Just a note

Actually don’t really have anything to rant about, but I’ve got some time while this project is rendering to drop some notes here about what’s new.

In all honesty, not much really. H and I are going to attempt another ‘Novel in a Month’ next month so I sense much sleep deprivation and hectic weekends in the near future. But I’m sure that I’ll enjoy it as much as I have the last ones. (This will technically be our 4th run and hopefully my 3rd successful finish.) I’m not sure what I’m going to write about this time, but as usual it’s not because I don’t have any ideas, but rather that I have several ideas and I just haven’t settled on any specific one to load in the barrel.

On top of that, H and I have recently started returning to our artwork, some of which can be seen on our Deviant Art (DA) page Grimscale Studios right now we are still in the early stages of setting things up and getting some material out there. Eventually we plan to offer prints of some of our work and using DA as well as our own website (as yet undesigned) for selling prints, painted models, photographs, and possibly a webcomic of our own. The creative process is something that we both enjoy and hopefully some people can enjoy the fruits of our efforts.

And … if that wasn’t enough … I have recently been bit by the urge to learn to play guitar … bass guitar specifically, but I plan on learning a bit of 6 string as well. I’m taking it slow … I’m not going to be a master bass player in a month so I’m taking my time and trying to get good solid basics down before I move on. I think H was a bit surprised … not that I wanted to start learning since we were playing Guitar Hero on the PS2 when it came up and learning to play was a natural impulse, but that I’ve stuck with it and play (even if I’m just playing around and not practicing) a couple times a day. (My new axe: Ibanez GSR 200 4 String Bass)

I have found, however, that music … specifically playing music … is a relaxation that I’ve been missing for years. I look back now, at how much I’m enjoying learning guitar (and part of it is because I’m learning something new and that’s always stimulating), and wish that I had the patience to stick it out and get back into band after we moved to Miami. While I don’t think that I’d have gone for a career in music, maybe at least I’d have kept playing as a hobby and I wouldn’t need remedial sheet music reading classes.

Things have also been very busy at work lately … learning new applications, designing new rooms, installing new gear and going through all the growing pains of adapting to new technology. The general manager of the company complains constantly about all of the problems … but then again we’re using the systems and doing things that very few other places in the country are doing (in fact some of the ‘big’ houses in New York say that what we’re doing ‘can’t be done’ and anyone that says that they are doing it is lying … but I can assure people that we are not lying … and when you’re on the cutting edge … you’re going to bleed.

Now … if we could just get some rain to keep my yard from dying….