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dolariI'm gonna kick NOAA in the butt. They had warnings up for the WHOLE area about HUGE and MASSIVE thunderstorms coming with hail and winds and everything. We were gonna get hammered with this stuff. Well, about ten minutes ago, we had thirty seconds of a hard sprinkle and it stopped.
WHERE'S THE RAIN?
WHERE'S THE THUNDERSTORM?
WHERE'S THE CARNAGE?
Nada - nothin'. Boogers.
So anyway, on to better news: I have a job now. I have a job job job. I'm going back to Dell. $13.25 an hour, exactly what I was making when I was laid off. From the time Dean got hired, to the time he started work was a good month and a half, so I'm aiming for 1 1/2 months before I start. Time to rev up the AWFW and CS comics so that I can keep up the schedule while at work.
The training will be 1 1/2 weeks, prolly working portable computers for business queue. I will not be kept on permanent UNLESS I have A+ and/or MCSE certification. So I have my work cut out for me.
PRIORITIES:
1) Pay bills owed to Dean
2) Begin hormone treatments
3) Get apartment
4) Get certifications
5) Repair truck
6) Save up TWO YEARS worth of cash
6a) Buy toys and video games from my wishlist.
I figure I can do Priority 1 in a week or two.
Priority 2 I can't do until I get my schedule.
Priority 3 will happen soon afterwards, inside of a month of starting.
Priority 4 will be done ASAP after #3. I'm hoping it'll be a good six month run as a temp befoire we all get fired or moved on. Dell WILL hire me for Gold Queue if I have A+ and MCSE Certifications. Anyone who can give me pricing and what I need to do to get these certificates will get a hug when I graduate. Bad thing abotu Dell is they won't provide the certification, but say all their Gold techs are certified. :P
Priority 5 will take some time...if I can get 1-3, though, I can TAKE time. My plan is to save up $1000, turn my truck over to a mechanic and say "Fix." At the least, make it passable by Texas State Inspection standards, at the most, make it passable, fix my radio and some body work. I'm figuring this will take two or three months of saving up.
Priorty 6 is pretty much mandatory for me. I refuse to be stuck in the position I have been in the last two years. I plan to save up at LEAST 2 years of cash (which will be quite a lot I imagine) in the horrible case that I lose this job again. This will take FOREVER.
Priority 6a After all that's done, with the exception of #6, I plan to finally clear out my wishlist :) This will take as many years as saving up two years of cash.
Adventures in Egypt as a comic? I'd give it the treatment it deserves if I already wasn't doing two comics. But what if I did it as a stick figure comic? Or got someone else to do it? You decide!
So should I "ressurect" Adventures in Egypt as a Stick Figure Type Comic Strip?
WHERE'S THE RAIN?
WHERE'S THE THUNDERSTORM?
WHERE'S THE CARNAGE?
Nada - nothin'. Boogers.
So anyway, on to better news: I have a job now. I have a job job job. I'm going back to Dell. $13.25 an hour, exactly what I was making when I was laid off. From the time Dean got hired, to the time he started work was a good month and a half, so I'm aiming for 1 1/2 months before I start. Time to rev up the AWFW and CS comics so that I can keep up the schedule while at work.
The training will be 1 1/2 weeks, prolly working portable computers for business queue. I will not be kept on permanent UNLESS I have A+ and/or MCSE certification. So I have my work cut out for me.
PRIORITIES:
1) Pay bills owed to Dean
2) Begin hormone treatments
3) Get apartment
4) Get certifications
5) Repair truck
6) Save up TWO YEARS worth of cash
6a) Buy toys and video games from my wishlist.
I figure I can do Priority 1 in a week or two.
Priority 2 I can't do until I get my schedule.
Priority 3 will happen soon afterwards, inside of a month of starting.
Priority 4 will be done ASAP after #3. I'm hoping it'll be a good six month run as a temp befoire we all get fired or moved on. Dell WILL hire me for Gold Queue if I have A+ and MCSE Certifications. Anyone who can give me pricing and what I need to do to get these certificates will get a hug when I graduate. Bad thing abotu Dell is they won't provide the certification, but say all their Gold techs are certified. :P
Priority 5 will take some time...if I can get 1-3, though, I can TAKE time. My plan is to save up $1000, turn my truck over to a mechanic and say "Fix." At the least, make it passable by Texas State Inspection standards, at the most, make it passable, fix my radio and some body work. I'm figuring this will take two or three months of saving up.
