Website work is so long and dry.

Why did I want to make a webcomic? So that I can draw fun comics for my own enjoyment. So why am I spending more time working on the website than I am on actual comic making?

I'll tell you why. Commitment. Yep, I could have a simple white background with just my comic up every day. I really could do with only two buttons. A back and a next one. But no dammit. I want a something I can be proud of!

Sorry the sites been down so long by the way. Haven't had anything fun for you all to read in over a week (gasp). But it's coming. Expect it up near the end of the week. I'm on late duty at work (10 hour shifts every day this week) and I found out 5 hours ago that tomorrow is my college placement test so if it's not up by the end of the week... don't hate me. But Pip keeps giving me ideas for the different parts of the site and it gets me all excited again so it'll probably be up soon.


EDIT!!!: I'm just adding this to the bottom here 'cause it's short, though unrelated. I got paid this morning! WHOOO!!! The payroll guy at my work told me that since I started work on the 18th and there's a week lapse between working and being paid for it, that I'd only get 400 bucks. I checked my account this morning and I got a whopping 912 more dollars! WHOO!!!

What's with that?

Doesn't anyone remember when girls were sweet and innocent?

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Yeah, me neither.

My website is on hiatus!

I have no idea how to spell hiatus so I'm hoping that's how it's done. Basically it means my webcomic is put on hold for the next week (or potentially longer). It's a long story but the script for the gallery is sort of... well I have to change it. So a whole new template is coming up. Sort of exciting and sort of sucks 'cause I still suck with code but has to be done. Hope you all can cope.

Stuffs.

It's so weird going from a job that you love (ultrasonic technition) to one that you hate. Well, I don't hate it actually. I just don't really care for it. My job is to fill boxes with stuff that people order and then ship 'em out. But I'm gonna stick with it for school.


Anyway, none of that has anything to do with this post. I'm working on my website! Hoorah hoorah.

I'm trying to actually get some of the other pages actually up. Working on the characters page right now. And Morgan, your character is quite skinny now. I hope you approve.

I'm going to try an HTML writing program because writing it all up by hand is proving more cumbersome than I remember. It's been years since I wrote up a webpage in HTML so hopefully this'll get it done for me quickly. I guess I better get back to it.

Check the site soon for the actual links. :D

New Job!

It's almost too easy. Yesterday I applied at Western Grocers and guess what... they haven't called yet. Or maybe they did... not sure. I wasn't home all day. I decided I didn't want to work there and I applied where my friend works today... and I was hired today. I start first thing tomorrow morning. 8-4:30 monday to friday. I'll be getting paid about 550 bucks a week and about 5 hours of over time a week for the next month or so (busy time of year apparently) so lots of moneys for school. And I told them in plain english that I will be quitting in less than 3 months and they don't even care.

So I bought myself up 2 weeks worth of lunches and hid them in the fridge. Real thrifty lunches too. Everything I got was on sale. Cookies 2/$2.00. 12 packs of coke 2/$4.00 (real good deal) and a bunch of meats and cheeses and stuff. It's almost as if they knew I was coming and had no money.

Anyway, guess that's all I got to say. I still don't want to work in a ware house but as long as I keep the whole doctor image in my mind I should be able to manage.

Glorious day of days!

It snowed! The ground is white and it's still snowing! I lurve snow. I'm pretty sure it's going to melt before halloween though which will be good 'cause halloween with snow is no fun BUT if it does that means we get a SECOND FIRST SNOW! Whooo! Life is good folks. Life is good.


Oh, and I swear I'm psychic. I had a dream that it snowed last night... although in my dream there was so much snow we couldn't find our house and we had to live in giant planes that don't land on the ground ever... okay maybe that doesn't count but it was about snow so I get some points.

Special!

Hey everybody! Watch me spell Specal!


DAMMIT!

Webcomicery!

In an ever lasting attempt to make this silly website better I've been experimenting a little with the comics. I'm sure no one has actually noticed anything but I'm hoping that each experiment actually makes the art of the comic a little better.

I started putting shading on the characters in the first comic but they were very smooth and quickly done.

In the second comic I attempted to make it a little more realistic by having it less smooth. The results are horendous.

In the 3rd comic I went back to the smooth shadows but I attempted it again in the 4th comic.

Yes, the 4th comic I put a little more thought into the shadows so that it would represent wrinkles in the shirt.

The 5th comic was simply trying to get better at anticipating the shirt wrinkles (though I don't think I did a great job).

But the 7th comic! (I'm counting my alien thing as the 6th but I drew that a month ago). The 7th comic I tried a little more with the shirt wrinkle shading but I added a whole new dimension. I added high lights to the clothes and hair on the side opposite the shadows. That's right, now the character has base colors, shadows and highlights!

I'm hoping you all like the way it looks. It's a little sketchy right now as I try to steady my hand while coloring those in but I rather like the way it looks compared to the other comics.

Oh, and I switched the shadows now to the right side because for some reason high lights don't look as good on the left.

Grey's Anatomy Rant #3000

Okay, I've probably not done 3000 rants about the show but it sure feels like there is a lot to rant about. Warning, heavy spoilers if you haven't seen the episode that aired October 12th/06 (specifically it's the 4th episode of the 3rd season if you don't include the summary episode that played the day before the season premeired.)

Where is all the medicine?! Dr. Burke sewing up a dead chicken at the start of the episode is seriously the only medical practise we even saw in the whole freakin' episode. They don't even have people lie on the tables anymore because when they operate the camera only shows the doctors faces and the blue sheets that would be covering the bodies... where they even in the scene. Remember in the 1st season when they removed the girls stomach to drain the organ and it all squirted up on Merediths face? Ah, good time. Grey and Bailey had 4 hands full of little girl innards.

