I'm back bitches! I'm now a Texan. What's been going on.
9 years ago
Well sorta. I have to move yet again extremely unexpectedly this monday but that's only a few hours away so that won't take up too much time.
Anyways, just a rambling little journal to accompany an epic flood of porn to make my triumphant return to FA. I would have done it earlier but well, you know....
Moving halfway across the country, starting a new life in a new strange state (Texas) and meeting practically for the first time an entire half of my extended family ate up....shit loads of time as did my work which i came out here to do (vidya) now that i live close to my programmer. Been making a 7 hour round trip to where he lives twice a month for work weekends, fucking sucks so i'm looking forward to moving once and for all to College Station which was my original destination. It looked like I was going to stay in San Antonio for awhile but that just suddenly out of nowhere changed, so i'm off again on monday.
But, for a bit now i've been drawing like crazy as you might have noticed, getting caught up on mailing, posting and commissions. A lot of those are pretty old stuff that I just didn't have time to post. The last 6 months of my life have been utterly insanely hectic. I wanna make a big apology to all my commissioners and thank them for bearing with me. Once i get to my new place and get settled i'll be jamming through my queu which i've kept pretty small. I've been finishing more slots than i've been taking in anticipation of possibly ceasing commissions all together sometime this year or early next year that's not a certainty though.
But yeah, since then a lot has happened. After the absurd amount of time it took getting all the documents, drivers licenses, conceal carry license, insurance, car registrations documents to get all that shit, and everything i need to be established here, i had to go to seemingly endless out of town visits, birthdays, kids birthdays, group dinners, one on one dinners to get acquainted with my big extended family here, then meeting my business partner for the first time, meeting his family etc etc it took me a long time to get back to normal life. But i'm pretty much back.
Just random shit from my adventure...
The drive down to texas from the SF bay area was horrible. I thought i could do like 34 hours of driving in 48 hours, i did manage to do it while staying in a hotel one night and at one point realizing how exhausted i was just pulling over on the side of the road and crashing for 4 hours. I think i'm gonna have nightmares of the I-10 for the rest of my life, it NEVER FUCKING ENDS lol. And the speed limit is like 90 mph and it's so flat you can only see about 30 feet in front of your car when you're driving at night which is when i did the vast majority of my driving. It's terrifying.
I finally arrive only to have some dipshit 17 year old girl plow into my car while it was parked and total it. So i get a new car.....which has now been vandalized 3 fucking times just totally randomly. Not a single person i've met here has ever had their car get randomly bashed in with a bat or a hammer or keyed and in 7 weeks all of those have happened to me for seemingly no reason. My business partner says it's because of my wild hair (I let it grow out and do it's own thing for a bit between haircuts. My cousin says i look like a 70's ken doll.) and the fact that i'm in shape and wear well fitting clothes, he says people probably assume i'm gay and just fuck with my car after they see me get out of it. Needless to say it's insanely frustrating. I've been driving since i was 17 and have never gotten so much as a knick or scratch on a car in my life, and i get here and it's like the whole world is out to get my cars.
I came here to work and have a low cost of living, but i also came here for my shooting hobby! I'm going to have my own private steel range on my business partner's land set up (assuming it ever fucking stops raining), i picked up a glock 43 and a colt 6920 ar15, got my carry license FINALLY after passing with a perfect score (my shooting qualification target was basically one hole over the X).
I apparently arrived right before the most insane bunch of biblical weather texas has ever seen. The lightning storms endlessly fascinate me and after having baseball sized hail break almost every skylight in the house and trash all my neighbors cars (mine was garaged thank god), i'm now terrified of hail. I was looking forward to moving to College station to get away from the insane weather here and the week i plan to go there's a tornado and hail lol.
But yeah, i've had a pretty insane spate of rotten luck lately starting off with a retard sticking a drill down the barrel of my 3600 dollar pistol only a week after it spent 2 months after the custom shop fixing the damage the LAST retard did to it. Still waiting to hear if the range that employs the idiot who did it is going to take responsibility for it and replace the barrel and NP3+ treatment i JUST had put on it. A bunch of other things too, it's sorta wearing me down.
My little business i started is going awesome! We got into the valve Vive developer program so we're now developing for the vive. It's fucking amazing. Expect to see cool shit with that in the coming months.
