News

I'd like to congratulate Brandon Schell (not to be confused with Proof reader Brandon) for graduating High School this evening. Good job kid!

In other news, I'd like to say a sad good bye to my dear Uncle Richard. He passed Tuesday morning with most of the family present. He will be sorely missed.

He will live forever in a lot of hearts and memories.

Spinners!

First off, Happy Memorial Day! We salute our men and women in the armed forces who have given their lives so this country and it's freedoms shall live. Thank you for your time and sacrifice. You will forever be in our hearts and memories.

Okay, I've been, well, not really writing, but I have been taking advantage of the cool weather to render, at least in the mornings. I've rendered the Afraid of the Dark aliens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMxWwGUDZ0

Sorry it's so long, I'm relearning MS Movie Maker.

As well as the Marines from Valenko's Squad in Jethro Goes to War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6bMAK7NPRM

I just finished putting that together and uploading it. See? I am getting better. :)

I've also been rendering the Federation aliens, most are untextured. I'll upload those later. Right now I am focusing on the aliens that lack fur or feathers. I have 19 finished, with quite a few more to go. Most may end up being shelved.
I can only render in the morning, when the temperature in the house is below 72. Anything above that and I start setting overheat alarms off, even with my liquid cooling. So I try to get as many done as possible in the morning.

I've also been working on texturing and rigging Jethro in his Marine Skinsuit. I'm having issues getting the rigging to turn on, so I'll work on that later. I am planning on making his powered combat armor soon. (the skinsuit was going to be it, but it's too much like the Halo Mjolnir suit in some respects for me to use it. I always thought of the suit as bulkier.) I'll need to make the suit for the cover of First to Fight. :)

Progress reports:
Brandon has AD, he said he's 1/3rd or 1/2 finished. (I'm not sure at this point, I forgot)
Jim has PP, no progress reported.
Thomas has been having fun with my short stories, including the old ones I've managed to dredge up for him to edit while I putter around in Cinema. lol
Mechmaster said he is 1/3rd finished PRI, despite a terrible bout of stomach flu. I'm glad he's better.

I am hoping a book will be ready to publish by the end of the month, but I have grave doubts. We'll have to wait and see what the week brings. Don't hold your breath though.

I have been talking with a couple of friends about renewing a video game making studio. It's just talk, we have done it before and haven't gotten far beyond that, though we've tried a few times. I'd love to see some of video game ideas (like AD) made real. (or as real as video games get, lol)

If I don't have any more family drama/distractions I should get back into writing and other things tomorrow.
Uncle Richard is stable though he had to go through a series of brain surgeries. He's lost his memory of the past 3 weeks. It's going to be a long road to recovery, but from the reports he's back on it.
I'm still campaigning for dad to go out to NH this summer to see him and the family. I'm not making much headway though. Sigh.

Have a safe holiday!

"Sasa fraken no good..."

Hey! I finally figured the origin of "Fracken" out. I thought they did it on Battlestar Galactica to get around the F bomb. Or Freaking. Now I know Sam the man cussing is the origin! or at least I'm running with that. :)

Yeah, I reblogged this from indydemocrat.blogspot.com

What can I say? Sorry mom for the cussing, and yes, I am a dork. >:)

Anyway, an update:
The first 4 copy edits of PP (Plague Planet) have been completed, Thomas just sent me back PP this morning. I'm looking into adding a few things before passing it on to someone else for their shot at it.
Thomas sent me back AD but had an auto-correct error and is fixing the fix. He'll get that back to me sometime soon.
I haven't heard anything from Mechmaster lately, (I'm guessing no news is good news?)
Congrats on Jacob loosing weight! Cool!

I've been working on Jethro 2 First to Fight. I tabled finishing the Gustav. I've added another 12 pages and some new plot points. I finished cleaning up chapter 9, but there is a lot of unresolved notes and details that need to be added ahead of it so it might not be chapter 9 for long.
I've been firming up my notes and tweaking some of the interconnected short stories to keep the details in synch. That is a necessary and tedious pain in the butt.
For some reason I keep getting attacked by viruses when I do research. That's annoying and time consuming to get rid of them. They also throw me off my game, blowing my concentration. That's annoying. GRRR.

I also have a bit of drama going on. 1 Mother's day. I'm hosting it again. and 2, my uncle Richard called Thursday, he had brain surgery yesterday. That's had the family walking on egg shells and hanging by the phone and net.

It's hot here, already 90. I suspect the nephews will be wanting to swim soon. Definitely tomorrow. They had fun in the pool and hot tub last weekend when they stayed the night.

To my Mom, Gram, Sister, and other mom's, have a wonderful day tomorrow ladies. You've more than earned it.

Now I get to go clean my house before you show up tomorrow. Gee thanks. lol

Oh, I almost forgot: My answer to the Dove-Cat wars:
Hang on dag nab it, I gotta get my phone out and transfer the dag gum picture...
Ah! Here it is:

That seems to have solved the problem, I haven't seen (though I've heard them) since. :)

(I told you I'm a dork)