OMG I'm posting from work.... gah!! Not much going on except people calling in to pay their bills. Got busy one time, but other than that... I just don't like leaving people on hold is all.  Anyway, one crazy, senile old woman called in and I thought I'd share our conversation.

Me: Good morning, City of W--
Lady: Can I speak to Smith*?
Me: There's no one here by that name.
Lady: I wanna talk to Smith!
Me: Ma'am, there's a code enforcement officer named Wayne Smith*, but Smith is his last name.
(oooooooong pause, like almost 10 seconds)
Lady: Well how are you this morning, beautiful?
Me: Ma'am, I think you have the wrong number.
Lady: (shouts) NO I DON'T! (short pause) Good bye.
(hangs up)

*Name changed to protect identity

Now what in the world could that have been about?! I'm at another job where I wish I had caller id. At least I'd know what home she was in and could tell them a patient is loose and making phone calls. *rolls eyes* Oh well. I'll go back to trying to find something to occupy my time now.... already filled in my 2010 calendar... tum tee tum.... Ciao.

~SAMI~

Tags: old lady, phone call
Current Location: Work PC
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Me talking on phone

STEAM!

I buy a game I want to play and I have to register on line. I'm okay with that. But When a game I want to play requires Steam, I can't play it without being connected. I don't play games online; the connection here is poor. It is slow, and it drops out occasionally, like when there is a really heavy summer thunderstorm.

Oh no! The internet has gone out again, I'll play a game instead. SORRY! The game you paid for and installed on your systems and you have the original disks for WON'T WORK because you need the bloody internet to play games on your pc.

So I buy Empire Total War. Oh goody! I'll install that. Oh,need to register it, no problem. Bugger, it's a Steam account. Right! Installed, Registered, Verified and now I'll... wait SIX FRIGGING HOURS while Steam decides the new game I bought needs to be updated. I didn't ask for updates. I don't want special services available to online users. I just want to play a game, dammit, and I want to play it on my PC at any time I bloody well want to play.

And the worst part is I'm installing it on my laptop. The laptop I will be using when I go to remote areas, so I'll have something to do.

You know, those remote areas with NO INTERNET.

Can't help feeling ripped off.

Still raining. If it hasn't been raining, it's been drizzling, and when it's not drizzling it's showering. The average December rainfall is 43mm; twice that has fallen since Christmas day. And yet there is still no run-off into the river. This is a soaking rain and it soaks right in as soon as it hits. It's the sort of rain we have needed for the last 3 years and never saw.

I blame steve3. He and Sheena came out from England to get away from the cold, damp Christmas weather to enjoy our hot, dry Christmas.

I love the sound of rain on a tin roof. It's the sound I grew up with on the farm.

Current Mood: happy

Utterly stuffed with chicken, pork, bugs (slipper lobsters) and prawns. Washed it down with Old Speckled Hen and Monteiths Summer Ale.

The remnants of Cyclone Laurence are due here tomorrow, with a predicted 200mm of rain. Flood warnings are out for the north and west of the state. No rain as yet but the sky is cloudy.

Looks like today is wet and cool instead of the usual hot and dry. A cool, damp Christmas feels odd.

http://www.isitchristmas.com/

( And a spoiler for GAX December )

Alan Moir is one of my favourite political cartoonists. He is a regular in the Sydney Morning Herald

I like that he doesn't have a particular barrow to push; all politics looks silly to him. His current depiction of the NSW Labor Party is a garbage can full of rotting fish heads. His targets are from all over the world.



On the other hand


I like that his targets are not just local politics. He hits at hypocricy too.


Not just politics.

Lue the visiting kitten recycles waste energy from my laptop.

That's what they are calling the massive amount of snow we got between Friday night and last night.  i think we got about 20" altogether.  i took some great pictures, so please check out my new album on Photobucket (coz it'll take too long to upload them all here). http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff57/samipar3/Blizzard2009/ Here's a few though:  

( Pix ) Tell me what you think! :) Gonna go finish up my dailies and then we're trying to head out to help Derek's grandfather.  Ciao. ~SAMI~

Tags: blizzard, snow
Current Location: Home PC
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Me typing

So, I'm hoping, maybe, hopefully, that I might be able to fulfil my promise of posting here more. I've graduated now, and dying to do more art. There will be definite art while I'm unemployed, and I'm hoping to keep it steady once I'm working too.

Some things about the format of posts will change. The majority of posts will be of sketches and works in progress, and they will be highly image heavy. I will still have my critique page of completely finished work, but I think the fact that it takes me so long to write and compose (especially getting studio photos of finished work) is what is putting me off posting them. All posts will be much less formal than they have been previously.

I'm hoping to make very regular updates that are up to date with my art and sketchbooks. I'm considering going backwards a bit just to catch up with the past six months (there is NOT a lot of it) but it's not a priority. Right now, I’ll try to post things as they happen.

So, to kick it off, here are some completely NOT studio photos of my most recent work. I have yet to take better photos, but I’m practising that “as they happen” thing.



( From the deep end of the mindpool )