Something about something blue.
Dec. 6th, 2005 06:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariIf you're into the Pandora Music Genome Thingy, check out the radio station it made at http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh3767007 . I basically dumped most of my faves into their music mulcher, and it spits out some good music (at least to my ears). It's gonna throw ads in your face and ask for a registration...but if you're like me, and I know I am, you're prolly gonna like the music it plays. With seed music like Suzanne Vega, the Monkees, My Bloody Valentine, Good Jazz and J-pop, what will it barf back? :D
A lot has happened over the last few days. So I've been kinda busy.
Friday night, we had a feast of epic proportions. Dean invited me to go eat at this Fresh Garden Something place right down the way from us. We'd never been there, but it was a lot like Souper Salad, a gigantic Salad Bar Buffet. We go there at Nine, only to findout they closed at Nine. However...they let us in, took our money, and gave us each a to-go box. Then they made the mistake of giving us another because "well, after we close, we prety much trash everything."
The years we lived in PA, Dean and I were JUST on the good side of poor. We made a habit of going to eat at buffet places and taking it out. We could stuff $50 of food into a styrofoam plate, and eat off that for MONTHS at a time. These guys just gave us three. And two soup bowls a piece. And a baggie for deserts. That $20 bought us about $80 worth of food. It took me four days to go through my portion. :)
Saturday, I only got about three hours of sleep before I made my way up to Waco to pretty much give away my LCD Monitor. But, hey, cash is cash. I left at noon and just ran my way up to Waco, hoping to high heaven that I had enough gas to make the trip, and that the truck wouldn't suddenly decide it didn't have enough oil, since I had zero dollars all around. On the way up, I saw places I wanted to get some pics, and tried to remember them on the way back.
I met the guy at a large lot next to the McDonald's I was at.
Welcome to Waco! Please enjoy these complimentary diapers!
He didn't waste time. The whole transaction took about thirty seconds. He showed up, and as he was walking towards me, was already counting the cash. I checked it, went around to the other door, handed him his the monitor, and he literally took it, walked back to his suburban and took back off to Dallas. His Ebay feedback was uber-high, his money didn't seem counterfiet, and it was all there, but his bedside manner could use some work.
From there, I slowly made my way back home. I always feel uneasy in North-central Texas. The Hill Country area is very old, or very new. Austin, San Antonio are very progressive modern cities. Fredericksburg and New Braunsfels are very historic. Kerrville is a mix of both, a historic city progressing at an incredible rate. But North Texas is a lot like Lock Haven...it's a world where the cities had their heydey in the 1950s...and sorta got stuck there. Lots of 50s era run down buildings, all fading brown concrete, and monolithic. I didn't stick around to see the sites, I didn't have any books with historic stuff to see, and I decided to hit the smaller towns between here and Austin.
However, there was ONE modern building to see...and I'm not sure it's really all that appropriate.
At least it's black....
Considering gas is at a premium, what I decided to do was to stick to the freeways till I got to small towns, and then make quick detours into them. The first was Lorena, which is a nice little Waco Bedroom City that hasn't lost it's rustic charm (like Lytle until recently), and then into the Bruceville section of Bruceville-Eddy
Bruceville just doens't work very hard. :) It's decided to leech onto Eddy like a remora in order to stay a town, and when you see their barbershop and post offices...well...maybe they're one of those "special" cities.
Shave and a haircut...one bit.
This post office built by the Glee Club!
Unfortunately, sleepiness began to take over, so I skipped through Troy, Temple and Belton, styopping only at Praire Dell since it was one of the few communities in Williamson County I hadn't visited. That's where I got thes GORGEOUS picture of the sunset you see a few entries back. That's so going in the AWFW book in the Avery article.
Oh, what the hell, here it is for posterities sake.
I made it home, and slept like a log....
Sunday was jsut a day of drawing, and this week's AWFW was just downrigth emotionally draining. I've dreaded this day for a long long long while...the circumstances have changed here and there, but the fact that Han'a was made to kill her daughter was always in there, since the sequel story started forming up in my head. Before I "accidentally" maimed her, the spike paralized her. In other versions she was aiming at Manwaz, who turned aside and the spear hit Emm'a. Either way, this is the beginning of Emm'a's turn. It doesn't cause her to become Abaddon, but it's a huge step in that direction.
