Why you should avoid the many varieties of...

poisonous plants. Seriously, I'm not usually one for the eradication of any species (even mosquitos have their purpose) but I'm willing to make an exception for poison ivy/oak/sumac. I'm now on week two of the great rashy, blistery adventure and suffice to say I think I'd rather be dealing with my wisdom teeth again.

Truth be told, the rash isn't the worst of it. The fact that my right forearm is significantly swollen is definitely in the top five reasons I never want to see a three-leafed, red tinted plant again so long as I live....GAH!!

Beyond the current health issue, I'd say things are going pretty well on the overall. I really need to sit down and allocate some time to drawing, and I need to finish making the ring-winding rig so my wife and I can really get going on this chainmail thing. Work is currently more of a pain than usual, due to circumstances well beyond my control, and as such is really cutting into my time for a lot of other things.

Halloween, as usual was a blast. We dressed the kiddo up as Digiko (from the DigiCharat manga) and I have to say she was spot on...I think we may have a future cosplayer on our hands. My wife reprised her zombie costume and scared quite a few neighborhood kids silly. She'd lay down on the porch looking all corpse-like and then as they came up, she'd slowly sit up. (I never realized that you could shamble while seated but she pulled it off).

Well I think that's about all I've got for now...Seems weird actually posting something other than "I'm not dead" on this blog, but it's a good kind of weird...Might see about doing it more often...

Take care all!

J

I seem to make a lot of these...

posts that indicate I'm still among the living. I could probably just save some time, join the blog revolution that's been going on for so long now, and actually post some updates about stuff. I say stuff because I'm not so confused as to think that what I say amounts to a lot but hey...My blog...I can say what I want.

That said, I hope to have some photos of some of the things my wife and I are working on now up in the not too distant future. (Chainmail and the like). Beyond that a lot of things are up in the air currently especially since this is our busiest time of the year and we're still trying to acclimate to her new work schedule.

I am still planning on doing the comic strip, but it's been put on hiatus until I can get more than fifteen minutes free time. Hopefully I'll have more to post later. 'Til then...Take care!

I'm not actually dead...

But from the look of this blog I am...

At any rate, excpect to see more coming up here following Memorial Day...Big camping weekend for us, so might have to see about tossing some photos up here. Beyond that I've got a couple of sketches rolling around in my head that I need to sequester some time for, so hopefully I'll be able to get those done and up here soon...

Other news:

I've started plinking around with a script for a comic strip (I've always wanted to do one), so you can expect to see that on the horizon once I get my act together and get it started...

Mostly just posting to say that I'm still around and still working on stuff...Might have to post my pixel gallery at some point...

Hope all is well with anyone actually reading this...

J

First Post!!

Ok, so it's not much but here it is...My blog...Figured I'll toss my latest speedpaint up as a way to kick this thing off...

In the off chance that you want to see more of my work, I have a sketchbook thread on PolyKarbon at the following link and you can check my pixel art at PixelJoint here.