Monday, February 16, 2009

Sleepless nights, and sleep filled days

Not really but anyway, two weeks in and I seem to be going pretty good at my job. My direct superior seems happy with my work output and the quality of my work. So far I've only been creating websites, and doing domain transfers and other complicated net type junk. Soon I'll be programming blackberry things, as in I follow a list of instructions to set one up, without actual programming involved.
Toughest thing is the last two hours of the day at the moment, I pull my school thing, where I start looking at the clock every five or so minutes, of course I've found the best way to eat up time is to busy myself with work.
I have a phone...that is still in its box, a laptop with a broken screen that took half of the first day to setup as we could only use one quarter of the screen, and somehow its ability to switch to another monitor had been switched off, plus I have a wireless keyboard and mouse. So far I think I've completely finished three websites, though one was more, "yeah, give it here and we'll finish it on our own"(meaning the client finished it themselves) The next required me to go through about eight or so minor changes that took several hours, until they were finally satisfied, and the latest one they took one look at it and went "yep, put er up!" which made me exceptionally pleased with myself.
I have another eight or so websites all waiting for feedback, and or more content, one wanted a six page website, and only gave me a single picture of their front page and a map of where their place is, not a lot to go on, unless they want me to start making things up about them :P.
On the comic and drawing front, I'm slowly moving to the main storyline of the comic, at the moment, its introducing the main character somewhat, and explaining the situation he finds himself in, for pretty much the rest of the comic. I've found I have some problems with proper pacing and the flow is somewhat off especially in the earlier pages, I think I'm starting to get more of a flow happening now, key word is think. This week I have something of a breather in that the next two pages don't require much in the way of my efforts for drawing them. I'm still planning eventually on fixing the Sandhurst Academy portion of the site to make it more user friendly, easier to navigate between pages that sort of thing. Plus a colour job I think suits the comic. I've also bought a bunch expensive colouring pens, and so far have coloured in three drawings, one a full body picture of an angry Dao wielding Eledor, another of a ninja girl named Motoko, and another of Emily, Eledor's daughter, a lot younger then what I normally write her as.
On the games front, I've bought World of Warcraft again...yeah I know, but to be fair, nothing else is all that interesting at the moment that my computer has any chance of running, i can't be bothered buying a PS3 or Xbox 360, and no new decent storyline games have come out recently on the Wii. I finally hit lvl 70 with my Pally though.
And I think that covers my lot in life at the moment, if you got through all that, good for you, help yourself to the non-existent buffet or something :P

Anywho Sayonara folks!

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Growing up one step at a time

I am now employed, full time as a web developer, thingy, And my first day is tomorrow...gonna be a huge change of pace, hope I'm up to it.
I've managed to maintain a steady output of comic pages so far, we'll see how working affects my usually fairly slack lifestyle, but I'm hoping it'll focus me somewhat, and encourage me to get into drawing more, rather then just reading other people's work.
It's interesting this idea that starting tomorrow, I'll be a professional worker, working fulltime at a job for the first time in my life, strangely so soon after I turned 21 on the 1st of January. In Australia at any rate, at the age of eighteen you have all the rights of an adult, but its still customary to treat turning 21 as a big deal, in my case it kinda was.
Of course to go with this, just before I start work, my left elbow decides to get infected, get filled with fluid and become all but unusable for the week just before I start work. Its starting to get under control, but the strangest thing about the whole thing is, I don't remember banging it, or doing anything that would cause it to get infected in the way it did...
Another thing I've been struggling to change is my sleeping habits, which since I finished Tafe spiralled ever worse and worse, to the point I didn't feel right going to bed till 3 am, and getting up at 12, on the surface it looks like I was just being lazy, but in reality I was fairly sleep deprived despite this, with occasional alnighters reading manga online. I must say its pretty much to a normal, bed by 11, though I force myself to get up at 6:30 to make sure I can have a shower before I go. So maybe I'll soon be going to be bed at 10:30 from now on.
I still owe my dad a website, but I'm hoping after I get some professional experience, ie make a website at work, that I'll be to able leap into and get it done.
So basically, starting soon, I'm gonna be a relatively independent adult, which is a strange concept, when you've spent most of your life living in a house where most things are provided for you.
Oh and I'm still a massive pepsi max addict, can't really drink tea in this heat...blurg....
And now I've started doing some short roleplaying again, this time using the gurps system, of course my cool character, got hit by a spell which makes him smell like fecal matter for the next month or so...damn you Lewis :P
Anyways, its bloody hot here, I think we've had something like 40 degree Celsius days for the last week, which is so much fun...not..
Well that's it from me, sayonara folks!