But yeah, i dunno...random observations of texas.
1. Everything has meat in it, even things that never have meat in them. It's hazardous to be a vegetarian here. Even if i clarify that something has no meat on it they bring me something with fucking meat on it. They're truly baffled by the concept of being a vegetarian. I don't think most people have ever encountered one.
2. Everybody is super friendly (except the cocksuckers that keep messing with my car.), literally the opposite of my experience in Arizona where people wouldn't even serve me at a restaurant if they saw i had california plates. Here, if people hear i moved from california they're like "Took you long enough! Welcome to texas!". Everybody is seriously so nice out here. nicer than in the bay area on average i'd say.
3. Weed is hard to find and not very good. At least not near as good as it was back in california. Having it is also apparently like....an actual crime :\
4. If i buy a gun i actually get to put it in a bag and walk away after i pay. It's AWESOME haha.
5. It took weeks for my brain to process just how different the place looks. The sun is actually noticably brighter than it was in northern california. it was super weird when i got here. The flatness also was fucking with my brain. It just looked weird. I'm used to not being able to see more than a half mile or so in any direction from all the hills and mountains in the bay area. Also the water towers. it's just weird for me seeing those everywhere.
6. It's an ugly state at least compared to california where i lived. I took the beauty of the bay area seriously for granted.
But yeah, I'm back! That flood isn't even all the upload backlog. I got a couple auction pieces i'm going to post and i want to make a game related journal/survey. Will probably do those tommorrow! If you're waiting on your commission and i know some of you are, i'm drawing like crazy now so just bare with me a little longer.
Anyways, just a rambling little journal to accompany an epic flood of porn to make my triumphant return to FA. I would have done it earlier but well, you know....
Moving halfway across the country, starting a new life in a new strange state (Texas) and meeting practically for the first time an entire half of my extended family ate up....shit loads of time as did my work which i came out here to do (vidya) now that i live close to my programmer. Been making a 7 hour round trip to where he lives twice a month for work weekends, fucking sucks so i'm looking forward to moving once and for all to College Station which was my original destination. It looked like I was going to stay in San Antonio for awhile but that just suddenly out of nowhere changed, so i'm off again on monday.
But, for a bit now i've been drawing like crazy as you might have noticed, getting caught up on mailing, posting and commissions. A lot of those are pretty old stuff that I just didn't have time to post. The last 6 months of my life have been utterly insanely hectic. I wanna make a big apology to all my commissioners and thank them for bearing with me. Once i get to my new place and get settled i'll be jamming through my queu which i've kept pretty small. I've been finishing more slots than i've been taking in anticipation of possibly ceasing commissions all together sometime this year or early next year that's not a certainty though.
But yeah, since then a lot has happened. After the absurd amount of time it took getting all the documents, drivers licenses, conceal carry license, insurance, car registrations documents to get all that shit, and everything i need to be established here, i had to go to seemingly endless out of town visits, birthdays, kids birthdays, group dinners, one on one dinners to get acquainted with my big extended family here, then meeting my business partner for the first time, meeting his family etc etc it took me a long time to get back to normal life. But i'm pretty much back.
Just random shit from my adventure...
The drive down to texas from the SF bay area was horrible. I thought i could do like 34 hours of driving in 48 hours, i did manage to do it while staying in a hotel one night and at one point realizing how exhausted i was just pulling over on the side of the road and crashing for 4 hours. I think i'm gonna have nightmares of the I-10 for the rest of my life, it NEVER FUCKING ENDS lol. And the speed limit is like 90 mph and it's so flat you can only see about 30 feet in front of your car when you're driving at night which is when i did the vast majority of my driving. It's terrifying.
I finally arrive only to have some dipshit 17 year old girl plow into my car while it was parked and total it. So i get a new car.....which has now been vandalized 3 fucking times just totally randomly. Not a single person i've met here has ever had their car get randomly bashed in with a bat or a hammer or keyed and in 7 weeks all of those have happened to me for seemingly no reason. My business partner says it's because of my wild hair (I let it grow out and do it's own thing for a bit between haircuts. My cousin says i look like a 70's ken doll.) and the fact that i'm in shape and wear well fitting clothes, he says people probably assume i'm gay and just fuck with my car after they see me get out of it. Needless to say it's insanely frustrating. I've been driving since i was 17 and have never gotten so much as a knick or scratch on a car in my life, and i get here and it's like the whole world is out to get my cars.
