So I'm out in Cali for E3. They opened it up to the public this year, so I decided to hop on board. My bro followed up so we're gonna enjoy this together! Sadly we know not a soul out this way besides a cousin (and a workmate for me) so pre expo has been pretty boring so far. Really hoping this all goes well tomorrow when the expo actually starts :P. I usually have a bunch to share but I'll keep it short and simple for now.

Gonna re-upload my stuff when i have some time. Wont be everything. Been kinda wanting to create something new so I might bust out a few more drawings. Been a long time. Probably really rusty but we'll see. Every time I take a break my style changes a bunch so I'm curious as to what it'll look like versus what I've done in the past. Got some relax time coming up so keep an eye out.

Its been 8 months since my last post. the awesome thing is that I am still working in that same job. Still learning but made some serious progression. Currently I am team lead and work 2-11pm. Kinda kills any life I may have had but! I have a hefty differential to benefit from. I am on my way to a new team to learn something new and get a nice pay bump. I've acquired my Security + and my own place. So doing quite well but work isn't quite done!

I've not updated in a good long while. I've become distracted by many a thing in life.... Mainly life. All of my past cares and concerns have changed. My time and efforts are mainly spent learning a new part of the IT world which will continue to make my current state of living better. A few things have already changed for the better, others, I'm still working toward. I haven't drawn anything since the last image. Not a damn thing. Its one of those things that I wish I had inspiration to do but my mind is just not in an artistic state at the moment. Hope whoever is reading this isn't too disappointed with me in that regard. Hopefully it will be understood that I've gotta focus on the thing that'll pay the bills and get me all of the things! For now I have one new pic showing one thing of those important things that I've been working toward.

So, it looks like I went Intel for no better reason than, I had the money. Right now the system isn't exactly complete. Its functional but I still have a videocard to buy eventually but the one i have right now is alright. Specs are as follows:

Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.06ghz (1366)
6gb DDR3 1600mhz
Asus Sabertooth X58 Mobo (1366)
nVidia GTX 260 (896mb core 216)
x1 OCZ 30gb SSD (will probably take this out, bought it for $30 off of someone)
x1 1Tb Seagate HDD
Hiper 730watt Power supply

All wrapped in a NZXT Phantom full tower case in white. Pretty nice system, been together for about a week and a half but i haven't used it much sense installing 7 Ultimate. Now mother dearest wants to buy my Toshiba with similar stats lol. I'm gonna do it mainly cause she likes it and It'll give me a reason to sell my Dell E6400 and buy a Qosmio or something. God I could be using this to fix my car but I'm such a nerd. Oh yeah, my car, nothing mechanical. Just ruined the air damn hitting a snow drift at the beginning of the year. All wheel drive helps ya get moving, stopping though lol, yeah a different story.

Well then, due to my never ending craving of power I'm selling my desktop. Possible buyer coming up. I hope they bite. Its a pretty damn good computer too. (incase the geeks are wondering):

Phenom 9850 @ 2.8ghz
8gbs DDR2 pc6400
Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 (Asus)
Gigabyte GA-MA-UDP4 Socket AM2+
Netgear N+ wireless adapter (PCI)
Hauppauge TV tuner (forgot the model)
WD Caviar Blue 500gb 7200RPM HDD
Hyper 730watt Power supply (<3)
AeroCool Extreme Engine 3 Midtower ATX case

New build can go either AMD or Intel as the price on the i7 and the Phenom II x6 T1090 are about dead center. I'm partial to the 6 core but the problem is that its only marginally faster than the 955BE and slightly slower than the 965BE, not to mention not many things are gonna utilize all 6 cores. Granted, the whole speed boost thing disables 3 of the 6 cores and speeds up the other 3, then theres the whole thing about hyperthreadding and what not and how games are utilizing that whole business. Planning on building it in a Thermaltake Spedo Full tower case. Atleast 4 gbs of RAM, 1tb HDD and eventually a ATi Radeon HD5870 (when the price comes down a HD5970 will be on the way)

In other news my damn car has been in the shop for engine issues 3 times already, rather pissed about that, its less than a year old. Me and Sykes arent together anymore though things are gettin worked on so maybe that'll change in the future but ya never know.

Found out today that I'm one of many who've gotten scamed by Paisley. I'm not sweatin it though as it was only $15 but be warned, she will not honor any commission you request. If you look at her FA, its been flooded with people in the same boat as me and I was at AC when she got me, so watch out.

