| What's Happening... |
[Oct. 10th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
Yesterday was Jenny's father's birthday, and we spent most of the day over in Coeur d'Alene with her parents. We went to see the Surrogates with him - which was a pretty awesome sci-fi flick (based on an equally cool indy comic). Glad we got to see it in the theatre, though I think it could've been a bit longer. Then after the movie the four of us went out for Thai food at the local Thai Bamboo (which was, of course, delicious), and then caught up on a bunch of recorded TV from the past week. A very fun and relaxing day! The library is doing sort of an "employee exchange" program, where they're moving some people to different branches so they can see how things might be run differently and meet other co-workers. So now Jenny is working up at the North Spokane branch once a month. Her first day was this last Thursday, and she really enjoyed it, although it does mean a much longer commute (like 45 minutes instead of 15).
Otherwise things are going OK. Jenny had her year review at the library, which went well and got her a raise (yay!). The temperature is dropping, and even dipping to freezing occasionally, but the apartment seems to be holding the heat pretty well. Maybe those new energy-efficient windows they installed actually work. I've been working on some commissions and tinkering with one of my comic ideas. Doing the 24 Hour Comic Challenge has definitely been an inspiration to get back to work on it - hopefully I'll have more concrete news on that relatively soon... Jenny's been working on a bunch of cool crocheting projects, which we really need to take some pictures of and post up. It would probably help if we had a decent digital camera, since right now we have 3 old ones that all only work about half the time. Local Arts & Crafts People: The next Spokane Comicsmiths' Guild is on Sunday the 18th at Merlyns, from 3-6 pm. The next Crafty Club meeting is on Friday the 23rd at the Spokane Valley Library, and starts at 7 pm. Feel free to leave a comment if you're interested in more information.
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| Weekend Update |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|12:50 am] |
I think I've ingested enough cake to last me for a while...
Jenny had her Crafty Club Friday evening, and since Sunday was her birthday, one of the people brought a cake, which she had leftovers to take home. Then on Saturday we went over to Tigger and Lincoln's for a barbeque and birthday celebration for Jenny & I and Lincoln's daughter Elizabeth. There was more cake there, and since Elizabeth was turning 15, the house was quite a madhouse of sugar-crazed teenagers. But the food was good and it was still a lot of fun, even while dodging crazy kids.
Sunday we headed over to CdA and Jenny's mom had made a cake for us as well. They also surprised us with presents and took us out for Mexican for dinner. All in all, a good (and fattening) weekend!
Weather's been pretty nice (in our opinion) the past couple of days, which means grey, cool and wet. We even got quite the show the other night from the lightning storm that rolled in. Hopefully we won't have as dry of summer as last year - no need for more wildfires. |
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| Blogging Catch Up |
[May. 23rd, 2009|03:12 pm] |
I haven't blogged (or even Twittered) in a while, so just wanted to start remedying that:
Jenny and I have both been sick off and on the past few days - sinus stuff and head aches, but thankfully no real flu. I also did something to my back last week which I'm still slowly working out. Probably wouldn't have seemed as bad if I hadn't got sick at the same time.
It seems Summer has arrived. It's been blue skies and sunny, and in the 70s the past few days. Still pleasant and not horribly hot yet. Just a matter of time, though...
I might have some temp work lined up at Borders next month. They're apparently doing a big re-organization of the store and will need some people to do overnight work for a while, moving stuff around, which would be perfect. I'd love to get back on with them, if even part-time, but they haven't had any regular hours to spare. I'm friends with the store manager, though, so if something opens up I'm sure I'll hear about it (which is how the temp job came up).
In the meantime, I've been trying to throw myself into art and also starting to write again. I want to get my superhero comic back on track soon, so I can start it up as a web-comic. I'm also working on a second, completely separate, project which I'm hoping to do something similar with.
We're still way behind on TV shows from this season, with the last few episodes of a few of our favorite shows still taped and waiting to be watched. We have been watching a lot more movies than normal, as Jenny's dad has been taking us out to see some of the big summer blockbusters he also wants to see. Besides Wolverine and Star Trek, we saw Angels & Demons last wednesday and are looking forward to the new Terminator movie this week. I wasn't really impressed by The Da Vinci Code, and mainly just wanted to see Angels & Demons for all the art and architecture that's shown, but I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. It was incredibly rediculous, but entertaining.
Also, both of our birthdays are coming up relatively soon, although we don't really have any plans or ideas for what to do. Probably nothing too exciting, due to lack of money, but I'm sure there will be cake involved. :) |
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| Weekend, etc. |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|12:26 am] |
Saturday was Jenny's birthday - Tigger and Lincoln came over, we ate cake and played boardgames... apparently that's our thing now. :)
Sunday we went over to Jenny's folks' place for home-made chili and presents. Jenny's dad took us out to see the new Indiana Jones movie, which was awesome. It was silly, but a lot of fun, and still felt like I was watching a continuation of the series (even if it has been almost 20 years...).
Jenny got a shiny new MP3 player from her dad, so I spent the next couple of days ripping CDs, making playlists and setting everything up for her. This in turn reminded me of how infuriating Windows can be.
A little while back Jenny's dad gave me her sister's old laptop when she got a new one for her birthday. It works all right, but I've been curious about giving Linux a shot and am thinking about installing it on there to try it out. I just checked out a book from the library which has a Linux demo that runs inside Windows, and I'll try that out first, see how I like it and go from there.
I also have an old laptop I got from my parents which I'm not really using for anything. I've found a couple of "light" Linux distributions that should be able to run on it, so if I end up loving this whole Linux thing, getting it up and running on this old machine might be a fun project. |
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| Older |
[Jun. 4th, 2008|05:21 pm] |
So I turned 32 on Sunday - not really any sort of "big" number, so I don't know if I should really feel any older. Which is good I guess, since I don't think I do...
Birthday was OK. We're super-poor right now, with me still being jobless (I'm looking, but they're right about the crappiness of the job market right now), but Tigger and Lincoln came over on Saturday and Jenny baked a cake. The four of us stayed up till 2am playing Monopoly, which was fun. Sunday we went over to Jenny's folks' place and they took us out for Mexican food, and then we sat around and watched TV and movies.
Jenny's birthday is on the 21st, and then we have our 1st anniversary coming up next month (July 15th). Not sure if we'll really be able to do much of anything, with money being tight, but I guess we'll see.... |
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| Art School Confidential |
[Jun. 1st, 2006|10:52 pm] |
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| | The Whole Fantastic World - Postcards From Out Of Town | ] |
Any who have not yet done so, go now, now, and see this movie (while it still might be in your local theatre). My ass was firmly laughed off, and I will own this when it comes out on video....
So, today was the big 3 decade marker. After work, Jenny and I went to get comics, and then drove down-town to have dinner at Red Robin. I almost had a drink when I was there, but then I realized that they would have to card me. And if they realized it was my birthday, then I'd probably have to endure their birthday-chanting-song-thing, and they might make me wear a hat. I had a chocolate malt instead.
After dinner it was the movie, and then back home. I'll be getting to bed soon, since I still have to get back up and go to work tomorrow. Yay. Jenny found me another P.I.M.P. shirt for a birthday present, and another styling shirt that ended up being a bit too big, so we'll see if I can exchange it for the right size.
I got one birthday e-mail card from a friend in Alaska (who I honestly haven't spoken to in months), and some birthday tidings from the fine folks on Digital Webbing. Besides them, Jenny, and Jenny's parents - nothing. My parents didn't even call this year. Gah.
But Jenny baked me a cake, and cake fixes most (if not all) things. To quote Greg Behrendt: Cake is Muy Bueno... |
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