Priorty 6 is pretty much mandatory for me. I refuse to be stuck in the position I have been in the last two years. I plan to save up at LEAST 2 years of cash (which will be quite a lot I imagine) in the horrible case that I lose this job again. This will take FOREVER.
Priority 6a After all that's done, with the exception of #6, I plan to finally clear out my wishlist :) This will take as many years as saving up two years of cash.
Adventures in Egypt as a comic? I'd give it the treatment it deserves if I already wasn't doing two comics. But what if I did it as a stick figure comic? Or got someone else to do it? You decide!
[02:58] k1tana: Back in 1990, there was a public access show in San Antonio called The Doppel Gang.
[02:59] k1tana: At the time, there were Public Access "Wars" on the channel. Shows were all based about making fun of other crap shows and then retaliating with more pot shots about other shows.
[02:59] k1tana: The WEREN'T funny.
[02:59] Aadroma: -_-;;;;;
[02:59] k1tana: About that time, I had an idea for a public access Adventure series called "Adventures in AEgypt." About a group of students trying to get to Egypt, but never making it.
[03:00] k1tana: We had a few episodes even SCRIPTED, something we thought most shows weren't doing (They were simply adlibbing all the way through).;
[03:00] k1tana: (One episode involved Video Pirates, who would board and invade your car and take your video tapes away).
[03:00] Aadroma: Sounds familiar
[Big Discussion about The Doppel Gang]
[03:36] k1tana: Adventuresin Egypt came about from a friend of mine always saying "One day, I'm going to Cairo to study." And he'd been saying this for years.
[03:37] k1tana: So we were going to make a show about people constantly trying to get to egypt and never making it.
[03:37] k1tana: Our tagline was "Onward to Egypt! Via highway 90"
[03:37] k1tana: I wrote two scripts (The Video Pirate episode and our "pilot" episode), Dan wrote three episodes and David wrote one.
[03:38] k1tana: Two days before we were going to film the first episode, what happens? Dan goes to Egypt.
[03:38] Aadroma: You're shitting me!
[03:38] k1tana: Nope.
[03:39] k1tana: He honestly went. Last minute, too. His mom got called to go teach at the American university there. he was gonein 24 hours.
[03:39] k1tana: He had the camera, so the show never got done.
[03:39] Aadroma: Jesus~!
[03:39] k1tana: And I'd written such good episodes, too. ;)
[03:40] k1tana: Our pilot involved all of us Going to Egypt via US 90 (which is actually also the wrong way), and running out of gas ten miles out of town.
[03:40] Aadroma: :: laugh :: A shame you can't use thtose now
[03:40] k1tana: My character was Montana Montoya. I was The Brains.
[03:41] k1tana: But no one ever took me seriously because I would do stupid things.
[03:41] Aadroma: :: laugh :: Such as?
[03:42] k1tana: One shot in the Video Pirates, a character asks me for some info. And as it pans over, to me, I look up and give the info they need while holding a fork over a toaster that's not only plugged in, but on.
[03:42] k1tana: You never actually see me DO the stupid thing, but I'm always on the verge of doing The Stupid Thing.
[03:43] k1tana: Also, we had an arc.
[03:43] Aadroma: An ... arc?
[03:43] k1tana: We had a character named Shecky, the Jewish Druid. Embodiment of evil. In one of Dan's sctipts, we managed to put his soul into an eggroll.
[03:44] k1tana: When Dan was finally going to go to Egypt, we had a plan that he would be REALLY hungry and eat that eggroll...and reincarnate as Shecky the Jewish Druid and that would write him out.
[03:45] k1tana: I was eventually going to do the Ranma 1/2 thing. My friend Angie was the EXACT opposite of my. I'm five seven, 200 pounds (at the time) Mexican, and she was 4 foot eleven, 99 pounds and exotically American Indian.
[03:46] Aadroma: :: laugh :: I'd have LOVED to have seen that ^_-
[03:46] k1tana: Shecky would have put a curse on me to randomly change sex, and she would have been The Other Me. We would switch off screen and Dave wrote this scene where we'd pan back and forth in a heated argument between Montana and Dan's character, and it would be me in one pan, and her in another pan and me and her and me
[03:46] Aadroma: I kept joking around about filming a live-action version of Ranma 1/2 ...
[03:47] k1tana: And I'd change and not really "know" it. We'd all get ready for an excursion and it would be me RIGHT until we left. Then it would be her shouting "LEt's go!"