I came here to work and have a low cost of living, but i also came here for my shooting hobby! I'm going to have my own private steel range on my business partner's land set up (assuming it ever fucking stops raining), i picked up a glock 43 and a colt 6920 ar15, got my carry license FINALLY after passing with a perfect score (my shooting qualification target was basically one hole over the X).
I apparently arrived right before the most insane bunch of biblical weather texas has ever seen. The lightning storms endlessly fascinate me and after having baseball sized hail break almost every skylight in the house and trash all my neighbors cars (mine was garaged thank god), i'm now terrified of hail. I was looking forward to moving to College station to get away from the insane weather here and the week i plan to go there's a tornado and hail lol.
But yeah, i've had a pretty insane spate of rotten luck lately starting off with a retard sticking a drill down the barrel of my 3600 dollar pistol only a week after it spent 2 months after the custom shop fixing the damage the LAST retard did to it. Still waiting to hear if the range that employs the idiot who did it is going to take responsibility for it and replace the barrel and NP3+ treatment i JUST had put on it. A bunch of other things too, it's sorta wearing me down.
My little business i started is going awesome! We got into the valve Vive developer program so we're now developing for the vive. It's fucking amazing. Expect to see cool shit with that in the coming months.
But yeah, i dunno...random observations of texas.
1. Everything has meat in it, even things that never have meat in them. It's hazardous to be a vegetarian here. Even if i clarify that something has no meat on it they bring me something with fucking meat on it. They're truly baffled by the concept of being a vegetarian. I don't think most people have ever encountered one.
2. Everybody is super friendly (except the cocksuckers that keep messing with my car.), literally the opposite of my experience in Arizona where people wouldn't even serve me at a restaurant if they saw i had california plates. Here, if people hear i moved from california they're like "Took you long enough! Welcome to texas!". Everybody is seriously so nice out here. nicer than in the bay area on average i'd say.
3. Weed is hard to find and not very good. At least not near as good as it was back in california. Having it is also apparently like....an actual crime :\
4. If i buy a gun i actually get to put it in a bag and walk away after i pay. It's AWESOME haha.
5. It took weeks for my brain to process just how different the place looks. The sun is actually noticably brighter than it was in northern california. it was super weird when i got here. The flatness also was fucking with my brain. It just looked weird. I'm used to not being able to see more than a half mile or so in any direction from all the hills and mountains in the bay area. Also the water towers. it's just weird for me seeing those everywhere.
6. It's an ugly state at least compared to california where i lived. I took the beauty of the bay area seriously for granted.
But yeah, I'm back! That flood isn't even all the upload backlog. I got a couple auction pieces i'm going to post and i want to make a game related journal/survey. Will probably do those tommorrow! If you're waiting on your commission and i know some of you are, i'm drawing like crazy now so just bare with me a little longer.
CS isn't a bad place to live, might be a little bit of a culture shock for ya though.
It's definitely a less conservative place than san antonio is and aside from my 6 day creationist fundamentalist christian uncle and cousin here, the culture shock hasn't been too bad.
Also: Always nice to have another gun owner. I swear, Texans can tell someone who owns guns, the first time we meet.
Also also! If you buy a gun, depending on if it's a long gun, you don't even have to bag it here in Texas, you can just walk out with it open! If it's a handgun, there's no 30.07, and if you have a LTC obviously, the same applies.
welcome to texas, it's gross and hot right now.
My mother lives in the bay area. It is beautiful there, but I think people there are insane. ...granted, I've spent virtually my entire life in Texas, so we're looking at opposing viewpoints here.
Austin is the liberal part of the State. College Station, for all that it is a college town, IS NOT. It's the Ag and engineering school, with "the Corps", which is it's own military. Even for Texans, Aggies are WEIRD. Watch yourself, please.
Sorry about the car. San Antonio, while again, a great place to visit, is not somewhere I'd choose to live. And I have good friends there. :/ (I'm in D/FW... grew up in Houston, which is A TRAIN WRECK)
Spring Weather in this state sucks. Thunderstorms will carry on possibly as late as November, but the Spring ones are the worst for hail. Last year and this year have been unreasonably wet, particularly on the end of nearly a decade of drought.
