While I have been doing better with my health recently than I have in a long long while... I'm actually at the same weight I was in boot camp, didn't think I would ever be back there but somehow I've managed to loose the belly. Work has been picking up stupid fast for the winter. We usually have short shifts and one or two days a week where we flat out don't work. This year however I'm still working five overtime shifts a week like we usually only do in the summer. What little time I have been getting I've been pouring into my 3D printer and painting miniatures. A hobby I've done for years but with my new higher quality printer and a much better desk setup for working on painting I have found myself doing it a lot more. I have painted more miniatures in the past month than I painted all of last year.

My art hasn't stopped but it has become the back burner hobby. That said, I will be suspending my free request slots until I get more time to put into art. I do want to make sure I'm still practicing and pushing my comfort level though so I will be thinking of something to put in their place that makes me draw. Possibly taking a handful of commissions or doing some raffles for prize art... something like that. I will be keeping note of the free request slots that are currently out and will contact those people again if or when I open them back up to make sure they are first in line.

TL:DR Doing good but the real world and a few other creative hobbies are consuming all my art time.

I've been enjoying doodling random critters, both real and mythical. Is thier any particular animal, creature, pose ,kink, subject, or whatever people want to see?

I've been getting the itch to write again... I just dont know if there is any interest in it.

Wow... I have had free slots open for well over a year now and have never had many taken... Now suddenly the list is staying full.... Clearly, either my art is improving or more people are finding me. In either case, I love you guys and will continue to take and fulfill request as quickly as I can. They are proving to be a great source of practice material for me.

I've been slowly getting back into art. Using a tablet now instead of a mouse and getting some much better results. I found a nice how to draw animal tutorial site that I randomly pull a name from a jar I filled and see how fast I can follow through the tutorial. I've gotten pretty quick and they are looking better too. I really need to get back into writing and continue my story but that is still back burner.

So, yesterday was my birthday. I had the great pleasure of spending it at work driving up and down a boring mountain in an area with no cell or radio reception. I got to listen to the sound of an old nasty rattling truck with no music all day long. It was day two of this in a row. Today is going to be day three... so much fun -.-

We have an official launch date: August 9th. No really, one month from today. Preorders are up on Steam! Already grabbed mine for that nice Fair Wind Charm preorder bonus. Deluxe addition is the same as it was for console release, adds in the Samurai layered armor, some gestures and some stickers. The stickers are basically emoticons for in game chat.

I'll be playing starting day one. I've been told by the group I play with that I must learn to use the Greatsword for PC. This will be a massive challenge since I usually use Insect Glaive or Bow. I have recently taken up playing Hunting Horn for some of the fights, but Greatsword.... the thing is just so very very very very very slow. One of the main strategies for using it is to keep it sheathed so you don't suffer from its reduced movement speed.... but... those damage numbers.... so high!

I went out to dinner with my wife and parents tonight. Wifey wanted to get dressed up, so I went through my closet to grab some nice, non-concrete covered trucker clothes. Put on a pair of slacks, then saw a shirt that Wifey likes that I haven't been able to wear for a long time. A nice deep purple long sleeve button up dress shirt that I wore when we were married. Wifey had me try to put it on for her work Christmas party and it very much didn't fit. I grabbed it and put it on. It fits again. This got me thinking. So I dug all the way to the back of my closet to find an item I didn't think I would ever be able to wear again, my suit. It actually fit. Not only did it fit, it was a little loose.

I am finally starting to get somewhere. Weight is still going down. Blood sugar is under control, blood pressure is under control. Things are finally starting to look up again. Now to wait for life to throw me a massive curve ball outta nowhere like always happens.

Okay, so, I needed a plan for my doctor assigned diabetes fighting exercise routine to go with my diet. So I figured I would post it here so that anybody that wants to can poke me and make me do it if I start slacking off. I decided to go with P90X. That is what we used back in my boot camp days and I already owned it from when I was first discharged. Doing the Lean Muscle routine.

For weeks 1-3 Starting today, it goes as follows;

Monday - Core Synergistics
Tuesday - Cardio X
Wednesday - Shoulder & Arms, Ab Ripper X
Thursday - Yoga X
Friday - Legs & Back, Ab Ripper X
Saturday - Kenpo X
Sunday - Stretch X

My target weight is 190 lbs.
As Jan 1, 2018 my weight is at 250 lbs exactly.
Jan 8, 2018 240 lbs (holy shit I lost a bunch in a week)

I will update this once a week, or whenever someone pesters me to update it, which I fully encourage to the extent that I may even give out my phone number to any of my friends here in the US that wants to help me keep going!

