November 30, 2010 (Tues)

Up late last night, watching Michael Palin in "Pole to Pole."  It's another Netflix series that's going off instant view.  Up around 8:30, told myself I was too tired to go in swimming, but then did anyway.  Also got gas and dropped some stuff (books and a lamp) at Goodwill.

Went shopping and bought some vegetables (yay) and some beer (nooo).  I also configured my NAS so it would back up my stuff on a regular basis to an external hard drive.

I am, for some reason, itching to fire up ACID again, just to see how well I can manage it.

Update:  more Michael Palin, episode one of "Yes Minister" and "The Mind Robber" from Doctor Who.

Did some very good work on Santa.  Really coming along nicely.

And tomorrow calls.

November 29, 2010 (Mon)

Another night of bad sleep, but up before 8...then back to bed.  Awoken by the phone around 8:30, and went to the pool and did fifty laps.  Go me!  Hope it doesn't make the cold worse.

Sorted through the painting photos and got ones that I thought looked best (and most accurate) so that's, what, part two of about six?

Update:  well, I went through the photos, trimmed them, did some color correction and contrast work.  They should be ready to place in the Oils file, and then upload.  I'm going to hope that this works.  We'll see.

Update 2:  well, that's done.  Despite the training in DreamWeaver, I don't seem to know my way around too well.  Still, it's finished and looks good.

Update 3:  it's that time of the month again, when Netflix decides to start dropping stuff from instant view.  So I'm going to watch "The Running Man" while I can, and I'll see you tomorrow.

November 28, 2010 (Sun)

Up at 8:30, then back to bed.  A difficult sleep last night made me too tired to bound from the bed.  Last night my main NAS unit decided it was...well, not going to be accessible.  Rather than panic, I thought I'd just give it some time to decide otherwise and apparently, some time during the night, it did.  All is good with it.

Into the pool around 11:30.  Then to the store for more baby aspirin, as well as some diet soda (ugh) and pretzels.  Also some blank DVD cases, a label-maker and some more ink for the printer.  (It's telling me it's a bit low, which I guess is understandable considering the DVD covers, which are fairly graphic-intense.)

Update:  well, I cut the DVD covers for the cases, and they seem a bit off.  I may reprint them.  Or not.  I also went through the photos I took yesterday and marked the usable ones.  A couple of the paintings didn't photograph well at all, which I think is okay since I have other photos of them which will work just fine.  Because I don't have all my paintings with me, I was going to adapt the original page anyway rather than generate it from scratch.

Did some painting on Santa.  Still looks good to me.

Update 2: more work on Santa,. looking better.  I did reprint the covers for Suspended Sentence, I'll try to do a better job cutting them.  I wonder why they didn't line up with the corner, like the Doppelganger ones?

Ah well.  And to tomorrow.

November 27, 2010 (Sat)

Up around 8 AM.  Not really sure what to do with myself.  I'm sure I'll do more paint work, but not now.

I should also finish up the DVD cover for "Suspended Sentence" but that means putting the DVD in the drive, which I also don't want to do now.

Hmm.

Update:  well, I photographed all the finished paintings I have in the apartment.  This took a lot longer than you might think, as I had to set the stupid things on the wall, then photographed them several times at exposures ranging from 2 seconds to a tenth of a second.  I haven't looked at them yet, but there have to be some usable ones in there.

I want to use these to update my pathetically old "Paintings" page on my website.  So really, what I did wasn't even a complete chapter.  I still have to select them, resize them, fire up DreamWeaver, place them, and upload them.  Fun.

After I took them all down, I rearranged them on the walls.  I think I should have enough space now to hang all of them, but I suppose we'll find out when I put the rest of them up in the bedroom.

Update 2: finished the cover for "Suspended Sentence."  Which meant I watched it for the credits, and truth be told, it's not bad.  Some of the acting is lacking, but that's not my fault.  It has a great cover, now!

Also did some work on Santa.  Shaping up well.  I may do some more of that tonight, but I'll post this in the meanwhile.  On to tomorrow.

November 26, 2010 (Fri)

Another slow say.  Up shortly after 8, and into the pool around 9.  Pool surprisingly crowded; for the first time, my strategy of bringing my Kindle along was put to the test.  I guess folks are trying to work off Thanksgiving.

Update:  some good painting work.  Satisfactory results on Santa, PB2 Panel 5, and Leng.  More to come, perhaps.

Update 2:  more painting, including work on Storm and Island.  Plus, I think I've found a way to fix the "floating ring" in Apples!

Lots of good work tonight.  On to tomorrow.

November 25, 2010 (Thurs)

After signing off last night, I did a bunch of painting.  Today, I got into the pool early (around 7:30) or so, since the pool is closing at 2:00 for the holidays.

Update:  well, it's nearly 8 PM and I've done pretty much nothing.   I guess I'm not terribly worried, but I do seem to be very tired all day today.

Update 2:  well, it's a bit after 11 PM and I think it's official:  I'm not doing anything creative today.  (Now watch as I go paint for hours.)

See you tomorrow!

November 24, 2010 (Wed)

Slept badly last night.  Had the idea for doing a "Suspended Sentence" DVD cover.  Why not?  I could just take the Doppelganger one, delete the text and artwork and redo.

Update:  did some of that.  Also did some work on Santa.  Bought a ham for Thanksgiving, and a can of tuna for Leela.

Update 2:  did more work on Santa, coming along nicely.  And I think that will do for today.