I'll have the picture up soon as I can get it scanned (hopefully tomorrow) - but I'm looking for an agent to represent me in the AnthroCon art show! I have until the end of may to get my paperwork in- I'll be dealing with as much as I can, then will mail you the art either to your address or, if you'd prefer, to the convention space. I'm willig to pay a flat rate (likely right around 50 or so, we can negotiate) or a percentage of the selling prices (assuming of course that they sell at all) as well as a commission in return for your efforts.

I'd rather that it be somebody that I already know, but I'm not so good at making friends, so if we haven't met but an acquaintance of mine can vouch for you, that works too.

You can send me a note or let me know here (at which time i'll send you a note) if you're interested or know anybody who might be :3

I'm just.

:I

Fww, so, I honestly have no clue what to do with this. like.

the plot-

I. . . need to. . .

Okay, so we've been over this, three kids die and help stephen.
but-

In this iteration of the plot, one of them is his KID.

his FUCKING KID.

That could- so completely- ruin his- everything, once the story is over. (the kids who die WILL NOT come back. they become the new guardians and will work more or less in tandem together for an indeterminate amount of time.)

I have no issue with Tyler (he was intended to be one of the kids!) and rayne, though difficult to get into the story, is alright- but there's supposed to be three kids and the other is shaping up to be Aaron.

I'm not entirely sure that I enjoy the idea of killing 3+ children for the purpose of moving the story along, either. (i had somewhat intended an accident, and of the deaths, these three were chosen.)

hrnngg.

I don't really want there to be teenagers, either (though this is more acceptable) and it CAN NOT be adults.
it's.. important that the innocence factor is intact.

so it's got to be kids.

But.
ARGH. this is highly frustrating.

I like where it's going now, I just need to go back a bit and integrate rayne a bit more, and it will fit together fairly well. But i feel like I'm losing stephen as a main character and making it aaron and the kids, instead.
I don't want aaron to have to die.
does he have to die?
I feel like I can't control it.
this is my brain working and i can't control it.
shiiitttt.

if aaron dies- Elli will never forgive Stephen. or maybe she will, but it won't be easy. there will be a lot of heartbreak. Stephen might never forgive himself.
Aaron is already fairly disappointed in his dad. He'll lighten up a bit when he sees his father's actual occupation, so- I guess that that might be important?
Can I handle this?
I need a happy-ish ending. it will resolve, I know that, but how it resolves i cannot seem to keep a firm hand over.

holy shit all the main characters are male except for rayne.
should i change that?
SHould one of the original guardians be female?

hrnggg!

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5183061

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *forever*

http://amzn.com/w/1DERH56VNOHTW

seriously, If i could get, like, the first 8 things here? (set it to view based on priority, first, though, so that you see the right 8 things)

I would love everyone forever.

Bulk Commission Rates apply only for the blues clues thing and the Laminator.

(info on bulk rates- http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1180416/ )

the only thing about this is that, if you are a nice person and purchase anything for me and then request an art, I- Uh.

I cannot guarantee return time on art.
I just can't.

Since I'm not getting money it's something closer to thank-you art, which takes longer.

if you want to give me money, there are still slots open in the choir thing: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1869316/

and I am usually open for commissions here- http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1442881/

OH MY GOD.

CP IS GONNA GET ME FUCKING KILLED ONE OF THESE DAYS.

SERIOUSLY.

(just so you know, one of the companies that my father and I are in a contract with have a name that unfortunately shortens to CP. I have used their initials instead of their actual company name for privacy reasons and also because it's fucking hilarious)

No, seriously.

I've decided that the only reason to talk about a con is to tell people who didn't go how it was, and that's horribly, horribly rude.

SO I'm not gonna do it :|

I will, though, post some of the things I got, and I can say with certainty that Charlie's JoyBox is in fact going to be a thing now, for certain.

Also, Marci badge.

:D

. . . yeah. . .

stealed from  evilgrinn


The first 10 people who comment on this journal will be featured here, along with three deviations/pieces/artworks chosen from their gallery by myself.

If you answer, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing the list with 9 other people. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone.

I'd prefer if you made your own arts :3 it's kinda silly for me to link to things in your gallery done buy other people D:

1:  evilgrinn [x] [x] [x]

2:  likofox [x] [x] [x]

3:  hazeslaapje x x x

Okay, not until tomorrow, but still!