So I went ahead and did something for myself. I created another bill but with this new bill of mine. I also get to have some fun, well during transit that is. I bought a new car with that cash for clunkers thing they had going on. Today was the last day and my mother made sure to remind me of such so we decided to go for it, just for kicks though. Turns out that I could get the car surprisingly so we did and now I have a wonderful base model '09 Subaru Impreza 2.5i 5 door in silver with a 5 speed transmission. Pretty damn nice car if I do say so myself. So now I'm gonna be making wonderful payments for the car and insurance for the next 6 years to keep this car. Today was a stall fest for a few hours till I got used to the tranny as this is my first manual car. Now I just need to make some things a bit smoother but after that I'm all good. Its amazing how I never stall while reversing into a space lol. I'll probably post pics real soon.

I'm at AC again this year, hit me up whenever. Room 1317 in the Double Tree and my number is posted on the board around the corner from the Zoo. :D

Another piece of technology rolls my way. Thanks to my loving brother lookin out for a nigga on his birthday (April 10th :P), I've aquired a sweet little net book :D. The thing is a freakin trooper though SL runs like ass, best thing I could do is just talk but hell I've already put a few small games on it and it takes em like a champ and keeps rolling. Super impressive for a processor about the size of a penny which is Intel's Atom. If you're lookin at getting one, I recommend MSi's Wind netbook. It'll give you a 160gb HDD partitioned twice, one small 30gb for the OS and the larger one for storage. 1gb RAM (same sized ones in normal laptops btw so its DDR2 but i forget the speed). Unfortunately they all have Intel 945GSE video chip sets but whatever lol dont really need ATi or Nvidia for something slower than a celeron though its REALLY hard to tell. But the best thing is that it is equipped with a super bright 10 inch screen where most of them give you 8.9"s. A nice lil 1.3 webcam and wireless b/g/n capability and lastly blue tooth xD freakin bargain. So happy birthday to me~.....six days later.....>_>;

Alright so I dabbled in an area that I dont have much experience in which is audio lol. Made a voice meme thingy thing and now, after a buncha work/learning I figured out how to do a few things that I wanted to do and well, some i dont know how to do yet, but in any case. Now that its done, I wanna upload but FA wont do eet D: the file is only 9 mbs but some reason it just wont upload, it'll sit at the file select page for a good 10 minutes before saying something about a gateway time out =\ so I dunno if its somehow my connection or if its FA but at least you all know something new is coming. Oh yeah and not only that but being as though I'm bored as hell in my classes now, expect some more drawings to be had sense I cant entertain myself through electronic means lol.

My bro and I have our respective games that we're good at as everyone is but we still respect eachother's skill in our respective fields. Here's one of many vids to come from him and his current niche. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PlTLH0uEPU Vid is by him, music is by a RL friend of mine. My own works in Project Torque coming soon :p

Is purple the universal standard color for hyenas of similar color to myself? lol I find that A LOT of others use it either in the eyes or hair/mane as well as spots or what have you. Its been my favorite color for some time as it represents royalty. I'm not royalty but the concept of the color itself is what has me stuck on it x3. That and its just soothing to meh eyes or something to that effect.

Dont you just hate when you take a pic of yourself and at first ya think it looks fine. then when you post it somewhere you're like "Damn, why do i look like that?" Its like too late cause i've already had like 26 people and counting, take a look at this pic lol. I'm wearin meh winter pudge currently and i'm really not liking it lol. Meh cheeks are all puffeh and I seriously need a haircut or somethin. I believe i'm goin bald in a few years as my hairline has pushed itself back there so I now have a 5 head X.x but its alright. I've a big fuckin head so cutting it bald wouldn't look so bad I think lol.

For a tleast one day of this year, I think this is the best. Family and friends sit at a table over flowing with food and share their experiences and stories of what makes us who we are while stuffing themselves silly. For one day everyone forgets about their troubles (I hope) and focuses on what they have in front of them. If only there were more days like this, I'm sure the world would make itself out to be a better place (the other solution is weed I believe lolz. I've never smoked it though.) Happy Thanksgiving everyone, enjoy your day, your food and most of all each other ( and get your mind out of the gutter :D).

