Author: Teel

I took a sleeping pill an hour ago and I’m going to go lay down now. My sleeping has been pretty off lately. Something to do with the tides or the planetary alignment or … poor time management choices… Something. Anyway, I need to get my body re-trained. Within the next couple of months I need to be able to fall asleep around 10 and wake up around 6… which is nearly 4 hours earlier than I’ve been doing lately. I just need to shift the things I’ve been doing between 10 and 1 at night to between 6 and 9 in the morning.

I didn’t get out of bed today until 11:30. Not sure I got much done today. I washed and oiled my shoes… though since I’ve never done such a thing and had no supervision or much instruction, fear I may have done it drastically wrong. My shoes are almost an entirely different color now. Oh well. They’re still shoes, I guess. What else? ummm… I finished the Mouse panel I was working on last night, and another one. You can see them when the rest of the project comes together … sometime … never… I guess. We’ll see.

I may end up doing two of the panels I can’t seem to induce anyone else to do. So, if when you get to the part with the homosexual orgy you feel that the scene is poorly rendered and ill-laid-out, it’s because I did it. I don’t have much practice drawing male anthropomorphized animals having explicit sex with each other, or even with looking at other people’s drawings of same. I found some people who did, but they turned out to be jack-asses about it, and they won’t do the panels. And no one who doesn’t have experience already is willing to tackle the panels. There are only two of them. It isn’t like … like the whole thing is about gay sex. Just a couple of panels. Sigh.

I … I know I oughtn’t have spent the $9.99, but I purchased Johnny Cash’s American IV – The Man Comes Around from the iTunes Music Store tonight. Had I broadband, I would already be enjoying the whole thing, but as it is, I’m still downloading it. Silly high-quality music files taking a long time to transmit over dial-up. One of the ones that has already downloaded is his cover of ‘Hurt’, so I’ve finally been able to properly hear that song full-through. I noticed that he actually changed a couple of words… which change the tone significantly, and I now see why people think of the song as very Christian, whereas I, having only heard the Trent Reznor original, did not see that imagery in that particular song. I mean, there are a lot of NIN songs about Christianity, but … Hurt wasn’t one of them, as far as I could see. People kept saying it was, and I kept running all the lyrics through my head, and I couldn’t see it. Now, listening carefully to Cash’s version, I see it. I see it because I couldn’t quite sing along with it.

Have I mentioned that I’m going to participate in National Novel Writing Month again this year? No? I’ll go make a post about it.

In the meantime, I’ve got a funny metallic taste in my mouth and a feeling like cotton balls being stuffed between my brain and my skull, and I’m become drowsy. So no more rambling tonight.

I’ve just learned that Art’s wife Callie is in labor tonight. Soon enough he will have a son, Charles Darwin Baker. When I have more information I will update (ie: length, weight, skin color (ie: blue, green, furry)). Everyone pray the labor goes smoothly!

Heath did some quizes, which is all good and well aside from the insane amount of time it takes to load all those god-damned images over dial-up, when he could just as well have expressed the results as text … Sigh. And I took a couple of those tests, but there’s no way most of them are very accurate; their questions are not well thought out enought to provide usable data. I did get the right result on the “Which Matrix Character Are You?” quiz (anyone care to guess?), but the rest were hardly worth answering.

There ARE online tests I am happy with the depth and accuracy of. The tests at TheSpark.com have always been fun to take and given meaningful results. I recommend them.

Here are my results from all* of them, in the oh-so-odd-order I took them in:

The Death Test:

You can expect to die on December 5, 2043 at the age of 65 years old.

On that date you will most likely die from:
Heart Attack (23%)
Cancer (16%)
Homicide (11%)
Electrolysis (8%)
Alien Abduction (7%)
Drowning (5%)

(Last time I took it, it gave me until February 14th, 2044… )

The Are You Dateable Test:

Mild congratulations, you are… 59% dateable! You are neither more nor less dateable than your peers– welcome to the land of mediocrity, home of the masses! You have an undeniable animal magnetism, but you’re just as likely to attract small animals as you are to attract human beings. Nevertheless, the people you flirt with generally find you funny and cute, or “fute.” You have good hygiene, which is an imporant aspect of relationships involving two or more people. Avoid seafood and walks in the woods.

TheSpark.com’s Famous Personality Test:

Like just 4% of the population you are an EXPERIMENTER (DIAT). Although you’re slightly shy (admit it!), you love control. When a problem comes in your way, you stomp on it swiftly and decisively. You are bothered easily by failure in others and failure in yourself. You don’t like people that you don’t think are intelligent. Rather than arguing with them, however, you would just as soon ignore them altogether.

In relationships, you have a strong heart. And because you’re introverted, people take you as someone they can trust. But the fact is that in addition to solving problems, you like to create them. So there’s a decent chance that you’ll cheat on a loved one. If you do, you’ll likely get away with it.

You’re a good person at heart, but then again, who isn’t?

The Inner Child Test:

Chimneysweep
(Normal Ignored Functional Child)

“Chim-chim cheree, a chimneysweep I be!”

Your little guy on the inside is the Dickensian Chimneysweep (NIFC). He bounds from rooftop to rooftop inside you singing songs and getting covered with soot. Even though you suffer from abandonment issues you manage to look on the bright side of things. And hey, that’s cool. The world is your stage. Like Oliver Twist doing the twist you jump ‘twixt situations with zest, gusto and chutzpa. I like you. You’re fun.

If you want to get anywhere in the world though, say “guvna” after every sentence and then click your boot heels together in a leap of joy.

The Best Friend Test:

Slightly atonal chords and mildly distracting lights! You are 57% rock-solid friend.

Are you a Virgo? I’m not surprised. You’re a good friend at times, but other times you’re harder to count on than an abacus coated with finger-repellent. And made of razor blades. You’re the type of friend that when somebody asks you to hang out with them, you say you want to hang out but then you never actually specify a time, so that you don’t actually have to hang out with that person. But you’re generally trustworthy and sensitive to others’ needs, like a warm elephant on a cold morning. You’ll never be the Best Man at a wedding, but you’ll also never be the Worst Man. Don’t be shy about using phlegm or bile to show your friends you care about them.

The Love Test:

Hello, Romeo/Romea! You scored a… 68%

Love hurts, don’t it? You’re in pure love

Yes, the code is a mess because I basically just heavily modified someone else’s “store” page and haven’t had a chance to clean it up, but … I think it looks good and I’ll get the pre-order for the novel in it soon enough …

But for now, the buttons work and it seems to look okay. I’ll update it … probably tomorrow night with more info.

I must sleep now, or my brain will implode.

The new Modern Evil store

I want this.

It is a software that includes biofeedback hardware and … read the details. I want it. But I don’t have a spare $130 right now. But if you order hundreds of shirts, I will! Hooray! And then I can get started controlling my heartbeat’s shape and interval! Wheeee!!!