We'll be driving down to San Jose once I get off of work tomorrow (today, by the time I hit go) and staying in Twix's room the first night-

Hopefully reging then as well, we'll see-

Also, as you MIGHT HAVE SEEN on krizzle's page, we've got an event we're hosting in our room-
http://my.furtherconfusion.org/events/view/179

there's the information! I'll add the room number once I know it!

If at any point you need to find me, I'm probably going to follow this plan, approximately-
http://my.furtherconfusion.org/prof.....occoris/agenda

If all else fails, my twitter is Occoris- you send me a direct message, and I'll get it on my phone like a text.

Safe traveling, fuzzbutts!

My car battery died today-
Completely.

I'm grateful that it did it a few houses down, and not somewhere farther away, like Natomas, or, say San Jose.
It did, though, do it right after my first job for the day. I had three others booked and I was making good time.
I was listening to Armstrong and Getty, with the engine running, putting a map together to last me the rest of the day. Next thing I know, the radio stammers a bit, then turns off, and a definite clicking/whirring sound comes from the general front area, so I turn off the car.
I try to turn it back on- literally nothing happens.

I try a few more times, and then go to get mom-

She jumps the car, we go to McDonalds, and get some time off of work to go to the honda dealer and have the battery looked at-
bb
Lo and behold, a dead cell- nearly incapable of holding a charge.

Luckily the charging system is fine. *phew*

SO! we will be making it to FC this year!

We have a room booked in the main hotel (don't know the number yet) and it'll be him, myself, and an Eevee that he met at last years FC.

We'll be leaving for the con at ~ 4 AM on Friday, we're gonna pay for our room, and immediately He's going to either get in or form the reg line while I put our stuff up in our room- (we missed pre-reg, which sucks)

After that- Uh. well.
Not entirely sure what Krizzle's plans are, but mine are mostly this and to try to be less introverted.

We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, I found my intuos2 pen and stole the nib off of that, so I can digitalart again. I've flatted tow more characters for the choir thing (which still has spots open by the way winkwinknudgenudge) and I hope to have the Current last two done sometime tonight/tomorrow-

Also I still have two five dollar arts open, if you're interested. (here- PLEASE?! D:)

Much Love to You-

Sigrid

OCCO WHERE HAVE YO BEEN.

Home.
working.
a shitton of working.

I'm off my meds again, first so that I could reserve the room for FC (a horrible decision that I have learned from) and again this week, so that I could afford to buy Christmas presents (which I will be doing tomorrow when I cash my paycheck- Hopefully dad will understand that I must do my shopping.)

The choral cubs picture -DOES- have an update (almost two, by now, actually) that I hope to post later tonight, if I have time. Krizzle is the only one whom I have yet to finish shading, and then I shall begin to apply the Flats for Dulce and Chocolate kit. I would apply them to Snazzy but seriously I am having trouble finding a ref and He hasn't sent me one.

Anyway. . . If you have the pleasure of talking to me before I can get my prescription again, Fair warning- I've been having a rough time, emotionally, and that's been compounded by a distinct lack of Lexapro, so I'm rather. . . Uh. . .
well, mom said "Pissy" but it's more like "Feeling Chronically Abandoned, Ignored, and otherwise Unimportant."

Also, I've been increasingly Angry as of late- I'm worried that I'm not going to be able to keep on controlling it.
I've been this close to smashing someone's face in at least six times in the last week or so, and it took every ounce of energy I had last night not to break anything. . . It got to a point where I didn't want to even stand up because I was afraid that I would beat the everloving shit out of whoever I ran into first. . .
I'm scared as Hell about this, guys.

. . . Anyway, I actually have loads of good news, but these are the only ones that I can remember right now-

Aunt Jenee printed up a copy of the manuscript for The River- no illustrations yet but it's a hard copy of something! It's so far been insanely useful, and I am extremely thankful for it.

Also, I did some digging and we might be able to get a round trip for Sae, as well as a room for three weeks, for a little -less- than we paid (or, perhaps I should say, Drake Paid ;P) to get Kriz and I there and back <3

Well- since spots aren't filling up quite as well as we'd like-

we're dropping five bucks off the price!

regular slots are now 10$, and special slots are now 15!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1869321/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4798945/

ONOES.

