March!

Well, after recovering from March first, that infamous day when OMGJ Writer Mark ages another year and yet still turns out to be younger than me despite being a DREADFULLY old man, I am here to blog.

I am glad that I can blog - thankful, almost - for the past week, my internet has been so sad. I could download things, but not upload. I could not send tiny images across the AIM, I could not attach things to email, I couldn't even post on the Forum or send simple text emails without a lot of time and effort and hoping and swearing! I didn't even bother to try blogging, as I know it would not have worked even a little. But then yesterday Verizon finally understood how to fix it, and apparently fixed it.

Thankfully I never had to call them to complain because I am very very bad at calling anyone - even when I have a pleasant thing to say. My friend Mat was trying to get me prepared for what seemed to be an eventuality by giving me instructions and a script, which simply consisted of: "Get really drunk. Call them and shout "I'm droppin' packets upstream and I've got a big fucking gun!" As much as I laughed and thought that was a good idea, I was still nervous about doing so.

Lately, I have been drawing at a ferocious pace. You see, I am going to have an art-related website eventually here soon in the future. In hopes of being semi-professional and selling stuff and getting commissions and everything. All of that nonsense. Well, I realized after the url had been purchased and all, that I have a very lopsided gallery. So for the past few weeks I have been trying to create more charcoal, colored pencil, and ordinary graphite pencil artworks, landscapes, and portraits and such, just to make everything more balanced. I'm up to like 2 pictures a day being made, which is an all-time high of productivity for me.

I'm sure the end result will be me never wanting to do art again. Alas.

On the Swankpuppy front (remember that?), we are apparently making strides in getting the site ready. I still have to figure out how the layout of the equivalent to the People Page here. I am not very inspired on the damned layouting anymore. I want to start working on actual content. It harms me, this "web design." Plus, I am not good at it at all. Thankfully, xakopod (friend) takes my layout monstrocities and makes them into something that works. Bless his little skull.

The weather is nice today, although somewhat chilly and very windy. I think a kite should be in order, but I have still never made nor flown a kite. It is odd. But when I was a kid, this area of Ohio only got windy when it was about to storm violently. Nowadays, it is much much windier all the time. I'm guessing the earth is about to explode or something.

Oh! Speaking of which, I'd like to mention my displeasure at the fact that Jeremy apparently didn't read my article or something. My article was clearly NOT a guide to being elderly (that is actually an article I plan to write later). It is an essay about how lovely and useful the elderly are! It was written to young people as an encouragement to treat the elderly well. NOT how to be an elderly person. It is so not that that it makes me mad that it has been labeled such for TWO WEEKS.

Anger!