I need a vacation

It’s been a rough couple days.

Sunday afternoon I was working on my computer and had a glass of juice. I always keep liquids a good distance from it, but I was having a drink and got distracted and set it down right in front of the computer. Then when I went back to what I was doing I bumped it and it tipped over right on top of the keyboard. I panicked and grabbed a towel and tilted the computer so it wouldn’t all run in, but it was too late. It shut itself off and has not turned on since.

That evening I was letting it dry out and had the bright idea to remove the back of the computer. I figured if I did that and lay it upside down, that might help it dry better/faster. I removed the screws and tried to pull the back off. The clips released but it still wouldn’t move. I looked up a tutorial online and saw that Apple had designed it to slide into brackets on the rear. So I started tugging.

Pull it once. Nothing
Pull it twice. Nothing
Start to get annoyed and give it one more big tug. It instantly releases

…And the sharp edge of the panel slices straight through my thumb. I start bleeding profusely and freaking out. Crying, screaming somewhat, running around the place digging around for gauze and tape. I wrap it and tape it off tightly. Its a nice looking big flesh flap on the side of my thumb now. After a couple days it’s healing alright, I guess. It’s pretty bad, but it could’ve been much worse.

That was for nothing. The computer dried out and still won’t turn on. Anyway, I have an appointment with a local certified Apple repair affiliate to look at it today.

Fun Shit.

P.S. The iPad Pro isn’t a computer replacement no matter how much Apple tries to say it is. If I had to rely on it to do my job, I wouldn’t be able to work right now.

It’s too late tonight to drag the past out into the light

The other day I was going through a shitload of files on an external hard drive of mine (I’m a bit of a digital hoarder) and I found all the old sprite comics I made back in high school. I read through them all in order over the course of about a half an hour and…I actually laughed a few times. Some of them weren’t half bad.

A good friend of mine got me into making comics and we created a website together back in our sophomore or junior year of high school. The site was called Unstable Soup and it was the home to both my comic and their comic. We both sorta let life get in the way and while their comic fizzled out pretty quickly, I managed to hang on a bit longer and got to around comic 100 or so. After that, the site just sorta fell into that internet purgatory of abandoned sites that never get updated. It’s gone completely now.

So anyway, I was sitting there looking at these and I was like “You know, these aren’t actually horrible. It’s a shame these are just sitting on a hard drive.”
And that got me thinking that I might create another wordpress blog as a companion to this one and slap up the ol’ comic archive. I’m not saying I’ll make new ones, just put up all the ones I published (holy fuck, 14 years ago?) and also put up all the others that I made but never put up (there’s about 10-12 of those).

I dunno. It’s just me thinking about stuff to do again.

My process in a nutshell

Well, I have promised a 4 part retrospective and review series on the Blair Witch franchise over at Tracking Lines.  The anxiety ridden procrastinator in me really wishes I hadn’t done that. lol.

So I am scrambling to complete the first part, having watched the first film last night. I have these scheduled to go up at 7PM Pacific tonight, tomorrow and Friday, with the last one following after whenever I see the new movie, some time this weekend.

So, I thought I’d share a bit about my writing process here as I work on this. Also, you get a sneak peak at the first two paragraphs (which are subject to change) so…bonus!

Continue reading My process in a nutshell

It’s my music at work

Well, I’m back at work for another day.

I desperately want to write something, but…

  1. I don’t know what to write
  2. I’m really busy today.

So I dunno.

I’m really proud of Tracking Lines at this point. We’re getting hits and reader interaction to a magnitude that I have never gotten on any of my previous blogs. It’s fun to see people reading what I write and enjoying it.
I’m trying to think of articles to post, and I think I might snag one I wrote for my personal blog 4-5 years ago, polish it up, and put it up on Tracking Lines. I mean, no one read my personal blog anyway, so it will be new to almost everyone. lol.

Anyway, back to checking out the Apple Event via liveblog, and then waiting for the Playstation Event in a couple hours.

…and yes, of course, back to work. Ha!

Hey, what’s this?

Hello everyone.

I finally decided to migrate my personal blog over to WordPress, after having it on Blogger for forever. So while this is the first post here, it will not remain the first post as I will probably move over a lot of my old posts and back date them so it will look like they were here the whole time. I’ll probably leave the late-night depressed (and suicidal) posts over there to die.

Anyway, wrote a post for Tracking Lines today. It’s long and rambling and I’m not nearly as happy with it as I am with my first post. The first one, reading it back, comes off much more professional and this one…this one not so much. I’m frantically editing and re-writing to try and make it better, but it’s scheduled to go up in 3 hours and I refuse to change that deadline.

Part of the problem is the subject of the post itself, Morgan. It’s so easy to write about films that you hate or films you love, but what do you say about films that are “okay”?
“It was fine. Nothing about it was really terrible. Well made, finely acted, overdid it on the foreshadowing of the twist.”

Anyway, back to editing and shit. Be back later.