I got an estate check today. Nothing huge, but it's still nice.
The "What made you happy today" thread!
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This comes with a bunch of caveats, but, I just published a book today that I was working for about 7 years on.
Caveats:
1: It was a self publishing thing
2: It's just the test print so far that I should get in a little over a week.
3: I have no plans for mass market for several reasons. This will only be enough copies for me a friend and my parents.
But it's still published and I will soon have an actual, printed version of something I wrote. So...yay!
Caveats:
1: It was a self publishing thing
2: It's just the test print so far that I should get in a little over a week.
3: I have no plans for mass market for several reasons. This will only be enough copies for me a friend and my parents.
But it's still published and I will soon have an actual, printed version of something I wrote. So...yay!
Congratulations. Even if you don't go mass market (do it) it's more than I've ever accomplished.
My latest car insurance bill is negative. Does that mean I'm getting a refund?
Or they stole your car.
Car insurance is normally my biggest bill. So if this is true, I'm looking at a great month.
After over a decade of making do with a Wacom Graphire and then eight years of making do with a Bamboo that I found at a garage sale, I finally broke down and bought a tablet with a built-in screen! It came this afternoon.
I've been waffling about getting one because they're usually over $200 and that's a big investment for something I've never had an opportunity to even try out in person. I already couldn't get used to digital sketching with my old ones (and have settled for sketching on paper, scanning it, and switching to digital for ink and color), so while in theory being able to draw right on the screen would smooth out that issue, I had no way to know for sure. But this one was refurbished and on sale for only $100 and with the tariffs looming on the horizon I knew I'd never get a better deal than that. In the couple hours I've been using it, I seem to have already adjusted to the workflow. The dot pitch is fine enough that I can still sketch at the same size as always, which is good because I feel like my ability to get proportions right scales inversely with the size I draw, somehow.
I've been waffling about getting one because they're usually over $200 and that's a big investment for something I've never had an opportunity to even try out in person. I already couldn't get used to digital sketching with my old ones (and have settled for sketching on paper, scanning it, and switching to digital for ink and color), so while in theory being able to draw right on the screen would smooth out that issue, I had no way to know for sure. But this one was refurbished and on sale for only $100 and with the tariffs looming on the horizon I knew I'd never get a better deal than that. In the couple hours I've been using it, I seem to have already adjusted to the workflow. The dot pitch is fine enough that I can still sketch at the same size as always, which is good because I feel like my ability to get proportions right scales inversely with the size I draw, somehow.
Nice! I have a tablet/laptop and cellphone that I can draw direct on the screen, but I still prefer drawing traditional. What kind of tablet did you get?
I just finished my last bottle of bulleit bourbon. It's the last of my american booze: I'm getting drunk on canadian only products from here on out.
It's a Huion Kamvas 13. The... first generation, I guess? They seem to have skipped straight from the "Kamvas 13" to the "Kamvas 13 3rd generation" unless the Pro is what they consider to be the second. I was mostly looking at XP-Pen's offerings, which were also on sale at the time, until the NewEgg ad bot saw I was in the market and generated an email of other models I "might be interested in".
Say what you want about targeted advertising; it's not nearly so bad when it actually works.
Say what you want about targeted advertising; it's not nearly so bad when it actually works.
My vacation from work starts today! Fun shall be had, things shall be accomplished!
I slept for 11 hours.
You have no idea how much I needed that.
You have no idea how much I needed that.
Had to cancel plans for fun yesterday, but today more than made up for it. TMM and I picked up our FF MtG cards. When we were opening a big box of cards...
I pulled these from my first pack. Art card of Terra, plus her shiny mythic card. Whoooo!!!
We also spent hours sorting, playing, making new decks, and playing more. It was great.
I pulled these from my first pack. Art card of Terra, plus her shiny mythic card. Whoooo!!!
We also spent hours sorting, playing, making new decks, and playing more. It was great.
These two just look so good together. And I finally got her background pretty much written!
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