No more E3.

Well the gaming expo E3 has been cancelled. Basically it's that magical time of year when all the game creators get together to show off their new games and technologies. Only the press is allowed to go which is why I was creating the webcomic. It was about gamers because gaming webcomic artists are invited because their comics make a lot of influence in that world.

I'm sort of glad. I just spent 4 solid days at a gaming convention with hundreds of other gamers... and I was bored. I played a total of 3 hours of video games... out of 81 hours. The rest of the time I just talked to people. I didn't listen to a single presentation, I didn't even download a single game from another person. Cracked games flowed down there like water. You could go in with a completely empty computer and leave with every game made and every TV show, movie or song created. I got my shows and then I stopped. And only shows I had seen before as I have no desire to start any new series.

I think I've grown out of that world. I'll admit I didn't really want to do a comic about video games. I honestly was not broken up when I lost all the ones I had finished. I still want to do a comic but something more... for myself. If not a single person reads it I won't mind. Though I'll still put it on the net.

All this is sort of leading to another post I'm going to do later.

Will we ever really know?

37 hours since my last nap, I've found that the combined levels of caffiene, guarana and inks from freshly unwrapped membrobelia shirts are starting to disrupt the fibers of my conscienceness. After an incredibly long game of Stubbs the Zombie I've started to ponder the very essence of zombie hood.

And now I propose a problem. A conundrum if you will.

If a Zombie bites a dead body, will that body rise up as a zombie and join the ranks of the undead. Or will the dead body simply remain as a dead body, though forever changed by teeth marks?

I know, my depth knows no bounds. Think on this and tell me your thoughts.


NOTE: 4 days of nothing but pops, chips, bawls (energy drink) , pizza and mcdonalds has made me crave an apple something serious.

Fragapalooza!

Yes, I have just hooked up to the network in Canadas Biggest Lan Party! Fragapalooza! I'mma so happy. It's 4 days (81 hours straight) of hard core gamings. Hahaha, I'm such a nerd. But 10 minutes in and I have a sweet ass new pair of sunglasses (and all the stuff to take care of them (lens cleaners and scratch fixers and crap)) a new mouse pad, 4 shirts, a pile of coupons and an anti virus program. And a bunch of other crap that I don't really feel like wading through. It's very exciting. All that was free and there is still more stuff to come. Two years ago my brother won an Xbox and 3 games and last year I came home with a new keyboard, mouse, speakers and joystick... as well as all the shirts and crap.

And what's even better is the 800 other people here with bootlegged programs on the network. A few days ago I lost all of my videos. I had 200 gigs of space filled with downloaded movies and shows and stuff and it all crashed and over the next 81 hours I'm going to reaquire everything I lost plus a million other stuff. WHOOO!!! Okay, we's gonna set up some CS servers or something. Love yah all!

Mike

EDIT: WHOOO! This just got better! The walls are covered in posters and I NEVER get the ones I want (you gotta be sneaky when you steal them.) but there is one amazing one with a pig on it and it's huge and I wanted one so bad and right near where I was sitting one of them just fell off the wall and me and a few other just ran for it and I got it! WHOOO!!!

Awww monkey nuggets!

I'm sorry to use the vulgar language in the title there but I'm soooo um... angry or something. I guess angry isn't the word. Fustrated! Well... maybe not too fustrated. Hmmm...

Well whatever I am it doesn't matter. My computer crashed last night and I had to reformat and even though I backed up all the files for my comic, they went ahead and corrupted themselves anyway. This roughly translating to me REDOING ALL THE COMICS I HAD DONE!!! Ugh! And I'm so close to having them on the interweb. My room mate says the code will be done tomorrow! Bah! Ah well, I guess writing fustrated posts about it isn't going to help me. A photoshopping I go... (sniffle).

50 minutes!

So in 50 minutes I get to see a friend of mine that I haven't seen for like 8 years. It's very exciting. Her and her twin sister moved away when I was in grade 5 or 6 or something and she's just passin' near Edmonton today on her way back to winnipeg. (They drove to Vancouver).

It's too bad I won't be able to see her sister since she just had a baby and the baby can't do 10 hour car rides but Melody is still a good visit I'm sure. :D. Infact, if she hadn't moved away she'd probably be married to my twin brother. How weird would that be? Two twins gettin' married. Ah well.

Right so I guess I'm just sayin' I'm excited. It's funny 'cause her boyfriend is sooooo excited to see West Edmonton Mall. Like it's some big thing. I went there yesterday to buy a yo-yo. :P

I'm gonna cry bit wet sappy tears.

