Yah... I haven't updated since October. Or done much of anything in a long time at all

College lets out on the 14th... I can't wait. @_@

I'm working on another Flash dressup shit thing. It's one seriously long ass project. Far more ambitions then the cat one... I currently have 300 layers and half a billion symbols and miles and miles of copypaste coding and I've been working for a week (off and on, of course) and I'm maybe half done. MAYBE. The good things about it though is I've got a template to work with and I've figured out a number of techniques to save time/energy and also make the interface easier. What's this one about? I'll give you a clue: Hedgehogs.

Uhh other then that, working on a few misc pictures. I'm still not feeling it as far as coloring and stuff goes.

Ugh, I'm so behind on everything. @_@ Today I've got to make a to-do list and get it done.

Sheesh has it already been that long since I updated my journal?

Apparently so. I've been on a sort of hiatusy thing... hence why I've been practically not here for the last couple o' months. So here's a quick update on misc things I have been doing/need to do:

My tablet was busted for about a week, and then it got fixed. And I started work at new site called Aywas. I dunno how many of you still do/ever did the petsite thing, but Aywas is looking pretty sweet. It's still in Alpha but looks like it'll be pretty awesome once it's fully up!

Err... and the impending tsunami of ref sheet uploadage is looming close on the horizon. Over 2/3 are now done, and all the toughest are already completed.

I know I have some projects laying around that I have to finish... for example the Team Zunder page, and the 30k Kiriban (still), and... I haven't actually gotten done a full effort picture in ages... and my ID needs an update because it sucks... so I should probably get those things done.

Also it's already nearly Halloween...? This is the first year I don't have a costume. I feel sad. But I suppose if I have need for one I could always pull some cosplay-type stuff out of my closet.... I have a lot of that, though most of it is in various degrees of disrepair.

Uhhh and is anyone else not digging the fact that it only displays 3 messages of each type at a time in the Message center? I know it's not a new change or anything... but I always forget the rest of them are there... and I'm such a procrastinator in replying that by the time I remember it's 2 weeks later and I feel embarrassed replying to two week old conversations (especially if it's just to say 'thanks' ) but I feel like a jerk for ignoring them, which is usually what I opt to do. So sorry guys. :/ I'll try to do better on that...

OH AND BEFORE I FORGET!!!!!

I'm thinking of starting up commissions again. Anybody interested in LJ icons? 100x100, comes with fullsize 300px version as well. Flat color would be about $4, light shading for $7. Examples: [link] (the tan one is flatcolor, all the rest would count as lightly shaded.

Augh. That one snuck up on me.

I had so much I wanted to do this summer... so many art pieces I wanted to finish... >.>

That sucks. I guess I should probably go get ready.

I don't have much to say, but I figured it was new journal time again.

Hurf durf let's see how this goes, last time I tried this I didn't have enough watchers who bothered commenting to even fill up all 10 spots. Kinda tagged from who I got featured by.

I'm sure you guys know the drill, comment and I feature 3 of my favorite pictures in your gallery. This time around I don't have a sub so no thumbnails, oh well.

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If you get featured here you don't HAVE to do a feature in your own journal, but if you do it would be nice if you featured me.

Ready, set, GO GO GO!

(if you feel like it)

It was incredible, man! Whatever I was expecting from my previous "anime convention" experiences--it blew them all out of the water.

First of all, Otakon was less an 'anime convention' then a general gathering of geeks and odd people of all types. Tons of nerds of various sorts converged in this single gigantic convention center for an awesome weekend of socializing with others of similar, obscure interests. For a lot of people it seemed to be more an excuse to geek out and dress up in a fun costume then anything, ant let me tell you, that was something that was totally welcome and refreshing to me after living in the uncultured sticks for so long.

Nyoko and I, of course, did our Pigmask cosplays from Mother 3. I'd fully expected to maybe meet 10 people at most who 'got it'--but for the first day especially, we could barely walk ten feet without being stopped for photos. @_@ A lot of people congratulated us on doing such obscure characters, Mother fans yelled references at us as we passed, fans and non-fans alike stopped us to take pictures. We even met a bunch of other Mother cosplayers--more then I could count, actually. Granted, a lot of them were Nesses, and a lot of them were "Brawl Nesses" (in other words, people who had never played the game or anything but only dressed up as him because he was in the Smash Bros games...) but we met some really awesome people over that weekend, and even had a chance for a Mother-themed photoshoot with on Friday.

I kinda wish I'd collected a couple more people's online contacts. It wasn't until Sunday that I thought to do it... *fails* If any of you awesome people who chatted with the Pork Army at Otakon stumble across this... I'd like to hear from you. xP

I actually didn't get a lot of 'con stuff' done. xD Someday, I'm actually going to go to panels and buy things, but this time around I had enough fun meeting people, wandering around lost, taking helmets off, putting them on again 15 seconds later to have my picture taken, staring wide-eyed at the airplane hanger-sized Dealer's room, and gawking at all the even more amazing costumes, and reading all the witty geek-humor T-shirts. All I bought was a plush, a Otakon 2009 shirt, a FMA book that had yet to reach my local bookstore, and some Chimbley merchandise from after finally finding him in the Artist's Alley just before I completely ran out of money. xP Next time I'll be sure to bring more cash too... haha.

This convention made all the other ones I've been to so far look like nothing in comparison. I'm going back next year without a doubt.

Man I am so tired. XP I'll be looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight--the hotel ones were so uncomfortable.

I've got a lot of stuff to work on now that the convention and costumes are out of the way--time to get back on track with my normal life. xP I'll try to answer comments and finish up the stuff (commissions and that 30k Kiriban--sorry for the lateness!) I owe soon. As well as post pictures of our costumes from the convention. The one problem with this is that my dad who helped drive Nyoko and I to the convention has taken her computer away for virus clean-up--I thought I'd mostly fixed things but she had some sort of awful backdoor trojan thing that needs srs fixing. So she'll be sharing my comp for a week or two until he can bring her computer back.

Anyway, I'm too punchy to be typing now so I should probably shut up. xD Aaand NoScript is complaining about trying to preview this journal. I don't feel like playing with it at the moment so you'll have to deal with typos if they're here. Sorry!