And the freakin' love triangles! They dragged the Meredith + Derek thing on for 41 episodes now (which is actually terribly impressive) so can't they just let the whole horrible drama die so we can move on to other things? The Christina Burke situation lasted like 6 episodes before they were finally just dating and happy. The George and Cally thing lasted like 6 episodes and they've already broken up! And the Izzy Denny thing actually had the guy die! So why won't Meredith or Derek die?! Well, not Derek. He's awesome possum. If I were a woman or a homosexual or even just myself after a few Rickards, I'd totally hit him. But Meredith is even more the whore/bitch than ever.

And is it just me or is Izzy that much more attractive without all the make up? I mean, I don't really dig the crying tears and all but it makes her human and fragile and like... a real person who doesn't live in their own little world. Maybe that's just me though.

And as a final note... 8.7 million?! WHOOO! I'm so dating the first heart transplant list patient I find.


Edit!!!: Oh, and are they afraid of having to many characters in the show or something? The same episode that Mark Sloan decides to transfer his practise to Seattle is the exact same day that Fin gets kicked out. Coincidence? Or just to many characters for the writers to keep track of? I'm fine with it though. The whole dating two guys thing was just gross.


Edit2!!!: Why did she get morphine for freakin' apendicitis?! I had to get my apendix out and I assure you I wasn't hopped up on morphine all day. Must be nice having friends who are doctors who can prescribe you morphine for every little thing.

Job hunting.

Well, apparently this is my 100th post. That's sort of exciting. Though I'm not sure if that includes posts that I've deleted. Doesn't really matter.


So I've said that I can't get a job because of my disability claim but after talking to RBC insurance for an hour and 10 minutes today, it's become apparent that I have no choice. I haven't paid any bills since the start of september and it looks like my disability claim won't be done for about another month if not longer. It's a long story but they are doing an investigation of my entire medical history.

At the end of the month I will owe 1500 dollars in bills for rent, utilities, medical costs, student loans and phone bills as well as the money I borrowed to keep food in my belly over the last two months. And since I have school in january I only have 2 and a half months of full time work to save up the money for my classes as well as pay all that off and save up money so that I can work part time while in school. At this point I'm not really complaining though. I was earlier but now I'm not. Just sort of tellin' yah all what's going on. And tomorrow I will once again be going out job hunting.

I'll probably end up at Western Grocers even though they can't keep people working there for more than a week because it sucks so much but fact is they pay close to 18 bucks an hour and will put you to work the day after applying. But if I can squeeze out 11 shifts I'll have the 1500 bucks for all my loans and then after that it all goes into my savings. Plus there are a lot of incentive programs down there. If you work faster than what they designate as 100% efficiency (in a 2 week period) you get an extra 10 cents per hour. There are people working at 160% down there so they are making 6 dollars an hour more than they should. That would be like 24 bucks an hour for me. Plus if you show up every day for 2 weeks you get like an extra 75 cents per hour. Part of it is because the work sucks and another part of that is because they hire morons and people straight out of jail.

Anyway, I'm just rambling now. Bye.

I'm applied for school!

I'd like to thank pretty much everyone I talked to yesterday for making me feel stupid! But it got me to apply for school today so it all works out.

One friend made me feel guilty for not going to school while another made me feel guilty for trying to find a job and made me ask my dad to borrow some moneys and then he made me feel guilty for not having asked 2 weeks ago. Ah well, I'm applied for school. :D

Oh, and I'm not allowed to work officially. Blegh. I looked into it today. Apparently if the disability folks find out I went to work then I get it big big troubles and have to like pay a fine or something because it's not mentioned in my claim or something. I can't remember.

Oh! And I think the lady doing my claim is seriously screwed up. She's not giving me my thing yet because she needs information from my pharmacy because of all the medications I've taken for my paralysis... I haven't taken any meds!!!! And now I gotta wait until tuesday to call her because of thanksgiving. Well, no worries. I'm applied in school and that's good enough.


Side note. I'm going to be updating the webcomic 3 times a week so expect them on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Like a creepy uncle, he's always there.

Today's fantabulous post is about an over looked family member of mine. One that's been a part of life for years and years. Brought to me one day years ago without warning and has been here ever since. That's right. It's:
The Big Red Phone Booth!!!

I don't even remember how long we've had the big red phone booth. It's a real old english phone booth that my dad aquired from his auction company. Right now it keeps the lawn chairs safe but at christmas we string red lights on it and this halloween we are thinking about putting maybe a skeleton or something hanging in there. Giving friends directions to my house are so easy. "Drive down this road until you see the big red phone booth." It's like having a beacon that draws people to you.

I lurve you Big Red Phone Booth!

It gets worse before it gets better.

I just added the second comic to my website! Okay it's like 6 minutes before tuesday but close enough. It's tuesday somewhere in the world... like Kingston! On the one hand it's exciting that I've met my first deadline (updating tuesdays and thursdays until I get a pattern going so I can update 3 times a week) but this comic makes me cry. I mean, I still sort of giggle at it (yes, I giggle at my own work. Sue me), but the drawing is horrendous. I actually drew and inked this comic months and months ago when I was still getting used to the characters and at the time I was full of caffiene (makes drawing especially hard). But now I limit myself to one cup of coffee in the morning and the occasional cup of tea in the evening so my hand is steady and in the last several months of me not making comics, I still drew the characters a couple dozen times for kicks.

I can't wait for thursday 'cause my third comic was the most fun to draw and I especially proud of the characters (very steady) and my 4th comic is the cleanest of all, though you won't get to enjoy that until next tuesday. Well, 4 comics written and now 4 comics completed means I have to actually write a new one "groan"! Wish me all luck!

P.S.

If anyone knows how to make a cascading style sheet based on the size of an image pulled from a seperate directory in the web directory in PHP, please help me!