A quarter of a century is creeping up on me. At 25, I've seen people who think that they're getting too old for fun. I don't feel a day over 20.

I'll be hitting 25 on the 13th. With any luck I won't fall over and turn into a big pile of dust.

Greetings Ladies and Ghouls. It's my favorite night of the year and you know what that means. Yep, seasonal artwork. I've got a little something almost sketched out I'm gonna bust my ass to have it inked and colored before midnight. I've got seven hours.

*mission impossible music starts*

After way too long, I have my wireless network set up and running.

The broadband connection was installed this morning (before noon... dood!) and I've been enjoying being able to enter an address and have the page load before getting bored, making a sandwich, and waiting some more.

This also means that my Wii is back online now too. The type of connection I haven isn't recommended for games that require a fast reaction time (like SSBB), but at least I can try to do some of the things that require other people.

I still have a crap load of Metroid Prime 3 friend vouchers if anyone wants to trade them. ... seriously.

Also, pokenerds are not forgotten. My DS has been reconfigured for this network now too. If you feel like swapping, I'm around.

Now that I've got that out of my system, I'd like to apologize for the lack of art lately. Between tax training and a few personal projects, I haven't been drawing much. I'll try to remedy that soon.

It's taking the long way around, but I'm finally getting broadband at home. It's only a basic satellite connection, but it will beat the service I'm currently on to pieces. I can't wait... Installation is scheduled for the 29th.

It was bound to happen eventually. My huge anime backlog is finally gone. I have made it a point to watch all of the series I own at least once in both English and Japanese. Now I can kick back and not have that small pile of boxed sets (most of my collection is made of them [cheaper that way]) looking at me like homework back in fifth grade.

On the costume front, too many people have failed to pay me back when expected... I'm probably not going to be able to pull any of the ones I wanted off. With any luck, I might be able to find something while digging around Halloween Express... if I ever manage to get there. They do have an online store, but it's easier (and more fun) to work with what I can actually touch and examine before buying.

I'm not discouraged. The Domon Kasshu costume took nearly three years to complete. Nabeshin took only three months, but it took a whole lot less work.



In other news, tax prep training has begun again...