It's the beginning of my second week of layoff and frankly I'm having quite a nice time. For those not in the know (most of you I'd imagine) working for the agency I work for has a mandatory layoff time each year, linked with the fact that we work pretty closely with the school year - not to mention the fact that we're a nonprofit agency. Don't worry furs, I do get unemployment for the six week duration and a guaranteed return to work, so I'm not starving or anything. It basically amounts to a vacation.

Despite the free time, art's been really slow going. I'd like to extend a personal apology to both  lafeel and  daelyhelaxon for not getting their pictures done yet. I'm sorry you two, I just haven't been able to get into doing color work lately. Lafeel's pic is in the process of being colored as I force myself to get it done.

My Pandora has been having problems lately. Being an open-source device that's still in development, it's bound to have a few issues so I'm not particularly surprised or upset. Specifically, its LCD video cable has shown signs of being faulty - a known issue for the units produced around the time I got mine. The screen occasionally gets what's known on the Pandora forums as the "Purple Tint." I'll be shipping it back off to the UK to get repaired soon, thankfully at no cost to me beyond shipping costs. The unit is still under warranty.

Lunamira recently started up an RPGMaker project and I've been helping her with coding as well as getting her started into the world of creating spritesheets - she promptly got the hang of creating sprites and zoomed way past my own skill and experience with them; now she's making sprites that would get the attention of a Game Boy Advance game developer. No surprise there. She's also been getting better with the coding. I anticipate her not needing me much at all before long.

Our Minecraft complex on the Furry Pound Minecraft server has grown to gargantuan proportions. If you're on that server and are heading east of Pony Mall through the rain forest and come upon a massive complex that looks like it could be a small city, that's probably my home. Take a stop in the guest room and leave us a note you were there. :) I like people to see the work we put into our home. Just watch out for the occasional baddie spawning inside the grounds, we're still working on that problem (and the outer perimeter wall is only about half done!).

Anyway, not much beyond that to report. Drop me a note if you need anything.

~ The Dracat