TheLateGatsby

Ray Bradbury has passed away at the age of 91. We're all poorer for it.

‎"He shaped the world. He did things to the world. The world was bankrupted of ten million fine actions the night he passed on."
-Fahrenheit 451

Here's a list of what I've written so far.
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I still have not found a real job.
I am still struggling with this script.
I still have to write a fanfic for this contest, which will be hella embarrassing, and I cannot post it here.
I am probably regressing.

On the upside...
I have been exercising regularly by performing the most excellent Burpee. It is a prison exercise, which is appropriate.
I have cut back on some waste by buying powdered Gatorade, mixing it with tap-water. It's a lot more affordable -I get about 2.5 Gallons of Gatorade for $5.00 plus the negligible cost of the Utility, and more importantly, I am using less packaging -fewer bottles. It is better to avoid consuming resources than to recycle and alleviate that guilt. I would recommend this method to any group of people who spend much time exercising. They should just pick up some packets of powdered Gatorade and make it for themselves at home.
I have forced myself to write, rather than listening to the crippling self-doubt that has been telling me to curl up and die for as long as I can remember.

I am reading the KJV Bible on-line, as it is an edition that is very important to the English language. Many idioms we still use come from this translation. It is also very helpful for arguing with the religious, which I do from time to time -seriously, Thomas Jefferson was right... this book needs editing.

Okay, here's the only arty stuff I've done in a while.

Since I'm working on building model scenery for Warhammer, I cut up some 1 inch pink insulation foam into various shapes, then glued them together to resemble hills.

I then painted them brown with latex paint, and them painted the tops green. It gave the hills a terraced look -the reason I did that was so that the hills would be capable of holding up our miniatures without them tipping over, we'll have to suspend disbelief, I fear.

The green portions were then smeared with a mixture of white glue and water, then dipped in flock -basically, green sawdust, this gives the appearance of grass. Since a little glue got on the brown portions, and the flock stuck to it, it also looks like lichen growing into the rock. Over all, I'm happy with how they turned out.

What I'm not happy about is the way I'm going to have to drop so much money on my little army guys to paint them the way I want. It takes three paints in different coats to get the look I desire, and this is money I don't have. This project may not be complete until I find a real damn job.

In the meantime, batches of my army guys are soaking in a glass jar of a cleaning product called "Simple Green", so that I can scrub them clean, then prime them, so I can paint them.


The plan is to prime them with black spray paint, then basecoat them with a super-dark blue. Then a lighter shade of dark blue. This doesn't include painting the other parts I have to paint (Red (with a basecoat), fleshtone (with a basecoat), metal, and glossy black boots) or highlights. So not only am I looking for these paints for cheap, but under a name different than what I know for them, as I'm looking to buy these paints from a different company, since I'm not at all happy with Games Workshop (the manufacturer of Warhammer, its minis, and a line of paints for said minis).

I love this hobby, all the same. I am considering starting with a new game called "Warmachine" which is not nearly as infuriating. Most armies top out at 20 models -it's just that there were no other options for wargames when I started collecting, ten years ago, and I ended up with a force of too many models... yet I'm the weirdo because I don't own a metric ton of them like other players.

I'm gearing up for Script Frenzy. I'll attempt a "Pantser", as I did for NaNoWriMo. Dialogue is by far my weakest point.

And so Christian hatched a plan to escape the Giant, Despair.

I actually put something up, and now I'm going to put up some crazy stuff from when I was younger.

So I've got a pile of little spiral notebooks that I keep to remind me of all the shit that needs doing. One for keeping track of my weight, diet and overall health, one for stupid random thoughts, one for the pile of things I need to get my ass on so I could actually resemble an adult at a goddamn distance if you squinted your eye... and one for "Once Upon a Time". My sister-in-law and I are watching this show because it's still somewhat interesting, and definitely troperiffic. We figured out a few things quickly, compared to a tumblr that's compiling fan-theories.

I also saved myself fifteen dollars by not buying a dayplanner this year. I just have a spiral notebook (with a pocket in it) to mark down the days, and keep track of what the hell I'm doing -I don't need a real planner because one day just kind of blurs into the next and I don't need a real schedule.

If I get a real job or have lots of appointments, I'll be able to afford, and justify the expense of a big-boy planner.