Scripts done

Well I made it official that I finished my scripts this month. Three graphic novel scripts since the 15th and loads of other stuff done too. I'm going to tidy up a finish to this whole scriptfrenzy bit and let them marinate for a while.

As a righter it's important to never go back and read your scripts or novels until you've forgotten where you left off. Otherwise you'll likely pick it apart and destroy it before you get to really see it for what it is.

Right away though I've sort of got to start getting writing again due to my super hero story about Runcible being neglected for so long.

but now that I don't have to write scripts like crazy for a deadline I'm going to sleep in tomorrow and run errands latter in the evening. I may be in the labs tomorow for a short bit but not likely enough to post on here.

I'll probably relax for the whole weekend and be back next week for posting and by then I hope to have figured out what if any work I'll have for the summer, and be a bit more certain in my plans for the coming month.

I'm thinking about making a trip down to connecticut for another Members Appreciation Day. Now that my schedual promises to be more free. Hang out with some of the geeks there and plot and plan my upcoming first ever table at a con.

On one hand getting work for the summer would be a great help paywise, but on the other hand not having work this summer would be a great chance to get other things done and going in my life.

It's a bit indecisive but it also allows me to be happy with whatever happens.

Gotta go get some things done.

Take Care of yourselves
Roving Jack.

1 months notice

I gave the landlady one months notice with the rent this morning.

I'm happy I getting out and I even more enjoyed the fact that she seemed caught off guard enough to only ask "You'll be out by the end of the month?"

Of course an hour later she banged some doors and stabbed a folded note through theedge of my door with a bunch of weak complaints, obviously a preemtive attempt to justify not returning my deposit (keep it, you obviously need it more then I do, and I know you couldn't lay your hands on that kind of money if you really had too), and the staement that she expects it to be presentable for showing to people this weekend.

As I've been clearing out for about ten days now anyway that's not so much an issue, but this is my first real chance to sleep late and relax after a long month of having to be at a computer almost every day. I'm likely to just be hanging out.

So I'm going to be super freindly and stuff. :)

Though I don't expect it to be much issue, as I've heard and seen much of the web site advertising for space to rent to people stays up a long time and few people actually come to check it out.

I've got to go and get some writing done tonight.

Take care of yourselves.

Rovingjack

Almost there

I've just got a simple 25 pages of script to finish by months end in order to have done the Three scripts I set out to do this month, I'm actually fairly pleased with the first two. They will get redrafted a bit and then turned into story boards in the future before I decide on art style and artist (likely me but maybe not) for the finished Graphic novels.

Of course I'm completely aware of the fact that It went as quickly as it did due to the slightly easier style of doing Graphic novel scripts. But still there is some part of me that keeps thinking that since I started on the 15th of april and did 3 scripts of 100 pages in length, would I be able to do six in a month.

Bad Jack, no breaky this brain, it's the only one we have.

Besides I've learned thus far that with the two web comics in the works and the volumes of word puzzles, this blog and the http://rovingjack.livejournal.com/ blog among all my other goals from my master list I've not got the time to test the theoory out.

And while writing six or more scripts in a month would be intresting and be fun to brag about, I really think I'd rather get some of these other projects going.

That being said I got nada done tonight due to Posting up a new goober comic, posting to the lady of the mechanism on livejournal, doing a bit of info look up and finishing late at work.

Tomorrow however should see me to getting a good bit of work done if not the rest of the script entirely. Then I just have to spend my remaining time over the next two days on a few other projects and I can easily say that this has been one of my most productive and intresting months in a while. For all that I started it fifteen days late.

Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack

I think I was called an ewok

Seems like an intresting enough topic to laugh about and I like sharing a laugh every now and then.

Gunny at work was looking to see if anybody needed last weeks pay check and he asked me if I'd gotten mine.

I informed Him I had and, then he responded; "Okay fur ball."

Wether it's due to the long hair tied back or the neglecting the razor I havn't a clue and really it's not so much important anyway.

I chuckled and said, "What am I, a Wookiee now?"

To which he replied, "A tall wookiee, a little bit taller then yoda."

