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The second guys' night out ended almost 2 hours ago, but I'm still up and just now getting tired. It was fun playing computer games with J and T, even if it ended up taking about 2 hours for all the computer stuff to actually get setup. Right now my closet is overflowing with monitors, workstation PCs and ethernet cables, so I guess in the morning I'm going to have to make an effort to tidy the mess up and toss out some of the garbage in my work room.

In other news, while I haven't gotten any actual pages done, I've done a lot more sketches for the comicbook if I can finish all the page layouts Monday and Tuesday it should be a breeze to get the actual pencils done. "If" being the operative word there, folks.

I also fixed a water pipe on the water heater all by my very lonesome. Using a small blow torch and no doubt more solder than strictly necessary, I managed to replace the copper elbow joint that had developed a leak. The basement's dry, although kinda mildewy. But hey! I fixed something dammit!

Just a quick update before bed:

The Wif got her new laptop today (UPS is like molasses here, I swear) and we had many a trial and tribulation with trying to get it to work on the home network. Ultimately, I updated the router's firmware (v1 -> v4) and let it broadcast the SSID. Now all things are groovy with Ne's laptop. Thank god because...

Laptop refresh for SB didn't go as smoothly as planned, partly due to the somewhat bent wireless card crapping out on me after the Win2K install. Managed to get some software on it, but unfortunately none of the windows updates.

Desktop refresh for mom didn't go as smoothly as planned, largely because Micro$oft's update servers suddenly forgot what time it was. Whee. Did manage to get SP4 and the software on it, though. Should be ready for her when I pick up Little Dude tomorrow.

Speaking of the Little Dude, this will be the first time I've seen him (other than that half hour on Monday) in over a week. A week! Good lord! I feel like I've been managing without a small hyperactive appendage all week. Hopefully there will be much cuteness and many stories from Grandma Cindy's for me tomorrow morning. ^_^

Well, maybe not so much badgered as reminded I have a weblog.

So, what's been going on lately?  Not a whole lot, to be truthful.  Was feeling rather blah earlier today, so the Wif took care of Little Dude while I had some me time this morning.  It was mostly me vegging out in bed and watching the first disc on the Firefly box set (graciously loaned to us by zabasity).  Now that I finally got to see it, I really enjoyed watching the Sci-Fi Western.  Normally, unless something's on the HBO OnDemand list, I don't get to see it TV episodes in order unless I download them on the internet (as I did with Joan of Arcadia's first season, JLU and a couple other shows).

Also, I've been spending some time learning the fine subtleties of burning DVDs of various filetypes and persuasions.  Particularly converting a subtitled version of Final Fantasy: Advent Children for Ethan.  It's mostly just a bunch of processor time and waiting for the programs to write their 4Gb files.  Oy.  And after watching the damn thing the audio started to drift from matching the video.  Oh well.  The movie, by the way, is a little short on plot but long on the computer-generated fight scenes.

Anything else cool happen lately?

Well, Little Dude's been talking a lot more, really starting to string words together for sentences and stuff.  He's starting to identify the things he wants and understand some of the boundaries we put on him.  Note the usage of the word "some."

Other than that, things have been pretty quiet on the creative front.  Still practicing my inking.  Still trying to cough up a long enough string of ideas.  Same old same old.




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This past weekend was pretty cool.  Mom was kind enough to babysit (e.i. spoil rotten) Little Dude for the weekend, leaving The Wif and I to our own devilish devices...  namely chatting and sleeping in.  I know, ooooh, livin' la vida loca, right?

Anyway, in the totally awesome column, the husband of a friend of ne_today  gave me an old workstation PC of his and an LCD monitor.  She is a lovely Dell Precision 330 1.5GHz, 512Mb of RAM, 40 Gb HDD, winxp (heheheh) sportin' machine.  And I'm grateful that ne_today  hasn't brained me with something blunt and heavy for sneaking away to tinker with it from time to time.  ^_^

And although Little Dude seems to be letting his 2001-evil-obelisk side show a little more (last Wednesday, he tried to brain a playmate for usurping "mah boat"), he's been using more and more words.  He has also learned how to climb out of his crib so that he's bound by only a child-proof cap over his doorknob.  This latter is largely to discourage him from breaking out of his room willy-nilly (particularly when we're asleep).

Seems like there's still more rumor and less fact about my "promotion" but everyone seems to be of the opinion that I've got it.  I just wish they'd come up with a plan before deciding things arbitrarily.

Oh well.  Tonight's been a little crazy, but not so bad overall.  I even made Slightly-Deformed-Origami-Gamera !