Finishing up comic stuff for the night.
Showing posts with label Day by Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Day by Day. Show all posts
Lorna visits
Lorna came to town this week. We ate a lot of food and walked all around Brooklyn. One night, we ate hand pulled noodles in soup and a pile of dumplings. Then we walked to Brooklyn Heights, and looked out at the city.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
No curtains at my place anymore, so woke up at like 8:30. Making up flight jacket patches and listening to David Dondero. The sun shining in my window makes it hard to see the monitor. That's trouble.
experimenting, 01
If I am working during the day, I am mostly thinking about getting out of work and doing something else, or about going back to sleep. For some reason, at night time that changes, and instead I think of other things... ideas for images, etc. I jot them down and sometimes I do them. Even if I don't, I just got paid to have that idea, sort of.
Tonight while working I had an idea for a series of 2 images. I started experimenting with it before putting time into the real thing. Here's a glimpse, 5 minutes in.
Tonight while working I had an idea for a series of 2 images. I started experimenting with it before putting time into the real thing. Here's a glimpse, 5 minutes in.
august 4th
sometimes, even though you have a light table that is bigger than half of your desk, you still want to kick back and relax while you work. luckily, mine is pretty light.
Grimaldi's sounds like a pizza place in Harry Potter
I finally did it. Had the best pizza so far in NYC. That isn't a huge deal, since I've only really gone to Sam's down the street from me, but still. Grimaldi's. I had heard big things about it, so finally went. Got there at 5PM and got in the line (~30 people) and waited for a friend to join me. This is supposedly one of the very few places around that is still allowed to burn coal, and between the hours of 4 and 6, they take 30 minutes to refresh the oven. We got caught in that window. So, food came out at like 6:50 or so. That's ok. I ate 5/8ths of a Pepperoni/Mushroom pizza that was so delicious.
The seating arrangement in this place is as tight as possible. There were 2 ladies sitting next to us that did not speak a word the entire time they were there. And it looked like they had just met. Just silence and awkward looking around. When my friend got up to use the bathroom, they finally started chatting with each other. "So, do you have any siblings? Where do you work?" I couldn't figure them out at all.
Afterwards, we walked a block down the street to the Brooklyn Ice Cream factory. Ate a cone of Vanilla / Choc. Chunk while looking out over the water. Lots of people with cameras there. Also, the WATCHTOWER, which I guess is the Jehovah Witness HQ.
Lastly a can of Boddington's Pub Ale at a place called Superfine. They were having a hoe-down, but the band was all squished on this tiny stage, so they looked like the band from Chuck-E-Cheese.
One of these three things that I consumed has made me not hungry for the almost 24 hours since I ate them. Hm.
Also, while at the "local" target the other day, which is in some sort of bizarre brooklyn mall, I noticed that they had a Chuck-E-Cheese on the 3rd floor. I wonder if they'd let me have my birfday party there.
How are fires still a mystery?
Bret Conrad Atkins' house burned down.
The message that woke me up this morning was along the lines of "Billy, what's red and orange, and eats everything you own? A fire. My house burned to the ground. Check out WRAL Local News online. Later."
When I talked to him tonight he sounded OK with it all. Their dog got wedged under a table and stayed in the house during the entire fire, but came out 100% unharmed. His wife's jewelry box was in perfect condition. His brother was in town, so his X-Box was over at his parent's house.
He was joking about it. "Jayme and I will be back to poor in no time." I guess you've gotta joke about it...
The message that woke me up this morning was along the lines of "Billy, what's red and orange, and eats everything you own? A fire. My house burned to the ground. Check out WRAL Local News online. Later."
When I talked to him tonight he sounded OK with it all. Their dog got wedged under a table and stayed in the house during the entire fire, but came out 100% unharmed. His wife's jewelry box was in perfect condition. His brother was in town, so his X-Box was over at his parent's house.
He was joking about it. "Jayme and I will be back to poor in no time." I guess you've gotta joke about it...