NOT ANOTHER ONE.

37 slots this time. Will be doing this one digital, and will be doing each character completely and individually (on their own layers... unless they're in a set. there are four sets of two here and one set of three.) . .. so if you want the picture of just your character, You can have it for 5 additional dollars.

NOW, here's how it goes.

slots 4 through 30 are 10$

Slots 1-3, and 31-37 are 15$

Slots 1-3, 7/8, 32/33, 34/35, and 36/37 are sets-
1-3 are the soloists/leaders
7/8 happen to have their arms around each other's shoulders
32/33 are fighting over sheet music
34 is shoving 35 off of the hill (that bitch!)
36/37 are LATE FOR RECITAL.
And 31 is the conductor, but he's an adult, so nobody cares about him :|
and his price may go down, too.

things to know:
this is a christmas picture.
Everyone is wearing an angel costume.
The ground is covered in snow.

The Layout (for those of you who don't want to click on the link and see the picture)
________22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30_______
(32 33) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 (34 35)
__________4 5 6 [7 8] 9 10 11 12____________
_______________(1 2 3)_________(36_______
___________________________________37)_____
_____(31)________________________________

"Special slots" are in (parentheses), and the one regular priced "set" is in [brackets]

red is claimed, not paid
green is claimed, paid
yellow is reserved, not verified.


1:  chocolatekit [PAID/DONE]
2:  fenblack [PAID/DONE]
3:  Artyparty [PAID/MAYBE SONA CHANGE?]
4:  krizzle [PAID/DONE]
5:  ethan86 [PAID/DONE]
6:  markiliox [PAID/NEED TO MAKE FURSONA CHANGES]
7:  lilsilentwolf [PAID/DONE]
8: Kevian [PAID/DONE]
10:  prodigious9 [PAID/NOT BEGUN]
11:  prodigious9 [PAID/NOT BEGUN]
12:  lizab [PAID/NOT BEGUN]
13  renchu [PAID/DONE]
16:  silvermosico [PAID/DONE]
17:  kammypup [PAID/DONE]
19:  yaegashi [PAID/DONE]
22:  raevis [PAID/DONE]
23:  dulce [PAID/MAYBE FURSONA CHANGE?? NEED TO CONTACT]
24:  dulce [PAID/DONE]
25:  miniaussie [PAID/SKETCHED]
26:  fen. [PAID/SKETCHED]
27:  sorra. [PAID/SKETCHED]
28:  siriussound [PAID/NOT BEGUN]
29:  siriusthewolfhound [PAID/NOT BEGUN]
30:  siriusthewolfhound [PAID/NOT BEGUN]
31:  snazzy [PAID/DONE]
32: Lilly Oppossum [PAID/SKETCHED]
33:  Sequoia [PAID/SKETCHED]
34:  cenaeonis [PAID/SKETCHED]
35.  kinnyfox [PAID/DONE]
36:  muirawolfpup [PAID/DONE]
37:  ashurah [PAID/DONE]

If I thought I could FIND a job and continue to suport myself. . .

I would not be going to school.

I do not learn well in a school environment.
I have no drive to participate in school-based activities.

I test well but I do not do my homework-
I can do my homework.

I do not because of ???? (it's been that way since ~8th grade)

I'm interested in learning, I just.. can't do the school system of things-

especially this 16-week-semester crap..
I work okay the first 6-8 weeks and then just NO MORE DRIVE after that. it's not exciting, it's not interesting, nothing.

I'm on the verge of being kicked out of a community college, and i don't care

Now.. I'm not -lazy- per se.

I don't do much house work but I spend a lot of time working.
I like to work-
i ENJOY work.

I like yard work (the manly kind) and I -will- do things around the house, granted I'm asked to do it.

I do my art because I expect to make money off of it someday.
I do it because I don't want to leave the realization of my worlds in the hands of others, as well, but many of my projects I do hope to be able to sell.
I do your art because you are paying me.

I work. . .

I work because I -LIKE- it.

I -like- to work.
Not busywork. I HATE busywork.
I like DOING things.
Things that work toward some sort of goal or for the benefit of something.

I like to work with my hands.
I want to learn how to fix and build and weld and work.