Well, I started the year off good. Managed to keep up posting some new things through a good part of the year. Then my work decided I didn't need any time of my own and I was stuck working over 70 hours weeks with minimal time between shifts. This certainly didn't help with any productive activities on my part.

Work finally settled down, just in time for my bad knees to give out again. My surgeon put me on a work restriction that limited my hours per week to 45. My employer, in an effort to keep from burning through all the hours in a couple days and leave my laying on my bed in agony for the rest of the week started having me come in to work last. While I sincerely appreciate this, it did make it so that my morning was wasted time and I had minimal time after my shift.

After a while of this the next fun even happened; I was selected for jury duty and served for three weeks on a criminal trial. This was an interesting event for me. I got a lot of good story ideas and got a nice look into a side of the American justice system I hadn't seen before. I was sick on the first two days but seemed to feel a lot better after that, except for the fact that my vision began to blur at any distance. I could still see what was around me, but I couldn't read anything, not even large signs, unless it was within a few feet. On top of that I was constantly thirsty. I was drinking gallons of water every day, and of course, what goes in, has to come back out. I had to go to the bathroom every couple of hours.

This worried me, I've always had really good vision, and never had any health issues. So I had my Wifey schedule me a doctors appointment. The doctor was equally worried, and called for blood work to be done. A week later I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. What does that mean? Well, my liver, kidney and pancreas are all functioning normal and I do not have an insulin deficiency. That leaves but a single culprit, my body has become insulin resistant.

To combat this I have to drastically change my diet and get a lot of exercise. I'm doing really good on the first one, not so good on the second. The holidays are not making it easy on me. I will be putting a lot of effort into this and hopefully get myself in better shape soon.

No more fat lazy Zirilon allowed!

Today is my birthday. Plans for the day: nothing. That is all.

Just a reminder, I have three open request slots.

Looking back at what I posted here throughout 2016 I don't see near enough. So I am going to do my best to fix that this year. The plan is to post at minimum one finished thing a month, be it either a drawing or a story, as well as something small on any week something big wont be posted. The small post will be something like a simple drawing, a wip of the next to be posted big thing or a short story. Which brings me to my next point, I need to write more. Not much to say there really, I do a lot of little doodles and such that never see the light of day here, but my writing is limited to my PMD story and Lady Karma's side story. Need to do more.

How am I going to accomplish this you ask? First will be keeping a posted up to date list of what I'm working on. Second will be taking requests and suggestions from you all to fill in gaps where I don't have a project going. And finally, third, in the event that I haven't posted anything in a few days, feel free to pester the living shit out of me. I'm serious, ignore any statement I make retracting this.

Thank you for reading this and I hope to have something to post for you all in the next couple days.

For those who didn't know, Carrie Fisher, the actress who played Princess Leia passed away this morning. She suffered a major heart attack last week and has been in the hospital since. She lost her battle and has left us at the age of 60.

Now all we have to do is wait and see how much South Park makes fun of it.

I'm want a couple of the "Recruit a Friend" rewards. If you want to give WoW a try lemme know, there will be some in game starter gold in it for ya =^.^=

So, due to my current work schedule, I have enough time to write and draw a little but not enough to actually work on any of my projects. Because of this I need to work on a bunch of smaller things to keep up and not just ignore my art, but my mind is coming up blank. So, if there is something you would like to see from me lemme know either here or in a note and I will do my best to make it happen.

My good friend Kaiousama, has retired... at an age less than 30, and has decided to begin doing game streams. This is a good match for him since he runs an online retro game store as a hobby. He is currently doing a daily Final Fantasy stream, stating with the first game and going through them all in order. He is racing to see if he can get through before 15 comes out.



If you are interested check him out here, https://www.twitch.tv/trgkai

At these times,

Weekdays (PST)

11 AM - 2 PM
3 PM - 8 PM

Weekends (PST)

11 AM - 2 PM
3 PM - ??

Make sure you tell him Zirilon sent ya.

Last night, she point blank shot a sheep in the face with a rocket launcher then laughed manically.

I love Ratchet and Clank...

No, really. Anything at all, no topics off limits.

So after five years of making $400/month payments I finally made the last one. I officially own my car.

You can now add minions to my army!

Regular minions here -> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19279816/
Naughty minions here -> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19279851/

It's the only holiday I've ever posted anything for. I want to do something but nothing is coming to mind.

http://www.dorkly.com/post/77156/to.....-tiger-twitter

I find this amusing.

Saw one today. Well, saw the thing that people used to call a chupacabra. It's just a coyote with a severe case of mange but damn are they something to see. A monster straight out of a horror movie. It was walking across the hill behind my house, I hesitated a second inside, couldn't decide if I should grab a rifle or a camera. Ended up taking both but it was long gone before I god back outside.