I finally received my first royalty check from Lulu. It’s not a lot of money, especially considering more than half of it was from direct family members (Mom). But, it certainly helps when you don’t have much to begin with. It will probably cover half my license plate renewal that’s due next month. Also I recently made an e-book version of Mistletoe’s Night as well. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with it though. I’ll probably put it online at some point.
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New camera
I finally bought myself a decent digital camera. I was getting tired of borrowing my parents camera, which wasn’t a very good camera to begin with. Anyway, its a Canon PowerShot A590 that I got on sale from Newegg.com. It’s not the greatest camera ever made (there is a reason they make thousand dollar cameras), but it seems to have pretty good low-light quality, which is something I have been lacking for a while. Hopefully when it warms up outside I can get out take some pictures soon.
Panoramio pics
I dumped a few of my scenic photos on Panoramio. Which should be viewable on Google Earth and Google Maps. The photos are mainly from around Wisconsin, with a couple from Chelsea, MI and Schenectady, NY.
Winter houses theme
I just finished the winter version of my iGoogle Houses Theme. I tried to make it relatively generic in avoiding anything directly related to the holidays, since this theme is supposed to last through February. I’ll need to come up with a Spring theme next and after that I don’t know. I still need to make a theme based off the illustrations from my book.
Ambulance ride along
Later this week I’m going on a ride along with an ambulance service. To date, I’ve never set foot in an ambulance one way or the other. So this should be an eye opening experience for me. I’m still unsure if I want to do this for a living though. Even after two full months of class, I don’t know if I’m going to like this line of work. At the very least I’ve learned a lot.
First EMT class
I had my first EMT-Basic class this evening. This is certainly going to be an interesting experience. The ride along portion of the course alone should be eye opening enough. I never been inside an ambulance one way or an other. But, I am still unsure if I want to do that for a living. At the very least I may learn something new that could come in handy down the road. A little variety in life never hurt.
Gen Con, how I miss thee
I went to Gen Con every year through the 90′s up until it was moved out of Milwaukee. I miss it even though I admittedly never took part in the actual gaming that went on there. I did, however, enjoy exploring the exhibit hall and gazing at all the hard-to-find stuff that you couldn’t get anywhere else. I especially liked witnessing some of the upcoming computer games, with some becoming vaporware never to be anything more than a presentation reel. Oh, and the free stuff! I still have a bunch of old FASA posters and trinkets from Gen Con’s of…
Swords of wood
A couple of weeks ago I decided to make some swords out of some scrap wood that I had laying around at my parents house. I’ve always enjoued creating things and since most of my creations are not in a tactile form, I thought it would be nice to make something I could touch, that and my Dad has a workshop with every kind of power tool you can imagine… that would impress even Norm. So far I’ve only made three. I kept the designs rather simple for my first attempts: a square blade and rounded edges. The trickiest part…
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