opened on all sides to hold objects and maybe even had a secret compartment in the center. I'd come up with ways of making it look really neat and decorating it, things I would keep in it. All this was before I knew what to call it, before I'd learned to think about the fourth dimension (not up/down, left/righ or forward/back but refered to as the blue/red directions, and ninty degrees off of the third dimension the same way that the third is 90 degrees off of the second dimension). Anyway it's had many permutations and ideas for years and I figure it's time to try to realise one in the real world. I'll see if I can post pictures when it's done.
9) Carve gourds
for the holidays I was given a couple books on gourd carving, which appeals to me in the same way that some of my other natural material arts and craft do. I remember commenting that I just needed to find a good source of gourds to try some things out on, only to open another box a bit later to find several large gourds. Yay Mum. I've got some projects in mind for those babies. I figure there are enough gourds that If I use every scrap and make several projects from each I will have more then enough to last me the year. It also seems that the seeds and the pulp from the interior can be used for paper and a few other things.
Gotta love that sort of thing.
14) make one doll house object a month
I'm a big fan of tiny things. Always seemed a bit odd, being as big as I am/was. But fairy houses and doll houses have some appeal to me, the idea of making mini hand crafted versions of thing appeals to me as does coming up with home and furniture designs of my own and not having to worry about where to keep wrought iron bed frames or such. So I thought I'd try to do a little bit of that too.
20) Send one query letter a week (for selling stories, novels, puzzles, get prospectus on funds, get info on realestate...)
This ones going to be a bit tricky for me but I have these stories and novels and puzzles I make and yet never find out if someone might take them, I have info that might allow me to start investing for my future and maybe find a better place to live, but again I don't aske anybody about these opportunities until I have no other choice. That's just foolish. I need to act on these things, and so that is why this goal is here. If I run out of leads It will be insentive to find new leads. What will it hurt, it might even get me into a better situation.
That's a bit about some of my projects, I'll get back to you on the rest.
take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Thursday, January 1, 2009
A New Year's Just Begun
Well here we are on the edge of a new year, looking back on our past and forward to our futures.
Old legends tell that these times between times are full of more power than at any other time of the year. Like standing on the threshold of a house stepping out of the shaded room into the growing light. We can see the places we have been with the hind sight that we often say is always 20/20. Better to see our path and what brought us here. and we can look forward and chart our course for bright spots of sunlit yard. We may have detours and occasionally step in something on the way but I really feel that is part of the wonderful journey.
So take the time to reflect with me on the past and then see where we are going.
I can safely say that most of my last post still bares true though I do have to ammend that I misjudged the word count of my script frenzy (due in part to the fact that it was hand written and therefore seemed much longer then it was) and must accept that I achieved only 20 out of 24 goals this year.
That is still aweing to me though to realise that I did so much this past year and learned so much about who I could be and who I am.
It has set me a new course in life and I am enjoying it greatly.
It was also about a year ago that I learned of the diet that helped me discover new ways of holding my own against my illness and reclaiming my life from pain and violent illness. In that time I have changed from a person afraid to eat anything, and wonding if I will continue to waste away and eventually die young and in pain, to a person like any other with a few extra limitations that I have learned to not only tolerate but sort of see as a badge of honor. I am differant But I am strong.
And looking forward there are many things I will be doing and only a few are listed on my new master list, here:
Some of these are deliberately vauge.
1) Tesseract
2) Artist alley at Connecticon
3) Start an online bussiness
4) draw 7 comics a week
5) Penmanship/ calligraphy
6) Um ... let's just call this project Odd Ball
7) Super hero
8 ) learn some simple sign language
9) Carve gourds
10) Create 7 word searches a week
11) create 7 jumbles a week
12) create 7 rebus style puzzles a week
13) do some metal working
14) make one doll house object a month
15) make 365 peices of jewelry
16) Create an altered book
17) Make a shrine
18 ) make a clock
19) invest in the stock market
20) Send one query letter a week (for selling stories, novels, puzzles, get prospectus on funds, get info on realestate...)
where will your future take you?
I'll discuss this a bit more tomorrow.
Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
Old legends tell that these times between times are full of more power than at any other time of the year. Like standing on the threshold of a house stepping out of the shaded room into the growing light. We can see the places we have been with the hind sight that we often say is always 20/20. Better to see our path and what brought us here. and we can look forward and chart our course for bright spots of sunlit yard. We may have detours and occasionally step in something on the way but I really feel that is part of the wonderful journey.
So take the time to reflect with me on the past and then see where we are going.
I can safely say that most of my last post still bares true though I do have to ammend that I misjudged the word count of my script frenzy (due in part to the fact that it was hand written and therefore seemed much longer then it was) and must accept that I achieved only 20 out of 24 goals this year.
That is still aweing to me though to realise that I did so much this past year and learned so much about who I could be and who I am.
It has set me a new course in life and I am enjoying it greatly.
It was also about a year ago that I learned of the diet that helped me discover new ways of holding my own against my illness and reclaiming my life from pain and violent illness. In that time I have changed from a person afraid to eat anything, and wonding if I will continue to waste away and eventually die young and in pain, to a person like any other with a few extra limitations that I have learned to not only tolerate but sort of see as a badge of honor. I am differant But I am strong.
And looking forward there are many things I will be doing and only a few are listed on my new master list, here:
Some of these are deliberately vauge.
1) Tesseract
2) Artist alley at Connecticon
3) Start an online bussiness
4) draw 7 comics a week
5) Penmanship/ calligraphy
6) Um ... let's just call this project Odd Ball
7) Super hero
8 ) learn some simple sign language
9) Carve gourds
10) Create 7 word searches a week
11) create 7 jumbles a week
12) create 7 rebus style puzzles a week
13) do some metal working
14) make one doll house object a month
15) make 365 peices of jewelry
16) Create an altered book
17) Make a shrine
18 ) make a clock
19) invest in the stock market
20) Send one query letter a week (for selling stories, novels, puzzles, get prospectus on funds, get info on realestate...)
where will your future take you?
I'll discuss this a bit more tomorrow.
Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack
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