After five months of Zumba-ing on my WiiU, I have for the first time bashed my hand into the wall of my somewhat inadequate workout space.
I’m pretty sure there’s no serious damage, but… Ow!
After five months of Zumba-ing on my WiiU, I have for the first time bashed my hand into the wall of my somewhat inadequate workout space.
I’m pretty sure there’s no serious damage, but… Ow!
I got my new permanent resident card in the mail today. It was actually green–unlike my first “green card”, which was pink, and my second one, which was pale yellow. It also came with a pamphlet welcoming me to the United States. That made me chuckle a bit — I’ve been here for more than twenty years! But I guess it’s more bother than it’s worth to sort out which cards are renewals, and which are actually new.
The pink card is still my favorite, though, and I still carry it around in my wallet. I like it, not because of the color, but because it officially and with all due legality declares that I am an alien. (In big bold letters across the top!) I like to use it to pick up my badge at science fiction conventions.
Speaking of which, I will be going to Marcon this weekend. (I just hope I can get everything I want to get done really soon finished tomorrow, because I’m sure to be sick for all of next week. That’s the price I pay for revelry.)
…It doesn’t seem real yet, but maybe if I post about it, that will help.
Song of Asolde, Book 3: Dancing With Stones (~90 000 words)
First draft: COMPLETED.
It’s going to feel really strange, but my kids are on their spring break, so I think I’m going to officially declare myself “on vacation” for the rest of the week.
I’ve finished the last of the art for the faction I was working on. These final few took the longest, but were also the most fun to do. Camelriders and rocs. 🙂
I’ve still got a couple special units to do for the campaign that my game developer has been working on, and maybe a few more tweaks and fixes. Then I can move on to the last faction.
A writer friend of mine, Ryk E. Spoor, (he has some cool space opera books out from Baen) is trying to kickstarter the funding for an Oz-based novel titled Polychrome. (I guess Baen wasn’t interested in that project.)
He says he’s reached nearly 90% with 19 days to go, so now’s a great time to jump in. You can fund at any level from $1 on up!
Yesterday I passed the 50% mark on my current WIP.
Of course, that 50% is based on a guesstimated length of 100K words, because I don’t know how many words it will be until I get there. So I may have actually not have gotten to halfway yet, or I might have passed it a while back.
But fifty thousand words is worth celebrating in any case. So, Yay!
Because all these little pictures I post are for units in a game, and those units “level up” they often come in first, second and third level variants, as so:
Usually the units get more elaborate costumes as they go up levels, but on very rare occasions I do the opposite, as in this line of magic users who get increasingly consumed by their magic:
But fancier and better armored and so forth is what most often makes sense. Unfortunately, my game developer doesn’t think it’s working with the following set. He says that with the chest muscles covered up, the higher level versions actually look less “beefy” than the first level. OTOH, having higher level guards dress simpler and wear less protection doesn’t make sense either. ::sigh::
Edited to Add: That last set has been altered slightly since I originally posted this message due to advice from a friend. My game developer says it’s “somewhat improved”. But I don’t know that he actual copied the changes into the game.
I recently added the “Dance Pose” to my daily yoga/strength routine on WiiFit. I couldn’t actually do the dance pose at the time, but I figured I was more likely to get better at it by trying, than waiting for some mythical “better time”.
Today, for the first time, I got through the session without either dropping my foot grabbing something, or falling off my balance board. Woot!
My game developer reports that two more people have posted enthusiastic approval of the Battle for Wesnoth expansion Era of Four Moons (which is based on one of my story worlds).
This is more to his credit than to mine, of course, but it does make me happy to hear it. I’m not sure that’s why he told me though. I have this sneaking suspicion that he’s trying to encourage me to get more art done faster.
I’m just not seeing may way to doing that… but I did get some art to him yesterday.
I read an article once that claimed that happiness came from not the big good things that you know you have, but from small good things that pop up unexpectedly. I’m not entirely convinced. Being with my family makes me happy, but it’s not at all unexpected.
But there does seem to be an extra thrill when something nice happens “out of the blue”.
Yesterday I got an email from an online friend with a link, and a message to “scroll down, you’ll like it.”
The link lead to the blog of an author named Rachel Neumeier with whom I have no prior acquaintance. (Although, clearly I need to check out her books, since she shows excellent taste.) She was discussing the difficulty in finding “self-published gems” followed up by the revelation that she had actually managed to find one.
Three guesses as to what that “self-published gem” was?
Yep. Across a Jade Sea.
Happy me. 🙂