So I've been screwed yet again. Seems everything went for the worst today though at first it didn't seem that way. I scored a 92% on the written test I had to take for this job only to find out about an hour and 15 minutes later that I've been disqualified due to my diploma not being certified in the state of Maryland.....Sounds weird right? Let me explain; My high school experience sucked. I was hated on by both students and teachers for absolutely no reason at all besides the fact that I was quiet and pronounced my words clearly unlike everyone else. That and I got good grades when I felt compelled to do the work. Don't get me wrong there were a good few teachers who I enjoyed as they didn't treat everyone like they were just gonna fail anyway. But as you go up in grades you start finding fewer and fewer and it got to a point where I was catching heat not only from school but also at home and my only escape was to flee from both. So i worked in a horrible habit of skipping school here and there which made my grades suffer. I became known as the kid who was barely ever in class. Sure I've gotten caught here and there but my amazing ability to make people see my point of view at that time kept me out of serious trouble. Well it didn't work after awhile. My grades fell below the minimum and I winded up going to military school by choice to graduate on time. That was fun and all after the niggas there decided to start acting like the young adults they truly were about halfway into the school "year". Well here comes the last 4 days till graduation and I'd caught strep throat and the cot I'd been sleeping in was causing me issues at night which made my neck muscles cramp constantly during activity and even inactivity which put stress on the lower part of my brain causing massive headaches/ waves of incredible cranial displeasure as I like to call it (doctor diagnosis).So long story short, that school screwed me cause everyone there besides the Cadre (Drill sergeants) who worked directly with me, lied about things that kept me from goin back. That and a waver we had to sign at the beginning kept us from taking direct legal action against them. Well any how theres a "School" down in Florida who offered a test or coarses to earn their diploma. I took the test, murdered it and got my diploma from them easy. Little did I know, the school isnt certified in the state of Maryland and keeps me from getting ANY government job available here which includes the Correctional Officer Job I was going for. And to make matters worse, I found all this out as I was being disqualified.....So now I'm left with getting my diploma status handled and joining the military sense that was my final fall back plan....Life sucks. Can't do anything about it sometimes but go with the flow I suppose.....

Yup you know that time. When you're about to make a serious change in your life that could either be for good or bad. In just a week and a half i have a test that'll determine if I get into the department of corrections for the state of Maryland. I've got everything down i suppose though I'm still practicing just to make sure everything goes alright. Soon I'll have me an actual supportive job that wont lay me off unlike the previous ones. Wish me luck ya'll. With it I might have everything I'll need in the up coming months plus some. Relief would be good right about now. Lord knows I need it.....

So yeah, gonna be making something soonish. Recently had our internets cut yet again >.> again, not my fault. Luckly though my neighbor knows about my plight in trying to collect on a job and allowed me to set up my extra router in his place so now i can leech off of him in order to get here. But in any case, I apologize to those who've looked and waited for something new to come from these paws of mine, in a timely fashion that is. lately I've just not had the inspiration to do anything >_< which is my issue in the art world it seems. I find that it helps when people show me their work all the time, (and don't get me wrong about this, its just a competitive thing) it either does one of two things with the same outcome. Either I want to do a picture of either that person or myself or my love to show off how much better I could be if i truly wanted. Or the other, which is make me strive to become as good as what is shown to me, for all of maybe about a day after I finish the piece that i started cause of the whole lot. Again I try my best not to act conceded but the method kinda runs in my family. Or a tleast between me and my bro as we always try to outdo one another at various things. Either that or compare things that are similar (like my Uber-distructo-but-soon-to-be-obsolete-in-six-more-months (whew) monster of a desktop, to his three-year-old-but-still-kicks-ass monster of an Alienware mobile desktop notebook) and just for gloating purposes, My desktop is better but thats only cause of the fact that my hardware is more up to date than his and its a desktop, something you can always change the parts in. So in any case, talk to me you guys and gals (if any x3) and let me know what you think. Hell someone might say the thing that could get my mind cranking out picks that I haven't thought of yet.

So i found myself without internets for about a week due to an unpaid bill. Now that isnt my fault as i pay my bills on time......well when i have a job that is >.>;;; but thats another subject. In any case, I thought I was gonna go crazy as I had nothing to do as most of my computer games are internet based and I've either played out or beaten most of my 360 games. After realizing all of this i figured I should pick up my bro's tablet and doodle stuffs sense Sykes got me to start drawing again and all. So i kicked out 4 pics all in a row in under an hour just randomly off the top of my head. I didnt know where i was startin nor what i was gonna draw so i figured to start with myself as i dont have any digital images of myself....that are clear.... just yet so i kicked that out first. second came the little funny censor bar doodle which btw wasnt what i had in mind when I first began to draw >:3. So yeah...... I guess this makes me a furry artist finally doesnt it?


Btw: Let me know what you think and what I could probably work on besides coloring sense i know that one already. *noses*