Personally I'm not much for it, but I intend to make the best of it.

Merry Christmas people.

One of my monitors just died. It may seem silly but I feel crippled in front of the PC now.
I can handle working with one monitor, but the problem is that the colors are a bit off on this remaining one so lighting levels in Unreal is gonna be inaccurate as well as my 2D coloring. My tablet isn't designed to be used with widescreen monitors and there's nothing else to be found on the market by now.

I might try to hook my PC up to the TV and see how that works. At least the colors won't be off then.

Schooldays that is.

This week I graduated from "The Garden" and is now officially unemployed. Yay!
No, they didn't teach us how to grow veggies, unless you're talking about normal mapped ones.

I'm gonna miss the people I met there. I know for certain I will lose contact with some of them which is a shame. I kinda wish the education would have lasted longer so that we could have had a chance to better get to know eachother. Nevertheless, I made some new friends there as well as some contacts within the gaming industry.
The Garden might actually be one of the best things that've happened me so far. I've grown incredibly much both as an individual and as an artist.

Also, I went and saw Avatar today. I expected something average, sorta like I Robot, but I was actually pleasantly surprised.
Sure, the story wasn't much to celebrate, I even managed to figure out the ending from the trailer alone. However, as soon as I had finished wiping my eyes clean another eye-orgasm would suddenly sneak up on me. The world of Pandora is amazing to say the least.

(BTW, Timesplitters 2 is still the best shooter ever developed.)

Until later.

Since I couldn't figure out what I wanted to draw today I decided to brush the dust away from some old unfinished Unreal projects. My last project for UT2004 to be specific. It's a CTF level and almost complete. When I looked at it I started to wonder why I stopped working on it so suddenly when it was so close to being finished. I added a simple brush into the level and hit rebuild. When it was done building and I looked at the results I realized: "Ah... that's why..."

Oh, Unreal Engine 2. Thou art one heartless bitch!

(Did I spell the title right? - Pocasti - Procasti - Propfflllaaa!! Bah!)

I always found it comfortable that whenever I recieve a comment on a forum or community I don't have to answer that very moment. Sometimes I just don't have the energy and sometimes I can think of some witty response 'till later if I'm unsure what to say. The problem with this is that sometimes I wait too long and even forget to reply or post a comment. Most notably on facebook, UP and here on dA.
I have comments among my messages rangang back to July which I've simply just forgotten to reply to because I thought I'd do it at a later time.

Every now and then I like to spend and hour or so and go through the "popular" section here ond dA and browse through the most popular images the last 24 hours. Whenever I find something that looks interesting I open it up in a new tab (that goes for youtube videos and other sites as well) and continue browsing. By the time I'm done I filter out those I feel like commenting on and those I feel like adding to my favorites, then close all other tabs. By the time I'm done however, there might be quite a few deviations to comment on, and since I think a simple "nice, dude!" is a rather dull comment, I usually spend a lot of time writing a comment once I've decided to do so. But because I have so many tabs open I end up having a vast number of deviations to comment and fave, so I end up leaving those tabs open to comment for another day, and because faving without leaving a comment beforehand is such a HUGE crime here on dA I usually never add anything to my favorites before commenting... which I'll leave 'till later...

Basically, the number of open tabs increases until I accidentally close firefox without saving my tabs or until UnrealED starts complaining that it wants more free memory. Currently firefox is eating up 500 MB of my RAM, and that is after I closed a bunch of tabs. In the end I usually just decide "fuck it!" and add all interesting deviations to my favorites without commenting and then close all the others.

Where was I going with all this anyway?

In other news, there are now 2 weeks left of my internship and I graduate. I will officially be unemployed then. Yay! I could use some holiday. Too bad christmas sucks.

Stay well people.