So I just got back from my family doctor. Turns out I have had the B12 deficiency test so the paralysis is caused by something else. I go to that office so much now that I'm making friends with the nurses. I think one of 'em fancies me. There I was, reading a magazine about european cars (which is dumb 'cause I can't tell the difference between a diablo and a bumper car) and she just comes by and starts chattin' with me... for like the 3rd time this month. Every time I'm there she stops to talk to me. Usually about how boring work is. Not that I mind. She had the coolest scrubs on. They had Cookie Monster all over them.

Wow, I got side tracked. So my doctor is fairly certain they've ruled out all the really really bad neurological diseases except ALS (and he's still pretty confident that I'm too young for that). He said that sometimes minor neurological problems can have major symptoms so hopefully this will heal itself over the next few months. I'm really hopin' for that one. And now I can officially register for classes this september 'cause I know I won't need surgury to fix any problems.

I really wish they would just figure it out. I understand that it's hard but that doesn't mean I can't get impatient. I'm waiting for a call from my neurologist to start the next phase of testing. I think all that's left is a lumbar puncture. Blegh.

MRI results!

Well, results came out clean! Duh. I knew it would. So I officially don't have MS, a tumor or a pinched nerve which makes sense as my symptoms don't really fit any of those. Well, technically it fits MS but it's rare for your first attack to last 3 months so I knew it wasn't that. Plus bilateral foot drop and muscle weakness puts you on an EDSS level of 5 or 6 and the first one is usually like a 2.

Anyway! I'm now waiting for my neurologists office to call me up with my new appointment because the next wave of tests are going to begin soon. I think the first one will be a Lumbar Puncture which sucks but meh. I'm still pushing the idea of a B12 deficiency even though I don't have numbness or tingling but it would make a hell of a lot of sense if you ignore that one fact.

And don't tell me it could still be ALS. If I tell myself it's not ALS then it won't be. Power of the mind! Or something. Well, just lettin' yah all know what's goin' on... yep all 3 of you that read this.

NOTE: Oh, and I'm seriously gonna make out with my new massaging office chair. It's like Jennifer Morrison as a chair. Mmmm... Jennifer Morrison.

I'm done!

Whooo! I'm done the website template. I'm so giddy. Unfortunately I gotta wait for my room mate to actually do the code for it. But here's what the first page will look like. The comic that's on it is the first comic. I know by the end the faces sort of warp but it was the 3rd time doing that comic from start to finish and I really rushed it. Anyway, shutup.I know the top basically shows us as gods but it's just for kicks. We aren't gods in the comic or anything.

EDIT: Oh right, the colors of the site might not be the same in the final one.

I really hope I have crohns!

I know, that seems dumb. Who would want crohns?! Well I do. I finally found a disease that has almost all of my symptoms. I've had Irritable Bowel Syndrome for a few years so I've had a lot of the symptoms for crohns already. But it actually makes sense for most of my other problems that I have. I brush every day but I still have swollen gums. Some of my joints are inflammed so I have to take arthrotec even though I don't have arthritis. And I have bilateral foot drop. Bilateral foot drop is rare in crohns but it is caused by a vitamin B12 defficiency. If I had a B12 defficiency it would explain the fact that I eat only one meal every 2 days, am sleeping upwards of 15 hours a day and have trouble concentrating. There are a bunch of other ones that I have too but I rather not get into them.


Everyone keep your fingers crossed. The only thing I don't have is numbness and tingling in the hands and feet (which generally occur years before bilateral foot drop but I'm still optimistic).

I want my webcomic!

It's been a month and a half since I actually finished a comic. I always start them and end up not finishing them. It's sad I know but without a proper website up, I don't have much choice. Well right now I'm finally making a temporary website that I can live with. I have a handful of comics done and I can't even use 2 of them now 'cause I've waited to long and the events that they refer to are long since gone. Ah well, that's okay. The big problem is I can't do the comics while my room mates are around. I'm not good at doing projects with people watching over my shoulder and the bodes especially true for something I'm shy about like my ability to draw a comic. I've never been good at drawing one character twice and making them look the same. It's something I'm deffinitly working on with this comic.

So I'm setting up my own private office to work on them that none of my room mates can get into. How will I achieve this, you ask? Locks? Booby Traps? No! I'm building it in my moms house. Muhahahaha. I never get to see my mom which sucks 'cause I'm fairly close with her and we are working on a doll project together (don't laugh. She does the girly stuff. My contribution involves a table saw). So now I'll be there to work on my comic in piece and I can do all that other stuff I do while I'm there. It should be choice. But first I gotta get the site template up so I guess I better finish that now.