It took a moment to realised that while he recognised the referance as starwars he was thinking of a slightly differant teddybear alien then the tall copiolot of the Millenium falcon.

So apparently I'm a six foot two ewok.

I just thought it was funny. And that's about as much time as I have now. I've got to go work on the last of this years script frenzy writing. It's been an intresting scripting years thus far and I'm sure I'll have more to say about it but good night for now.

Take care of yourselves,
Rovingjack.

I made an old greek lady cry... yay!

Okay it's not as evil as I made it sound.

See I mentioned a bit ago that the older greek man who used to work here has been very sick and has to be on oxegen now.

He'd been wondering about what if anything we all thought about him, and I guess he's been pretty down. As somebody who has gone through months of illness and having to face drastic changes in life to deal with always being ill I imagine he is fairly down about the whole things.

So I gots peoples at work to sign cards for him. Well I set one by the time clock and gave one to Rich who works the resgister (he is a true sales man, he got so many students to sign the card in one four hour shift that it was completely full).

So anyway after about a week of being up Uncle Nicks nephew came in to work and picked up the card s to take to him during Greek easter.

It cheered up Uncle Nick, they all had a great time and Uncle nicks wife cried (hopefully because she was touched that people cared for her husband).

So yay for that.

I'll get back to some of the other things going on in my life once I take a break from writing in the next few days.

Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

AAhh, what's the deal with time these days

Okay who cut the number of hours in a day back to 24, it's really causing problems.

I think We should live by relative time. I mean it would be a big help with the whole paycheck thing for starters. I mean on a day like today where it feels like I work seven and a half hours, why am I only getting pay for the four that the clock says I worked.

I was cleaning crew, prep cook, and line server tonight. And I got my laundry done before work, and a blog entry and updated Goober nice to meep you.

I deserve over time pay, or at least something.

And now I am here posting when I really aught to be writing to keep up the blistering pace I need to make my scripts come through for me.

My muses and I, we bounced our brains out on the keyboard for a wonderful fifty pages of script on Sunday. Then I went and payed the deposit plus about a weeks pay on the new place. I'll write about that when I have time sometime soon.

The script started to decrease in quality toward the end and then yesterday my muses where sleeping it off. So I spent yesterdays time editing some of my short stories from august.

I can do this, I can do this, Hey ah could we sorta maybe move to a thirty two hour day for a little while, It would make some things a bit easier for me in the long run.

Take care of yourselves.

Roving Jack

So very very tired

I have actually started writing my scripts now and while I should be excited by the idea that I'm already about fifty some odd total pages in to scripts it feels a bit like cheating to cout some pages as script pages.

I'm doing graphic novels and sometimes the the pages of a graphic novel would fill a page with an image but really only run a few lines of text.

But considering I'm still using public access computers and getting 5-6 hours sleep and planning to move soon and writing two web comic (two pages a day) at the same time that I create daily word puzzles and try to clean and sort my belongings and deal with the daily routine imposed by my illness and can look forward to at least a few more weeks of work...

I'm surprised my brain hasn't burst into screaming flames.

I gotta stop procrastinating now. Bye for a while I may not post until Tuesday night.

Take Care of yourselves.
Roving jack

And back again

so the pendulum swings.

I'm not really in the mood to post tonight, and really I'm even less in the mood to write script though I will try anyway.

Suffice it to say I've fairly well had it with the place I'm living in now. The place itself and the woman who rents it out.

I'm done with it and when the month rolls over it will be her last months rent from me. I keep my word and give notice as I said I would. For all that the woman has abused me, and violated the laws reguarding such arrangments. Not to mention other laws broken while I've been there.

I'd rather live out of my car and shower at the gyme here if it comes to that, which it most likely won't.

It just shocks me the number of unstable people I've encountered over the last several years, is there no sanity left in the world?

Take care of yourselves,
Rovingjack

Hurray, sort of.

I guess I won't be needed this weekend after all at work. Though the money sounded good and would help me with a few ideas I'm playing with, the time was hardly conveniant. And I didn't have to say no either. I just asked for a schedual before I commited and they found they didn't need me. So I'm hoping that means they feel they can keep asking me in the future.