I want to -DO- something, i want to WORK.

I love my job.
I'm a locksmith, and I LOVE MY JOB.
It's this eternal puzzle, opening and fixing and installing and changing things.

For three days at the end of the week I work for on average 5 hours a day (depending on how many work orders we get) and do something I actually really like.

AND ALSO GET PAID.

this.

this is what I want to do.

WORK.
FOR ANYONE.
DOING ANYTHING.

of course, it's nigh on impossible to find a job. . .

Dad doesn't like my work ethic enough to let me work full-time for him, and he wants me to keep going to school-

as in, if i leave school, I might be out of a job, too.
. . .

I guess we'll see. . .

but here's hoping.

http://river.thedesertwinds.com/

I post most of the better stuff on all of my galleries, but I'll be posting EVERYTHING (including all of the page W.I.P.S) on this website here.

I've had my first set of re-posted pictures sans permission, and I am happy.

http://tehthul.net/gallery/thumbnai......php?album=123
(also i have the best album number)

why?

cuz that means I'm finally getting somewhere.

SOMEBODY likes it enough to steal it.

this is a most excellent milestone.

I'm not gonna bugger about it (in part because there is a link back to my gallery) but everything that's been posted IS commissions, so if you are:
toya
fen
gaius
showtime

and you want the art down, shoot me a message and I'll send him an email about it.

it is that you should pick your Halloween costume very carefully, because you WILL turn into whatever it is.

I'll be Self-Publishing The River.

It's such a strange book (artistic, even) that there's not really any OTHER way that I could do it.

Lulu doesn't have the shape of book that I want (despite the fact that they say they do) so this is no longer an option.. which is a shame because it would have been the cheapest route.

I've looked into other options and.. they suck. my second favorite, Blurb, is EXPENSIVE AS HELL for the options I wanted- and not customizable enough to be worth it.

So.. I've sent off some quote/product example requests to a few printers that (gasp) outsource to china. I'm looking into getting 50-100 or so copies made (at first) and will order more if I see there being any reason to.

In addition, I am quite dead-set on giving it an ISBN number. it's important to me that it's registered as an ACTUAL book and not just printed for sale at, say, conventions.

now, because it'd going to be actually published, that means that I have to start an actual business....

This is good news for DWP, since I've been meaning to do this for awhile anyway, and this is the kick in the rear that I've been needing to do it.

projected costs for just the business and publishing (I have not gotten a response from any printers yet)
run at just below 700$ at this time.

projected advertising (I -really- want to push this as many places as possible) is, so far, 740$. this covers Deviantart, facebook, FA, Sofurry, and Rabbit Valley.
now it'd be quite a bit smaller except that, as a business, I don't qualify for the cheap advertising on DA. it'd be about 300$ less if that were the case-
but I am quite convinced that it's worth it. I can always opt for a smaller number of clicks, but I'd rather make these numbers based on the largest reasonable numbers and downsize if i need to.
I'm also looking into advertising on various places that use Project Wonderful.. Jack and Hanna is Not a boys Name are first choices.
(Suggestions for places to ad are more than welcome)

ANyway... so I'll be needing at LEAST $2000 to get this thing going... probably a few grande more than that. (I'm still doing research and trying to get more figures)

SO.

this said. . . Iron Artist Commissions are still only five bucks.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1750101/

Normal Commissions are Still open, too, if you would like more control over the commission process.
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1442881/

You can also purchase prints From me here (a list: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1242662/ )
or Digital copies/prints of the same on my Inkbunny

and if you're a nice person who likes to give money to pathetic artists who overextend their ambitions. . . I do have a donation link.

even though there's not really any.

took us almost exactly 12 hours to drive up to Gig Harbour, where we spent the night at nancy's house. (also spent way too long talking x3!)

