The Frio Grande
May. 11th, 2004 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariWhat a HUGELY busy weekend!
FRIDAY
Thanks to a last minute mention of my auctions by Jenni, my EBay auctions weren't a complete and total failure. I ended up selling one piece to a friend, and got someone who won a cameo as a serving tray!
SATURDAY
The comics were inked, scanned sent to the laptop, and all of that came with me to San Antonio, so I could drop off the loaner truck. That old 4x4 is 13 years old, 290,000 miles on it (my truck is also 13, but has only 181,000), and drives like a rollercoaster. The whole thing shakes likes a Star Tours ride, even when it's standing still. Got to my parents home late, had some good food, and started work on the comics...
...It was supposed to be a "Trinoc Test-run" where I did the whole comic on my laptop. It was 90% successful. The main problem I had was having to reinstall all my editing programs because (for some odd reason) a lot of the EXE files had simply gone missing (stupid CHKDSK).
Secondly, all my adobe fonts dissapeared AND I accidentally deleted the artwork for AWFW Panel #3! I came EXTREMELY close to giving up and delaying everything a week...when i remembered I got my camera along for the trip. One quick pic later and I had a new Panel #3. Well...sorta new.
Another thing I didn't count on - the main computer is a 2GHz machine, and can render up the whole comic from an EPS in about 2 minutes. The Laptop is a 700MHz machine. Each comic took 20 minutes to render. I was up REALLY Late.
SUNDAY
Quick turnaround. We headed back to Austin right away, and since we had the time to spare, I took them along one of the routes I take when I have the time to leisurely go home. There had been a number of thunderstorms on Thursday, and Texas storms mean the low water crossings are dangeroud for a few days afterwards. When we got to Curry Creek...well...it's a scary crossing.
It's an old 1930s/40s high concrete bridge...but has no curbs. Nothing at all keeps a vehicle from just falling off the side (the iron railings had rusted away to dust). When my siser was a little kid, she literally layed doen and shut her eyes. This time, though, we just couldn't get enough of this crossing:
The scale of this stuff doesn't really translate. We're about thirty feet ABOVE the creek, and the creek is about 50 or 60 feet across. Edge Falls used to be a swim club in the 30s and 40s, and now is just someone's provate property. Honestly this is the first time I've seen it with WATER, usually you see nothing but bare limestone and a huge "bowl" under the where the falls are, where the currents have carved out a limestone crater.
MONDAY
House clean up day...did a ShitLoad of Laundry and dishes...made the place presentable for Deener's PArent's Visit.
More on that, in a bit...
FRIDAY
Thanks to a last minute mention of my auctions by Jenni, my EBay auctions weren't a complete and total failure. I ended up selling one piece to a friend, and got someone who won a cameo as a serving tray!
SATURDAY
The comics were inked, scanned sent to the laptop, and all of that came with me to San Antonio, so I could drop off the loaner truck. That old 4x4 is 13 years old, 290,000 miles on it (my truck is also 13, but has only 181,000), and drives like a rollercoaster. The whole thing shakes likes a Star Tours ride, even when it's standing still. Got to my parents home late, had some good food, and started work on the comics...
...It was supposed to be a "Trinoc Test-run" where I did the whole comic on my laptop. It was 90% successful. The main problem I had was having to reinstall all my editing programs because (for some odd reason) a lot of the EXE files had simply gone missing (stupid CHKDSK).
Secondly, all my adobe fonts dissapeared AND I accidentally deleted the artwork for AWFW Panel #3! I came EXTREMELY close to giving up and delaying everything a week...when i remembered I got my camera along for the trip. One quick pic later and I had a new Panel #3. Well...sorta new.
Another thing I didn't count on - the main computer is a 2GHz machine, and can render up the whole comic from an EPS in about 2 minutes. The Laptop is a 700MHz machine. Each comic took 20 minutes to render. I was up REALLY Late.
SUNDAY
Quick turnaround. We headed back to Austin right away, and since we had the time to spare, I took them along one of the routes I take when I have the time to leisurely go home. There had been a number of thunderstorms on Thursday, and Texas storms mean the low water crossings are dangeroud for a few days afterwards. When we got to Curry Creek...well...it's a scary crossing.
It's an old 1930s/40s high concrete bridge...but has no curbs. Nothing at all keeps a vehicle from just falling off the side (the iron railings had rusted away to dust). When my siser was a little kid, she literally layed doen and shut her eyes. This time, though, we just couldn't get enough of this crossing:
The scale of this stuff doesn't really translate. We're about thirty feet ABOVE the creek, and the creek is about 50 or 60 feet across. Edge Falls used to be a swim club in the 30s and 40s, and now is just someone's provate property. Honestly this is the first time I've seen it with WATER, usually you see nothing but bare limestone and a huge "bowl" under the where the falls are, where the currents have carved out a limestone crater.
MONDAY
House clean up day...did a ShitLoad of Laundry and dishes...made the place presentable for Deener's PArent's Visit.
More on that, in a bit...
