Well, so much for updating more often. I’ve been in and out of town quite often as of late. I’m going out on monday too, I don’t expect to be back any time soon.
For any real life human being who actually visits this site, you can follow this blog, as it will be the only thing I’ll really be able to update. It’s summer, and I’m pretty much just hitting the road with my netbook. Expect lots of pictures.
Today, the 12th is Burning Machine’s 1 year aniversery, as a result, I’ll be updating The Short Bus regularly. I’ll try for 3 times a week.
Burningworld is still broken, I’ll notify anyone who knows about both sites here if it becomes un-broken.
So it seems that the Burningworld forum is to blame for the inability to create new posts. There was so much spam that it’s used up all the availible space in our database, until this is cleaned out there will be no further posts there.
Or so it seems, If anyone follows both this site and burningworld, they have noticed I’ve pretty much stopped doing my comic. This is true, but I feel an explanation is warranted.
The last week of April was exam week, during exam week, I also had to pack up my belongings from my dorm room. My brother left maybe a week and change before I did, as a result all the kitchenware and small appliances were left in roosting, making it my job to pack and clean them. Lame I know.
Once all the packing was over and done with, I yet had to move it all out. I don’t know how many of you have done this, but moving a large computer system is like some kind of fucking expedition in the jungle. Like, I had to take a map with me or I’d get lost in the dusty wilds behind my box. Once all the long tasks were over, my exams written and belongings on their way home, I had to then unpack everything. This was done in a rush, as a result the majority of my things are at my father’s office for storage, and he is on a business trip. There lies my tablet and guitar, and have been since my return.
I don’t even have my desk set up because some day there will be re-wiring and re-drywalling here in my room, so everything is in a mess. My desktop is at the foot of my bed, with only a single monitor on top of it as a table, the wires for my keyboard and mouse are coupling somewhere in the mess on my floor. It’s really hard to be productive in such disarray.
News of my twenty second birthday have flown to the corners of facebook and back, and I still need to find summer employment. I’ve been spending my days since college in the form of noonly wakings, and nightly bonfires spiced by vodka. It’s been relaxing and untaxing, a real break from college. My hard work did pay off in the end, this semester I made straight A’s, well, two A minuses and an A plus, giving me a GPA of 3.85, or an overall of 95%. I think they’re sending me an award (woohoo).
I was hoping to make this post on burningworld, but for some reason I can’t post there anymore, the site refuses to allow it, it the king and I the peasant. There is no ability for revolution because I don’t hold admin rights over the burningworld domain, so I can’t post my work there if I had any.
I’ve still to see if Carter will work on the problem at all, or whether I should re-post all my material locally. I dont really want to, but I figure when I start get set up again I want the comic to actually be seen.
Anyway, I need to finish installing Linux on my age old laptop, then work on my resume, maybe get a job and make some money.
That’s right, a comic is up and running at burning world. As for here, yeah, I’ve got one on the way. I’m three pannels into it already but I’m going to let it get further before posting it here. Not totally happy with them yet.
The idea behind this comic came from a dream I had a while ago, where I woke in an empty hilly countryside, no explanation at all. Comic kind of works from there. In the mean time, check out burnig world for a daily comic of my creation, link coming to the sidebar when I’m not so tired with class in the morning.
As of late, I’ve been craving to play Lord of the rings online. It’s kind of sad, because as far as mmo’s go, I don’t enjoy them much. Lotro is just one of the most beautiful games I’ve played, and I want to explore the world they’ve made.
I was going to download the demo and make a final decision on purchase or not, but my school’s internet is firewalled to hell. To get around this, I was going to do what I’ve always done, and use a proxifier along with a your freedom connection, but the downloader still can’t get through. Frustrating. Since christmas, the school’s network has been slow, worse than dialup, and often sites and connections dont load, or are dropped, However, an entire solution to this is just get different internet. Brother and I are looking into cheap rogers cell internet, at 2mbps (256k/s down and upload speed) it doesn’t seem like much, but it will be unrestricted and we wont be sharing bandwitch Im told.
Maybe then my Wii wont have to connect to the laptop to play online.
Have been studying all day, I needed a break so I lowered the action on my cheapo acoustic guitar, then made some tea, then had supper, now I’m drinking more tea as I upload a picture to the interntes.
Ok, Here is a real post, for reals.
I room with my brother in a college dorm. The dorm is set up like an apartment, we have two bedrooms, a tiny kitchen and a bathroom. Every now and then my brother who is older than I, comes home and uses all the dishes and doesn’t wash them. Then for a day or two, we do the ol’ “wash and use”, pulling dishes from the sink just to put them back. The other day it took us over an hour just to clear the sink.
I suppose, the point is, that I’ve been doing some cleaning lately. and now the site is running well. There was a problem where the banner wasn’t linked to home on the short bus or the other art section, that has been fixed. On top of that, I’ve cleaned up the inactive comic that won’t ever, ever start up again, did away with the comic button on the navbar, and relocated it’s links to the sidebar.
I don’t know what the comic I want to do will be about, I don’t have much time to devote to drawing like I did in the summer, so one is all I can really afford. Something that crossed my mind, was making a comic for burning world. and just linking it from here. Two birds with one stone, and I still have my own work dedicated to this site. Yeah, maybe I’ll just do that.
I’d just need to get carter on board with the idea, I’m pretty sure he’s just let it fall under the carpet like I had originally.
In other news, I’ve been listening to Matt Good’s “Mix tape”. Very easy to work to, find it here.
Is up in the other section.
I’m going to work on a way to get rid of the “comic” button, and have all those links just on the sidebar for easier navigation. I’m going to leave that until I start cleaning up and getting rid of, or working old stuff.
Isn’t so fantastic, but I was so sick of the old one.
I’m working on how the site will look.
Yay.