Saturday we go to visit Larry for breakfast in west Seattle, met a nice lady who spotted us talking about the Seniors for Sale thing, got into it with her for a bit, then went to go visit grandma-
who looks WAY better than i had expected. (I haven't really looked at her since the explosion.) and she was.. in a good mood. amazingly. not being a bitch or anything, and was actually being fairly funny.

after that it's over to Federal Way. we park over at Michelle's and greet her, then go next door to where tessa is-

and she of course immediately starts BOWROOing at us... so we bowroo back. (bowroo = baying)
man opens the door, holding tessa back, sees it's us, and we crouch down and he knows she's not going to get away, so she goes OH MY GOD ITS YOU GUYS and comes to snuggle us- all excited and shit.

and one of their kids gets out.

so mom stands up and she starts out, calm as anything, trying to explain the situation- the conditions for them keeping the dog (which were broken) and that they weren't supposed to have her really to begin with, and they vouched for the guy who got the dog to begin with (the one who broke the contract) and they knew that if he gave up the dog they were supposed to call her.
and they're like, but we could have let her go to the pound...
which would have been fine because she's chipped and they'd've scanned the damn chip and called us.

so they go "so you want your dog back?"
"well, yeah."

and the dad sort of tifffs around but doesn't say anything.
mom puts her foot down and he goes
"well i want compensation for taking care of your dog then."
and we've been expecting this so mom goes "how much?"

and he says.
oh my god.

he ways 150.

this conversation hasn't even been more than two minutes long and he's already asking for compensation, and it's ONE FIFTY?!

shit, man, we were expecting you to ask for three, at least.
150's no damn problem.

so we've already got the dog (i haven't let her go) and they agree to bring all her shit over to michelles after mom comes back with the money-

and i guess when the dad brought the stuff over he apologized- he wasn't trying to be a bitch, but, the kids...

so anyway, yeah.

it was kind of pathetic how fast and low it was. like, wow. love that dog doncha.

anyway. . . we didn't get the papers back (all of them) but we did manage to locate proof of ownership.

these dumbasses threw away her breakway collar and got her one made for LARGE dogs, that also doesn't breakaway, which is dumb cuz she's not a smart dog-
and i guess let her out into the neighborhood to run around.. which is dumb because it's right next to like six major intersections (and she has no road sense)-
and.

okay, when mom gave her away to begin with.
the dog was 22 pounds.

in two months- we haven't weighed her yet- but she's EASILY thirty.

We suspect she was beaten. she's dirty as all hell and smells worse, and it's kind of hard to pick her up without making her yelp.

the drive back was amazing though. she slept the entire way, didn't drool, didn't throw up, didn't whine, nothing.

she perks right up when she goes outside, but she's scared shitless of Mr. Freckles (the cat).
he charged her today (didn't touch her though) and she yelped like she was dying and did like a backflip somersault and ended up on her back next to a wall, silly dog.

anywho, there's that.

I also got maybe six pages roughly sketched out for the river, trying to get a handle on the lines while i practice my watercoloring.

we're leaving tomorrow morning, way too early. Will post a longer, rambly update when I get back, assuming I can either borrow mom's computer or else get mine back from krizzle. (which reminds me: KRIZ ARE YOU WRITING)

REALLY happy to have my dog back <3

WEHooooooooo.

will be leaving tomorrow "way too early in the morning" (re: 8:00 AM )

driving 12 hours to steal a dog.

Profit

????

driving 12 hours back.


anyway, kriz is STEALING (erm, borrowing) my computer for that time so unless mom lends me hers (which i doubt she will, since i have my own and if i wanted to use it i wouldn't be letting kriz take it) you probably won't see me until sunday/monday.

(also i did it wrong on purpose)

ALSO.

if you play TF2 with kriz, tell him to get off and fucking write.

he has to have chapter one done by the time i get back or his computer privileges are rescinded :3

for making the first ever economy based entirely on fake hats.

Edit:
I don't know if i said this well enough.

FAKE HATS

Don't ever (EVER) end up under anything more than light stress whilst withdrawing from an antidepressant.

Like I thought.
Dad and I were actually joking about it the other day, because we both know mom well enough to know exactly how she changed her mind-

I'm surprised, though, that she did it before Friday.

This is good/bad- good being mostly that I have the opportunity to work friday/saturday/sunday, so next week's paycheck should be a little under 150$ again. (whoo) bad being..
well. putting off getting the dog for another week :/

Anyway. . .

in other, less-depressing news, I'm sort of officially doing the Iron Artist thing. I've got the first one up and the second will be coming along shortly.

not at all.

