Archive | April, 2010

And then I can’t go to sleep…

Posted on April 19, 2010 in On Words and Pictures

…until I’ve taken the pencil and have drawn that idea.

Only thing that keeps me going. I’m a hack. I’ll alway will be a hack. I’ll never be an artist, I’ll never have the skill of the people I admire and timelessnes is impossible for me. But at least I’ve got my art. It keeps me going and provides me comfort.

Art must be made. So that I can sleep.

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[WoW] Orc Deathknight.

Posted on April 16, 2010 in Adventures in Azeroth (and other worlds)

WoW Orc Deathknight

Love that screenshot. ’nuff said.

One of the many deathnugget’s I’ve played around with, trying to find the right race-Death Knight-combo for me.  This particular character has long since gone the way of the Dodo, but the screenshot will preserve! I love the orc gals. But, let’s just say, there’s a reason the first thing I send any DK is a dark t-shirt made by my AH mule. Seriously Blizzard. Belly free plate mail?!

PS: Can you guess where it is?

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The long Grind: Week Four

Posted on April 12, 2010 in Thoughts & Musings
  • Gym visited: 5/1,000
  • Hours trained 2.5/1,000
  • Salads consumed: 13/1,000

Notable Achivment: The first five pounds are gone.

Lessons learned:

At the beginning my weight fluctuated drastically – I lost 3 kg in the first week and added another 2kg in the second one. By now my weight has stablized and settled into a soft decline. I’m quite happy about that – one pound per week is what the doctors suggest – lose more than that and the skin will have trouble adjusting and too big skin sucks. So yeah, after that rocky start I settled into a decent and – importantly – comfortable routine. So far I’m happy.

There are things changing that are far more important than my weight though. I did start out by changing what I eat. But now, without prompt from my side, how eat changed too. I’m more mindful, I enjoy eating more and my craves have changed1 The urge to eat everything infront of me has waned – it’s still there, sometimes, but mostly it’s okay. And I actually begin to feel sated, which has never happened before in my life.

I swear, the universe runs on irony. I can’t recount how often I tried to force these kind of changes on me, and well, it never really worked out. Now they came all on their own, just because I started eating salad for dinner! But universal irony aside, I hard to describe how happy I am about these changes.

Sport’s still my bane, though at least I’m doing it again. Once in a while. If I can get off my butt. But at least I keep myself in movement with long walks – Why not enjoy this wonderful spring weather as long as it lasts? Sun’s good for my skin.

So, yeah, happy Carina.

Footnotes:

  1. An example: Cheap chocolate doesn’t do it for me anymore – I now want the real expensive, luxery stuff. But I also want only a little bit of it. And where I would’ve eaten two or three cheap chocolate bars, I’m now happy with two pieces of the fantastic stuff.  I now pay less, eat less AND enjoy my sweet stuff more. ↩
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[Sketch] One page, three images

Posted on April 9, 2010 in On Traces of Chaos, Yay, art!

This is a single page scanned in. Hey, my other sketches are even less refined than this one.

From the top, counterclock-wise:

  1. Mirrough playing in the Wind.
    The arms are a bit off, but in general I like this effect. Still trying that gesture drawing.
  2. A young (and still small) Trarr creeping out Des.
    Trarr are bendy, the females more than the males.
  3. Chally brooding over her transcripts.
    Snout’s a bit off, otherwise I just pity the poor guy/gal who’s the subject of that file. Funfact: Chal owns the only proper desk on Trarran.
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Friggin Spam, redux

Posted on April 9, 2010 in Administrativa

Since Akismet got me way to many false positives without even admitting it had a false positive after I painstakenly dragged the comments out of the spamfolder, I’ve killed that plugin in favour for Defensio. Akismet has pissed me off, especially since help can’t be found anywhere or is horribly outdated. And since false positives are more annoying than spam itself, I’m going to try giving it the curb.

So I’ll give Defensio a trial run of a month or two and then we’ll see how well it works.

Anyway, there’s a second thing I’ve changed: Since spammers prefer to target older posts, I will automatically close comments on all posts older than thirty days. That will curb the sheer ammount of spam this blog gets and it’s rare I get comments on anything but the latest five, ten posts.

I hope that will help.

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