[03:47] Aadroma: ROFL
[03:48] Aadroma: That would have been VERY cool to see
[03:48] k1tana: Yeah, Dan actualyl came up with the idea, everyone known I was transsexual but male at the time.
[03:49] k1tana: Eventually we were going to become ghosthunters, and one episode Dan was planning would be us trying to figure out a new name for the show.
[03:49] Aadroma: :: chuckle ::
[03:50] k1tana: The pilot was us going out on 90, runnign out of gas 10 miles out and the rest of the show was us waiting around while the camera man (who used signs to talk like Wile E Coyote) went to go get gas.
[03:50] k1tana: (He got gas...but it was Unleaded...my car ONLY uses Super Unleaded...he begins walking back)
[03:50] Aadroma: ROFLMAO
[03:51] Aadroma: You need to use this material
[03:51] k1tana: My character was trying to start the car without gas (It doesn't need gas! Who told you that? It just need sa good swift kick in the ass!)
[03:51] k1tana: Dan was exploring the area for signs of ancient astronauts.
[03:52] k1tana: Dave was scratching the number of hours we were waiting into the tires....
[03:52] Aadroma: ROFLMAO. Oh fuck ^_^
[03:52] k1tana: When we finally get the right gas, we look at the tie and it's late...so we decide to go home (If we hadn't run out of gas, we MIGHT have made Egypt AND be back in time for dinner...you doofus.)
[03:53] Aadroma: :: laugh :: And you're not using this for anything because ... ? ^_^
[03:54] k1tana: Teh other episode I wrote started out with a "Fat Oriental Guy in a Red Hawaiian Shirt" looking over his huge Bootleg video collection proudly (which was my collection) and then having a group of video pirates invade his house and make off with his tapes.
[03:54] k1tana: Then we'd have opening credits
[03:55] Aadroma: ROFLMAO. That's damned funny. Somewhat reminiscent to Schitzo TV
[03:55] k1tana: Then it cuts to me, Dave and Dan walking out of a video store. getting in our car and driving down an old desolate deserted road (Why'd we go this way? It's a shortcut...and more dramatic)
[03:55] k1tana: Another car drives up beside me, with a jolly roger and we have abotu three people "jump" from one car to the other and take out videos.
[03:55] k1tana: Except for one who sees me through the window, winks and gives me my video back.
[03:56] Aadroma: :: laugh ::
[03:56] k1tana: After calling Black Lister Video, with a report of video pirates, the rest of the episode turns to a flashback about my grandfather, one of the original video pirates.
[03:57] k1tana: "Back in the days when VCRs were $1,000 and you pushed down the top loading VCR tray with the help of six of your friends."
[03:57] Aadroma: ROFLMAO! I'd loved to have seen this flashback. ^_^
[03:58] k1tana: And with video, came the pirates. back when it was more glamourous. My grandfather had the first copy of "The Last Unicorn" ever made, swiped from under the nose of a crying child. I've never felt prouder.
[03:58] k1tana: I still had his original Beta deck in the closet.
[03:59] k1tana: Turns out one of the video pirates that hit us was the son of someone whop worked with my grandfather and so on.
[03:59] k1tana: I should do it, but it's hard enough doing 2 comics as is. :)
[03:59] Aadroma: True, true ...
[04:00] k1tana: Still, I never thought about doingit as a comic.
[04:00] k1tana: Hrmmmm.
[04:00] k1tana: Maybe as a Stick Figure Backup? :)
[04:00] Aadroma: Stick Figure Backup? ^_^
[04:01] k1tana: Yeah...something like what Tasha's world is doing right now: http://tashasworld.keenspace.com
[04:01] k1tana: Do it all as "Stick Figures."
[04:01] Aadroma: :: laugh :: I wouldn't mind using it if the Schitzo Troupe were still around.
[04:02] k1tana: If you wanted to, sure!
[04:02] Aadroma: (Note : Playing Lucasfilm Games in German is hard.)
[04:02] k1tana: One caveat - the copyright needs to be (c) 2003 Jenn Dolari & Roger Nystrom. I'm prettyparticular about my copyrights. :)
[04:03] Aadroma: Well understood. Sadly, the Schitzo Troupe isn't around anymore.
[04:03] k1tana: Schizo Troupe?
[04:03] Aadroma: For Schitzo TV.
[04:03] k1tana: Schozo TV?
[04:03] k1tana: Er, Schizo TV?
