Artistic Meanderings

Okay, I have everything migrated, including comments, from my Livejournal. The posts say “0″ comments but trust me, they all migrated. My next step will be to get all 193 posts categorized. Joy.

I’m still trying to decide whether to work with eFiction for my fiction, or just categorize and tag posts accordingly. Ditto for Coppermine Gallery, where I currently have my concert photography and all of my older Poser Artwork. I also have a lot of legacy pages that I’m trying to figure out what to do with.

Once I get everything migrated from my old website and once I’m sure everything is working correctly, I’ll be deleting it. I’ve had a personal web site since 1995 in one form or another. The first few incarnations I hand-coded in Notepad. After awhile I found that hand-coding almost 90 pages of Moody Blues concert photography was just too much – and I switched to Frontpage – which is what I coded the old website in, later updating with MS Expressions. Now I’m moving onto Wordpress, and I think I am really going to enjoy this.

More later…

After a lot of deliberation, sulking, and waffling I’ve made the decision to migrate over to my domain, where I really belong. Coming along with me will be my fan fiction and fan art, as well as the more personal aspects of my life.

Until then this site is going to be amazingly dull. Patience, grasshopper!

Sunday evening I talked to Mom and got the bad news: They’re discontinuing chemotherapy for Dad.

Several years back Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had surgery to remove it. At the time the doctors pronounced him clean of all cancer, and we thought that was that.

Almost three years ago Dad was diagnosed with bone cancer, having metastasized from the original prostate cancer. Suddenly, things weren’t as hopeful as we’d thought to begin with.

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Your result for The House, MD Personality Test…

Dr. Gregory House

60% Eccentricity, 50% Confidence, 40% Kindness

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First off, I owe an apology to two authors of one fic from the House Big Bang. I had committed to render artwork for the fic “Go Baby, Go” by and . In fact I *had* finished it, but I was in the middle of moving, then computer problems, then …

It’s titled “Creating Jamie” and I hope both of you enjoy it.

Next two are for – the first one was with the House Big Bang entitled “Deaductive Reasoning” and is currently out at the site. This work is titled “Not The Cabinets!” and I took it from one of the funnier scenes in the fic.

Aaaaand… a new one! Finished it today after a lot of pulling and prodding to get that damned leather duster to look somewhat decent. (Damn thing wouldn’t bend at the knees right, she mutters.) It’s from her fic “Interlude With a Vampire” and is called “The Borgia Lieutenant.”

And… that’s it. Thanks for looking and remember, comments are always LOVE!

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Okay, Ladies of Amorous Intent Adult – do I let the twerp in or not? Might be a blast.

For those that don’t know, just go to the above community. Pop some popcorn, first. *g*

Pick 10 people and give them the “you make my day award.” If you’re picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own. Actually, everybody on my f-list makes my day, so this is a “narrowing down” kinda thing for me.

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They’re moving me.

I’m sitting at my computer desk, still connected, while around me my sons, my daughter-in-law, my brother-in-law and one of Rich’s friends are loading up all of my belongings into a Budget Rental van.

In a few short hours I’ll be residing permanently in our state’s capital, about an hour from here.

I’ve moved away from my home town area, but that was because my ex joined the Army during the 80’s Recession.

Now I’ll be on my own, literally. I do plan to adopt a cat from one of Springfield’s animal shelters, though. Have a little lady already picked out, in fact.

Wish me luck!

This whole “not being around much” is really starting to get to me. I mean, I read my friends list and such daily, sometimes more than once, so I AM around. I’m just too exhausted to contribute – at this point.

My job has turned into something wonderful, and it was definitely the correct move to make. Mediacom has gone steadily downhill since I’ve left, with the employees bearing the brunt of cutbacks. Rich reports that his group is now working four phone queues at once, plus reports, call backs, etc. They’re remodeling, and the two tech support groups got booted from their cubicles so Sales could move in and take over. Instead, they’re working side-by-side on conference tables. I don’t know which stupid management person came up with this solution, but whoever they are should give up THEIR office and try working that way – for several months, apparently.

Back to my job. The commute is 68 miles one-way, which translates into 2.5 hours of  driving each day. I’m so brain dead from the drive that I’m barely functioning at the end of the week.

That’s about to change.

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Been a long time since I’ve done one of these – mostly because I’ve been busy twirling dials and moving morph magnets all over Daz3D’s Michael 4; downloading more morph kits, buying YET another texture before going to the one I’ve always used, only converting it from Michael 3 to Michael 4; trying some of Victoria 4’s morphs and being very happy that they actually worked; crashing Poser on at least more than one occasion; adding memory and putting in a real video card instead of the crappy on-board I’ve had for a year now; debating on spending more money AGAIN on a morph package….

Like since Michael 4 came out, I think it was…. October?

It needs work. It will *always* need work but I think I’m finally getting there.

The fic it’s based on is ’s Forevermore, one of those fics that wouldn’t let go of me until I did something about it. It’s very well-written, to say the least. Also, I related to Wilson in many ways; my dad’s cancer is growing worse, he’s in a lot of pain and getting weaker, and we don’t think he’ll see another Christmas.

So, I related – and like I said, I did something about it.

It’s sizeable, but I hope you find it worthy of the time.

Comments are love, and my crack.