Oh! And I strongly suggest you see Dead Mans Chest if you liked the first Pirates of the Caribbean. I just saw it for the second time with my friend, the ever lovely Morgan, and it was as good the second time as the first one. I'll admit it though. It's that dreamy Johnny Depp. Makes me purr like a kitten... I mean... I like boobs. Eh heh heh...

No surguries.

So I'm supposed to have some fairly extensive surgury on August 11 on my skull and lower jaw. Essentially it's going to change the way I look which is sort of nifty. I wouldn't have plastic surgury but since I have no choice on this one I might as well look forward to the experience. Mostly I'll be the same but yeah. :P.

Anyway! I'm not having it now! I'm soooo mad. My surgeon called me up this morning and said that since I'm going paralyzed and I haven't been diagnosed yet, he doesn't feel safe cutting me open. I mean it makes sense and he's doing it in my best interest but I've been waiting for this surgury since I was 17 (4 years) and a month before the actual final date it gets cancelled. They said if I'm diagnosed real soon they might be able to book it for october. Ugh.

Good to be home.

So I just spent the last few days at my momma's house housesitting and taking care of her dog. Ugh, how terribly unexciting. I brought my computer over there 'cause I'm redoing the website for my webcomic (for the 5th time) but I didn't really get much work done. I had no interweb though so it's nice to have it back. Technically I'm on my brothers computer 'cause I'm buying a new desk tomorrow so I figure it's easier to just leave it in piles now and set it up tomorrow with the desk.

So I'm gonna throw in a short rant about the webcomic website. I'm so sick of it! I've designed 4 already and my room mates all hate them. "Too obvious" "Too green" "too weird". Those sons of a bitches. I had them design some too and seriously, they were rediculous. My room mate wanted to make the entire website a giant happy face where the comic was one eye and the news post was the other eye and all the links where the smile. Ah well. I'll get it done eventually.

So my house is still a freakin' mess. I spent HOURS cleaning the upper level of my house (we have two levels) and then I went away for 3 days. I'm back today and the kitchen is covered in food and plates and dirty pans. The living room is covered in trash and the washroom has junk piled everywhere again. It's a good thing I'm not working right now 'cause keeping this house clean is seriously a full time job. Well, time to start on the bottom level. Maybe I can actually untoxify the washroom down here. It'd be nice to make it useable.

MRI time well spent.

Waiting for the MRI took forever but since this is my second MRI, I knew it would take that long before they got me in. I was prepared. A piece of paper, a pencil in hand and presto. My newest bit of arts.I would have made it better and darker and all that but I only had so much time.

MRI!!!

My MRI is in less than an hour. "gulp". Wish me luck everyone!!!!

Sketchbook arts.

So I've decided to delve deep into one of my many (many many many) note books and scan a few of my amazing artworks for you. Okay, these two aren't that amazing. I can draw better. But the first one was the most fun picture I've ever drawn in my life.

The king ant is saying "Geet 'Im!" and the lady ant near the spider is saying "No, I love him." This is my rendition of Romeo and JuliAnt! (get it? Juliet-Juliant). (Notice the heart shape that the ants make around Juliant and Romeo).


And this one is just a gator driving a hot rod. Well the hot rod doesn't have my detail in it and it really sucks, but it was an after thought. I just wanted to draw a badazz gator.
ENJOY!

Grey's Anatomy

Now, I don't watch a lot of TV shows. I haven't turned on my TV for 6 months. I download the shows I like in high resolutions and the like so that I can watch them whenever I like. So the last few days I've been watching Grey's Anatomy (more for the medicine than the characters). Here's my rant about Meredith Grey.

She's a bitch! Okay, I hate using obvious words like 'bitch' when describing people. Seems so pedestrian (which I am but for blogs I like to portray a hint of intelligence... which I'm sure I lost long ago). But over the last few nights I've watched the first 25 episodes of the show and I can't believe how much I hate her. You don't really realize what a horrible person she is when you're watching the show over a two year period but back to back to back to back... she is seriously an unimpressive individual.

The intern Christina on the show is sort of the designated 'bitch' on the show but she has a way better sense or morality than Meredith does. Meredith is self involved and ignorant and all the things that makes me hate her. Yes, I realize that she's a fictional character but if people can get all worked up over Dumbledore dying, then I can get worked up over this.

I got worked up over Dumbledore dying too. Never saw it coming.

Ugh, I hates Meredith.

Happy Canada Day!!!!

And you non canadians can go away. You're not important anyway.