So, mom's leaving the house yesterday.... to go to the DMV and get a massage/go to the chiropractor and all those sorts of things.

and while she's locking the door, she's approached by this woman who's trying to like. get mom to pay 40$ to have her lawn mowed. her story is that, like, her son has this second job mowing lawns, and she's helping him out, but he's at school right now.
she asks what mom's doing..
and mom's like.
". . . leaving." (which should be obvious, because she's going from the house to the car)
and the lady i guess kind of ignores her and keeps trying to sell the fucking lawn mowing thing (even though our yard is totally not worth 40$) and she starts with, like "well if you let me in, it'll be done when you get back and you can pay me then" and mom is trying to get out of it with the "no, bitch, too expensive/i already have other people to do it/own a lawn mower" thing, and so the woman pushes the price down to 25$ and says "Pay me now then and It'll be done when you get back" and mom's like, listen, i'm leaving, i don't have any money. jeez.
and the conversation ends up on where mom is going...
and as mom gets into the car.
the woman gets into the passengers side, saying that she totally knows where there's a DMV closer than Mack road.

WHOAH.
WHOAH.
HOLD ON THERE LADY.
WHOAH.
THIS IS NOT YOUR CAR GET THE HELL OUT.

but mom lets it be because she doesn't know the woman well enough to know if like, she had a gun or anything, but she lets her know that there is NO WAY IN HELL she's driving the woman back.

so we get home some time later, mom gets home after us.
doorbell rings, mom yells from the back room, "If it's the lady who wants to mow the lawn, I'm not interested"

and it's her, and she's like, "yeah, your mom told me to come and mow the back yard. she said the fence would be open But I wanted to make sure you knew i was here because i didn't want to get shot or nothin"
and i was like, mom's not here right now, and this is the first i heard of it, so you're gonna have to leave-
an' she starts telling me her story about how it's her son's job and she's helping him out and he's at school right now, and she talked to my mom earlier (and remembered all the right parts of the conversation so that, had i not already heard the thing from mom about not being interested, i might have believed her) and she said it was okay. and i was like, I believe you, but i can't let you do anything because mom didn't tell me about it- and plus we, like, totally have a fucking lawn mower and like three people in this house to mow the lawn.

and she's like, is there any way you can call her?
and krizzle goes yeah and leaves the room and pretends to call her-
comes back and says he couldn't get a hold of her (which is awesome because she's totally in her room) so I'm sorry, you're gonna have to leave.

so she does.
mom comes in and tells us the story about the woman-
i leave to go pay my parking ticket, and when i get back, mom's gone (at the DMV. as i understand it, she didn't go earlier because she was afraid the woman would, like, break in)

shortly after she comes back, this time krizzle answers the door, and she's like-
"Your mom told me to come back and mow the lawn, she said the door would be open and i could just go back there and do it"
and he essentially went "we're good, no need" and she tells the story again about how it's her son's second job and he's down the street mowing somebody else's lawn and she's helping him out and krizzle kind of eventually forces her to leave.

and holy shit.

i bet you MONEY this bitch doesn't even have a fucking son.

but now we're kind of scared to go home/leave the house in case she's there >_>

so

Because i am editing and fact checking for Final Absolution and ... it has electricity in it.


to sum things up- the fortress (re: high school) has an electrical fence around it to keep zombies out.

during a skirmish, one walker manages to get in close to the fence and.. as far as I can tell, it malfunctions. this one zombie latches on to the fence, draws the current through itself, and pretty much makes it so that the rest of the walkers can get their limbs through this part of the fence now without getting major effects from the electricity....

my issue with this is that It doesn't strike me... as entirely possible.

so i need to know...
a: whether or not it is possible
b: if it is (or isn't) is there a way to create a similar effect "on accident" or through malfunction?

and also, (Because the following info might be helpful)
the voltage in the fence in question (as of the last time I planned it out) or would run on AC; and need to have probably at least three hundred milliamps running through them whenever they're on.
I'm thinking grounding cables in every single upright, ground connecting pole, and along the top and bottom bars, to make sure that the electricity leaves the fences as soon as they're turned off (for safety purposes.)

(the world is sort of post/during apocalyptic, but has been in this state for ten or so years, and it happened fairly slowly up until the first major outbreak, and they've had time to sort-of adjust until the second major outbreak, which occurred.. i think 5-10 years later, i think.)