I'm glad it's out of the way. That one just hurt to draw.
We're rapidly careening towards the end of this segment, I really need to get to work on the AWFW book, since I'd like to have it available the week after the storyline ends.
A lot has happened over the last few days. So I've been kinda busy.
Friday night, we had a feast of epic proportions. Dean invited me to go eat at this Fresh Garden Something place right down the way from us. We'd never been there, but it was a lot like Souper Salad, a gigantic Salad Bar Buffet. We go there at Nine, only to findout they closed at Nine. However...they let us in, took our money, and gave us each a to-go box. Then they made the mistake of giving us another because "well, after we close, we prety much trash everything."
The years we lived in PA, Dean and I were JUST on the good side of poor. We made a habit of going to eat at buffet places and taking it out. We could stuff $50 of food into a styrofoam plate, and eat off that for MONTHS at a time. These guys just gave us three. And two soup bowls a piece. And a baggie for deserts. That $20 bought us about $80 worth of food. It took me four days to go through my portion. :)
Saturday, I only got about three hours of sleep before I made my way up to Waco to pretty much give away my LCD Monitor. But, hey, cash is cash. I left at noon and just ran my way up to Waco, hoping to high heaven that I had enough gas to make the trip, and that the truck wouldn't suddenly decide it didn't have enough oil, since I had zero dollars all around. On the way up, I saw places I wanted to get some pics, and tried to remember them on the way back.
I met the guy at a large lot next to the McDonald's I was at.
Welcome to Waco! Please enjoy these complimentary diapers!
He didn't waste time. The whole transaction took about thirty seconds. He showed up, and as he was walking towards me, was already counting the cash. I checked it, went around to the other door, handed him his the monitor, and he literally took it, walked back to his suburban and took back off to Dallas. His Ebay feedback was uber-high, his money didn't seem counterfiet, and it was all there, but his bedside manner could use some work.
From there, I slowly made my way back home. I always feel uneasy in North-central Texas. The Hill Country area is very old, or very new. Austin, San Antonio are very progressive modern cities. Fredericksburg and New Braunsfels are very historic. Kerrville is a mix of both, a historic city progressing at an incredible rate. But North Texas is a lot like Lock Haven...it's a world where the cities had their heydey in the 1950s...and sorta got stuck there. Lots of 50s era run down buildings, all fading brown concrete, and monolithic. I didn't stick around to see the sites, I didn't have any books with historic stuff to see, and I decided to hit the smaller towns between here and Austin.
However, there was ONE modern building to see...and I'm not sure it's really all that appropriate.
At least it's black....
Considering gas is at a premium, what I decided to do was to stick to the freeways till I got to small towns, and then make quick detours into them. The first was Lorena, which is a nice little Waco Bedroom City that hasn't lost it's rustic charm (like Lytle until recently), and then into the Bruceville section of Bruceville-Eddy
Bruceville just doens't work very hard. :) It's decided to leech onto Eddy like a remora in order to stay a town, and when you see their barbershop and post offices...well...maybe they're one of those "special" cities.
Shave and a haircut...one bit.
This post office built by the Glee Club!
Unfortunately, sleepiness began to take over, so I skipped through Troy, Temple and Belton, styopping only at Praire Dell since it was one of the few communities in Williamson County I hadn't visited. That's where I got thes GORGEOUS picture of the sunset you see a few entries back. That's so going in the AWFW book in the Avery article.
Oh, what the hell, here it is for posterities sake.
I made it home, and slept like a log....
Sunday was jsut a day of drawing, and this week's AWFW was just downrigth emotionally draining. I've dreaded this day for a long long long while...the circumstances have changed here and there, but the fact that Han'a was made to kill her daughter was always in there, since the sequel story started forming up in my head. Before I "accidentally" maimed her, the spike paralized her. In other versions she was aiming at Manwaz, who turned aside and the spear hit Emm'a. Either way, this is the beginning of Emm'a's turn. It doesn't cause her to become Abaddon, but it's a huge step in that direction.
I'm glad it's out of the way. That one just hurt to draw.
We're rapidly careening towards the end of this segment, I really need to get to work on the AWFW book, since I'd like to have it available the week after the storyline ends.
