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The last gasp of the year. 58th journal
16 years ago
This is my head.
Oh dear, the last gasp of the year I fear is near, shedding a tear. (Sorry about that, I couldn't resist).
Looks like this will be my last journal entry of 2009. What a crazy year indeed. First some latest updates with my brother. They finally drained all that fluid from him. I heard it was 23 liters worth (over 6 gallons). That is a lot of fluids. I knew he was bloated but that is a bit insane.
He is feeling a bit better and can use his walker again instead of the wheelchair though he is retaining fluids again. I hope the doctors will drain it sooner than waiting a few months like last time. I have no idea why they waited so long.
He is taking physical therapy and it seems to help. It still be a while before he can get out of the nursing home. At least he not smoking or taking drugs there. I hope he'll stay off of them when he gets out.
Well, some of you notice I did a Christmas special picture. Much like Halloween special, it been largely ignored. Oh well, I like how it turned out anyway. However the background was slapped together at the last movement due to running out of time. Most of it my fault as I was being laze and waited too long to finish it. But I do like how the rest of it turned out though the text work could be better.
I'm sure you few reading this is tired of me saying this, I am still frustrated with my watcher count. It continues to bounce up and down. As soon as it nears around 680, it would drop back down. I swear it must have hit 680 at least a dozen times. I was hoping to hit 700 by the end of the year but that is just about impossible now. It is frustrating to see it falter like that. I would have his three times that easily on the pace I was getting back when I did my 3D arts. I do hoe to get that restarted early next year but I had that plan before. We'll see.
I also hope to restart those dragon maw mini-meme animations soon as well. I still have quite a few people on my list to get to. Plus restarting my stories. They don't get much attention on FA but did get some interest on Yiffstar though that site is going through some revamping. Again we'll see how that turns out.
Oh, I did finally pass 16k views on my FA page. At least that won't go down. Took me nearly three years to get there. Speaking of which, my three year anniversary on FA is going up on January 7th, 2010. I don't know if I can get a celebration drawing down like I did last year though. I have too much on my plate plus my laziness combating me.
Another thing that his fighting for my time is me slowly getting back to online FPS gaming. I got Counterstrike: Source recently to go with my much better video card I wrote about in a previous journal. I starts pretty bad as I am rusty of not playing anything in a long time. But mainly not used to the different weapons and spray pattern wil moving. I could rant about how it makes the game more unrealistic as the gun in real life don't care if you are moving or not. It hits the same spread at the spot you aimed it now matter if you are moving or not, the difficultly is already built in. But I not going into it as it would fill pages.
Anyway, I am getting a little used to it. I still get killed more often than not in most games but mainly because I tend to rush into firefights due to from my Doom and Quake days. I get too bored staying put and picking people off despite me getting a high kill rate. I do get a good number of headshots and even done some dominations and rampages. I love going into tight spaces like tunnels and get headshot after headshot. I am less successful in open areas as I keep getting snipped out of nowhere. But that depends on the map. On some of them, I can snipe like mad. I haven't played all that much so I should improve even more next year. I hope to catch up with those that been playing it for years as CS:S been out for a long time. I only recently got into it myself.
One more think I want to touch on before I close out the year. A scant few of you know about my channels on FurNet IRC network. The #bellyofthebeast one is doing well enough. I usually have around 10 to 15 people in there but is varies a bit. I was hoping to get a steady 20 about now but happy with what I have now. My tamer channel #the_lair is not doing so well. It i slowly dying and I lost 2 old timers. It barely manage 4 or 5 now and much less active. Ironic since I created the belly channel after the lair one because I was afraid of losing people due to some of the extreme stuff I do. So I moved it to the newer channel and it thrives better.
If anyone somehow want to visit one of both channels, I can provide information on how to get there. The lair is pretty much my general channel while the belly I do my fetishes role playing and things can get very intense in there. So if you have the stomach for it, join in and have some fun.
I wonder how many people actually read these things. Raise your hand so I can count... well, except for cricket chirps.
Looks like this will be my last journal entry of 2009. What a crazy year indeed. First some latest updates with my brother. They finally drained all that fluid from him. I heard it was 23 liters worth (over 6 gallons). That is a lot of fluids. I knew he was bloated but that is a bit insane.
He is feeling a bit better and can use his walker again instead of the wheelchair though he is retaining fluids again. I hope the doctors will drain it sooner than waiting a few months like last time. I have no idea why they waited so long.