I've sort of made a habit of not refusing any resonable request for help. It tends to ope doorways.

So I've got a bit more time I can use for my tasks. and boy am I going to use it as much as possable. I'm going to settle in for some serious binge writing over the three days off. I figure that I can roughly script five pages of graphic novel in about an hour. So if I sit my but down for five hours minimum per day for all three days I should get myself into a good place.

I've already given two of my shorts stories a good edit and with a tad more touch up they are going to head off to a voluteer reader, who has been very supportive thus far. Once they get the read through and feedback they go through a final fix up and then I hope to send two off to a publisher or two. One might go to a fellow who expressed intrest in them as part of some experimental phase of gameproduction/ publishing company he created.

I've a few more stories I'll be editing in the next few days too. To likewise send off.

I'm on target with "Goober nice to meep you" over at drunkduck.com and making progress with the other style of comic. That one I'm thinking I will stick to a once weekly style comic and by the end of next month I should have sufficiant buffer that I can start posting them to the web.

I'm tending my blogs nicely and while I've not done much with my scripting thus far I hope to make serious inroads this weekend and next. With continued work during the week I hope to pull off a bit of impressive script creation.

For breaks during writing I thought I might transcribe a hand written story or two that is really just meant for web posting, and then maybe I'd write the second part to my runcible Superhero story. As those are tending to run about 7000 words without the trick of script formatting it will be a nice break and only cost me about five or six hours total time by the end of the month.

So I'm in a hopeful place as far as that all goes. We'll see how hopeful I am come the finishing line, on the last day of april.

Take Care Of Yourselves,
Roving Jack.

Bad Jack, Bad.

Nah not so much with the bad as just taking it easy... which smacks of lazy these day to my crazy writing personality.

It's really coming home to me lately that I'm less able to do the crazy writing volumes I once did as I have far more work and social obligations now, as well as some pretty big goals underway. And there just isn't enough of me to make it all happen.

I need minions.

Today, I got up and did two goober comics to get ahaed in my buffer, then I did three of the new style comic to catch up on what I let go while I was visiting family. I'm still a bit behind on that one. I didn't need to do a word puzzle as I did all three last night to get ahead. So then I ate and cleaned up for work. Left and got the much needed honey. Stopped at a store to pick up some greeting cards for "uncle" Nick. The cheerful, round old greek with the thick accent that used to work in the kitchen with us until just recently having to be hospitalised and likely put on oxegen for the rest of his life.

I figure the guy could use a pick me up, and his nephew who works with us say he asks about what we think about it all. So I think by sturday everybody who wants too can sign the cards at work and His nephew can take the cards to him for Easter (greek).

Then Got to work and now I have two blogs to update, and a webcomic to post. So I'm not getting any real script frenzy work done tonight. And it looks like it's likely to just get harder and harder.

The kitchen wants to know if I can come in and work on saturday. I'm holding off until they can tell me more about times and schedualing. I'd like the shot at a bit more money to help me through the lean summer months but not if it's gonna kill me to do it.

Maybe I'll get some writing binges in that will see me through to the end of script frenzy with more then one script done.

I'm not going to waste time though. tonight I'll do a bit more getting ahead so that I can run my errands before work and be far enough ahead that thursday I can come in way before work and script my brains out, then do it again after work. Then Use friday to get a triple session in. Work saturday maybe, and possably get an evening script session in. Script sunday, then see if we are ahead enough to settle back to a more functional pace next week.

So much going on, Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

MMM, sleepy,

I got such a cruddy night sleep saturday night that I was tired all last night and yet couldn't get enough sleep by wake up time today. I got a whole boat load of things done this morning and it only made me eight mins late for work.

But It was a glorious day at work. The lady who usually does my job for the first half of the day is out so for a little while at least Mia is back. Mia is the person who was doing this job during some days when I was hired. And she knows what she is doing.

I don't have to redo anything that she has done, and my shelves where a beautiful thing to behold this evening when I went in to work. She'd even cored to cases of tomatoes in the back.