[04:03] Aadroma: Our very short-lived sketch comedy show.
[04:03] Aadroma: You don't know about Schitzo TV? :: gasp! ::
[04:03] k1tana: I know not of this thing.
[04:05] Aadroma: Very short-lived public access show featuring me and friends ... and even my mother for a spot for Asswipe Toilet Paper. "Remember, if it doesn't say Asswipe, just use your hands!"
[04:06] k1tana: ::laugh::
[04:06] k1tana: I did a commerical for Adventures in Egypt which was pretty wierd.
[04:06] Aadroma: A spot for Lensmakers glasses, featuring a girl who wonders, "How do they make my glasses in just an HOUR?!" Meanwhile, outside, a man with glasses walks by the back of the store and gets accosted by two of the employees, who knock him out, steal his glasses, and give them to the customer inside.
[04:06] Aadroma: Oh? ^_^
[04:06] k1tana: It was Me, Dave, Dan and my friend Steph who was 6 months pregnant at the time.
[04:08] Aadroma: Uh oh ^_^
[04:08] k1tana: Make that Dave, Dan, Me and Angie. We had her laid out on a sacrificial alter and we were all wearing druid robes and chanting "Sith Si Ton A Laer Lesp" and just as we're about to throw a dagger into her belly, Dan calls out for The Book of Evil.
[04:09] k1tana: So I dopily grab the book, toss it on the altar and say "Here ya go, boss!"
[04:09] k1tana: Angie pulls back her hood: "What is this?"
[04:09] k1tana: Me: It's the Book of Evil.
[04:09] k1tana: Dan pulls back his hood: "This isn't the Book of Evil."
[04:10] k1tana: Dave: "Bob, the Book of evil was written by ancient evil doers who lived thousands of years ago, bringing plagues across the planet!"
[04:10] k1tana: (Bob is me, by the way)
[04:11] k1tana: Angie: "This books written by Allister Crowley!"
[04:11] k1tana: Everyone but me (including Steph): "ALLISTER CROWLEY!"
[04:11] Aadroma: ROFLMAO!
[04:11] k1tana: Hard close up to Dan: "Get a rope."
[04:12] k1tana: Cut to a opy of the Necronomicon (which Dan actually had a copy of) "The NEcronomicon. made by people who know what Evil is all about."
[04:12] k1tana: Cut's back to Dave and Angie. Dan is walking off arm in arm with Steph into woods.
[04:13] k1tana: Dave: "You seen Bob around?"
[04:13] k1tana: Angie: "IHe's hanging around here somewhere."
[04:13] k1tana: Everyone laughs.
[04:13] k1tana: The End.
[04:14] Aadroma: :: laugh :: That's damned funny ^_^
[04:14] k1tana: We also were going to each do a "There's one wrong way to eat a Reeses." Mine involved flattening it under a tire and licking it off the pavement.
[04:14] Aadroma: ROFL. That's damned funny.
[04:15] k1tana: My friend Bernhardt, who does Radioactive Fanboys, did a funnier one.
[04:15] Aadroma: "Life is like a microwave." ::scene changes to shot inside microwave, door opens:: "It's not done yet!" :: slam ::
[04:15] Aadroma: Uh oh ^_^
[04:16] k1tana: "I eat my Reeses with GOBS AND GOBS OF TOILET PAPER!" He then proceed to stuff his face with mounds of toilet paper as strames of paper cascade across him from off screen. and he wasn't even doing it for Public Access. :) He was doing it for fun.
[04:16] Aadroma: Oh my GAWD :: laugh ::
[04:17] k1tana: Oh, and Shecky was the one who put the curse on me.
[04:17] Aadroma: Hmm?
[04:17] k1tana: The ranma curse.
[04:18] Aadroma: Ohhhhhhh ^_^
[04:18] k1tana: Hmmmmmmm.now you got me thinking.
[04:18] Aadroma: About?
[04:18] k1tana: If I get an MPEg encoder and CD-R I'll encode those Doppel Gang episodes for you.
[04:18] k1tana: I'm thinking about doing Adventures in AEgypt as a stick figure strip.
[04:19] Aadroma: That'd be pretty damned cool ^_^
[04:20] k1tana: hrm....I will have to thik about this.
[04:20] k1tana: Mind if I post this conversation up pn LJ and put it to a vote?
So should I "ressurect" Adventures in Egypt as a Stick Figure Type Comic Strip?
