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the quiet weekend
Feb. 4th, 2013 12:55 pmSpent most of the weekend getting over a cold that manifested itself sometime last week, peaked on Friday, and was beaten into submission by me lying around on Saturday and not doing a whole lot. I'm still in the coughing stage but I did not get into the fever stage or the sick day from work stage. So we didn't do a lot this weekend. Some laundry, I got a new desk chair, we took the old chair to Goodwill. I put a bunch of VHS onto DVD and uncovered some stuff I didn't know I had on VHS. Watched a bunch of TV and played old video games.
I did get to put up the latest Zero Fighter strip, which finally got me out of the city and movin' on, plot wise. Shaindle Minuk's Element of Surprise has about four months of strips to go and then it's over. She has some ideas as to what her next series is going to be and I definitely have plans as to what MY next series is going to be, and I'm looking forward to starting the new one.
Our weekends have been kind of quiet due to several factors: the weather, we're in that time of the year that the weather precludes people scheduling interesting things, budgetary reasons, gettin' sick, you name it, there's always a good reason to cocoon this time of year. I fluctuate between remembering that my weekends used to be 'go out Friday night and do stuff with a bunch of people, do stuff all day Saturday and Sunday with a bunch of people', and wanting a bit of that, and then remembering that that used to take up pretty much every bit of my free time, which precluded me writing or drawing anything interesting. Not that it matters much to anybody but myself, but if I don't get the chance to write or draw anything, I get kinda squirrely.
I certainly felt that way in '99-'00 - I was spending a lot of time on convention stuff, on fan organizational stuff, on social stuff, and much less time reading, drawing, writing, enjoying. I was broke-ass, my car was always breaking down (but I was always playing taxi), I never had free time, and as a result I was irritable, sarcastic, prone to fits of anger and the occasional tantrum. Going out of my way to pick fights with strangers on the internets. Getting into stupid arguments on anime con message boards. Drinking too much, too often.
One of the great parts about getting married is that suddenly there's one person whose happiness you're responsible for. Only one person. Everybody else... sorry, you're not that one person. (If you can't make this kind of commitment, I don't advise getting married) The things that were taking up my time- some of them went away, and others I went away from.
I still am a sarcastic know-it-all, but jeepers, I'm not nearly the SOB I was ten or fifteen years ago. I was probably a dick to a lot of people that didn't deserve it, maybe. These days, not so much, I hope.
I did get to put up the latest Zero Fighter strip, which finally got me out of the city and movin' on, plot wise. Shaindle Minuk's Element of Surprise has about four months of strips to go and then it's over. She has some ideas as to what her next series is going to be and I definitely have plans as to what MY next series is going to be, and I'm looking forward to starting the new one.
Our weekends have been kind of quiet due to several factors: the weather, we're in that time of the year that the weather precludes people scheduling interesting things, budgetary reasons, gettin' sick, you name it, there's always a good reason to cocoon this time of year. I fluctuate between remembering that my weekends used to be 'go out Friday night and do stuff with a bunch of people, do stuff all day Saturday and Sunday with a bunch of people', and wanting a bit of that, and then remembering that that used to take up pretty much every bit of my free time, which precluded me writing or drawing anything interesting. Not that it matters much to anybody but myself, but if I don't get the chance to write or draw anything, I get kinda squirrely.
I certainly felt that way in '99-'00 - I was spending a lot of time on convention stuff, on fan organizational stuff, on social stuff, and much less time reading, drawing, writing, enjoying. I was broke-ass, my car was always breaking down (but I was always playing taxi), I never had free time, and as a result I was irritable, sarcastic, prone to fits of anger and the occasional tantrum. Going out of my way to pick fights with strangers on the internets. Getting into stupid arguments on anime con message boards. Drinking too much, too often.
One of the great parts about getting married is that suddenly there's one person whose happiness you're responsible for. Only one person. Everybody else... sorry, you're not that one person. (If you can't make this kind of commitment, I don't advise getting married) The things that were taking up my time- some of them went away, and others I went away from.
I still am a sarcastic know-it-all, but jeepers, I'm not nearly the SOB I was ten or fifteen years ago. I was probably a dick to a lot of people that didn't deserve it, maybe. These days, not so much, I hope.