I finished the night with a bit of time to spare and the rack looking orderly and well perfect as it can get. I even had two empty shelves. It was nigh on miraculus.

and blast if I haven't gotten inspire on a few new ideas in the mean time. But I've no time for that as I have to work with some of the projects currently on my plate.

Gotta hurry, Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack

Just writing to say...

I can't write tonight, or a for the next few days.

Lots to do.

Scripts to write, activity to do, movie with freind to see, scripts to write, errands to run, laundry to do, group to attend, comics to create, family gathering to attend, scripts to write and so on. oh and sleep to be found in spare moments.

Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

Procrastin... ah I'll finish that later.

I really don't know what has gooten into me lately, I have not written a single word of script for this years script frenzy.

It's not for lack of ideas, as I have six scripts that could use a write up. They're ideas from years ago and a few newer ones too. They are all ideas I want to get around to doing but for some reason I keep putting it off.

Tonights reason is that I found out that one of my coworkers has chrons disease too, and is soon going in for surgery. She says she's had it for 15years and hadn't heard anything about the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) so I'm gathering some data for her for tomorrow and I think I'll lend/give (as I never seem to get back the books I lone anyway) her the book breaking the vicious cycle.

Maybe it'll help her a bit.

But in the mean time I'm working on my word puzzles and comics (started building the buffer for the second one recently).

I'm going to go waste a little more time before I leave here for the apartment that I'll never get out of.

take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack

Ohmu-chan

P.S. well it didn't go quite as easily as planned in the post above. But it's really okay. I like the look of the type written page. and I know I can post it as an image like this again if I want to.

It makes editing difficult but for my needs it's fine.

There is an added bonus in one of the projects that came to mind recently too. so for the time being I'm happy enough with what I have.

We'll try again

I'd a plan to try something tonight that I wanted to share with you all but it didn't go quite as expected. I should be some what disappointed by all rights but really it's rather amusing.

But I cannot say too much more without ruining it. I will try again tonight and tomorrow we will see if I can make it work as intended if not it's not great loss, as there are other applications of this that can be interesting.

I think that song has me in a good mood. I shoulld be cussing at the scanner and upset that I spent good money and didn't get what I wanted but instead I'm amused by it and coming up with some project ideas for the mistakes and figuring out if there might still be a way to get what I originally wanted out of the whole deal.

anyway, life here is going to be crazy bussy for the rest of the week, as I have to go grocery shopping before work tomorrow and then get here in time to do a few computer things before going to work. Then when I leave work I should get started on writing for script frenzy, I'm way behind where I aught to be.

Meanwhile I'll have two blog entries to post up, and I'll be doing my word puzzles in the morning and two comics each day. I also have to do the updates for the Goober Nice to Meep You webcomic site.

Then on thursday the school is hosting a job fair and so finding parking will be insane and then the people will be eating like crazy I'm sure.

Friday I hope to make a native american thing in concord, as both a point of intrest and perhaps a way of connecting a bit with some of my genetic heritage. But before that I plan to get together with a freind and see a movie in the theatre (hopefully Watchmen).

Then saturday I've got to make a show at the old meeting place to see if anybody from the group has decided to keep coming after all. But the old group is also meeting at their new location to do something else entirely. I might like to see that once or so, but it can wait until I'm not double booked for my time.

I've also tossed the idea around of maybe making another trip to a Connecticon Members appreciation day, but I think this is not the best month to try and squeeze that one in.

Then Sunday I'm up north with family for the day. As much as I'd like to spend the night I'm not sure it's practical.

While I'm up there I plane to launch the third of four Message in a Bottle artworks.

Then It's back to work monday and cramming as much writing as I can into the month for script frenzy.

I wonder if this big list of brain meltyness is why I'm procrastinating, it's sort of like preparing fight a giant squid. It's bigger and has more arms then I can handle and so I'm struggling to figure out where to start.

Anyway take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

Ah man that's good.

You may have noticed something off to the side there. Called 'Interchange with the Ohmu".

If you can I suggest hitting the play button. It might be quite the same for you as it is for me but that song is powerful.

It's from the movie "Nausicaa of the valley of the wind", great movie in my opinion. But I have a memory of seeing it way back when, in the days before such types of movies and programing were generally know to those of us in the US. Back then it was called warriors of the wind and I hear it was totally butchered when they imported it then.