He is taking physical therapy and it seems to help. It still be a while before he can get out of the nursing home. At least he not smoking or taking drugs there. I hope he'll stay off of them when he gets out.
Well, some of you notice I did a Christmas special picture. Much like Halloween special, it been largely ignored. Oh well, I like how it turned out anyway. However the background was slapped together at the last movement due to running out of time. Most of it my fault as I was being laze and waited too long to finish it. But I do like how the rest of it turned out though the text work could be better.
I'm sure you few reading this is tired of me saying this, I am still frustrated with my watcher count. It continues to bounce up and down. As soon as it nears around 680, it would drop back down. I swear it must have hit 680 at least a dozen times. I was hoping to hit 700 by the end of the year but that is just about impossible now. It is frustrating to see it falter like that. I would have his three times that easily on the pace I was getting back when I did my 3D arts. I do hoe to get that restarted early next year but I had that plan before. We'll see.
I also hope to restart those dragon maw mini-meme animations soon as well. I still have quite a few people on my list to get to. Plus restarting my stories. They don't get much attention on FA but did get some interest on Yiffstar though that site is going through some revamping. Again we'll see how that turns out.
Oh, I did finally pass 16k views on my FA page. At least that won't go down. Took me nearly three years to get there. Speaking of which, my three year anniversary on FA is going up on January 7th, 2010. I don't know if I can get a celebration drawing down like I did last year though. I have too much on my plate plus my laziness combating me.
Another thing that his fighting for my time is me slowly getting back to online FPS gaming. I got Counterstrike: Source recently to go with my much better video card I wrote about in a previous journal. I starts pretty bad as I am rusty of not playing anything in a long time. But mainly not used to the different weapons and spray pattern wil moving. I could rant about how it makes the game more unrealistic as the gun in real life don't care if you are moving or not. It hits the same spread at the spot you aimed it now matter if you are moving or not, the difficultly is already built in. But I not going into it as it would fill pages.
Anyway, I am getting a little used to it. I still get killed more often than not in most games but mainly because I tend to rush into firefights due to from my Doom and Quake days. I get too bored staying put and picking people off despite me getting a high kill rate. I do get a good number of headshots and even done some dominations and rampages. I love going into tight spaces like tunnels and get headshot after headshot. I am less successful in open areas as I keep getting snipped out of nowhere. But that depends on the map. On some of them, I can snipe like mad. I haven't played all that much so I should improve even more next year. I hope to catch up with those that been playing it for years as CS:S been out for a long time. I only recently got into it myself.
One more think I want to touch on before I close out the year. A scant few of you know about my channels on FurNet IRC network. The #bellyofthebeast one is doing well enough. I usually have around 10 to 15 people in there but is varies a bit. I was hoping to get a steady 20 about now but happy with what I have now. My tamer channel #the_lair is not doing so well. It i slowly dying and I lost 2 old timers. It barely manage 4 or 5 now and much less active. Ironic since I created the belly channel after the lair one because I was afraid of losing people due to some of the extreme stuff I do. So I moved it to the newer channel and it thrives better.
If anyone somehow want to visit one of both channels, I can provide information on how to get there. The lair is pretty much my general channel while the belly I do my fetishes role playing and things can get very intense in there. So if you have the stomach for it, join in and have some fun.
I wonder how many people actually read these things. Raise your hand so I can count... well, except for cricket chirps.
-Z
2009 has not been a good year by most measures. I, myself, is doing fairly well despite some drama and stress earlier this year. Other than that, I been pretty much holding steady. 2010 does show some promise.
Sounds like you have plenty planed for the new year to keep you busy, and I look forward to seeing how that all goes. I plan on eventually upgrading my Video card as well as soon as my truck is done eating my cash; but anyway, perhaps sometime I will join you in the CS:S hunt. Good to see they got your bro drained, but 6 gallons? That sounds like it must have weighed a lot. Hope he does not have top wait for it to end up like that again.
Anyway, I have been AFK for several days this week, but I hope to be back after the new year and catch up with you and all. Here's to a happy new year.
I was surprised by the amount they drained from my brother too. He was so bloated that it made him look pregnant. All that extra weight didn't do him any good either. It was very hard for him to get up. What gets me is the amount of time the doctors waited. He was that way for months before they finally did something about it.
You have a happy and good new year too.