2 posts tagged “lee”

Decided today that while working on my wireframe skills has been extremely helpful, I'm not exactly in line to believe that making a comic purely based on wireframe's will be all that exhilarating, well, that is, unless I give them witty dialog.  Hmm...

Figure that with nearly 4 days left in my experiment, I've mostly got this weekend to really bring everything together.   It also begs the question of what now.  What about when these 30 days are up?  To be honest, I feel like I've broke a chain around my ankle and that this nightly confession to the deacons of the interweb has been more than simply a practice in discipline, it's been almost systematic.  Why stop at 30?  What about the next month?  Am I truly accomplished if I just make progress for 30 months and then give myself an excuse to go back to my old ways?  There's the question right there. What have I accomplished if I simply stop come May 1st?  Progress without dedication is merely a demonstration of what is possible and I believe, for someone that's lived a nomadic life as I have, I have had my fill with demonstrations.

It also begs the question, how the hell do I make something like this?

R2FU

I mean, let it be known, my father and I once were masters of the radio controlled device.  Most don't know my old love of the Radio Controlled Vehicle.  To those that share this love, I still own an aluminum chassis RC-10.  Yeah, feast on that R/C enthusiasts.  It drowns in old-school authenticity.

Mini-Vroom

I figure if I know how to make something like that from a pile of loose parts, I could do the same with a Trash can and some stickers like Captain Radio did up there.  Might be a fun project some day to make myself a personal beer and laundry droid.  Might even be more fun to give him a Scottish-accent and a hankering for Grey Goose Vodka.  Hmmm.....

Oh, hey, my partner in literary crime Lee made his own blog.  He said I inspired him.  How thoughtful.  He must want something as he's diabolical like that.  Seriously, he's military.  If I learned anything from my years in hippie-occupied Colorado, it's that the military wants to interrogate Puppies and that just yells diabolical.

Activities

Worked pretty late today and didn't get home until almost 7:30, so I barely ate the delicious burrito that my lovely Nicole made, let alone remembered that without our precious DVR, I actually had to watch LOST.  Wow, how lazy is America that having to watch a TV show when it airs is considered annoying. Good thing tonights episode was insanely boring or the commercials I was forced to ignore would have made me even more agitated.

I did manage to scan in the images I drew over the weekend, which made me think that it's time to really dig deep on detailing out some characters and going back to some of the dozens of wireframes I've made and fleshing them out. 

Tonight will be a shorter post.  I'm pretty tired and feel like I might be getting a cold or something.  Feel like a family of badgers moved into my stomach and are fighting for superiority using grenades and other small explosives.  First time in a long while I actually took a nap, something I've maybe done a handful of times in the last few years.  Seems my quasi-ADD doesn't really allow naps all that much.  At any rate, random YouTube post here but there's a lot of commercials using this song and after some nostalgia digging, Nicole remembered where why it was so familiar. 

Activities

Decided that tonight, I would put some much needed attention to my t-shirt shop I made on Cafepress.com.  It's nothing spectacular and the shirt designs are very limited so far, as I spent more time just learning the shop setup and how things worked so far rather than uploading new designs.  I changed the name, to BrigandTall (re: BigAndTall).  I'm pretty proud of the play on words but I'm a total freaking dork.  Now that I think of it, having a word depicting bandits in a shop title might be a bit edgy.  Hmmm.

http://www.cafepress.com/brigandtall 
(it's a bit messy right now, my apologies, I'll clean it up more throughout the week but the admin tool is slow tonight)

The site's going through some maintenance which was annoying as tonight went a lot slower than it should have with all the timeouts I experienced.  Good thing is they're adding some new functionality and options, which should be cool. 

Now that I upgraded it, I have a lot more selection and flexibility with how I can lay out designs, the store, etc so I'll be adding more things to it than is up there currently.  I don't have any limitations on how many shirts I can sell at one time which is cool as now, I can go ape and just start uploading every design I come up with without fear of using up a certain alloted amount of t-shirt styles. 

Of course, I didn't upgrade the store until after my good bud Lee bought a few shirts, so dammit.  Might have to make him a special shirt and send it his way for being the first person to buy a shirt, let alone three,  off my my site. Maybe some funky shirt with the Redskins starting line-up, a picture of Jennifer Love Hewitt doing Tae-Kwon-do with Jackie Chan and the Cowboy's logo exploding.  Figure I could get just about all of his interests in one shirt that way.  I'd make some cheesy shirt with his picture on it but he has a rare disorder where whenever a camera focuses on his person, his head automatically turns into a large, open hand.  Seriously, the bastard's freaking quick on the photo-block. 

Lee

Quick Facts

• Weight: 247
• So, yeah, I'm really failing at this weight thing.  I'm not overweight by any means but I've definitely got a protective barrier residing over my abdomen in case anyone would try to dent my steel-abs if you know what I mean.  Wonder why I'm not losing any weight?
  
• Diet: Oh, yeah, here's why.  I ate: 3 bagels, 1 banana, hot dog, fries, Frosted Shredded Wheat, candy. 2 glasses of water, 1 glass of milk, 1 glass of OJ. 
  
• Need to kick my lame ass out of this bad eating habit.  My family has a long history of diabetes and unless I want to be another Hess on the Insulin-Train, I need to start remembering what vegetables look like.
  
• TV:
• I actually fell asleep on the couch for a while today, maybe watched about a half-hour of TV altogether.  I'm prepping for dropping off the cable box this weekend, trying to ween ourselves off of it.  No more DVR might be a damn good thing as it makes TV an even lazier activity.