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The week is half over?
Mar. 22nd, 2006 10:55 pmFirst off, I suck. I absolutely suck. Kismet is going to update tomorrow with a mostly uncolored page, and, why? Because I've been watching frikkin' Stargate Atlantis this week instead of working on the projects I should be working on. It is very, very sad.
Luckily I'm not planning on going anywhere or doing anything this weekend, for a change, so I'll be able to hunker down and work on comic pages. And that is what I'm going to be doing. Drawing comics. Not watching the accursed, seductive television. I swear.
A pleasant side effect of goofing off as much as I have been the last couple of weeks is that I feel much more energized. Unfortunately what I seem to be using that energy for is ... more goofing off, but I *am* starting to feel the lack of enough art in my life, so I should be getting myself back on track soon. I think.
It's been a truly crazy couple of weeks at work, so it's probably just as well that I've been running around outside of work acting like I've got avocado for brains, because if I was trying to also get useful stuff done on my own time, I'd probably have had a nervous breakdown by now.
It's seriously starting to get warm. It's been getting up to about 30 during the day, and I'm starting to feel the incipient nibblings of spring in the air. I've been poring over maps in preparation for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vogelein's visit (planning places to go), and I'm struck by how utterly HUGE Alaska is. It's not just big, but so much of its bigness consists of ... well, nothing. Mountains and rivers, rivers and mountains. There are so many parts of this state where you could literally go out and live in the woods for YEARS without ever seeing another human being. Not where we live, alas, but heck, we've been here for almost two years now, and there are large areas of the woods around here that we still haven't explored. In fact, Orion and I were just looking at satellite photos tonight, trying to figure out the lay of the land around the Fox area, and planning day trips once the snow melts. The Fairbanks North Star Borough (fyi: boroughs in Alaska are what the rest of the country calls counties) has a website with plat maps overlaid on aerial photos that is quite handy for this. Note: if you decide to play with it, the aerial photo option is "Quickbird" -- see list of check boxes at the left side of the map -- and it's really, really slow to refresh ... with the clunkiest interface that could possibly be conceived by geek-kind. However, it's really handy both for seeing topographical features such as streams, abandoned roads, etc., and also for figuring out who owns the land so you know if it's OK to walk on it or not...
Luckily I'm not planning on going anywhere or doing anything this weekend, for a change, so I'll be able to hunker down and work on comic pages. And that is what I'm going to be doing. Drawing comics. Not watching the accursed, seductive television. I swear.
A pleasant side effect of goofing off as much as I have been the last couple of weeks is that I feel much more energized. Unfortunately what I seem to be using that energy for is ... more goofing off, but I *am* starting to feel the lack of enough art in my life, so I should be getting myself back on track soon. I think.
It's been a truly crazy couple of weeks at work, so it's probably just as well that I've been running around outside of work acting like I've got avocado for brains, because if I was trying to also get useful stuff done on my own time, I'd probably have had a nervous breakdown by now.
It's seriously starting to get warm. It's been getting up to about 30 during the day, and I'm starting to feel the incipient nibblings of spring in the air. I've been poring over maps in preparation for
vogelein's visit (planning places to go), and I'm struck by how utterly HUGE Alaska is. It's not just big, but so much of its bigness consists of ... well, nothing. Mountains and rivers, rivers and mountains. There are so many parts of this state where you could literally go out and live in the woods for YEARS without ever seeing another human being. Not where we live, alas, but heck, we've been here for almost two years now, and there are large areas of the woods around here that we still haven't explored. In fact, Orion and I were just looking at satellite photos tonight, trying to figure out the lay of the land around the Fox area, and planning day trips once the snow melts. The Fairbanks North Star Borough (fyi: boroughs in Alaska are what the rest of the country calls counties) has a website with plat maps overlaid on aerial photos that is quite handy for this. Note: if you decide to play with it, the aerial photo option is "Quickbird" -- see list of check boxes at the left side of the map -- and it's really, really slow to refresh ... with the clunkiest interface that could possibly be conceived by geek-kind. However, it's really handy both for seeing topographical features such as streams, abandoned roads, etc., and also for figuring out who owns the land so you know if it's OK to walk on it or not...