Now I don't know about that but I do remember thinking that this was one of the most powerful things my young self had ever seen. Yes it's animated, but this is not a cartoon; not as we know them.

It was the first incling I had to what could be done with animated movies. So it's natural that the song here is a bit more powerful for me than it might be for some of you. It's from a scene that is the one thing I remember from a movie almost two thirds of my lifetime behind me.

But it's more then that. If you've seen the movie you know the scene it's from and you know it's a powerful scene. The pivotal moment in the whole movie. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch it, I'm trying really hard not to spoil it.

The movie is a sci-fi animation out of Japan, about a future time when the majority of the world seems to be overrun by a toxic Jungle and it's giant monster insects. But it's really about how we relate to one another and how we relate to our planet. It's about really being heroic and not just beating the bad guys, and that not all issues are black and white.

I think that's part of why it was a memorable moment in my youth. Imagine being not even a teen yet and seeing what you would have thought was a simple cartoon, but it shows you the shades of grey that are the facts instead of the black hats and the white hats. The story has a deep respect for our planet and it's delicate balance and a need to listen to the earth, to respect it and work with it. And on top of it all is a character who fights for ... well everything and everyone and she does it in a way so unlike any of our action heros in the movies. She's not a gun weilding hard as nails character and ... well just watch it.

But my point is that it was a bit of a wake up for many of the aspects of who I grew up into. So Yeah I'm a bit biased about the silly little song to the left, but maybe some others are too. And maybe more will be.

Warning though, it's one of those that has a habit of sticking in the back of your head. It's sort of addictive for me. I think I'm going to listen to it again before I go to some other website to take care of some things.

I have more to say but it will wait til tomorrow.

Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack

Silly mood

Not sure why, but I've been in a rather silly mood lately. It might be relief from getting several big things worked out.

I've got my half table in artist alley during August connecticon. I've got my hotel reservation. I've got my web comic up and by the end of the month I should be far enough ahead in making comic that I could ease off and work on several other projects regularly.

I'm procrastinating on getting started on my scripts for script frenzy, But I'll get around to it soon.

Tonight however I have to get groceries before the store closes, then check my mail, for any news on the living situation options available to me.

I will try and get errands done tomorrow and then come in here to write, or perhaps tomorrow is movie day. As I've decided mainly on my cousins recommendation that 'Watchmen' needs to be seen in the theatre.

Gotta go now Bye.

Take care of yourselves,
Rovingjack.

Better post tonight

That was sort of fired off in the last moments last night but I wanted to say I did it. I got Goober up and running now.

I have to work a bit on the home page and then figure out if there is a way I can graphically touch up my comics before posting them. There are a few eraser lines on some of them and some minor smudges, both of which don't come up so easily (note this is part of my super picky side, as the comic is perfectly fine just not exactly how I'd like it.) Using public access computers and such I don't get to pick what programs I can use. And MS paint is not capable of doing very much. If I had my OOOOld mac I could easily fix it with the claris works drawing program.

That's part of why I want to get a pre-X mac laptop. It would work with my scanner, my printer, the tablet I have and it would work with all my old software and allow me to work any time rather then only when the lab is open.

And the old mac that was good enough for me was so behind top of the line that laptops with an upgrade in capabilities are considered waaay out of date. Yet people keep asking several hundred dollars for them.

It's like the rental of apartments that I've been looking into lately. So many people are asking 800-900 dollars a month plus part of the utilities to rent a room in a two bedroom place. That's with shared bath and kitchen.

What are you kidding me? I know people who don't pay that in morgtage and monthly breakdown of taxes and insurance.

Well I gotta go check some things out tonight and take care of some things before I get my butt into the script writing tomorrow. Things need taking care of.

Take care of yourselves,
Roving Jack

Yay for Goober

It's a simple start, and it may need fixing and upgrading and what not as time goes by but it's a start which is more then some people ever get to.

So go find Goober: Nice To Meep You.

http://www.drunkduck.com/Goober_Nice_To_Meep_You/