October 2011 Archives

Technically I should be planning a novel right now. So I’m going to write about my birthday instead. Because most of the fun of writing a novel is thinking about writing it. And then putting it off by writing something else.Yesterday I turned 41. Big. Fucking. Deal. No, really, I don’t care. As far as age goes, I’m fine with where I am in life. I’m 41 and I look, well, younger than that (although this year has definitely aged me). I’m 5’ 8” and I weigh 123 pounds. I’m in the most creative and spiritual part of my life thus far. I have the job of my dreams. In live in one of the coolest places on the planet. ... more

Motivation. I finally got me some. I have no idea where it came from, but fall tends to do this to me. Good things happen to me in the fall. The new fall shows start, I crave cookie dough, I buy myself “birthday presents” that I have to pay off for another year, and I get really creative. I have a ton of ideas bouncing around in my head right now and they will get done. Yes they will. YES THEY WILL.NaNoWriMoNovember is National Novel Writing Month. The idea is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. You can’t start until midnight on November 1, and you have until midnight on November 30 to finish. Then you upload your “novel” ... more

A few weeks ago, my web host had a power outage. Apparently nothing they had in place to prevent the disaster this would create actually worked. The hardware was hosed. My site was obliterated and so was my blog. So I figured that was a pretty good excuse to start over. After a few days spent re-uploading all my entries from Google cache, I started a redesign. I also reorganized my categories to better reflect the path this blog has actually taken over the years.I started without any idea of how the blog should look. All I knew was that I had been looking at the same design since 2008, when I was trying to get a job in animation. ... more