Real D!
roamed the city with a visiting friend yesterday. had 3 hours to kill before we were actually supposed to be somewhere and our legs were dead from walking. so we popped in to see Coraline 3D. When I say 3D, I don't mean red/blue. I mean REAL D!:
the side of those glasses claims they are "real D". I was just glad that they fit so nicely over my own 3-D glasses.
Also, this movie was pretty awesome. I love that Neil Gaiman is getting his work out there (stardust, coraline) and that it is successful. Each film sneaks in a bit of magic/fantasy just because, and I hope that he keeps at it. Eventually we'll all be so accepting of magic/fantasy in the real world, or just because, that they'll do a 10-movie Sandman series. Then we can all stop watching movies after that. It will end cinema.
the side of those glasses claims they are "real D". I was just glad that they fit so nicely over my own 3-D glasses.
Also, this movie was pretty awesome. I love that Neil Gaiman is getting his work out there (stardust, coraline) and that it is successful. Each film sneaks in a bit of magic/fantasy just because, and I hope that he keeps at it. Eventually we'll all be so accepting of magic/fantasy in the real world, or just because, that they'll do a 10-movie Sandman series. Then we can all stop watching movies after that. It will end cinema.
smoke & mirrors
Well well well...
If you notice, they lie right there on the box. I assume this was how they figured out that I didn't live 4 blocks away from the address on the mailing label.
The box was in perfect condition, clearly never opened. Gave it a shake – no rattling broken pieces. Looks fine to me through the first inspection. Hopefully it works as well later on when I set it up.
If you notice, they lie right there on the box. I assume this was how they figured out that I didn't live 4 blocks away from the address on the mailing label.
The box was in perfect condition, clearly never opened. Gave it a shake – no rattling broken pieces. Looks fine to me through the first inspection. Hopefully it works as well later on when I set it up.
standing on the bed
below me: carpet, bed, small nightstand/bookshelf, and some boxes of comics & books.
missing scanner.
The short version, since I am running around:
1. Bought a Scanner from Epson.com last week.
2. Today wondered, wonder if that should be here yet?
3. Tracked package.
4. Last Thursday it was delivered and signed for...
5. Called FedEx, and they checked. It was delivered to an address a few blocks away, and not even close to my address. The location is a shady looking electronics store.
6. FedEx will go back tomorrow to get it back.
- I expect it will either be
7a. Lost
7b. Broken
7c. Never resolved.
At least it's snowing though, right?
1. Bought a Scanner from Epson.com last week.
2. Today wondered, wonder if that should be here yet?
3. Tracked package.
4. Last Thursday it was delivered and signed for...
5. Called FedEx, and they checked. It was delivered to an address a few blocks away, and not even close to my address. The location is a shady looking electronics store.
6. FedEx will go back tomorrow to get it back.
- I expect it will either be
7a. Lost
7b. Broken
7c. Never resolved.
At least it's snowing though, right?
from the window in my hobbit hole
i hate that people use computers and get paid to do so, yet have no idea what they are doing with a computer or the internet or anything.
that is all.
jan 08
• one day in to work, and my desk has already gotten messier than I would like.
• groceries ordered online and delivered to your door is kind of awesome. this is what rich people feel like, i bet.
• seven minutes early, but: happy birthday matt. come up and i'll throw you a party.
jan 06
• another jobless day.
• in highschool, i bought the entire dune series at a used bookstore in a now destroyed mall. i would always try and start the first one, but the made up words kept throwing me off. now that i have a sense of what those words are, i have started in on the series. a small chunk in to the first book, i can see how different my life would have been if i had a vast dune knowledge in high school.
probably way less friends.
• in highschool, i bought the entire dune series at a used bookstore in a now destroyed mall. i would always try and start the first one, but the made up words kept throwing me off. now that i have a sense of what those words are, i have started in on the series. a small chunk in to the first book, i can see how different my life would have been if i had a vast dune knowledge in high school.
probably way less friends.