After the wild ride of selling an Albedo nr. 2, I'm going to offer up a Thoughts & Images Albedo set, minus a nr. 2 for those who want to fill out their collection with out breaking the bank. That would include a 0, then bright red 1, then 3-14, and the first three Command Reviews.

Selling an Albedo 2 on Ebay and will likely be letting loose additional stuff out of the my stash over the next few https://www.ebay.com/itm/114430511892

Back in July I went to Anthrocon as a GoH and had a wonderful time. However, the results was, for no good reason, was to put me into a deeper depression of inaction. While I've noodled around a little with some vintage rifle restoration, I haven't otherwise done spit on art, writing, or even much taking care of adulting as a head of household. So, if anyone has been wondering why I haven't responded to stuff or seen any new progress on anything, that's why.

Back months ago I went to Antrocon, had a great time, and all that. And in all the time since, I haven't done spit, other than a brief indulgence with an antique rifle, haven't drawn a line nor written more than a few paragraphs of text. And it wasn't like I was busy with household tasks or taking care of business. I'd get up, slouch around the house, poke around the interwebs, watch hours of you tube, then crawl back into bed. Or I'd never really get up at all, other than a bathroom break and maybe a snack, stay in bed all day.

Depression can sap one of will, of caring for one's self, of letting one's health, wealth, or circumstance go. And the worst part is knowing what's happening, seeing it as it happens, and not mustering the wherewithal to DO anything about it. Even with knowing techniques and strategies for dealing with depression.

I'm not suicidal by any means, so don't worry about that, and supportive words of encouragement or advice only make me feel guilty for neglecting everyone who cares.

So I'm not asking for anything from any of you, just posting this as an FYI. With cooler weather, hot, sticky days bring me down in the best of times, maybe I'll get back to business. We'll see.

While I'll be art GoH at Anthrocon, I won't be dealing, but could bring a stock box for someone else to have to peddle.

Off on the Great Uboot Hunt. But first, Oslo for really old ships. Then Kiel for a type VII and Chicago for a type IX. edit- Hopefully the last minute changes in outbound flight will be all the complication I will see.

Doing the new art for the Albedo game and looking back on the old comic content and wonder- what do people see in the work? Part of it is the classic - the artist is his own worse critic- but it is also a matter of seeing all the other work out there and honestly feeling that my stuff doesn't measure up to a lot of it. Well, some of that is that is due to having a rather distinctive style that no one wants to imitate- for reasons. And there i go back to my own worse critic.

This isn't an exercise whinging for compliments. In the end, I simply don't see what others find compelling. Yeah, there's some small merit to some of it, a clever idea here and there, a visual pun, a bit of emotion evoked. But other than being a pioneer in the genre way back when, I don't entirely get it.

(okay, I'm off my meds and have a bit of imposter syndrome running through my brains, but still...)

Only as an art GoH, so I won't have anything for sale. Some exhibit art and a bunch of panels

Found out that Anthrocon does a 'curated' dealer's room so I'm reconsidering my attendance. While various cons are faced with a real problem of limited space, creating criteria that is subjective at best, shameless in favoritism at worse, discourages the new or different in the genre.

Anyone desperate to say 'Hi" to me in Oslo, Kiel, or Chicago this coming mid-April? I'm playing wingman to my friend Susan who does ship museums and U-boats and that's where we're going.

try this. http://www.albedopatrol.com/

The team doing the Albedo tactical game are making real progress. Figures and stuff. And I've just been asked to GoH at Anthrocon next year. Gosh, maybe I'll actually nudge myself enough to get some new content out.

Got my accountant to do the numbers and I may be looking at only a tiny amount after all.

While I may still owe a fair chunk, the really important bart, a major breakthrough actually, was that I was able to contact my old accountant to tackle the problem and get the ball rolling on resolving everything.

Back in '08, filing taxes for '07, the year Bev died, I had a major anxiety attack over the process, and simply could not do anything more with it thereafter. Didn't follow up on some details for '07 with the accountant, didn't even try to file the next years. I just could not go there. Even as I knew this would lead to bad things over time.

But now, with the 'help' of the IRS threatening to come after me, I've properly began the process of taking care of business.

Just an FYI, but I may be heading for major IRS 'interesting times'. Having been keeping up with my taxes, and didn't properly realize I had a major capital gains tax thing from a few years back that was not taken care of in a timely fashion. Now looking like it will be biting back much worse, penalties and interest, ya know.

Did not the horizontal slider appear at the bottom of the image before? Since I had not used it for a while, that's were I looked for it just recently. Or is it just old man brain? Now it is at the very bottom of the page. It does make sense there, but, like I said, I thought it was just below the image on the page before.

Up until recently, over-wide images had a slide bar under them so the whole image could be shifted to view it all. But not any more? Or is it a new and improved format change I need to do something about? Or an assumption of over-wide screen formats?

I just found out there is a site with a bunch of my art on it that I didn't know about. "e621" On one hand, I don't much care, in that extra exposure usually doesn't hurt. And to an extent, posting anything on line means it risks abuse, and I'm willing to deal with that. But that it was done without my knowledge or consent is still a bit of a nasty shot.

Borba is taking commissions and wants to do business through 'commissions@borba.biz' but that doesn't seem to work for me, though others say its just fine for them. Is there some annoying little setting that needs to be tweeked at my end or is there a secret handshake somewhere that I don't know about? Any thoughts?

In the last couple days I've found at least two people have their stuff show up on my watch list. Don't recognize them nor is their art that which I'd want to be following with any regularity. Could it be that some person that I did want to watch get the selection glitched and I got someone else?

I'd like to think it's just the hot weather making me feel miserable, combined with my chronic depression, but as I get older, I'm worried about diminished capacity. I've been dragging for a good while now since the little explosion of new work last year, mostly related to Zootopia. But even that is dwindling. The depression is likely a large part of all this, as it seems mostly a lack of motivation and focus, even to get up and do practical things around the house. Thank goodness I have my Baby Brother living with me or I'd be getting into real squalor.

I am still doing stuff, but only slowly and even more sporadically that before. And if anyone has new or old business with me, my non-response is not spitefully ignoring you, rather its somewhere between forgetfulness and sulking in guilt for not responding (its own little negative feed back loop)

Its Radiological! I got a bunch of WWII vintage flight instruments and my Geiger-Muller counter screams when I get it anywhere near them. Cool! And I've got some other vintage stuff, mostly P-40 parts, and those I'll want to find good homes for, but want to be able to turn some cash for Wayne's family. Wayne is an old local scale modeler that I've been helping in his declining years. He's passed, and now I've got the bulk of his collection, the most interesting are the little bits of P-40s he had. It was his super favorite plane in the world. Like the lower half of an Allison V1710 crankcase, a shell ejection chute panel off the lower left wing of a six-gun P-40 and a .50BMG ammo tray.

Mentioning this more to just chat up the kind of weird shit I seem to accumulate.

An unhappy equilibrium of blah depression, aggravated by early summer heat (anything much above 70F is a stifling hell) so I'm not actually doing much of anything except sulking.

We've all heard of them and some of us have even been infested, but does anyone have any definitive info on cooties. Or, lacking that, any creative interpretations as to what a full and proper 'cootie' might look like. Extra points for any natural history. And not the the toy/game version, that's a whole other level of cootie.

Seeing the initial responses, must insist that it must be something other than a boring and pedantic do about lice or some such. Come on, you-all are suppose to be creative- or something. Even Wiki points out the imaginary aspect.

I get them, but my display doesn't seem to include a 'shout' function for me to do them? Or is it buried somewhere?