...Beware Fire Ants.
I know a vegan or two in Texas... It involves a lot of searching for restaurants, and MUCH cooking at home. Sorry, this is the land of beef. And if something REALLY shouldn't have beef in it (seriously, there are such dishes?), there's always chicken, pork, and occasionally venison to back that up with. ...I do understand where you're coming from (philosophically, I mean), but you have to realize (seems like you have) that it is a VERY alien idea around here.
I'll pass on making any comments on the weed situation. I know nothing of it. *shrug*
Once again, WELCOME!
It's a much shittier place in some ways and better in others. Not having to pay 80% of your income on rent is nice especially.
I always hated the weather in Texas. It always seemed to me like it would be hot and terrible all the time, or it would rain forever. I guess you discovered the forever part.
In the future should you look for another change of venue, I'd recommend Colorado. We're slightly less gun-friendly, but we have straight-up legal weed. We also have mountains.
I'm planning on moving myself as soon as possible and actually Texas a place I'm seriously considering. I hope to manage a trip down to check it out for myself in the next few months.
https://www.ar15.com/archive/topic......0&t=112561
Look at how nice it is! Buy things in .22 short because they're small and curious, and I bet it's a challenge to shot them well.
Still, I thought a little .22 short gun might be a fun thing for plinking with and a curiosity of engineering. However if the ammunition for it is expensive then maybe not so good.
I recently saw 100 round boxes of .22 short going for $14.00, before 2012 panic, that would have been around $4.00, boxes of .22 LR used to be around a $1.00-$1.50 a box, now average $5.00 a box and some dealers are charging as much as $25.00 a box of 50 rounds. I used to buy bulk boxes, known as 'bricks' for $15-17 for 500-550 rounds, now I am seeing 300 round boxes for $30-$35 at the shops, scalpers will charge $60-80 for the same box.
Only .22 bullets i'm shooting are coming out of a .223/5.56 case!
lol I guess it would be hard to find vegetarian food here. Rules out almost all Tex-Mex right there. You would have an easier time of it in Austin, maybe also CS. GL with the move!
Also college station has places for me to eat at least.
Arizona developers and architects build with the land, California developers staircase the foothills and drop in golf courses in everywhere which sucks up yet more water.
What the hell about the vandalism? You got a Hillary sticker on it? Not even I had that much vandalism on my vehicles in hyper liberal Madison so quickly.
Ain't a gun friendly state wonderful? Gotta love the lack of PC police griefing you wanting a firearm and better yet, Icky SCARY firearms that would make the average bay area resident shit themselves if you THOUGHT even looking at.
I'm jealous you scored a Glock 43, though I just traded for a new Ruger PS9.
Only real negative I say about Texas is the fire ants, kill those fuckers with a good dump of liquid dish soap down the hole and around the nest, followed by a good soaking of water. The dish soap strips the oils the ants have and they drown.
That doesn't excuse being a colossal dick because i was driving through their state.
On top of that, the big thing driving people to move out of california is the fact that rent and cost of living are insanely high. The reason they are high is because everybody wants to live there and move from all over the world and the country to do so.
And no, i do not have a hilary sticker on my bumper nor do i have california plates on my new car. I'm a liberal, why would i support hilary?
One thing i've noticed is that since i've been here, i've encountered literally ONE person that was openly gay and obviously gay (a lesbian). I got a feeling people here just have weird ideas as to what gay people do look like because most of the gay people here keep their orientation under wraps.
Also what's TFF like? Never have managed to make it out to a con.
Sorry to hear that stuff happened to your car, you may want to invest in a camera or two for your vehicle so you can have recorded evidence of the vandalism. Also, try figuring out what part of town you're in, as the bad parts of town will generally have bad things like that happening :o
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If you want to know cool places to go or things to do hit me up!
Also I breezed comments, just know the town is pretty friendly. Wife and buddy have fursuited on the main bar strip, peeps are pretty cool there.
BTW go to Obannons if you love beer
I hope you do another fun sketch stream on skype in the future. Let me know and hopefully when commissions get tamed, I would love to get one of Sun and your Unicorn ^_^