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The week is half over?
First 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...
Dat's Okay! I Likes Mountains! And Rivers!
And puh-leez, you remember Michigan, right? Dude, there's not a single point of elevation higher than 1500 ft above sea level in the entire lower peninsula. I'm all over seeing some bumpy land.
And here's hoping we don't run into anyone actually *living* out there with his three dogs (Ruby and Waco: GENIUS!)
Getting! So! Excited!
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You have GOT to see some of the houses around here. You can almost hear "dueling banjos" start up as you walk into the yard... not that you'd really want to walk into the yard ...
I'm so looking forward to this...
And it really isn't that I *mind* wide open space ... I think I'm just staggered by the sheer -- QUANTITY of it. I mean, we have areas the size of entire U.S. states (and we're not talking New Hampshire, either) without a single town that's large enough to show up on a map. Looking through the map quadrangles in the book, there's just map after map that's nothing but topography -- no roads, no towns, just contour lines and rivers. From here (Fairbanks) to Prudhoe Bay is considerably farther than from here to Anchorage, and there is very nearly NO ONE living in it. Boggles the mind.
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Odd to think "Spring is here" with everything covered in white...and still snowing today. How quickly we have gone from the land of always (almost) night to having nearly too much light. I keep looking at the globe I bought Allie and thinking "There's Alaska. Way. Up. There. *finger poking the miniature Earth*