If I'd just bought the ticket instead of contacting my dad about it first, I'd be fine. Instead, I'm stuck on the bus.
If I'd just bought the ticket instead of contacting my dad about it first, I'd be fine. Instead, I'm stuck on the bus.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive smog bank smothering huge portions of China today. This blanket of pollution has been hovering over the country for over a week now, exacerbated by cool air and smoke from fires.

From Portrait of a Polluted Land
Anyways, I've gotten some reader mail in the last few days, which is always a treat, and a good Mister Nate Monday has sent me something very cool! Apparently, he was making pumpkin cookies this past Halloween, found a squirrel-shaped cookie cutter and, well . . . .

The results speak very well for themselves. Behold, squirrels, and just the way my Bunnies and I like them - adorable AND delicious!
~American forces led by Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison defeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing American Indian confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
~A FB friend has a son in the Army. He's not stationed at Ft Hood, but his wife his. She's okay. This is part of what I said.
"This thing is a Tragedy AND a Disaster. Of course, Hasan is being portrayed in certain quarters as a 'Jihadi' when it seems he had in fact become profoundly unstable and tried a variation of 'suicide by cop'.
That someone so damaged was about to be deployed into a combat zone - as a commissioned officer no less - underscores, to me at least, what Barry McCaffery said three years back; "The wheels are coming off the military'.
I'm neither a pacifist or anti-military by any means. I'm actually a military historian by nature and inclination. And it is clear to me that these two wars are killing us in more ways than we can ever cope with.
And I personally cannot see any way to end them that will not also be a Tragedy AND a Disaster. *sigh*"
I know. I'm scared too.
Oh, I think I also managed to record all the bits for a rhythm track for "Getting Away With It" today while in studio. That's on the first CD. I don't know why it's so damned difficult to get right. (Okay, sure, part of it is that it's a marathon at 6m20s but still.) I'd like to perform it at tomorrow night's open mic at Soul Food Books but I'm simply not good enough at it yet with the new lyrics. Next month, for sure.
This post originated at ソラバドのおん: Solarbird Makes Noises, on Dreamwidth.
Mistress,
Clear My Eyes,
Quiet My Thoughts,
Strengthen My Heart,
Guide My Blade,
Blessed Be.
Mistress,
Clear My Eyes,
Quiet My Thoughts,
Strengthen My Heart,
Guide My Blade,
Blessed Be.
Actually, it feels like I could improve the Furies illustration.
I’ve printed a portion of it out in cyan and have been practicing inking on it. A lot of the line weights are too slight and too similar. I can make the piece a whole hell of a lot more dynamic by going over some of the lines again, and I think I can make them feel more confident and less shaky in the process.
And if I really screw up, I can always use white-out!
Edit: Damn it! Well, I didn’t ruin it. I did make it better, and I’ll be scanning it later (probably tomorrow). But, it appears that part of my control problem is that the pen bleeds on the paper I’m using for the final illustration! It doesn’t, however, bleed on the practice paper. Double damn it.
This entry has been crossposted from Drawing Contraption. You may comment here or there, it\'s all the same!So, I was doing a little game, piloting a classic 3025 Scorpion against a Wolfman Hybrid. I though it would be a fair battle, but it wasn't. The Wolfman stripped my armor, blew one of my legs off and crippled a second, leaving my four legged mech with only two good legs, and then disabled both my weapons,
So I decided to charge him at five hexes:
( And this is what happened )
note: also, this is handy but this is even handier.
